“i want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” hi. i’m steph. i am in love with photography, so i take a lot of photos. i love art, so i make things. music keeps me alive, so i music. words are heaven, so i spill them. beauty will save the world. and love is really the only thing worth believing in. here is more please: photography bandcamp twitter facebook hypem iphonography i make things Tumblr (3.0; @steffaloo)http://steffaloo.com/<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz761bxuxW1qzef8fo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>foto friday</p> <p>all i will be doing until march 12th is yearning for sxsw.</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/17387802778http://steffaloo.com/post/17387802778Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:51:11 -0800sxswsmokedontsmokedeadasdigitalphoto fridaylomofilm<p><img src="http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz72u1uGMO1qzcx6y.jpg"/></p> <p>dear everyone, i’ve got some pretty fun shows coming up in the next week and i want to see you all there!! here’s all you need to know: </p> <p><strong>FEB 10</strong> - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/351190811566408/" target="_self">the magical funshine public access hour premiere</a><br/>@ yeaheavy<br/>665 n berendo st., los angeles, ca <br/>$5/8pm<br/>i play at <strong>10:30</strong>pm </p> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"><span><strong>FEB 14</strong> - </span><a href="http://www.attheecho.com/2012/02/08/tuesday-02-14-12-valentine%E2%80%99s-day-song-massacre-aka-the-sad-hour-grant-langston-driftwood-singers-matt-adams-the-blank-tapes-soft-swells-echo/" target="_self">valentines day: the sad hour</a><br/>@ the echo<br/>1822 sunset blvd, los angeles, ca<br/>FREE/8pm</div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"></div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"></div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"><strong>FEB 16</strong> - <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/221247154632694/" target="_self">AF & JAXART present Dreams, Chrome Sparks, Pageants<br/></a>@ space 15twenty</div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb">1520 n. cahuenga blvd, los angeles, ca<br/>FREE (donations accepted)/7pm</div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb">i’m singing with my favie <a href="http://chromesparks.bandcamp.com/" target="_self">CHROME SPARKS</a>!!  </div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"></div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"></div> <div class="fsl fwb fcb"></div>http://steffaloo.com/post/17384909529http://steffaloo.com/post/17384909529Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:54:00 -0800steffalooshows<a href="http://www.portalsmusic.com/2012/02/sounds/steffaloo-on-fire-flashing-red-lights-remix/">on fire (flashing red lights remix)</a>: <p>my friends over at <a href="http://www.portalsmusic.com/" target="_self">PORTALS</a> just introduced the first remix track done by the amazing <a href="http://flashingredlights.bandcamp.com/" target="_self">flashing red lights</a>, off of my upcoming <em>remix EP.  </em>go check it out and look for more in the coming weeks! </p>http://steffaloo.com/post/17382840927http://steffaloo.com/post/17382840927Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:07:38 -0800on firesteffalooflashing red lightsremix<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvy3sBY8F1qzef8fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>foto friday (on saturday)</p> <p>i made this frame for my <a href="http://society6.com/steffaloo/war-of-the-worlds_Print" target="_self">collage</a> yesterday with the help from a friend!  that’s right, i used power tools and all.  no big deal.  </p>http://steffaloo.com/post/17047427502http://steffaloo.com/post/17047427502Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:26:15 -0800foto fridayartframecollagecraftscreate<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqus9o6fv1qzef8fo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>‘string of hearts’ i recently uncovered a bunch of my old drawings and photos. its been kind of fun recalling old moments, remembering where i was when i made these.. i think this was the start of my obsession with hearts ha</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16898784175http://steffaloo.com/post/16898784175Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:26:00 -0800drawingheartssteffaloo<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16883578052/tumblr_lyqey8XJaT1r47pk3&color=FFFFFF&logo=soundcloud" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>this song is straight GORG. i am in love with it. </p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tinybangs.com/post/16877754150/lia-ices-wish-you-were-here-floating-harmonies" target="_blank">tinybangs</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tailakova/4961669026/" title="Untitled by tailakova, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img height="384" src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4104/4961669026_1dbbde4bd9_z.jpg" width="600"/></a></p> <p><a href="http://soundcloud.com/fadermedia/lia-ices-wish-you-were-here" target="_self">lia ices//wish you were here</a></p> <p>floating harmonies all piled up on one another like limbs getting lost within each other, no ending and no beginning.  