I wore a fake press pass — from Microsoft opening a few weeks ago — to artMRKT in SF and publicist Wendy Norris upgraded me to an actual press pass.

I shot photos of Max Fishko, the co-founder of the event, who lives in Williamsburg, the 718 not colonial Virginia, and is profiled more fully and with aplomb by my dear friend and colleague Sarah Bailey Hegerty at the DeYoung site; Richard Misrach giving a slide show about toxics in Louisiana, a NorCal artist and photographer who had a studio near Joan Brown, three phases of my improvised sculpture also known as recylable trash. And then I snuck into the last five songs of Modest Mouse at Stanford’s Frost.

Modest Mouse at Frost, May, 2012

I’m doing the best that I can. With my trusty Samsung dumbphone.

Modest Mouse at Stanford Frost, May, 2012 but took me back to 1997

Henry Moore said that to be an artist is to believe in life.

Henry Moore said to be an artist is to believe in life.

Three more thumbnails of Modest Mouse and the Stanford kids: