San Francisco Love Story

Shablagoo!: Awww...

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:14:24 -0800

OK OK, good point. It’s just that here in the city, we don’t whine about shit. We put our music of choice even LOUDER! (Or if we’re nice, we put on our headphones.)

holdenarchive:

Looks like you’ll be leaving your lovely suburbia and hightailing it to exotic locales such as…

Macedonia! Isreal! Afghanistan! Italy! Hungry! France! England! Dominican Republic! India! Iraq! The Philipines! Japan! Peru! Moldova! Korea! Cambodia! Albania! Ireland! Georgia!…

About The Holden Archive

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:07:00 -0800

bout The Holden Archive!

Hello! It’s been a long but fruitful hiatus, and your girl is back. Like so many blogs, there has been a contextual shift from mostly fashion to all arts. It’s too difficult to write about one and not reference the others. I’m a working artist, my fiancé is a working artist, life is filled with art and I can’t keep it all to myself. While I live in San Francisco and we have a focus on Bay Area artists, inspiration and recognition comes from all over the world.

This is a place where we talk about art. Thanks for visiting.

This is me, emerging from the dark, dark abyss of writers’ block.

Photo: Christina McNeill

Here’s a little more about me (and I’m changing it from the third to first person, you’re welcome):

BIOGRAPHY

My professional career in the arts began in writing and painting, but I don’t subscribe to any single media. Current projects include rock’n’roll photography, writing and photography for Urban Air Market, a book-length poem manuscript entitled Catamaran, a collection manuscript, a visual study of nostalgia and public transportation.

Past work includes movie stills for Rob Nilsson’s feature film The Steppes, music video cinematography, multimedia painting collaboration with artist Jason Grohman, graphic design for political and literary magazines, electronic projection installation, the co-edited (with Aaron Selverston) bookscape Leviathan, fashion productions and creative direction. Holden was recently the AD for a short fashion film for the San Francisco Bay Area Fashion Network.

I’m interested in: sexual discovery in girlhood, bees, mental illness, pornography, sea-faring vessels, rock’n’roll, urbanity and surrealism.

I was born in Chicago and currently live in San Francisco with my fiancé, musician Ryan Joseph of I Am Animal, Prima (our chihuahua-mutt), and two goldfish, Bianca Jagger and Meepers.

PRESS/PUBS

Photographer&Model | Podcast Episode 61 Photog/Editor Holden Pumphrey

As It Ought To Be | One Good Thing About You Is You’re Always Looking For Light Refraction

Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Website | Broke-Ass of the Week - Holden

The Sanfranista | Brushing up on Latin with Missing Piece

Muni Diaries | Photographer Kristen Holden: Love Stories on Muni

As It Ought To Be | Who Says

San Jose Mercury News | Budding poet finding her muse

ArtBusiness.com | Mode: Meme

UCSC.edu | Recognition

sexpigeon: Of course you want to punch them all in, of course...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 11:32:05 -0800

sexpigeon:

Of course you want to punch them all in, of course most of them are empty but two or three have little prizes and one contains tightly wound rolls of cash. And if you press the rivets in the correct order probably the whole panel slides up, and then you’re in the Secret Study, where every candlestick is a lever and every rug conceals a trap door. You invented this place when you were ten and then you erased its construction from your memory. You learn this in the Secret Study. Then you fall through a trap door and die.

Top Ten for the Week

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:25:05 -0800

1. ‘Til I Die - The Beach Boys
2. Big Apple Boogaloo - Brooklyn Funk Essentials
3. House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
4. Plug Tunin - De La Soul
5. Luck Be A Lady - Frank Sinatra
6. Mojo Girl - Nora Dean
7. Judy is a Punk - Ramones
8. J’ai dormi sous l’eau - Air
9. Happiness is a Warm Gun - The Beatles
10. God’s Child - David Byrne & Selena

Nothing like it.

Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:05:06 -0800

Nothing like it.

Sunset in San Francisco. One of my shots.

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:05:06 -0800

Sunset in San Francisco. One of my shots.

My darling at SFMOMA.

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:01:05 -0800

My darling at SFMOMA.

LAX -> OGG

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:30:06 -0800

LAX -> OGG

We had a cocktail party in our apartment and these are our...

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:30:05 -0800

We had a cocktail party in our apartment and these are our friends.

Dead Man is probably my numbero uno favorite movie. I mention it...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:31:06 -0800

Dead Man is probably my numbero uno favorite movie. I mention it because finally, finally the soundtrack is on iTunes. You don’t hear that kind-of guitar playing just anywhere. I didn’t even think I liked Neil Young.

I wonder if it’s actually neoprene. I want this outfit for...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 10:32:05 -0800

I wonder if it’s actually neoprene. I want this outfit for Belize.

Maybe it’s not all that comfortable but pain is beauty.

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 11:31:05 -0700

Maybe it’s not all that comfortable but pain is beauty.

So. Effing. Lame. anglophonic: See also: armed and (clearly)...

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:37:06 -0700

So. Effing. Lame.

anglophonic:

See also: armed and (clearly) aggressive Teabaggers versus unarmed, non-aggressive Occupy kids.

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#occupy

I normally hate the moving gifs, but this is just too adorable...

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:30:06 -0700

I normally hate the moving gifs, but this is just too adorable for me to pass up. There are dog people and there are cat people. And dog people are better.

abstractemotions:

AWWWWWWHH. :D

“Holden and myself” - Ryan Joseph Lovely morning.

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 11:30:06 -0700

“Holden and myself”

- Ryan Joseph

Lovely morning.

A “before” panorama of my condo in SF....

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:30:05 -0700

A “before” panorama of my condo in SF. “After” will come.

Squidman looks rather intelligent. I think it’s the beard...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:30:05 -0700

Squidman looks rather intelligent. I think it’s the beard of squid.

blackandwtf: 1966 “My father dressed up as a bird for...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:05 -0700

blackandwtf:

1966

“My father dressed up as a bird for Halloween.”

(via lindsay hattrick)

I’m fucking thrilled to be 30. Note to the young: your 20s...

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:30:06 -0700

I’m fucking thrilled to be 30. Note to the young: your 20s are WAY overrated.

Photo

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:05 -0700