and what a terrible thing it would be to not miss you.. </p> <p><a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCMQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com%2Fliaices&ei=_6MpT_SeGfTZiAKrzLSsCg&usg=AFQjCNFskAM1CrdCAiME6C6igJIjn7_q3w&sig2=Rqh4wfOdnYqVGzM3-C-h4Q" target="_self">music</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/LiaIces" target="_self">fcbk</a> </p> </blockquote>http://steffaloo.com/post/16883578052http://steffaloo.com/post/16883578052Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:26:46 -0800lia iceswish you were heremusicbeautiful<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyninedOUq1qzef8fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>i found this old photo today and remembered how sweet it was.. haha.  double exposure for the win. </p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16810242123http://steffaloo.com/post/16810242123Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:11:38 -0800double exposurelcafilmxprolomoawesome<p>so much love for <strong><a href="http://asilentplanet.com/post/16770410378/all-of-us-together-new-lp-coming-may-22nd" target="_self">teen daze</a></strong> for letting me lend my sings to his new amazing single ‘brooklyn sunburn’! first collab of the new year! cannot wait for the full album! <3 </p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://asilentplanet.com/post/16770410378/all-of-us-together-new-lp-coming-may-22nd" target="_blank">teendaze</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><img height="550" src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/432042_367842639908546_118367474856065_1410154_777811694_n.jpg" width="550"/></p> <p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F34983879&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true&color=0098ff" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p><span>I’m very excited to announce the release of my first LP, “All Of Us, Together”.  The first single, “Brooklyn Sunburn”, can be listened to, and downloaded, above! </span><br/><br/><span>I love you all very much, and I’m so glad I get to share this record with you!</span></p> </blockquote>http://steffaloo.com/post/16770993514http://steffaloo.com/post/16770993514Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:28:00 -0800teendazesteffaloobrooklyn sunburnall of us togethermusic<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyhgg6yLZc1qzef8fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>foto friday</p> <p>it’s been feeling a lot like summer here in LA this week.. dripping sun, warm nights.  i could just melt right up it’s so perfect. </p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16606025494http://steffaloo.com/post/16606025494Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:38:29 -0800foto fridayphotographyfilmwaterpiersteffaloo<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lycgetmikJ1qzef8fo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>i just discovered the montage app and now i can’t stop making these..</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16456924185http://steffaloo.com/post/16456924185Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:49:41 -0800montageiphonecollagephotophotographybeach<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyc51yyfa01qzef8fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>took this camping last summer.. and just realized that the dust specs look like stars. perfection. </p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16447490382http://steffaloo.com/post/16447490382Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:44:22 -0800photographyfilmxprolomolcasteffaloo<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16369711802/tumblr_ly6n1pcq6y1qz4e0m&color=FFFFFF&logo=soundcloud" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p>a perfect album to take comfort in after a weekend spent bed ridden with food poisoning and a rainy monday.. and brother said it best. ‘that we may be happy wherever we are’.. </p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://smokedontsmoke.com/post/16356438947" target="_blank">smokedontsmoke</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong><a href="http://flightsmusic.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Flights</a> </strong>- Pillar</p> <p><img height="500" src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwxbe2FOQe1qa4fbvo1_500.jpg" width="500"/></p> <p>Maybe it’s the rain today that makes this song/album hit so heavy. The rain always does that. But boy am I glad <a href="http://yvynyl.tumblr.com/post/16349430317/flights-pillar-stumbling-upon-an-album-as-good" target="_blank">Mark</a> stumbled on this, and decided to share. The album plays as a soundtrack for the contemplative wandering soul. The album title, <em>Anywhere But Where I Am</em> reminds me of a quote by French poet and philosopher Charles Baudelaire:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>“It always seems to me that I should feel well in the place where I am not…”</span></em></p> </blockquote> <p><span>But, contentment is a strong force, and halfway through this album, I already feel it setting in. That we may be happy wherever we are. </span></p> <p><span>Grab the full-length for a price of your choosing on <a href="http://flightsmusic.bandcamp.com/album/anywhere-but-where-i-am" target="_blank">bandcamp</a>. </span></p> <p>(via <a href="http://yvynyl.tumblr.com/post/16349430317/flights-pillar-stumbling-upon-an-album-as-good" target="_blank">yvynyl</a>)</p> </blockquote>http://steffaloo.com/post/16369711802http://steffaloo.com/post/16369711802Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:28:31 -0800flightsrainy daysmusiccomfort<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly82uunPys1qae5yyo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>little brother took this of me and little brother (<a href="http://www.smokedontsmoke.com" target="_self">smokedontsmoke</a>) <3</p> <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thelonelyindian.tumblr.com/post/16316457539/sibling-ti-d-es" target="_blank">thelonelyindian</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>sibling ti(d)es.