Arthur Koch Studio

04/08/2026

We'd love to see you in person but if you can't make it to Arthur's Celebration of life, here is the link to the live feed. Tune in on April 10 at 11am. There will also be a recording for later viewing.

This service will be held at 11:00 am followed by a repast and fellowship. Christ for All Nations Lutheran Church465 Woolsey StreetSan Francisco, CA 94134Rev...

03/22/2026

Celebrating the Life of Art Koch
April 10, 2026 • 11:00am
Christ for All Nations Church
465 Woolsey St, San Francisco, CA 94134
We will gather for a service at 11:00am, followed by a potluck gathering downstairs where we’ll share a slide show, light snacks, and time together in fellowship. If you’re able, please bring a snack to share—if not, your presence is more than enough.

10/10/2025

At the car wash! https://www.instagram.com/share/reel/_o_7W5lqK

09/20/2025

Come on down to Open Studios at FrameArt Studio Sat/Sun 11-5
at 153 Bacon St. SF, CA 94134

07/27/2025

https://youtu.be/cmFrSvNbUxo?si=9Jlr28RC8f7mFAV0

.Last night in Rio! It was raining so I took advantage of the lights and reflections. : Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas) is a lagoon in the district of Lagoa in the...

07/26/2025

Some pics from Rio de Janiero. Last day before I return!

07/26/2025

07/21/2025

https://youtu.be/G4ok7yiVQVc?si=udXzQxDg21vL7rCl
I arrived in Sao Paulo on June 18, traveled to Sao Luis, Salvador Bahia, then Rio De Janiero. This is a summary of my last month using my DJI Air 3s "Asteroid" mode.

I arrived in Sao Paulo on June 18, traveled to Sao Luis, Salvador Bahia, then Rio De Janiero. This is a summary of my last month using my DJI Air 3s "Asteroi...

07/19/2025

I’m a month into my trip to Brazil and finally getting around to editing some drone photos. I really enjoyed staying on the beach in Copacabana because I could fly off the rooftop.
Right now I’m visiting my old friend Tony Lupidi near the national forest way above where I was on the beach. The first two weeks were with the Post Mambo Tour which focused on live music and food with my friend Mike Cook, who’s taste in food and music I trust implicitly. It was hard for me to keep up with 25 people but well worth it. I’ve been traveling by myself for the last 2 weeks focusing on flying my drone and I love the freedom!

07/13/2025

I've been posting short reels on my other Instagram Allaboutlight5500 . Gafieira Band. A steaming hot ska band was a great way to celebrate the last day of our day of our tour. I love the way.
The horns and vocalists played on one stage
and the band played on another, making for some great call and response, a trademark of brazilian music.
Gafieira Band at Boteco Fronteira (Rua Odilon Santos, 65 - Rio Vermelho, Salvador).
The Orquestra dos Santos (Orchestra of the Saints) is a big (10 piece) band with a Famous-Flame-hot horn section and a honey-drop vocalist who doubles as a clarinet player (or the other way around).
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL49VDrxGb-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Music: Mestre Aurino and samba de roda with residents of Maracangalha. Pardal says: Aurino de Jesus is a master of the viola machete, an instrument which by default became the standard string instrument for the accompaniment of chula in the Recôncavo (they were brought from Portugual; their apparent origin was on the Island of Madeira) and they were what was available to enslaved plantation workers. More highly pitched string instruments worked better with the then-unamplified samba, cutting through the drumming, making them hearable
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL1JvpBNTy_/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Long drive through the Brazilian countryside. Beautiful hills and vistas. Excellent food and music every time!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLxW2cSRJse/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Independance Day Salvador Bahia
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLuP671uDKU/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Arrival in Salvador Bahia.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLqcwfHxMSR/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Music: Luiz Claudio. He was our translator for most of the trip. He still had enough of his voice left to sing us some songs with his band!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLpkKroRCTG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Had to join in on the dance!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLkpHjeRNbK/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Arraial (street festival)
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLdCI8xR6bo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Arraial (street festival)
Part Two
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLad-0LRXu-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Drum of Creole

The Inimeses cibula Tembor as a Brazilian quarter are part of the broader process oli recognition and appreciation not of this form of expression, but of the cultural traditions of African origin that developed in the country.

The registration of the Crioula Drum is consistent, in several respects, with the guidelines of public policies for the preservation of Brazilian cultural heritage,

In addition to the material and symbolical elements that this form of expression triggers in its moments of celebration, work, fun and devotion, it also represents the cultural resistance of black Africans and their descendants in Maranhão.

Historically enslaved, plundered and excluded, the black groups that constitute the vast majority of the players have in the Creoula Drum a channel of updating individual and collective memories, affirming ethnic identity and reinforcing social bonds that favor the co-escalation of men, contact with the divine and the chair earring itself as a constitutive experience of their way of life.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLXvTr-RdRc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

touring Northern Brazil my friend Mike Cook on the Post Mambo food and wine tour
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLWEBdnxML0/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Circling back to our first night together. Restaurante Portugália (Av. Litorânea, 69 - Quintas do Calhau, São Luís), with music by Diey.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL5kNnTSfHn/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

07/04/2025

Finally got a photo credit. Great story.

Last month, in light of President Donald Trump’s military parade in Washington, D.C., an estimated 50,000 people took to the Mission District and Civic Center to call for “No Kings.” In the western…