At the 331 Club on September 20, 2025
Savage Aural Hotbed brought their unique blend of industrial-Taiko music to the 331 club. It was great to see them performing live so many years after meeting them in the recording studio.
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Savage Aural Hotbed
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Thank You Georgetown Open Mic at the Parkway (pizza)!
Thank You Georgetown (UNPLUGGED) We played the open mic at Parkway Pizza in St. Louis Park on September 2nd. Great food, three-part harmonies and lots of fun. Looking forward to doing it again.
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Vibronauts at The Sand Bar
Day 2 of the Wisconsin ‘Tiny Tour’. The Vibronauts played two nights over Labor Day weekend. 8/30 at the Oak Ridge Inn & Campground in Webb Lake, and 8/31 at the Sand Bar near Webster, WI. We had perfect weather for the most part, which is nice.
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Vibronauts at the Barrel House for Flag Day
The Vibronauts – Flag day at the Barrel House, now with silver sparkle! We brought the red, white, and sparkle for Flag Day at the Barrel House in Red Wing, Minnesota. Join the party when we play the Barrel House again on Halloween 10/31/2025.
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Happy New Year 2025!
The Vibronauts played at the Barrel House in Red Wing, Minnesota for New Years Eve, a festive time was had by all!
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Midwest Passage Exhibition at The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson Wisconsin
I’m lucky to be in a photo group that is kind of awesome. We meet once per month in person and basically hang out. There are no rules, no agendas, no points, no competitions, just nice people sharing what they are working on, and drinking coffee.
On occasion, we get organized and do a group show. This is one of those occasions and definitely one of the best. At The Phipps Center for the Arts in Hudson Wisconsin, we just installed 33 works from nine talented photographers in Gallery 2. The basic premise was that each of the works had a step in the process done by hand.
“Traditional prints expand the sensory experience of the viewer and celebrate the tactile nature of the print itself as a one-of-a-kind artwork.”
See prints made in several processes including:
- Kallitype
- Kirlian photography
- Silver gelatin (black and white darkroom print)
- Polymer Photogravure
- Van Dyke Brown
- Hand painted
- Something called a photographic confection
Hope to see you at the opening this Friday at 6:30 PM at 109 Locust St, Hudson, WI 54016. The exhibition will be on display from June 28th – August 4th.
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Thank You Georgetown at the Eagles Club
Thank You Georgetown at the Fraternal Order Of Eagles #34 in Minneapolie One of the bands I play in is with my brother and cousin. We had a concert birthday party at the Eagles 34 and it was super fun!
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Driveway Concert Series
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The Agfa Chief – A Definitive Guide
Photos made in 2021 with an 80-year old camera. If you are into modifying cameras or photo history, keep reading. If not, it gets a bit dry!
Panorama of cows made with an Agfa Chief Film Camera The Chief is a simple camera made around 1941 with one shutter speed and one aperture, but also manual “bulb” shutter and a selectable haze? filter. There is also focus control from Near (6-15’) to Far (15’ and BEYOND!)
I was looking at photos of a friend’s pinhole camera recently and I was interested in the curved film plane. I wondered which other cameras from that era might have a curved film plane and I came upon the Agfa Chief. It’s a medium format camera that was made for two different film types, this one was made for PD-16. It’s wider than 120 film and has different markings, but with 616 to 120 adapters and a custom film guide extension, this camera can shoot modern 120 film.I liked the curved film plane and panoramic negative, roughly 2.25” by 4”. I had to figure out frame spacing, Ilford FP4+ has numbers that work in the red window, you just have to be a little creative to get 6 shots on a roll.
What is the most fun? You can use the Agfa Portrait Attachment #29 and focus exactly at 42” for a close subject and a real out of focus area in the background.And that, my friends, is the Agfa Chief. Don’t leave home without it. Photos made on Ilford FP4+ and processed in Rodinal 1+50 for 15 minutes. In summary, it’s like a metal Holga with do-it-yourself frame spacing. You still have to tape up the camera to avoid light leaks. But hey, it’s fun.
