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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Alex Vega, 22, and his girlfriend, Michela Gregory, 20, went to the Ghost Ship warehouse on Friday, Dec. 2 to dance. The two had been dating for five years and, by friends’ accounts, loved music, art, and each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, I believe they were made for each other,” Vega’s best friend Alex Vargas told the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vega and Gregory both worked at Duggan’s Serra Mortuary in Daly City. Vega also worked as a valet attendant for Peninsula Parking. Raised in San Bruno, where he still lived with his parents to save money, Vega graduated from Capuchino High School in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-800x789.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Vega and Michela Gregory\" width=\"800\" height=\"789\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12479262\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-800x789.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-160x158.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-768x758.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-1020x1006.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-960x947.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-240x237.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-375x370.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-520x513.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alex-and-michela.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Vega and Michela Gregory \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Alex was very shy when you first met him,” says Lucero Govea, a wellness counselor at Capuchino who was close with Vega. “But once you got him to open up he had so much to share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vega was interested in painting, graffiti and hip-hop music. With friends, he helped to organize underground rap shows in the Bay Area. He also loved cars, and had saved up enough money to buy his dream ride last year: a 1999 silver Mazda Miata. After the fire, that car was still parked at the San Bruno BART station where the couple had left it before the party. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day after the fire, standing outside the burned out remains of the warehouse on 31st Street, Vega’s brother Dan spoke about how close he was with his “baby brother,” despite the 14 year age difference between them, and how much family meant to Vega. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was a quiet and artistic young man, who loved his family very much,” Govea says. “He still had so much more to share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/alexvegaedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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He was active in the music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, playing in a band called Nightmom with fellow Brown student Travis Lloyd. In tribute to Gomez-Hall after his death, Lloyd posted two tracks the band recorded on \u003ca href=\"https://nightmom.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp\u003c/a>. In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10207497005287179&set=a.1874972317941.2095999.1350180133&type=3&theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook post\u003c/a> about the songs, Lloyd wrote that he hoped the music “makes everyone feel closer to you in this time of deep sadness and shock.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s one thing you taught me it’s to feel this deeply right now, to share it, and to grow closer with the world in the process,” Lloyd writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4029742587/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=2210516697/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez-Hall’s creative outlets went beyond music: his photography can be seen \u003ca href=\"http://saddle--tramp.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Tumblr\u003c/a>, and he was a published short story writer. \u003ca href=\"http://www.theindy.org/a/78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> One of his stories\u003c/a> is on the website for the \u003cem>Indy\u003c/em>, Providence’s alternative weekly newspaper. The story is told from the viewpoint of a carpenter watching his lifetime of work — houses he built — crumbling away over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be a fine carpenter but things still might not work out,” Gomez-Hall writes. “That was the case for me. The wind was always just so much stronger than my work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to Gomez-Hall’s songs with Nightmom \u003ca href=\"https://nightmom.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>See Gomez-Hall’s photography \u003ca href=\"http://saddle--tramp.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>Read ‘Once a House is Built,’ a short story by Gomez-Hall, \u003ca href=\"http://www.theindy.org/a/78\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/nickgomezedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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And right beside me was my best friend, my brightest love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12480649\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 615px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/GriffinMadden4-1.jpg\" alt=\"Griffin Madden and Saya Tomioka.\" width=\"615\" height=\"462\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12480649\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/GriffinMadden4-1.jpg 615w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/GriffinMadden4-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/GriffinMadden4-1-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/GriffinMadden4-1-375x282.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/GriffinMadden4-1-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffin Madden and Saya Tomioka. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Madden graduated from UC Berkeley in 2015 with a double major in philosophy and Slavic languages and literature. He spent two summers participating in a program at Middlebury College, throughout which he spoke exclusively in Russian. He recently won a full-time position at UC Berkeley’s performing arts presenter Cal Performances as an audience services associate after ushering at the venue for five years. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a part of the collective Tri Works, Madden often made mixes to post to Soundcloud and DJed parties in the Bay Area. Three days after the warehouse fire, he was scheduled to DJ in San Francisco with Golden Donna and Cherushii, two musicians on the bill at Ghost Ship the night of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/263628439″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”325″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend Sean Sumler says Madden possessed infectious positivity and great creativity. As a DJ and passionate clubber, Madden’s passion for music extended across many genres, including jazz, choral, classical and world music. “During one show where I performed in San Francisco, I remember Griffin dancing directly in front of me and my table,” Sumler says. “While he danced, it was obvious that he and I had the same investment in making the room move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479243\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden.jpg\" alt=\"Griffin Madden and Saya Tomioka\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12479243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffin Madden and Saya Tomioka in Times Square. \u003ccite>(Arken Avan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An artist who knew Madden and asked not to be named remembers a night at The Lab. “I believe it was Griffin’s first time to The Lab and he was just in utter paradise,” she says. “He was so excited about everything that was happening, and everyone who was there, and how fabulous and talented they all were. I haven’t met many people who were nearly as excited to be amongst art, talent and friends like he was. I hung out with him for a while that night talking about his school and philosophy. He was really interested in Heidegger and we got talking about that for a long time. He was an extremely smart, gifted young man that brought everyone he met joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the spirit and the way we choose to remember Griffin,” says Madden’s father, Mike, who describes his son an original thinker with an unquenchable curiosity. Father and son often engaged in long philosophical discussions sparked by questions like, “What is the meaning of time? And does time even exist?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279186760″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your light touched so, so, so, many people, and you taught/will continue to teach us to live our lives just as fully, youthfully and kindly as you did,” writes Tomioka on Facebook. “I promise you that I will never stop dancing; I’ll dance even harder. I will never stop laughing; I’ll laugh even louder. I will never stop loving; I’ll love even prouder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hear Madden’s mixes, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/griffinm12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For his involvement in Tri Works, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/Tri_works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tri Works’ Soundcloud page\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To read a heartwarming story of how the above photograph taken in Times Square came back into Tomioka’s possession, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Facebook-Miracle-Girlfriend-of-Oakland-Warehouse-Fire-Victim-Finds-Photo-She-Had-Been-Searching-For-405485915.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/griffinmaddenedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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As a DJ and passionate clubber, Madden’s passion for music extended across many genres, including jazz, choral, classical and world music. “During one show where I performed in San Francisco, I remember Griffin dancing directly in front of me and my table,” Sumler says. “While he danced, it was obvious that he and I had the same investment in making the room move.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479243\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden.jpg\" alt=\"Griffin Madden and Saya Tomioka\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12479243\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Griffin-Madden-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Griffin Madden and Saya Tomioka in Times Square. \u003ccite>(Arken Avan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>An artist who knew Madden and asked not to be named remembers a night at The Lab. “I believe it was Griffin’s first time to The Lab and he was just in utter paradise,” she says. “He was so excited about everything that was happening, and everyone who was there, and how fabulous and talented they all were. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the spirit and the way we choose to remember Griffin,” says Madden’s father, Mike, who describes his son an original thinker with an unquenchable curiosity. Father and son often engaged in long philosophical discussions sparked by questions like, “What is the meaning of time? And does time even exist?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”150″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279186760″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/279186760″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Your light touched so, so, so, many people, and you taught/will continue to teach us to live our lives just as fully, youthfully and kindly as you did,” writes Tomioka on Facebook. “I promise you that I will never stop dancing; I’ll dance even harder. I will never stop laughing; I’ll laugh even louder. I will never stop loving; I’ll love even prouder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hear Madden’s mixes, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/griffinm12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For his involvement in Tri Works, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/Tri_works\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tri Works’ Soundcloud page\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To read a heartwarming story of how the above photograph taken in Times Square came back into Tomioka’s possession, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Facebook-Miracle-Girlfriend-of-Oakland-Warehouse-Fire-Victim-Finds-Photo-She-Had-Been-Searching-For-405485915.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/griffinmaddenedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jason McCarty, known to the Bay Area art scene as “JSUN,” was a multi-talented visual and sound artist who didn’t shy away from creating confrontational art experiences. In intricate ink on paper drawings, he depicted scenes of frenetic, uncontainable activity. His sound performances were described as electric, visceral bombardments of pure energy. “Rock was a fad, electronic music is forever,” he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dilatedears/status/768162925286608900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once wrote in a tweet\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272387441″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2008 graduate of San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) post-baccalaureate and MFA programs, friends and former classmates remember McCarty as a boundary-pushing artist with a warm, welcoming personality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend and fellow SFAI classmate Jeremiah Jenkins remembers McCarty as a fixture at the school’s Third Street studios. “He didn’t have a place to live, so he lived in the studio,” Jenkins says. “He was there when I would leave and when I got there early in the morning. He was 100 percent committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Jsun during 'The Weather Reconnaissance' \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12479252\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-960x718.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-520x389.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jsun during ‘The Weather Reconnaissance’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Colby Claycomb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October 2008, McCarty participated in \u003ci>The Weather Reconnaissance\u003c/i>, a show curated by artists Jenna North and Peter Foucault as part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.justinhoover.com/the-garage-biennale/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Garage Biennial\u003c/a>, an experimental exhibition program hosted by fellow SFAI grad Justin Hoover in the garage of his family’s Pacific Heights home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty’s piece centered around an enormous globe suspended over the mechanic’s pit in the garage. A network of electronic nodes attached to the globe connected to mixers, consoles, amplifiers and effects pedals strewn on the floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North says McCarty and his collaborator dressed like members of a secret underground militia. “The was a sense of this covert operation he was conducting,” North says. “I honestly believe that he believed he was communicating with higher forces in his attempts to control atmospheric forces through sound. He had a sign next to the hole that said, ‘Shhhh — I’m talking to God.’” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189247033″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If McCarty expected silence from his audience, he filled that vacuum with more sound than any gathered crowd could ever possibly produce. “It was really wild and loud and abrasive and he didn’t give a shit,” Hoover says of the two-hour performance for \u003ci>The Weather Reconnaissance\u003c/i>. “He intentionally pushed buttons. People couldn’t handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479256\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty.jpg\" alt=\"Jason McCarty\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12479256\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason McCarty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based filmmaker Cyrus Tabar remembers meeting McCarty through the Artists’ Television Access community. He relished the sensory overload of McCarty’s performances. “I always knew when he was sitting with his gear that I had to prepare myself,” Tabar says. “Sometimes it was so intense you’d want to be going to the door. It was just like this intensity, this electricity he had. He wasn’t the kind of guy who would just press play on his laptop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former classmates at SFAI remember McCarty sampling sounds in the studio hallway. They would often find him hitting a drumstick against any reverberant object. “He was the noisemaker,” his friend Will Barclift says. “He didn’t do it for anyone else. As an artist he was someone who pushed the boundaries.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After SFAI, McCarty connected with the Oakland warehouse scene, living and performing in spaces like the Ghost Ship warehouse. He remained dedicated to his practice. “10pm is always such a tragic time for me,” he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dilatedears/status/779181733270859776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted on Sept. 22\u003c/a>, “cuz that’s when my neighbor starts banging on the wall and I have to discontinue making music.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189245650″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As raw and wild as his music was, McCarty is remembered by friends as a tender and compassionate person. “A lot of artists get this voice and they use that voice to challenge other people to hear that voice,” Jenkins says. “But with Jsun, he was just inviting. It’s really hard to find people like that in the art world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so secure in his own skin and it just made everybody else want to be that way,” says artist and friend Gera Lozano. “He believed in himself. And I think all of his friends believed in him too. We were just waiting for him to blow up, it was a matter of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-800x552.jpg\" alt='\"Interior on LSD\" by Jsun' width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12479255\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-960x663.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-520x359.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Interior on LSD” by Jsun\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Dec. 2, both Jenkins and Barclift have found themselves reminded of McCarty in unlikely sonic spaces. For Barclift, it’s in the discordant mess of car radio static. “That was something he could listen to and actually create meaning out of it and use in his art,” Barclift says. “It was just so perfect, it made me grin immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, in the wake of the Oakland warehouse fire, Jenkins attended a community vigil, and “the only place I could find to stand was next to these humming generators,” he says. “I couldn’t hear anything else. I thought, this is the space that he would be fine with and that he would want to occupy: an uncomfortable space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to more of McCarty’s music as Dilatedears at \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/slanguages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See McCarty’s artwork and photography at \u003ca href=\"http://dilatedears.tumblr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Tumblr\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>More artwork and photography can be found at \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/dilatedears/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McCarty’s Instagram page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jasonmccartyedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Jason McCarty, known to the Bay Area art scene as “JSUN,” was a multi-talented visual and sound artist who didn’t shy away from creating confrontational art experiences. In intricate ink on paper drawings, he depicted scenes of frenetic, uncontainable activity. His sound performances were described as electric, visceral bombardments of pure energy. “Rock was a fad, electronic music is forever,” he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dilatedears/status/768162925286608900\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once wrote in a tweet\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”150″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272387441″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/272387441″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 2008 graduate of San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) post-baccalaureate and MFA programs, friends and former classmates remember McCarty as a boundary-pushing artist with a warm, welcoming personality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend and fellow SFAI classmate Jeremiah Jenkins remembers McCarty as a fixture at the school’s Third Street studios. “He didn’t have a place to live, so he lived in the studio,” Jenkins says. “He was there when I would leave and when I got there early in the morning. He was 100 percent committed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479252\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"Jsun during 'The Weather Reconnaissance' \" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12479252\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-1180x883.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-960x718.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-375x280.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb-520x389.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/jsun_in_hole_photo_by_Colby_Claycomb.jpg 1892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jsun during ‘The Weather Reconnaissance’ \u003ccite>(Photo: Colby Claycomb)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In October 2008, McCarty participated in \u003ci>The Weather Reconnaissance\u003c/i>, a show curated by artists Jenna North and Peter Foucault as part of \u003ca href=\"http://www.justinhoover.com/the-garage-biennale/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Garage Biennial\u003c/a>, an experimental exhibition program hosted by fellow SFAI grad Justin Hoover in the garage of his family’s Pacific Heights home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty’s piece centered around an enormous globe suspended over the mechanic’s pit in the garage. A network of electronic nodes attached to the globe connected to mixers, consoles, amplifiers and effects pedals strewn on the floor. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>North says McCarty and his collaborator dressed like members of a secret underground militia. “The was a sense of this covert operation he was conducting,” North says. “I honestly believe that he believed he was communicating with higher forces in his attempts to control atmospheric forces through sound. 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People couldn’t handle it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479256\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty.jpg\" alt=\"Jason McCarty\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12479256\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-375x500.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JasonMcCarty-520x693.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason McCarty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Oakland-based filmmaker Cyrus Tabar remembers meeting McCarty through the Artists’ Television Access community. He relished the sensory overload of McCarty’s performances. “I always knew when he was sitting with his gear that I had to prepare myself,” Tabar says. “Sometimes it was so intense you’d want to be going to the door. It was just like this intensity, this electricity he had. He wasn’t the kind of guy who would just press play on his laptop.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former classmates at SFAI remember McCarty sampling sounds in the studio hallway. They would often find him hitting a drumstick against any reverberant object. “He was the noisemaker,” his friend Will Barclift says. “He didn’t do it for anyone else. As an artist he was someone who pushed the boundaries.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After SFAI, McCarty connected with the Oakland warehouse scene, living and performing in spaces like the Ghost Ship warehouse. He remained dedicated to his practice. “10pm is always such a tragic time for me,” he \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dilatedears/status/779181733270859776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted on Sept. 22\u003c/a>, “cuz that’s when my neighbor starts banging on the wall and I have to discontinue making music.