</p> </blockquote>http://steffaloo.com/post/16323876552http://steffaloo.com/post/16323876552Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:00:19 -0800the lonely indiansmokedontsmokesteffaloosiblingsphotography<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly28p6K3uh1qzef8fo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>knowing you’re there</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16125638341http://steffaloo.com/post/16125638341Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:27:06 -0800photographyfilmblur<p>i usually don’t experience my extreme cases of wanderlust until summertime, but for whatever reason, it’s arrived early and all i want to do is fly south for the winter. or north. or any direction really, ha. it’s really quite unruly when this said wanderlust hits because all i can think about is how great it would be to be climbing trees or building forts or bombing down hills on long boards. or playing music barefooted out of the back of old pick up trucks or laying in open fields with no where to go. or laughing in the middle of empty forests or eating watermelons picked right from the watermelon patch or just lying in a foreign room in a foreign place doing nothing at all but just existing, which sometimes can be foreign in and of itself. and i love every second of it. all of this extra energy makes me want to create everything and do everything and i always end up surprising myself in the end with what i had no idea i could even do. wanderlust in full effect.</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16108923664http://steffaloo.com/post/16108923664Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:40:09 -0800wanderlustcreatealivelife<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly0toatcet1qzef8fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>i got some photos back today from the first roll i’ve ever shot with my beseler topcon.  i’ve got some things to figure out with the focusing ha, but some of these actually look more cool out of focus.. total win! </p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16089406814http://steffaloo.com/post/16089406814Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:04:58 -0800photographyphotofilmbeselerfocus<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://assets.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player_black.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/16088278160/tumblr_ly0st3NhiV1qzef8f&color=FFFFFF&logo=soundcloud" height="27" width="207" quality="best" wmode="opaque"></embed><br/><br/><p><a href="http://sunglitters.bandcamp.com" target="_self">sun glitters</a> did an amazing remix of my song ‘the red runs free’ for the release of my debut 7” ‘<a href="http://jaxart.bigcartel.com/product/steffaloo-on-fire-b-w-red-runs-free-7" target="_self">on fire</a>’ and i feel it went a bit unnoticed.  go grab it for free and give sun glitters some love! </p> <p>also, there’s still some vinyls left! go get yourself one <a href="http://jaxart.bigcartel.com/product/steffaloo-on-fire-b-w-red-runs-free-7" target="_self">HERE</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/steffaloo/3273937118/" title="the red runs free. by steffaloo, on Flickr" target="_blank"><img alt="the red runs free." height="500" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3397/3273937118_c8eb2e2ec3_z.jpg?zz=1" width="500"/></a></p>http://steffaloo.com/post/16088278160http://steffaloo.com/post/16088278160Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:46:15 -0800the red runs freesun glittersremixsteffalooon firejaxart“people are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. when i look at a sunset, i don’t find myself saying, “soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.” i don’t try to control a sunset. i watch with awe as it unfolds. <br/> - carl rogers -”http://steffaloo.com/post/16001609318http://steffaloo.com/post/16001609318Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:53:05 -0800carl rogersbecoming a personlife<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx2taRBdj1qzef8fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>noah</p> <p>i got to do some head shots for my friend noah this weekend.. this was not one of them, but a test shot, which funny enough i really liked for some reason. photo days are the best days. <3</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/15978702217http://steffaloo.com/post/15978702217Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:31:00 -0800photophotographynoah<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxx19laUsZ1qzef8fo1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>collaging</p>http://steffaloo.com/post/15976672728http://steffaloo.com/post/15976672728Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:58:00 -0800steffaloocollagewhalebirdplanewordstreasure