The Life and Times of Sooz

Somehow two of my favorite bands came together with limited intervention on my part: The Blizzard of 78 and The Lights Out shared the stage at Church on June 25th. They were joined by a new favorite, Old Jack. I had a day left on the Nikon 1.4 85mm lens I was renting this week ...

I shot this photo in Harvard Square on Saturday of Epiphany, a performance artist who painted and dressed herself in silver. She moved whenever someone contributed money. She was a lot more interactive than most statue performance artists. To see the rest of the photos, check out the album on Flickr.

Growing up in Nebraska, peony bushes lined the back of my grandparents house in Fremont. On Memorial Day Weekend, we'd cut the flowers and put them in mason jars to bring to relatives graves around northeastern Nebraska. Ever since then, peonies (and lilacs) have been my favorite flower. They only bloom for a few weeks ...

Today was a really great day outside. It might actually be Spring! I took this photo of tulips in Harvard Square on Mt. Auburn Street. Click the photo to see a bigger version at Flickr.

I'm not a fan of pay-to-play music festivals like Emergenza, but it meant the opportunity to see Sammy Miami's band Houndstone perform at the Paradise Rock Club if they won their first round at Church on Monday night. They had the biggest crowd and came in first place. Now everyone within 100 miles of Boston ...

I haven't been taking lots of photos lately but I'm going to dig back into that. Thanks to some help from Kristarella in the Thesis WordPress theme forum, I was able to make some tweaks to the photo blog category of sooz.com so the photos appear in an area that can accommodate larger photos.

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Etsy has some great little shops where you can find all sorts of interesting things. I bought these Japanese chiyogami votive candles from a cool little shop called gamiworks. The candle holders are made with chiyogami, a type of Japanese paper decorated with woodblock-printed patterns. A

I haven't been writing a lot of words on sooz.com lately -- busy with client work and some other projects including Exploit Boston!. I'm going to start updating the site most days with a photo when the wordy entries don't happen. You can always read my micro-tidbits over at twitter.com/sooz.

When I first moved to Boston, ...