You know it’s a good night when people are not just dancing on top of the bar, but the band is totally rocking out on it.

Even after the weekend to recover, I’m still somewhat dumbfounded and at a loss to recount what happened on Friday night. However, I feel it’s my duty, and I feel incredibly fortunate to have witnessed and to document not just an event, but an incredible experience and small piece of history.

Be absolutely sure to read the full review, full of footage and photos, right here.

What a great webs-warming present for this site… The Webs of Treb Day Cobb (my revamped blog, portfolio, and new home base for all of my online projects), before even officially launching, has been featured over at Quake Media.

Tremor Theme turns over 1,000 total downloads

Out of over 1,000 downloads of the Tremor Wordpress theme, The Webs of Treb Day Cobb was one of four blogs that the theme’s designer featured as going “above and beyond the fold to create a unique experience using Tremor.”

Modifying Wordpress themes has become a hobby of mine, tinkering with php and CSS code to design my own sites that have the user-friendly back-end of Wordpress. Wordpress is a great tool for anyone, professional or ameteur, looking to have a presence online. Currently, I’ve begun using Wordpress to design web-sites for small-business owners.

Here’s the Tremor theme, as viewed in its raw state. I added another column, installed some plugins, hacked things up a bit, and ended up with a functional 4-column RSS-driven site for presenting my ongoings across the web.

So, thanks for visiting. I hope you stop by again. I don’t think I’ll have email subscriptions available here, as you can subscribe to email updates at either photography.trebday.com [subscribe], the Vintage Vinyl Revival [subscribe], or both - depending on your interest. Not to mention, since this site is based on RSS feeds, I might as well encourage you to get in touch with the usefulness of RSS.

Here’s the RSS feed for The Webs of Treb Day Cobb.

In addition to updates on all of my other sites here, I’ll be featuring other items of interest from across the webs.

PHOTOGRAPHY.TREBDAY.COM officially launches with the 5-in-1 album from my trip last summer to the southern interior of British Columbia.

Looking back on B.C.

I have many archived photo sets waiting to be uploaded. If you’d like to be notified when I upload a new album, please sign up for a subscription.

In the hopefully near future you can expect many more great images from the back-roads and ghost towns of Idaho and Montana, plus I’ll be digging back into epic series from Eastern Europe and Mexico.

Highway 31

Canadian backwoods back-road HWY 31.

Historic Sandon

Boomtown, busted to pieces;
turn-of-the-century Capital City of the Silvery Slocan

Idaho Peak

panoramas of the Idaho Peak Lookout in B.C.

Meadow Mountain

Amazing vistas accessible in your own rig - if you can find the access road. And what a rugged and remote location for a few enterprising old miners.

Nelson to the ‘Silvery Slocan’

Up to Nelson, down to Rossland, and onward to New Denver and beyond.

“I’m high on Total Fest [...] scooting around on clouds, knockin’ out turtles, collecting coins.”
- overheard on Saturday night from Niki, co-organizer of Total Fest.

I neither have any photos of the event, nor any ground to write a worthy review [several times during the event, impressed, I would ask someone nearby, "Who the hell is this?"]; so, I’ll just start by pointing you to those with photos and credibility:

Total Fest Saturday: Get Naked and Dance
Jeff Kirby for Seattle’s “The Stranger”

Total Fest Day 3
Total Fest Day 2
Total Fest Day 1
Release the Kraken Please

Total Fest VII: Arrr, We Miss Ye Already.
Total Blog

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As for myself, it’s rare I ever get very far outside of my box, so come Sunday morning I had a hard time deciding if I hadn’t had a little too much fun. My head feeling like hammered shit, I poured some coffee and put the needle on Side A of “All I Need,” my new Wäntage released Miss Lana Rebel record, and found the lonely drunken cowgirl crooning to be the perfect fit for me to try to assess the aftermath of Total Fest 7.

Most of it now is a wash of one loud garbled memory. On Friday, I remember Titan and Nudity both stood out to me, but perhaps I wasn’t liquored up enough to step outside of my simple toe-tapping head-nodding box just yet. Arriving late on Saturday, 4 Cold Smokes already down, I found myself shaking my head to The Narrows like it was serious business, quickly seduced by their slow but intricate, spot-on, spine-grabbing riffs. Maybe I should pay more attention, as I’m not even certain of all who I witnessed totally killing it, but I know I exhibited my best fist-pumping several times throughout the night. Kingdom of Magic was one of those bands that I caught the name of only after I finished with my gratuitous hollering. I may have played a part in instigating the moshing in front of their performance, but it was out of my control - something the music just made happen. But, I’ve decided that if I spilled my drink on anyone, or stepped on anyone’s toes in the sea of people hopefully as entranced by the music as I was, it’s only testament that I was having a great f*cking time, in fact, just the perfect amount of fun. Thanks Total Fest, and all of you who know who you are.

New photo album up at : photography.trebday.com

/albums/bc/sandon

With respect for the current resident or two still living there, some might not consider it completely PC to call Sandon a ghost town; but as of yet plenty of shadows from the past are still hanging on to a faintly familiar refuge. Sandon reflects the unfortunate pattern of decay that occurs in many historical sites, and today hardly resembles the thriving mountain gulch city it once was. City planning was not often the priority for boom towns, and Sandon exemplifies the protocol for a pioneer city suffering the wrath of its own shortsightedness and bad luck. But in the amount of ore and hard work, money lost on hookers and cards, rate of boom to bust, & impact and variety of disasters incurred, there wasn’t anything that boomed and busted quite like Sandon.