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”150″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189245650″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/189245650″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As raw and wild as his music was, McCarty is remembered by friends as a tender and compassionate person. “A lot of artists get this voice and they use that voice to challenge other people to hear that voice,” Jenkins says. “But with Jsun, he was just inviting. It’s really hard to find people like that in the art world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was so secure in his own skin and it just made everybody else want to be that way,” says artist and friend Gera Lozano. “He believed in himself. And I think all of his friends believed in him too. We were just waiting for him to blow up, it was a matter of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12479255\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-800x552.jpg\" alt='\"Interior on LSD\" by Jsun' width=\"800\" height=\"552\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12479255\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-768x530.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-1020x704.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-1180x815.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-960x663.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-375x259.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr-520x359.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Interior-on-LSD-tumblr.jpg 1231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Interior on LSD” by Jsun\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Dec. 2, both Jenkins and Barclift have found themselves reminded of McCarty in unlikely sonic spaces. For Barclift, it’s in the discordant mess of car radio static. “That was something he could listen to and actually create meaning out of it and use in his art,” Barclift says. “It was just so perfect, it made me grin immediately.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, in the wake of the Oakland warehouse fire, Jenkins attended a community vigil, and “the only place I could find to stand was next to these humming generators,” he says. “I couldn’t hear anything else. 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"content": "\u003cp>When others had nowhere to go, artist Sara Hoda, 30, helped take them in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She literally provided the space for me to start my life here,” says Susan Dee, a friend of the Oakland-based artist. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Dee moved to the Bay Area in 2013, she couldn’t afford the region’s skyrocketing rent, and Hoda gave her somewhere to stay. “The only place I could afford to live was this place in West Oakland,” Dee says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12467428\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 680px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Sara_Hoda_photo.jpeg\" alt=\"Hoda on Right\" width=\"680\" height=\"538\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12467428\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Sara_Hoda_photo.jpeg 680w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Sara_Hoda_photo-160x127.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Sara_Hoda_photo-240x190.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Sara_Hoda_photo-375x297.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Sara_Hoda_photo-520x411.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Hoda (right) with Lazzuly Mello.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hoda lived in a three-bedroom apartment near the West Oakland BART stop and helped Dee get on her feet. Dee recalls Hoda’s generous spirit. “Sara and her friends were so open and accepting,” Dee says. “Often, she would offer me coffee in the morning, make hand crafted gifts for friends’ birthdays, and fix the most delicious Persian food to share.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dee also recalls coming home to find Hoda painting on an easel in her room. “She explained that one painting was about the Occupy Wall Street protests at the Oakland port,” Dee says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda had a broad range of interests. She and friend Lazzuly Mello started a coffee company out of a truck. They named their business \u003ca href=\"http://kck.st/2gm6nin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Is In Coffee\u003c/a>, and covered the sides of the truck with paintings. Backed by Kickstarter donations, the goal of the truck was to bring people together over a cup of coffee to “facilitate the sharing of different cultures, ideas, and perspectives.” They often changed out the paintings on the truck, creating a transitory mobile art gallery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda also ran an artists’ collective with her friend Carol Crewdson. Known as Musick Box, the pair operated their community out of a home in West Oakland, which supported up to 32 people at a time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"sarahoda3\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12467427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crewdson remembered Hoda as “compassionate and sweet” on Facebook after Hoda was reported deceased in the Oakland warehouse fire. “We built a garden and community together and grew vegetables in the front of our ramshackle house in the middle of Oakland, and created abundance with a beautiful group of people that stretch all over the world. That’s how I will remember her, and that’s who she was to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda’s busy life also included working with kids. In 2016, Hoda got a job working as a support teacher at the Urban Montessori Charter School in East Oakland. Her students, age six to nine, fondly referred to her as “Ms. S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12467426\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1.jpg\" alt=\"Sara Hoda\" width=\"540\" height=\"548\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12467426\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-160x162.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-240x244.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-375x381.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-520x528.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda1-96x96.jpg 96w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sara Hoda.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’d found a perfect fit in Sara,” says David Castillo, the school’s head teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castillo recalls the excitement he felt when he first met Hoda. “She had a calm, kind demeanor that people were naturally drawn to,” Castillo says. And he admired her green thumb. “Sara had a passion for gardening, and we may end up putting together a community garden in her name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda’s mother and brother attended a healing circle along with students’ parents at the school on the Monday after the fire. In a statement that went out to parents via email, Castillo says Hoda was “loved and full of love, and she will be missed by so many people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/sarahodaedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda had a broad range of interests. She and friend Lazzuly Mello started a coffee company out of a truck. They named their business \u003ca href=\"http://kck.st/2gm6nin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Is In Coffee\u003c/a>, and covered the sides of the truck with paintings. Backed by Kickstarter donations, the goal of the truck was to bring people together over a cup of coffee to “facilitate the sharing of different cultures, ideas, and perspectives.” They often changed out the paintings on the truck, creating a transitory mobile art gallery. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda also ran an artists’ collective with her friend Carol Crewdson. Known as Musick Box, the pair operated their community out of a home in West Oakland, which supported up to 32 people at a time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"sarahoda3\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12467427\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-800x449.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/SaraHoda3-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crewdson remembered Hoda as “compassionate and sweet” on Facebook after Hoda was reported deceased in the Oakland warehouse fire. “We built a garden and community together and grew vegetables in the front of our ramshackle house in the middle of Oakland, and created abundance with a beautiful group of people that stretch all over the world. 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And he admired her green thumb. “Sara had a passion for gardening, and we may end up putting together a community garden in her name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoda’s mother and brother attended a healing circle along with students’ parents at the school on the Monday after the fire. 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"content": "\u003cp>Cash Askew, 22, was a captivating person with visionary musical talent. One half of dream-pop duo Them Are Us Too, she was a beloved figure in the Bay Area music community, especially within queer and trans circles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Askew’s stepfather, Sunny Haire (former manager of the Lexington Club, a now-shuttered lesbian bar in San Francisco’s Mission) taught Askew to play guitar at the age of seven. “As a child, Cash would spend time with her stepfather in the Lexington Club, sipping cranberry juice and watching the clientele,” \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em> notes in a story about Askew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12474038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12474038\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-800x450.jpg\" alt='Cash Askew in the music video for Chasms’ “Beyond Flesh.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-960x540.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-375x211.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.Screenshot-520x293.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cash Askew in the music video for Chasms’ “Beyond Flesh.” \u003ccite>(YouTube)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a statement to \u003cem>Rolling Stone\u003c/em>, Askew’s stepfather Sunny Haire and mother Leisa Baird Askew said: “She was very special, an enigma, and I can say without hesitation she truly affected and made an impression upon everyone she met…” With her passing, the world lost a tender, luminous spirit who was just beginning to imprint an indelible mark on the world through her art and through her humanity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with writer Beth Winegarner, published on Medium in the wake of the Oakland warehouse fire, Askew, who identified as transgender and used the feminine pronoun, spoke about how her early explorations of gender and music intertwined. “As a young teenager, I was definitely attracted to goth and new wave in part because of the androgyny,” Askew says, “And that aesthetic gave me a way to explore my gender expression before I could even come to terms with being transgender.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/hA2onxrh_9g\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Askew began playing with vocalist Kennedy Ashlyn as Them Are Us Too in 2013, and the duo released its first full-length album, \u003cem>Remain\u003c/em>, through Dais Records last year. The songs on the somber yet glistening album combine soaring, siren-like vocals with atmospheric synth, shoegaze guitar and snare. Askew also maintained two solo musical projects, Heavenly and Prist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a remembrance of Askew posted to its website, Dais Records posts: “We were in awe of her talent, her gentle kindness, and her creative momentum. She was loved and admired by everyone she met, and her passing is an excruciating loss that we may never fully process or recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12474044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12474044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Cash Askew (right) and Kennedy Wenning of Them Are Us Too.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cash Askew (right) and Kennedy Wenning of Them Are Us Too. \u003ccite>(Kristen Cofer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the days since the Ghost Ship fire, there has been an outpouring of grief from those in the music scene who played with Askew, or simply appreciated her music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Instagram, Wax Idols singer Hether Fortune referred to Askew’s work and existence as “transcendent.” “Getting to become close with you on tour [and] watch you perform every night for a month was a privilege and a revelation,” she writes. “You were as iconic as you were pure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12471533\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1.jpg\" alt=\"cashaskew1\" width=\"740\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1.jpg 740w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on its Facebook page, Oakland noise-rock trio S.B.S.M. remembers playing a show in Santa Cruz with Ashlyn and Askew. Still relatively new, and feeling insecure, the band was emboldened by the duo’s support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cash was there in a crowd of mostly unamused punks literally just moshing with herself, in her own space, in her own zone,” the members of S.B.S.M. write. “Of all the people who we’ve met through doing this band, we actually trusted the way Cash appreciated us, she understood us, she ‘got it.’ In a freak for freak, queer for queer, heart to heart way. We feel the same about all of her creativity as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band goes on to recall being brought to tears simply at the sight of Askew dance during a Wax Idols show. S.B.S.M. was even inspired to write a song about her dance moves: “Maybe she has always been ethereal; like a prism channeling light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear “Us Now” and read a review of Them Are Us Too on Pitchfork \u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17309-them-are-us-too-us-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read an interview with Them Are Us Too on Vice \u003ca href=\"https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/them-are-us-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Askew starring recently in the music video for Chasms’ “Beyond Flesh” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcejTqyN9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Askew in a DJ set with Aja Archulata \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/aaron.aaron.9277583/videos/1757123561202281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/cashaskewedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Askew began playing with vocalist Kennedy Ashlyn as Them Are Us Too in 2013, and the duo released its first full-length album, \u003cem>Remain\u003c/em>, through Dais Records last year. The songs on the somber yet glistening album combine soaring, siren-like vocals with atmospheric synth, shoegaze guitar and snare. Askew also maintained two solo musical projects, Heavenly and Prist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a remembrance of Askew posted to its website, Dais Records posts: “We were in awe of her talent, her gentle kindness, and her creative momentum. She was loved and admired by everyone she met, and her passing is an excruciating loss that we may never fully process or recover from.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12474044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12474044\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Cash Askew (right) and Kennedy Wenning of Them Are Us Too.\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew.ThemAreUsToo.KristenCofer-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cash Askew (right) and Kennedy Wenning of Them Are Us Too. \u003ccite>(Kristen Cofer)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the days since the Ghost Ship fire, there has been an outpouring of grief from those in the music scene who played with Askew, or simply appreciated her music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Instagram, Wax Idols singer Hether Fortune referred to Askew’s work and existence as “transcendent.” “Getting to become close with you on tour [and] watch you perform every night for a month was a privilege and a revelation,” she writes. “You were as iconic as you were pure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12471533\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1.jpg\" alt=\"cashaskew1\" width=\"740\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1.jpg 740w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CashAskew1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement on its Facebook page, Oakland noise-rock trio S.B.S.M. remembers playing a show in Santa Cruz with Ashlyn and Askew. Still relatively new, and feeling insecure, the band was emboldened by the duo’s support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cash was there in a crowd of mostly unamused punks literally just moshing with herself, in her own space, in her own zone,” the members of S.B.S.M. write. “Of all the people who we’ve met through doing this band, we actually trusted the way Cash appreciated us, she understood us, she ‘got it.’ In a freak for freak, queer for queer, heart to heart way. We feel the same about all of her creativity as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The band goes on to recall being brought to tears simply at the sight of Askew dance during a Wax Idols show. S.B.S.M. was even inspired to write a song about her dance moves: “Maybe she has always been ethereal; like a prism channeling light.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear “Us Now” and read a review of Them Are Us Too on Pitchfork \u003ca href=\"http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/17309-them-are-us-too-us-now/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read an interview with Them Are Us Too on Vice \u003ca href=\"https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/them-are-us-too\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Askew starring recently in the music video for Chasms’ “Beyond Flesh” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcejTqyN9I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Watch Askew in a DJ set with Aja Archulata \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/aaron.aaron.9277583/videos/1757123561202281/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/cashaskewedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "Johnny Igaz, a Pillar of Community, Electronic Musician, and Inspiration",
"headTitle": "Johnny Igaz, a Pillar of Community, Electronic Musician, and Inspiration | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>It’s hard to know where to begin with Johnny Igaz. Do I open by mentioning his lifeblood — his music — and his outsized talent that the world was only just beginning to recognize? Or his deep, abiding sense of humor, which never left him without a smile on his face and left him cracking jokes about his own struggles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469096\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz at Public Works in 2015.\" width=\"637\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12469096\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015.jpg 637w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-240x362.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-375x565.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-520x784.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz at Public Works in 2015. \u003ccite>(Shanna Doherty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do I start with his passion for others, which saw him supporting his friends, even new friends he barely knew, in their artistic and creative endeavors, without fail? Or his commitment to causes he believed in — veganism, feminism, racial justice, non-violence, fair pay for artists, musicians, and creators, to list but a few? Or, more simply, his philosophy of kindness and positivity, which saw him continually pushing himself on an elemental level to do the hard work necessary to be thankful for all the gifts life gave him, to pay no heed to the hardships he could not control, and to take nothing for granted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, none of the above does Johnny justice. Perhaps more than any other person I’ve known in life, Johnny was a man of infinite multitudes. From the very first time I met him, he greeted me with a warm hug and engaged in genuine conversation with me, paying me rapt attention and listening earnestly to what I had to say. Then and there, I was smitten. He was one of a kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music was the foundation of my relationship with Johnny. Music seemed to be the foundation of Johnny’s life, as a matter of fact. We bonded early over artists like U.K. techno producer Boddika, whose squirrelly, stripped-down hardware jams, like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHS-kvBrEx0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acid Battery\u003c/a>,” proved hugely influential on Johnny’s own work as Nackt. We quickly moved beyond electronic music and realized we shared a love of much other outsider music: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFc8CDESpH8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sludgy stoner metal\u003c/a> of Electric Wizard; the undulating psychedelia of Earthless; the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzvWSKQyBO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jazzy, dusty downtempo grooves\u003c/a> of Amon Tobin; and so much more. Johnny turned me onto so many good tunes: Electronic System’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwDLN2X6Rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far-out library music\u003c/a>, or Ebenezer Obey’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAt9OG61XP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-form Nigerian Afrobeat\u003c/a>, to pick just two. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But music isn’t the reason I’ll remember Johnny forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz, always empowering others to be their best selves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12469097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-768x559.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-520x379.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz, always empowering others to be their best selves.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnny was one of the few people I’ve encountered in life who taught me how to be a better person. We debated often: issues, causes, problems, seeking possible solutions or best practices. Time after time, Johnny helped me do the right thing. Johnny was always re-evaluating his own positions, stances, and actions, asking himself (and me in turn) how he could do better, be more just, and do less harm. He stumbled often — he was human, after all. But it was the asking that counted. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edwTNHK4iUY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than that, Johnny showed me how to be a man. I’m a music geek who writes for a living who loves clothes and video games; I’m not exactly a “man’s man,” and I’ve long struggled with traditional notions of masculinity and what kind of man, exactly, I am supposed to be. Johnny is perhaps the first close male friend I’ve had who was unabashed about his sensitivity; who told his friends he loved them repeatedly; who not only didn’t disregard touch and physical contact, but actively sought it out. Johnny helped me feel safe in my own skin, cementing within me that who I am is the person I ought to be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12469285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz. \u003ccite>(Amanda Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, Johnny and I had the same conversation, time and time again: “Is it time to leave?” The Bay Area is home for both of us, and both of us love it with every fiber of our beings. But remaining here is a struggle, especially once we both decided to commit full-time to our creative passions: music his, writing mine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time and time again, one of us would feel low, ready to throw in the towel: \u003cem>That’s it — I’m just gonna move to L.A., Seattle, Toronto, New York, anywhere\u003c/em>. Time and time again, one of us would counsel the other: “Hang in there; it’s hard right now, I know; so many friends have (moved, been evicted, given up hope); give it a few weeks — the tide will turn.” Invariably, we’d convince the other to stick around, and both our moods would lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/209469667″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, we had this conversation again — except this time, we both agreed that something had changed. Both San Francisco and Oakland felt more vibrant than ever; mood on the street felt positive; people were coming together, beginning new projects, and creativity seemed on the upswing, despite the dark storm clouding our nation. We agreed to work on new projects together, excited by the prospects that lay ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last weekend, my resolve is stronger than ever — I’m not giving up. For Johnny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these sentiments are mine alone. The outpouring of love, fondness, and support from Johnny’s family and friends — and perhaps most remarkably, from those who barely knew him at all — has been nothing short of an avalanche. Dear readers, forgive me: what anecdotes I share here cannot possibly stand in for the innumerable tributes from those he touched, but I will try, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"johnny-poms\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12469283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brother Paul Igaz states with certainty that no single person affected or influenced his life as much as Johnny did. Paul recounts how, steadily and gradually, Johnny instilled in him a love of music; that over time, Paul followed Johnny’s “growth as a person and as a lover of music, which were in many ways the same thing.” Paul recounts that he, Johnny, and sister Teresa (who died in 2015) all had different but firmly held concepts of what is “right and just,” and that this led each in different directions. For Teresa, this meant a career in public health, specifically mental health for youth; for Paul, a career in teaching and education. Johnny infused this spirit into his career as a musician and artist. What stands out about Johnny’s beliefs and ethics, Paul says, is “how public he’s always been about [them,]” in contrast to the reservedness of himself and Teresa, and how inspiring that is to him as a person. