Like Watching Paint Dry
It all started with Bakersfield and pumpjacks… a fascination or obsession with the way machines move through and interact with their natural environment, the way oilfield pumpjacks seem eternally stuck moving in place, the mixture of grace and bumbling jerkiness, the way trains in the desert so often seem almost a natural part of the desert world (at least compared to cars and trucks).
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One Train: V
Just a silent video of a long train moving through the Mojave Desert’s Afton Canyon late one afternoon…
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Up And Down: North Berkeley BART Station
2017: the daily experience of passing through North Berkeley BART station, captured on an iPhone.
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Drive-By: Port
The Port of Oakland, 2010-2012, as seen from a (very) slow-moving car with a DSLR hanging off the side windows…
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Drive-By: Oilfield
California, 2011: Round Mountain Road, China Grade Loop, State Route 33, 7th Standard Road, Lost Hills Road.
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Pacific Champ
MV Pacific Champ departs The Port of Oakland’s Schnitzer Steel to a soundtrack by Oakland’s Handsome Poets.
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Pumpjack
Pumpjacks! Round Mountain Road, Tupman Road, Highway 33, 7th Standard Road. California, October / November 2009.