The Eddie Sigala Foundation

Homecoming

2018-10-27T21:27:00.001-05:00

Sometimes, it's okay not to meet new people... and to not revisit old places.

Coming soon to the ESF

Dandenong

2018-06-02T06:51:00.002-05:00

Far above the skyline, there lies verdant hills, and amongst the sprawl underneath lies a man

Coming soon to the ESF, ya bogans!

Isolation and Discomfort

2018-04-18T17:09:00.001-05:00

Oh Christ, try not to touch the door handle!

A post about feeling out of place and like an outsider

coming soon to the ESF

2017: New Year, New Ethic

2017-02-10T09:14:00.002-06:00

Hi there!

I know it's been more than a year that I've posted, and many posts on here that have been reduced to "Coming soon."

My bad.

But with a new year comes new mind to invigorate my original blog with some fresh blood and also finish what I started more than a year ago. Of course, some posts will just be abandoned, but I hope to complete those that I can and give explanations for those that I can't.

Either way, coming soon will be finished posts that I left in 2015 and of course, photos to those I left image-less in 2014.

Procrastination so hard.

Anyways, here's to a new year, hopefully much better than 2016 was.

E.S.

North Overnight

2015-09-18T03:10:00.003-05:00

Hide-and-go-seek and four teens

from Argyle way out past curfew.

A post from mid-July

Coming soon to the [ESF]

Jessica, Hessikan

2015-09-01T14:16:00.000-05:00

I think your face and my face could be great friends.

~~Coming soon to the ESF.~~

This post has unfortunately been abandoned due to events out of my control. The main parts will be recycled HERE into something not so personal. I will into dive further into details at a later date, but for now, please enjoy this. :)

(If you're not a Spotify user, here is the accompanying SBX post.)

Part of the TIDES series on SBX.

Ka-Boom Pride

2015-07-05T00:11:00.001-05:00

You don't get more American than the Fourth of July and the celebrations that it brings.

The last two years, I've usually spent the Fourth at a house in Cedar Hill house-sitting for a friend. She moved away in early June back to Canada, so now I'm home for the first time for the Fourth in two years.
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Suburbia: Cedar Hill - ROCT

2014-07-08T20:39:00.002-05:00

In June 2014, I decided to come up a photojournal that took me to various parts of my home, the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. The size of Connecticut and Rhode Island and home to 6.5 million people, there's a lot between the highways and skyscrapers.

Dallas County, my homestead and the most urban county in this part of Texas. I'm spending the next three weeks here in Cedar Hill, house-sitting for a teacher friend while she visits relatives in Canada. Makes me feel like a "real" adult, a provides a taste of self-sufficiency. While I'm here, I decided to take a look around, now that I can drive.

The Fault in Our Stars

2014-06-14T01:54:00.000-05:00

Complete spoilers ahead

My friend Lupe lent me the book while in Denton on August 31, 2013.

North2Denton PhotoJournal - Part Four

2014-05-27T05:06:00.000-05:00

7PM. Ninety-five degrees.

The A-Train arrived at Carrollton just before 6:55PM. The sun was lower in the sky now; you could venture outdoors without burning to death. The light rail station was busy with people getting off the A-Train, waiting for the northbound Green Line train to come up from downtown.

North 2 Denton: A PhotoJournal - Part Three

2014-05-24T13:26:00.000-05:00

Out in the wild, I had nowhere to go.

Instead of taking my chances in Greater Denton, I stayed close. Walking parallel to Oak Street, I looked in the windows of the shops on the northern end of the Square. Window-shopping is no fun when it’s just you and the knowledge that you’re broke as fuck.

Back to Black

2014-05-22T01:18:00.001-05:00

Time to get turnt up!

In January last year, I decided that it was best to drop all of what had caused me to start this precious jewel in the first place. I came to that conclusion 50% naturally, 90% Lupe's scorn. I think I've been doing pretty well in the year and six months since, A+ really.

Every now and again, old habits slip in like a son-of-a-bitch.
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Back with a Bang

2014-05-17T02:35:00.001-05:00

Hi there.

It's been a long time, huh?

I'm glad to tell you that I'll start posting regularly again. I've done some housekeeping in regards to older posts that I could not stand or found otherwise embarrassing. Some were just awful looking back.

Starting with this week: finishing up all the orphaned posts, along with finishing the North2Denton and Downtown photo logs, along with adding some more.