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3128304709/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3304925442/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For long-time friend and event-hosting partner Jeremy Bispo, it is “hard to disconnect [Johnny’s] love for music with his love for people and community.” Johnny worked tirelessly to improve his craft, Bispo says, “but would still prefer to give others a chance to shine over himself.” Bispo remembers fondly how seriously Johnny took the task of curating lineups for their parties and events: “He brought a broader perspective on diversity, and elevated the importance of representing community without sacrificing quality to the utmost.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"johnnyigaz-cut\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12469284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former partner, forever family Hunter Leight says the most important thing he taught her was “to build up community, to support and nurture our chosen families, and to remember that we’re all in this together.” For fellow DJ and music lover Sam Bloom, Johnny “really set the standard for what it meant to be someone’s friend,” he says. He recounts the last time they really spent time together, in October, soon after Johnny had been hired as the music buyer for San Francisco’s Green Apple Books. Bloom says Johnny spoke about how “music scenes need all types of people and spaces … it takes an entire community to make a scene, and everyone’s role is key.” In Johnny’s mind, Bloom recounts, “he was just doing his part, and he made me feel empowered to do mine.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294113276″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”150″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend and musical collaborator Cassidy Martin says Johnny was his “primary music mentor,” and his lessons of “detail, restraint, and discipline” left Martin a much improved artist. He remembers that Johnny would describe the music community writ large as a “Venn diagram,” and made the effort to “shade in those areas, connect the dots between people.” That’s why parties were so important to him: “He wanted different parts of the community to meet, connect, and strengthen — organically,” he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469286\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12469286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_.jpg 384w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renee Nichols, Johnny’s first love (who knew him simply as John), says that “Ironically, one of the people who’s helping me through this loss the most is him [Johnny].” “Whenever I have a despairing thought,” she says, “I see him smile and shake his head good-naturedly at me, like, ‘Come on.'” Nichols remembers speaking of death and dying with Johnny; his philosophy was that since we could go at any minute, we had best live like we had no regrets — or at least, try to leave all our relationships on a positive note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend Alida Brandenburg remembers how consistently Johnny would “check in on [her,]” and not in a patronizing or protective way — “just in an ‘I’m human and I care about you’ kind of way,” she says. Johnny’s openness and warmth so moved her that she decided to make a change in her life: instead of making small talk with friends at parties, she resolved to ask them, “What are you excited about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a small tribute to Johnny,” she says, “and the inspired life he led, and modeled so generously for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Johnny Igaz’s DJ sets, mixes, edits and original music as Nackt at \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nacktmusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a wide-spanning interview with Johnny Igaz about growing up, his influences, philosophy and technique \u003ca href=\"http://dancedeep.com/2016/09/15/nackt-on-oakland-roots/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a remembrance of Johnny Igaz from Hunter Leight \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@hunterleight/johnny-johnny-i-love-you-8270dadc3353#.2jxql5jku\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/johnnyigazedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s hard to know where to begin with Johnny Igaz. Do I open by mentioning his lifeblood — his music — and his outsized talent that the world was only just beginning to recognize? Or his deep, abiding sense of humor, which never left him without a smile on his face and left him cracking jokes about his own struggles?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469096\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 637px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz at Public Works in 2015.\" width=\"637\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12469096\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015.jpg 637w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-160x241.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-240x362.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-375x565.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.PW_.2015-520x784.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz at Public Works in 2015. \u003ccite>(Shanna Doherty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Do I start with his passion for others, which saw him supporting his friends, even new friends he barely knew, in their artistic and creative endeavors, without fail? Or his commitment to causes he believed in — veganism, feminism, racial justice, non-violence, fair pay for artists, musicians, and creators, to list but a few? Or, more simply, his philosophy of kindness and positivity, which saw him continually pushing himself on an elemental level to do the hard work necessary to be thankful for all the gifts life gave him, to pay no heed to the hardships he could not control, and to take nothing for granted?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In truth, none of the above does Johnny justice. Perhaps more than any other person I’ve known in life, Johnny was a man of infinite multitudes. From the very first time I met him, he greeted me with a warm hug and engaged in genuine conversation with me, paying me rapt attention and listening earnestly to what I had to say. Then and there, I was smitten. He was one of a kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Music was the foundation of my relationship with Johnny. Music seemed to be the foundation of Johnny’s life, as a matter of fact. We bonded early over artists like U.K. techno producer Boddika, whose squirrelly, stripped-down hardware jams, like “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHS-kvBrEx0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acid Battery\u003c/a>,” proved hugely influential on Johnny’s own work as Nackt. We quickly moved beyond electronic music and realized we shared a love of much other outsider music: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFc8CDESpH8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sludgy stoner metal\u003c/a> of Electric Wizard; the undulating psychedelia of Earthless; the \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzvWSKQyBO8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jazzy, dusty downtempo grooves\u003c/a> of Amon Tobin; and so much more. Johnny turned me onto so many good tunes: Electronic System’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwDLN2X6Rs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far-out library music\u003c/a>, or Ebenezer Obey’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAt9OG61XP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-form Nigerian Afrobeat\u003c/a>, to pick just two. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But music isn’t the reason I’ll remember Johnny forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-800x583.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz, always empowering others to be their best selves.\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12469097\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-800x583.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-160x117.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-768x559.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-240x175.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-375x273.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_-520x379.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Trust_.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz, always empowering others to be their best selves.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Johnny was one of the few people I’ve encountered in life who taught me how to be a better person. We debated often: issues, causes, problems, seeking possible solutions or best practices. Time after time, Johnny helped me do the right thing. Johnny was always re-evaluating his own positions, stances, and actions, asking himself (and me in turn) how he could do better, be more just, and do less harm. He stumbled often — he was human, after all. But it was the asking that counted. \u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/edwTNHK4iUY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/edwTNHK4iUY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>More than that, Johnny showed me how to be a man. I’m a music geek who writes for a living who loves clothes and video games; I’m not exactly a “man’s man,” and I’ve long struggled with traditional notions of masculinity and what kind of man, exactly, I am supposed to be. Johnny is perhaps the first close male friend I’ve had who was unabashed about his sensitivity; who told his friends he loved them repeatedly; who not only didn’t disregard touch and physical contact, but actively sought it out. Johnny helped me feel safe in my own skin, cementing within me that who I am is the person I ought to be. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12469285\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Miles_-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz. \u003ccite>(Amanda Allen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For years, Johnny and I had the same conversation, time and time again: “Is it time to leave?” The Bay Area is home for both of us, and both of us love it with every fiber of our beings. But remaining here is a struggle, especially once we both decided to commit full-time to our creative passions: music his, writing mine. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Time and time again, one of us would feel low, ready to throw in the towel: \u003cem>That’s it — I’m just gonna move to L.A., Seattle, Toronto, New York, anywhere\u003c/em>. Time and time again, one of us would counsel the other: “Hang in there; it’s hard right now, I know; so many friends have (moved, been evicted, given up hope); give it a few weeks — the tide will turn.” Invariably, we’d convince the other to stick around, and both our moods would lift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”150″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/209469667″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/209469667″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just weeks ago, we had this conversation again — except this time, we both agreed that something had changed. Both San Francisco and Oakland felt more vibrant than ever; mood on the street felt positive; people were coming together, beginning new projects, and creativity seemed on the upswing, despite the dark storm clouding our nation. We agreed to work on new projects together, excited by the prospects that lay ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last weekend, my resolve is stronger than ever — I’m not giving up. For Johnny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of these sentiments are mine alone. The outpouring of love, fondness, and support from Johnny’s family and friends — and perhaps most remarkably, from those who barely knew him at all — has been nothing short of an avalanche. Dear readers, forgive me: what anecdotes I share here cannot possibly stand in for the innumerable tributes from those he touched, but I will try, anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"johnny-poms\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12469283\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_-520x347.