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2013 Ashland Independent Film Festival – Historic Ashland Armory
Today’s photo is a reverse angle, taken a few hours earlier, of what I posted a couple days ago. I took this before the showing of “Ritual” (a short documentary) and “SPARK: A Burning Man Story.”
AIFF – Ashland Independent Film Festival
The last couple days have been pretty crazy photo wise. I probably have about 1,000 keepers from about ten different events (including not only the AIFF events but also Nic Temple’s piano recital, SOU softball doubleheader, some wild weather panoramas, and Father Doug at Club 66). Now I just need to sort through them all…
I headed in to Club 66 for lunch today. Until yesterday, the drink menu consisted of Rockstar and soda.
Now these empty glasses…
…can be filled with beer.
Bring your family for lunch or dinner, but once 8 p.m. rolls around you now have to be 21 at Club 66. Tonight’s hip hop / reggae show (Absract Rude, Mista Chief, Ekrostik, Stryk9, LuciBe, Efxhand, etc.) should have a huge crowd.
One week from tonight metal returns to Ashland. Club 66 will be hosting Sarcalogos, Witch Cult, and Infernal Throne. This venue saw some great metal acts when it was Stillwater, including YOB, 3 Inches of Blood, Giant Squid, and Toxic Holocaust.
Next month, Witchaven and Exmortus (3/20/13) will be playing at Club 66.
Near the end of the last school year, construction began on a new “gateway” sign for Southern Oregon University on the corner of Siskiyou Boulevard and Mountain Avenue. It took months before the project was complete, but the new sign was ready before courses began again at SOU in September. Now that the landscaping doesn’t look so brand new and artificially placed, I decided to take a photo of it on a glorious fall afternoon earlier this week. The Plunkett Center can be seen a bit through the leaves in today’s pic.
On my way back from Sacramento I pulled off of I-5 somewhere between Dunsmuir and Weed to pee. I looked up at the beautiful Milky Way and decided a photo was needed. So I opened my shutter while doing my business and this pic was the result.
I’ll be posting photos from the Death Angel, Testament, and Anthrax show on my other blog over the next little while.
Twenty miles east of Ashland you will find Howard Prairie Lake. We headed up there yesterday to escape the heat and take a bike ride. At an elevation of over 4500 feet (Ashland is at 2000 feet), the temperature is usually about 10 degrees cooler.
Today’s photo is a three pic photomerge (with a wide angle lens to begin with) so it covers almost 180 degrees. If you look really closely you can see Mt. McLoughlin to the right of center.
I spent the last couple days in the San Francisco Bay Area. The highlight of the trip was the Mastodon/Opeth/Ghost show at the Fox Theater, a beautiful venue built almost 100 years ago and recently restored. I’ll be posting more photos from the concert on my other blog.
