dim sum, originally uploaded by minervacat. I sort of miss taking pictures of my food, in a masochistic self-flagellating habit-forming way, so I made my mama and my aunt suffer while I took pictures of our dim sum lunch on Saturday. I left the camera at home Sunday night when we were eating tapas or…
beach house — teen dream
trekky records christmas at the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Beach House — Teen Dream. Out 1/26, Sub Pop. Beach House makes this variety of stripped-down-but-not indie electro-dream-pop that I forget how much I love for long stretches of time. Wow, what a great opening, huh? Anyway: this is a great album. Drifty, vaguely haunting,…
brian fallon @ the black cat
the gaslight anthem @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. There’s no doubt that the Gaslight Anthem’s The ’59 Sound is an incredible album, from start to finish; it deserved every piece of raving praise that it received at the end of 2008 and I’m desperately excited for their next release. They also put on…
woodpigeon — die stadt muzikanten
lost in the trees @ gerrard hall, originally uploaded by minervacat. Woodpigeon — Die Stadt Muzikanten. Out 1/12/2010, Boompa Records. Ah, the first mystery album of 2010 in my iTunes. Where did this come from? Why did I acquire it? Did I read a review of it somewhere? Did someone put a track on a…
yanks @ o’s
yanks @ o’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. I resolve to get up to my hometown to take more photos this year; Baltimore is a weird, gorgeous, decaying city, and I never give it enough credit. (It’ll have to be after mid-June, though. February through mid-June are sort of consumed by baseball already. As it is…
always had more dogs
The function of music is to release us from conscious thought. — Sir Thomas Beecham From top to bottom, the Drive-By Truckers, Josh Ritter, Wye Oak; three artists I’ve shot before, three artists I’m hoping to shoot again this year.
road to nowhere
road to nowhere, originally uploaded by minervacat. I can’t stop listening to Frank Turner’s cover of “Thunder Road”. [Frank Turner — “Thunder Road”] 6MB, .mp3. Bruce Springsteen cover. The NC is in the middle of a cold snap that is even unseasonably cold for January for us, and I am craving spring time, warm sun…
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. I love urban exploration photography; the decay and abandonment of places that used to house humanity is so striking and gorgeous, when handled by the right photographer. I do not do more of it myself for three reasons: a) I live in perma-surburbia, b) fifteen…
unc: north quad in the fog
unc: north quad in the fog, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: Big Huge Labs’ Favorites Surfer. Start with one of your Flickr favorites; navigate through the favorites of that photographer, the favorites of those people’s favorites, and so on and so forth. Whenever I need a boost,…
shooting film & toy cameras
ncaa baseball regional, originally uploaded by minervacat. I’ve said before that my first SLR, once I got serious about shooting in 2008, was a Nikon F65 film SLR that my friend Michelle sent me, and I’ve talked about my film learning curve before — learned very little about the technicalities of photography, learned a shitload…
brand new kind of photography 