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/Johnny.Poms_.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brother Paul Igaz states with certainty that no single person affected or influenced his life as much as Johnny did. Paul recounts how, steadily and gradually, Johnny instilled in him a love of music; that over time, Paul followed Johnny’s “growth as a person and as a lover of music, which were in many ways the same thing.” Paul recounts that he, Johnny, and sister Teresa (who died in 2015) all had different but firmly held concepts of what is “right and just,” and that this led each in different directions. For Teresa, this meant a career in public health, specifically mental health for youth; for Paul, a career in teaching and education. Johnny infused this spirit into his career as a musician and artist. What stands out about Johnny’s beliefs and ethics, Paul says, is “how public he’s always been about [them,]” in contrast to the reservedness of himself and Teresa, and how inspiring that is to him as a person. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3128304709/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/track=3304925442/transparent=true/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For long-time friend and event-hosting partner Jeremy Bispo, it is “hard to disconnect [Johnny’s] love for music with his love for people and community.” Johnny worked tirelessly to improve his craft, Bispo says, “but would still prefer to give others a chance to shine over himself.” Bispo remembers fondly how seriously Johnny took the task of curating lineups for their parties and events: “He brought a broader perspective on diversity, and elevated the importance of representing community without sacrificing quality to the utmost.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"johnnyigaz-cut\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12469284\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JohnnyIgaz.Cut_-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former partner, forever family Hunter Leight says the most important thing he taught her was “to build up community, to support and nurture our chosen families, and to remember that we’re all in this together.” For fellow DJ and music lover Sam Bloom, Johnny “really set the standard for what it meant to be someone’s friend,” he says. He recounts the last time they really spent time together, in October, soon after Johnny had been hired as the music buyer for San Francisco’s Green Apple Books. Bloom says Johnny spoke about how “music scenes need all types of people and spaces … it takes an entire community to make a scene, and everyone’s role is key.” In Johnny’s mind, Bloom recounts, “he was just doing his part, and he made me feel empowered to do mine.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”150″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294113276″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/294113276″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend and musical collaborator Cassidy Martin says Johnny was his “primary music mentor,” and his lessons of “detail, restraint, and discipline” left Martin a much improved artist. He remembers that Johnny would describe the music community writ large as a “Venn diagram,” and made the effort to “shade in those areas, connect the dots between people.” That’s why parties were so important to him: “He wanted different parts of the community to meet, connect, and strengthen — organically,” he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12469286\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Igaz.\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12469286\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_.jpg 384w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_-240x320.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/JOhnny.Beach_-375x500.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Johnny Igaz. \u003ccite>(via Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renee Nichols, Johnny’s first love (who knew him simply as John), says that “Ironically, one of the people who’s helping me through this loss the most is him [Johnny].” “Whenever I have a despairing thought,” she says, “I see him smile and shake his head good-naturedly at me, like, ‘Come on.'” Nichols remembers speaking of death and dying with Johnny; his philosophy was that since we could go at any minute, we had best live like we had no regrets — or at least, try to leave all our relationships on a positive note.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friend Alida Brandenburg remembers how consistently Johnny would “check in on [her,]” and not in a patronizing or protective way — “just in an ‘I’m human and I care about you’ kind of way,” she says. Johnny’s openness and warmth so moved her that she decided to make a change in her life: instead of making small talk with friends at parties, she resolved to ask them, “What are you excited about?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a small tribute to Johnny,” she says, “and the inspired life he led, and modeled so generously for others.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Johnny Igaz’s DJ sets, mixes, edits and original music as Nackt at \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/nacktmusic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a wide-spanning interview with Johnny Igaz about growing up, his influences, philosophy and technique \u003ca href=\"http://dancedeep.com/2016/09/15/nackt-on-oakland-roots/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Read a remembrance of Johnny Igaz from Hunter Leight \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@hunterleight/johnny-johnny-i-love-you-8270dadc3353#.2jxql5jku\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In the days after his son’s death, Brian Hough shared of a photo of Travis Hough in a Facebook remembrance. It shows Travis as a young man with long hair and a wry smile. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story Brian posted perfectly matches the photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12452385\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Hough\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12452385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Hough.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He remembers taking Travis and a high school bandmate on a trip to Reno. “They strode into the Reno Hilton with guitars on their backs, Doc Martens, and rock star attitudes,” Brian writes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after checking in, Brian says he, “got a call from security that they had been seen ‘smoking’ and were in the basement. I went down and with righteous indignation told these security guys to leave them alone… Rock on you crazy diamonds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough, who died at age 35 in the Oakland warehouse fire, rocked on as a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8zydjYzXhilY8Aoy-saEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost of Lightning\u003c/a>, an electro-synth group that regularly played in Oakland. With the thick textures of his analog synthesizer, Hough wrote and performed intricate, goth-pop originals and, in some cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4VjeIFhCEs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bowie covers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvDkTJM3jg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brilliant, for one,” says Michelle Campbell, founder of the Oakland-based artist management company, Mixtape Artist Management, describing Hough and the two other artists she also worked with who were lost in the fire. “Extremely, extremely talented. They were experimenting always with the different sounds they were able to create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12452386\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Hough\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12452386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-800x798.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-768x766.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-520x519.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Hough.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Travis believed that healing through music is not only possible, but also necessary, and shared that belief with others in everything that he did,” reads a message about Hough on the Mixtape Artist Management website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One fan wrote on the band’s Facebook page: “I knew your sparkling spirit through your really great music and you bringing together the synth community in your neck of the woods, and bringing therapy in the form of expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to his life as a musician, Hough also worked as an expressive arts therapist at the West Contra Costa Unified School District. The school district also lost Sara Hoda, another teacher in its community. Superintendent Matttew Duffy echoes many: “The loss,” he says, “is heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Hough’s music in Ghost of Lightning \u003ca href=\"https://ghostoflightning.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Hough performing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8zydjYzXhilY8Aoy-saEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/travishoughedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>In the days after his son’s death, Brian Hough shared of a photo of Travis Hough in a Facebook remembrance. It shows Travis as a young man with long hair and a wry smile. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story Brian posted perfectly matches the photo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12452385\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Hough\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12452385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Hough.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He remembers taking Travis and a high school bandmate on a trip to Reno. “They strode into the Reno Hilton with guitars on their backs, Doc Martens, and rock star attitudes,” Brian writes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon after checking in, Brian says he, “got a call from security that they had been seen ‘smoking’ and were in the basement. I went down and with righteous indignation told these security guys to leave them alone… Rock on you crazy diamonds.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough, who died at age 35 in the Oakland warehouse fire, rocked on as a member of \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8zydjYzXhilY8Aoy-saEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ghost of Lightning\u003c/a>, an electro-synth group that regularly played in Oakland. With the thick textures of his analog synthesizer, Hough wrote and performed intricate, goth-pop originals and, in some cases, \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4VjeIFhCEs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Bowie covers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PuvDkTJM3jg'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PuvDkTJM3jg'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>“Brilliant, for one,” says Michelle Campbell, founder of the Oakland-based artist management company, Mixtape Artist Management, describing Hough and the two other artists she also worked with who were lost in the fire. “Extremely, extremely talented. They were experimenting always with the different sounds they were able to create.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12452386\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-800x798.jpg\" alt=\"Travis Hough\" width=\"800\" height=\"798\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12452386\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-800x798.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-768x766.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-375x374.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-520x519.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/TravisHough2-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Travis Hough.