Quotations

"A world uninterested in genius is a despondent place, whose sad denizens drift from coffee bar to Prozac dispensary, unfired by ideals, by the glowing image of the self that one might become." - Mark Edmunson

Laptop Light

Shutter: 15/1
Aperture: 8.0
Focal Length: 18.00mm
ISO Speed: 800

Through Bushwick Glass

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How To Be Fashionable Like You

Captured from Celebrities I Want To Be Friends With

Claim Check

Found this morning, about a block southwest of the house in which JFK was born.

Lenses/Frames

Images by Daniel Boud

Via TRUE

Key

Both found in the coarse sand between two cobblestones, some of New York's last.

Sunsets

I think maybe yesterday the sun shifted just enough right in the sky to peek through a window opposite my desk. Now I'm blinded from 5:30 to 5:45. Today, my boss erected a blind, fashioned from large-format collateral and rare-earth magnets. I estimated the time I should wait before packing my bag, heading to the roof and firing a few.

Eyes

Mirror - Index

Sixteen in the series as of today:

Mirror - April 6, 2005
Mirror - April 6, 2005
Mirror - April 8, 2005
Mirror - May 3, 2005
Mirror - May 11, 2005
Mirror - May 15, 2005
Mirror - May 25, 2005
Mirror - June 26, 2005
Mirror - July 11, 2005
Mirror - July 20, 2005
Mirror - July 29, 2005
Mirror - August 11, 2005
Mirror - August 27, 2005
Mirror - August 31, 2005
Mirror - September 13, 2005
Mirror - September 21, 2005
Mirror - October 18, 2005

See Through

"...someone made a joke about taking a picture of a picture with a mirror in it and then looking closer and seeing another mirror in the picture, with the picture looking back at u from inside of it...

I love u. u invisible people out there." - TRUE

Related: Mirror, Invisibility

Stored Energy

"It's not the camera, and it's not the photographer, it's New York. Stored energy is crammed into every nook and cranny, waiting to spring loose into a photo op." - Jamie Boud

Related: Batteries

Eyes

Seeds

Mirror

Image by Courtneyutt

Post/Mark

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Recent additions to our halls.

Bushwick Disruptions

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As seen exiting Brooklyn-bound at Halsey, an encore perhaps?

Framed Flags

Years ago, concurrent with my first match burro, this quick series sprung from my plastic book of negs. It fulfilled a requirement of one kind or another, though likely barely. Both of the photography classes I took were surprisingly traditional in their approach to subject and technique, and as per my undergraduate MO, I preferred a more punk rock approach.

In preparing for this darkroom session, I made several chipboard jigs, some inkjet transparencies, and purchased the forbidden: RC paper. Multiple exposures, heavy on the magenta, produced each composite. With printmaker's habits I worked quickly, printing every sheet in the box.

Here are the twelve I made public then:


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Do We Gravitate Towards a Method?

Image by Plindberg

Incense Process Fig. 4

Meeting Notes

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Strange that during a breakfast meeting at which I passed on breakfast (for lack of appetite) my hands found a pretzel.

Sharpie, Pentel Sign Pen and Uni-Ball Vision Micro on 60# Offset Text, 2005

Past Results

Balloons

A Reminder

Slip

Some days it's easy to remember that I'm the same person I was a decade prior. My adult temperament and attempts at tolerance fall away, leaving a familiar (and all-too-comfortable) darkness. One that corners me, dipping my brim and lids. One that allows New York hardcore to sound relevant, and the manipulation of negative energy to seem productive (it can be). I float through, past hours, past people, detached; amazed at the faith I can normally muster. Where's the spring of my self-belief, and what weight causes it's tides? Why the ebb today, and yes, yesterday? Fatigue, and preemptive adjustment to imminent change are certainly triggers. As is work; an abundance professionally, a shortage closer to home. A return from a quiet cabin to the squeal of orange alerts, diet, addiction; they're possibilities. In the end, this line of interrogation is only of marginal benefit. Reliably, my mood will shift; today's wind is tomorrow's breeze.

Country Breakfast

Lost Lake

Entropy

Little change since March.

Quotations

"If people weren't good at finding tiny things in long lists, the Wall Street Journal would have gone out of business years ago." - Jef Raskin

Identification

Claim Check

Plucked from damp pavement, under dimming light.

Quotations

"It's easy to predict the future when all you have to do is predict the past." - Bruce Sterling

Unshown Series

Sitting in my studio, I'm surrounded by the products of practice. I have shelves erupting with documentation, the magazines--books I've had work in, sketches, stillborns, all the objects I reference and pull energy from (what Heather jokingly refers to as Inspirational Ephemera). Old work resides close as well, though only the small stuff (filing cabinet friendly). The canvases and screens retired to my parents' years ago.

I often debate which of these iced ideas might now be appropriate for this audience. Which have just been waiting for the right venue to become functional mini-works. Which deserve to be seen, need to be shared. Which polish another facet on this gem I've been chipping away at here.

The majority remain dusty, and determining which should is a task shackled to considerable responsibility. The series that follow have always stirred particular reluctance (each for disparate reason) but also begged to be considered.

Today I've hung them on the wall.

Imaginary Animals

Rarely one to applaud whimsy, I've always been somewhat embarrassed by my lighter work (a category in which my imaginary animals fall squarely). Drawn between 2001 and 2003 on found bits of paper (in found bits of time), each provided me with a moment of spacey escape. Nothing more.

Still, I've always found that they attract an audience, that their easiness calls company. So, I present 21 freely-associated species (in approximate chronological order), stretching outside the cardboard mailer that's housed them now for years.

Open - Bocoln and Subledont
Grozot
Gleopid
Climak
Mitzpole
Mono-Rhombluff
No-Ehta
Plebil
Loop Ghempo
Cimlikan Cloud Eaters
Blue-Nailed Slomitharn
Thwagutark
Cehix and Reltdaen
Spectral Pyndlop
Drumblixth
Three Fish - Mahmarnt, Bundlop, Soft Permiliot
Crested Quarelke
Close - Pen Testing and Pomeranc's Digits

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September 11th, 2001

The motivations behind my hesitation here should be pretty obvious. I'm no victim photographer. I love this city, and hate myself for shooting her while she's down. But I couldn't help myself; we were witnessing history and we knew it. It felt simultaneously right and wrong to snap away.

Until now, I kept the photos that follow, binder-clipped and deep within a cold steel drawer, only brought out for fellow New Yorkers who couldn't help themselves. For a while, I've thought that the catharsis they can provide the viewer is something one must share. That suspicion was laid plain a few weeks ago by Raymi; someone I didn't know then, but was on her roof on the rim of Brooklyn, just as I was, soaking it all in. Seeing her post her pictures (thousands have their own) made me realize, it's time I did too. Sometimes it's best to let open wounds breathe.

Photograph 1
Photograph 2
Photograph 3
Photograph 4
Photograph 5
Photograph 6
Photograph 7
Photograph 8
Photograph 9
Photograph 10
Photograph 11
Photograph 12

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Meeting Notes

Sharpie on Crumpled 60# Offset Text, 2005

Quotations

"You're either in opposition or you're a collaborator." - Dave Allen