Imaginative sound design and gorgeous angles in this short film on motorcycle designer and builder Shinya Kimura. I may have just re-ignited my interest in getting a motorcycle license.

Horaflora feature on foxy digitalis

Local weirdo and man-about-town Raub (seriously, look down from the stars, brother, here he comes a-ramblin’ now) featured: “The sounds themselves include guinea pigs, broken hard drives, cell phone speakers in mouths (like a talkbox), playground equipment, E-bowed metals, all sorts of prepared instruments, answering machine feedback, found vibrations, as well as a bevy of spectral, granular, and quadraphonic processing and rerecording.” He also mentions distributing kits of the instruments he builds to kindred souls to perform as Horaflora in their on cities as a “creative ways of staying above water […] for those of us who would prefer to make a career out of this.”

Trailer for surf film Temporal Collections by Ryan Thomas. Beautifully shot foam, sound, sand, waves and riders, discovered while hounding the most excellent Mollusk Surf Shop located in the Outer Sunset. Long live silver halide grains suspended in a gelatin colloid!

Returned from a week in the desert and inside the first building in that interim, on the first toilet, and this was the song serenading my sweet relief in that lonesome diner bathroom. What a beautiful and epic welcome back to society.

Graceful short film about Chad Robertson, owner/baker of the Mission’s Tartine Bakery, sharing his love of making bread with a few friends. Fitting accordion music by Marié Abe, one of the bakers and a frequent player at Tartine.