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Travis believed that healing through music is not only possible, but also necessary, and shared that belief with others in everything that he did,” reads a message about Hough on the Mixtape Artist Management website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One fan wrote on the band’s Facebook page: “I knew your sparkling spirit through your really great music and you bringing together the synth community in your neck of the woods, and bringing therapy in the form of expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to his life as a musician, Hough also worked as an expressive arts therapist at the West Contra Costa Unified School District. The school district also lost Sara Hoda, another teacher in its community. Superintendent Matttew Duffy echoes many: “The loss,” he says, “is heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Hear Hough’s music in Ghost of Lightning \u003ca href=\"https://ghostoflightning.bandcamp.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Hough performing \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO8zydjYzXhilY8Aoy-saEg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/travishoughedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Ben Runnels, 32, was many things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was Ben Benjamin, half of the “croonwave” synth band \u003ca href=\"http://www.introflirtmusic.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introflirt\u003c/a>. He was the musician who used to go by the stage name Charlie Prowler. He was a radio DJ and vintage crooner and a caring friend and lover of coffee. He was a student of music and of human emotion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12461476\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-800x853.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Runnels as Charlie Prowler.\" width=\"800\" height=\"853\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12461476\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-800x853.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-160x171.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-768x818.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-1020x1087.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-1180x1257.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-960x1023.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-240x256.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-375x400.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline-520x554.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/BenRunnelsINline.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Runnels as Charlie Prowler. \u003ccite>(via Tumblr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ben didn’t have the capacity to not care. He was intrinsically a compassionate, loving soul,” writes friend, \u003ca href=\"http://www.strawberrytongue.com/in-memory-ben-benjamin-of-introflirt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dawn Marie, in a remembrance of Runnels, who died in the Oakland warehouse fire\u003c/a>. When she had to be treated for cancer, she says, Runnels jumped in to help manage her streaming radio station. He offered to do anything he could – even though the two had never met in person; at that point, they had only exchanged long and winding emails about the oddities of life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Runnels, who moved to Oakland in 2011, had been a popular DJ at the alternative station WEQX in Vermont, where he hosted the show Jam n’ Toast. He was originally from Mariaville, New York, near Albany, but was drawn west by the music scene in the Bay Area. Both his parents and his sister flew out to Oakland after hearing news of the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, Runnels teamed up with Nicole Siegrist, who went by Denalda Nicole Renae, to form the synth pop band, Introflirt. Their tag line: “the soundtrack for the socially awkward.” Renae was also a victim of the Ghost Ship fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fdhmlzkzko\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two put out their first album, titled \u003cem>Introflirt\u003c/em>, last year, and released their second album, \u003cem>Temporary Heaven\u003c/em>, more recently. They performed their most recent show in October and were preparing for upcoming appearances. They had sealed a deal to open for the synthpop and electronic band Book of Love at San Francisco’s DNA Lounge in February 2017, says their band manager and sound engineer, Brendan Dreaper. “We were really looking forward to that,” Dreaper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12456293\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CharlieProwler2.jpg\" alt=\"Runnels performing with Introflirt\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12456293\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CharlieProwler2.jpg 640w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CharlieProwler2-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CharlieProwler2-240x360.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CharlieProwler2-375x563.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/CharlieProwler2-520x780.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runnels performing as Charlie Prowler\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dreaper remembers the first time he met Runnels and Renae after the Eastlake Music Festival in Oakland. They were struggling to set up for a show. Another friend, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/06/donna-kellogg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Kellogg\u003c/a>, who also died in the fire, was assisting them as they tried to stop a sound feedback issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just looked like a disaster waiting to happen,” Dreaper says. A budding sound engineer, Dreaper walked over to help and ended up making new friends – friends who would become among the closest members of his circle. “As soon as they started playing, I was just like, ‘Oh my god, this music is amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Dreaper helped the band get repped by Mixtape Management. Introflirt gained a following for its memorable sound, which blends old-school crooning a la Frank Sinatra with electronic synth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Runnels was a fan of Sinatra and hosted a weekly show on Bombshell Radio (a streaming site focusing on the screen siren and big band music of the mid-20th century) called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/TheCroonWave/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Croon Wave\u003c/a>. He also practiced his singing at a jazz piano bar three nights a week, so that he could use his voice to express the full range of emotions. “He was not afraid of the rawness of it, of the tenderness,” Dreaper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197368735″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”100″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you listen to Ben’s lyrics, there’s a lot of deep meaning in it,” says Michelle Campbell, who founded Mixtape Management and was a friend of Runnels’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family are planning a listening session to honor the Introflit duo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The two of them were meant to meet in this life and do this music,” Campbell says. “They shared their love for the same things,” and also, she laughs, “their love for donuts.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hear Runnels singing jazz standards, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/benbenjaminbenjamin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For music from Introflirt, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/introflirt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the duo’s Soundcloud page\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To watch an interview with Runnels about playing house shows, see \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/194910788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/benrunnelsedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7Fdhmlzkzko'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7Fdhmlzkzko'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The two put out their first album, titled \u003cem>Introflirt\u003c/em>, last year, and released their second album, \u003cem>Temporary Heaven\u003c/em>, more recently. They performed their most recent show in October and were preparing for upcoming appearances. 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They were struggling to set up for a show. Another friend, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/06/donna-kellogg/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donna Kellogg\u003c/a>, who also died in the fire, was assisting them as they tried to stop a sound feedback issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just looked like a disaster waiting to happen,” Dreaper says. A budding sound engineer, Dreaper walked over to help and ended up making new friends – friends who would become among the closest members of his circle. “As soon as they started playing, I was just like, ‘Oh my god, this music is amazing.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, Dreaper helped the band get repped by Mixtape Management. Introflirt gained a following for its memorable sound, which blends old-school crooning a la Frank Sinatra with electronic synth. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Runnels was a fan of Sinatra and hosted a weekly show on Bombshell Radio (a streaming site focusing on the screen siren and big band music of the mid-20th century) called \u003ca href=\"https://www.mixcloud.com/TheCroonWave/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Croon Wave\u003c/a>. He also practiced his singing at a jazz piano bar three nights a week, so that he could use his voice to express the full range of emotions. “He was not afraid of the rawness of it, of the tenderness,” Dreaper says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”100″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197368735″&visual=true&”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/197368735″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you listen to Ben’s lyrics, there’s a lot of deep meaning in it,” says Michelle Campbell, who founded Mixtape Management and was a friend of Runnels’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friends and family are planning a listening session to honor the Introflit duo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The two of them were meant to meet in this life and do this music,” Campbell says. “They shared their love for the same things,” and also, she laughs, “their love for donuts.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To hear Runnels singing jazz standards, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/benbenjaminbenjamin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his Soundcloud page\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For music from Introflirt, see \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/introflirt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the duo’s Soundcloud page\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To watch an interview with Runnels about playing house shows, see \u003ca href=\"https://vimeo.com/194910788\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/benrunnelsedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The outpouring of love for Ara Christina Jo on social media and in gatherings across the country since the Oakland warehouse fire has been abundant enough to fill an ocean. But it doesn’t even begin to match the amount of love that Jo, my personal friend, brought to her work and those around her throughout her lifetime. Her presence was so immensely magnetic — her exuberance so bright — that she deeply touched even those who knew her only in passing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo, 29, was a visual and tattoo artist, musician, curator, and community builder. Originally from Los Angeles, she moved to Oakland about a decade ago, and became a member of local DIY art hub Rock Paper Scissors Collective in 2009. There, she served many roles, including gallery manager. She also played a major part in supporting the First Friday Street Fair when it was just getting off the ground. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12460905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3.jpg\" alt=\"Ara Jo\" width=\"598\" height=\"602\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12460905\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3.jpg 598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-240x242.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-375x378.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-520x523.