Inspired by a Monkees interview in which Mike Nesmith encourages people to "dig things that are ugly" ("Like what?" "Oh, I don’t know, dig something like a garage door"), I started taking pictures of garage doors in various neighborhoods around San Francisco and posting them to Instagram. Although as it turns out, garage doors in SF are actually quite beautiful.
A fun little map I made of (almost) every venue and show that Spencer Owen Timeshare played in the San Francisco / East Bay area from 2012-2020. Click the map to go to the interactive version and zoom around.
I occasionally used my phone to take short audio recordings of my surroundings, a way of capturing a moment in time without relying on my usual methods (photos and words). When I remember, I'll try to add them here.
paris, outside the louvre, july 2022
san francisco, taj mahal @ stern grove, august 2022
amsterdam, protests, october 2022
austin, total solar eclipse, april 2024
Coming eventually: a web viewer for watching old videos I made circa 2001-2005.