And if you've noticed: the blog has been slightly redesigned. Just anticipate a major redesign later on this year!

Just be on the lookout now! Celebrating FOUR YEARS OF THE ESF, looking forward to FIVE! :D

- Eddie

This! One

2013-10-03T18:44:00.001-05:00

The following post is rated 18+O for scenes of disturbing physical deformities and drug intake.

Introducing a new feature to the ESF: this! A weekly(?) feature giving videos and stories that need a signal boost to inform people about certain things or events going on around this great blue ball of ours.

In this first edition of this!, comes "Siberia: Krokodil Tears", from New York-based VICE.

ESF Photo Series: "Downtown"

2013-09-28T01:10:00.001-05:00

Originally scheduled for May, but I've found the files!

Coming next week to the ESF!

North to Denton: A PhotoJournal - Part Two

2013-09-28T01:00:00.001-05:00

It's 11.45AM. 90F. And we have a walk... uphill. Jesus H. Christ.

University Press LII (52)

2013-09-20T19:05:00.000-05:00

THIS WEEK, WE CELEBRATE ONE YEAR OF UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Between us, I'm surprised that it's gone this long (if you ignore the fact I haven't published since July.)
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North to Denton: A PhotoJournal - Part One

2013-09-08T02:50:00.002-05:00

Let's start this post off right. The frick is Denton at?

It's 40 miles north of the Dallas/Fort Worth metro area. Right at the border between metropolitan and rural North Texas.

Georgia, Part VI

2013-09-08T02:50:00.000-05:00

Making my way to Texas, driving fast, the sun's down, and I'm homebound

Coming soon to the ESF

Motherfuckers

2013-08-06T02:57:00.001-05:00

Don't ever share your hookah. EVER.

Coming Tuesday night to the ESF, celebrating three years

Georgia V

2013-07-30T10:00:00.000-05:00

"It says it's here, but it's not."

Downtown

Alyssa thought it would be great to go out and explore what we could in Columbus for the short time we were there. So around 9PM or so, we went out in search of any hookah bar in the city. She found one, close to the waterfront, in historic downtown Columbus.

Three Years of the ESF

2013-07-27T19:45:00.000-05:00

Hey hey!

We gotta keep it going.

I have to say, if someone told me three years ago that I would: A) have a blog; B) lose a friend; C) keep said blog for three years, I probably would have blown you off.

But hey, here we are, three years later, and still going strong.

It's strange to note how I have changed in the last three years, including how my insights on things and what I've experienced have also gone with it. Being exposed to different people and exploring their worlds has helped me look beyond myself, into something different.

And when it comes to crediting with the "foundation" of my "foundation", a little of it goes to The Archenemy. I mean, if it wasn't for our misunderstanding about a visit to Mexico, I probably wouldn't have the ESF, although I'd probably have a blog, but with some out-of-place name.

I also have to thank those who stumble on this ship-- shit, at least it floats.

And really, isn't that the most important thing in life?

I think it is. Having awesome mac and cheese is a good goal, too.

So welcome to the ESF, and thanks for reading this little modest piece of three years of my "foundation".

- Eddie

Georgia, Part IV

2013-07-25T23:59:00.001-05:00

"That little bastard."

Sweet Georgia

Crossing over the Chattahoochee to Columbus made me anxious as fuck.

I realized that as we got closer to their home, I would have to meet the step-siblings of Alyssa. From what she told me in Texas, I was more than a little apprehensive of how they'd react to me.

Georgia, Pt. III

2013-07-25T23:58:00.000-05:00

After falling asleep during the last forty miles of Mississippi, I awoke later on to Alabama.

"Shortcut"

Exiting the interstate some distance into Alabama, we drove off the interstate onto Alabama 17, a two-lane highway that led through the small town of York (which actually looked really quaint). To pass the time, Alyssa and I started watching, at her insistence, Finding Nemo, a film which I've actually never watched fully through.

Georgia, Pt. II

2013-07-19T22:28:00.000-05:00

As we slowly made our way through East Texas, the music being piped in through the car's satellite radio got to Alyssa and her sister.

(East) Texas... cont'd

I fell asleep some 15 miles into Kaufman County.

I awoke an hour later, around 9 AM, to the car slowing down and coming to a stop. I heard Gloria talking, and checking on the kids in the back. When it came my turn to be visually-analyzed, she called out my name.

"Eddie-wedy... Eddie-wedy..."