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ara Jo \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best friend Peter Pendergrass recalled Jo’s incredible talent for genuine encouragement. “If you shared an idea with Ara, she would ask you all about it, brainstorm it with you, and co-imagine how amazing it would be,” Pendergrass says. “And in any way she could, she would support you in making it come to fruition.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another friend recalled that Jo would allow bands to practice in her living room at any hour of the day without hesitation, often dancing along as she cooked or worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12461472\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi.jpg\" alt=\"Ara Jo (right) with close friend Kiyomi Tanouye.\" width=\"604\" height=\"1635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12461472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-160x433.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-240x650.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-375x1015.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-520x1408.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ara Jo (right) with close friend Kiyomi Tanouye.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a year ago, Jo founded a DIY venue in Emeryville called Sgraffito, which quickly became one of the art scene’s most popular gathering places. There, she would spiritedly host and help organize small music shows, art exhibitions, zine readings, and flea markets, often with multiple events happening in the same week. For many years, she was also a key organizer of the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, which annually features the work of over 60 self-publishing individuals and collectives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo slept in an adorable treehouse-like loft in a home full of close friends, where she frequently hosted themed dinner parties, craft nights, and late-night karaoke sessions (she was an expert singer). She also sold art supplies at The Ink Stone, a printing and graphics business in Berkeley, and played keyboard in the band HGS. At the Ghost Ship event, Jo was giving $5 bang trims to guests alongside her close friend, nail artist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/08/kiyomi-tanouye-music-expert-and-nail-artist-with-a-love-for-helping-others/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kiyomi Tanouye\u003c/a>. According to Pendergrass, Jo intended to leave her day job to pursue tattoo art full-time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything Ara did was art,” longtime friend Tina Marie says. “Her clothes, her makeup, her hair, her hair cutting — every single thing. I remember we got a new plunger at Rock Papers Scissors, and she bedazzled it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her portfolio website, Jo’s personal bio takes the form of a poem: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>balance of the eye is the priority–\u003cbr>\nworking hard keeps me from insanity\u003cbr>\nwhether on paper, your face, or in pixels,\u003cbr>\nit’s sweat that turns into lead crystals.\u003cbr>\njane of all trades, makin’ it rain;\u003cbr>\nwith friends: everything’s to gain.\u003cbr>\nget me alone\u003cbr>\ni’ll hit it on the nose\u003cbr>\nconsidering your input\u003cbr>\n’til you regard it as Good.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12460907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Ara Jo\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12460907\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ara Jo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the constant stream of posts about Jo on social media, a few themes stand out: Awe at her ability to radiate constant joy; gratitude for her endless generosity; and appreciation for how she always made people feel welcome, included, and comfortable in their own skin. Jo exuded these glorious attributes so limitlessly, that she seemed to know some secret to life that I would have given anything to learn. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\n‘I remember we got a new plunger at Rock Papers Scissors, and she bedazzled it.’ \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>I recall finding myself alone on the dancefloor at an underground party this past summer. I had gotten lost in the music, and all my friends had slowly left. With the room almost completely empty, I spotted Jo and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/08/joey-casio/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joey Casio\u003c/a> across the dance floor. Jo beckoned me over with gyrating arms held high in the air. Without speaking, the three of us danced until the very last song, and I felt more affirmed, energized and free than I had ever felt in recent memory. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo was so magical, she could do wonders without even saying a word. “She was a powerhouse. She was a weaver of community. She was a builder of worlds,” Pendergrass says. “She saw new constellations in the people around her, and she drew them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Pendergrass still recalls his last conversation with Jo. “You have the biggest heart,” he told her, “of anyone I’ve ever met.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Ara Jo’s artwork, design and illustration at her site \u003ca href=\"https://arachristinajo.carbonmade.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/arajoedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The outpouring of love for Ara Christina Jo on social media and in gatherings across the country since the Oakland warehouse fire has been abundant enough to fill an ocean. But it doesn’t even begin to match the amount of love that Jo, my personal friend, brought to her work and those around her throughout her lifetime. Her presence was so immensely magnetic — her exuberance so bright — that she deeply touched even those who knew her only in passing. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo, 29, was a visual and tattoo artist, musician, curator, and community builder. Originally from Los Angeles, she moved to Oakland about a decade ago, and became a member of local DIY art hub Rock Paper Scissors Collective in 2009. There, she served many roles, including gallery manager. She also played a major part in supporting the First Friday Street Fair when it was just getting off the ground. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12460905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3.jpg\" alt=\"Ara Jo\" width=\"598\" height=\"602\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12460905\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3.jpg 598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-160x161.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-240x242.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-375x378.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-520x523.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ara Jo \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Best friend Peter Pendergrass recalled Jo’s incredible talent for genuine encouragement. “If you shared an idea with Ara, she would ask you all about it, brainstorm it with you, and co-imagine how amazing it would be,” Pendergrass says. “And in any way she could, she would support you in making it come to fruition.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another friend recalled that Jo would allow bands to practice in her living room at any hour of the day without hesitation, often dancing along as she cooked or worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12461472\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 604px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi.jpg\" alt=\"Ara Jo (right) with close friend Kiyomi Tanouye.\" width=\"604\" height=\"1635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12461472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi.jpg 604w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-160x433.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-240x650.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-375x1015.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJoandKiyomi-520x1408.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ara Jo (right) with close friend Kiyomi Tanouye.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Slightly more than a year ago, Jo founded a DIY venue in Emeryville called Sgraffito, which quickly became one of the art scene’s most popular gathering places. There, she would spiritedly host and help organize small music shows, art exhibitions, zine readings, and flea markets, often with multiple events happening in the same week. For many years, she was also a key organizer of the East Bay Alternative Book and Zine Fest, which annually features the work of over 60 self-publishing individuals and collectives. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jo slept in an adorable treehouse-like loft in a home full of close friends, where she frequently hosted themed dinner parties, craft nights, and late-night karaoke sessions (she was an expert singer). She also sold art supplies at The Ink Stone, a printing and graphics business in Berkeley, and played keyboard in the band HGS. At the Ghost Ship event, Jo was giving $5 bang trims to guests alongside her close friend, nail artist \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2016/12/08/kiyomi-tanouye-music-expert-and-nail-artist-with-a-love-for-helping-others/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kiyomi Tanouye\u003c/a>. According to Pendergrass, Jo intended to leave her day job to pursue tattoo art full-time. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything Ara did was art,” longtime friend Tina Marie says. “Her clothes, her makeup, her hair, her hair cutting — every single thing. I remember we got a new plunger at Rock Papers Scissors, and she bedazzled it.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On her portfolio website, Jo’s personal bio takes the form of a poem: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>balance of the eye is the priority–\u003cbr>\nworking hard keeps me from insanity\u003cbr>\nwhether on paper, your face, or in pixels,\u003cbr>\nit’s sweat that turns into lead crystals.\u003cbr>\njane of all trades, makin’ it rain;\u003cbr>\nwith friends: everything’s to gain.\u003cbr>\nget me alone\u003cbr>\ni’ll hit it on the nose\u003cbr>\nconsidering your input\u003cbr>\n’til you regard it as Good.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12460907\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"Ara Jo\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12460907\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-960x960.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-240x240.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-375x375.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-520x520.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-32x32.jpg 32w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-50x50.jpg 50w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-64x64.jpg 64w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-96x96.jpg 96w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-128x128.jpg 128w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2-150x150.jpg 150w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/AraJo2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ara Jo. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Facebook)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Among the constant stream of posts about Jo on social media, a few themes stand out: Awe at her ability to radiate constant joy; gratitude for her endless generosity; and appreciation for how she always made people feel welcome, included, and comfortable in their own skin. 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She was a builder of worlds,” Pendergrass says. “She saw new constellations in the people around her, and she drew them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, Pendergrass still recalls his last conversation with Jo. “You have the biggest heart,” he told her, “of anyone I’ve ever met.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"Q.Logo.Break\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12127869\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>See Ara Jo’s artwork, design and illustration at her site \u003ca href=\"https://arachristinajo.carbonmade.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more of our tributes to the victims of the Oakland warehouse fire, please visit our \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/programs/oakland-warehouse-memorial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remembrances page here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For a printable poster of the illustration above, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/12/arajoedit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">see here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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