I checked out the 10 yr reunion of the funky hip hop soul jam styled Chicago musical masterpiece known as the Boogie Shoes last night at the Double Door down in Wicker Park. Saw some old familiar faces, some of them pretty nuts. It was a good time and some people got picked up against [...]
I remember when I lived in Champaign-Urbana I was fortunate enough to live not one block away from Espresso Royale, a local coffee shop. Now I have to walk a few blocks to get to Perk’s in Athens, Ohio. Perk’s isn’t as good as Espresso, it’s smaller and but somehow not as intimate. The other [...]
I really wanted to get in but somehow the combination of near freezing water and my wool coat didn’t seem such a good idea…
ok, maybe not my biggest fear, but pretty big.
slate.com has an article on photographing with Martin Parr, the kitschy, often hilarious and endlessly witty British documentarian. Summed up the author tells us something we tell ourselves endlessly, yet it never ceases to calm self-doubt.
“The lesson is simple: Photograph what you love.” – my biggest fear [...]
I was at the Bryan House again today, things are moving along. Kristof was stretching a sore back after helping to move a refigerator into one of the more recently occupied apartments, and I thought the image spoke to the plant I saw in his kitchen, which has the lone view to the sky in [...]
I guess these were more about the signs in beautiful spaces. They’re almost not there, but they still are (were)…
Headed up to the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus last night to visit Andyland, their huge Andy Warhol installation and on this Saturday a party starting near midnight featuring one of my favorite music makers Rjd2. The night felt like the music sounded, and make me miss cities so much again. I think [...]
Now that the election and halloween are over, some semblance of calm is creeping in my little town here. This is a photo from a short essay on the ubiquity of election signs, that fits in to a larger story I was working on..
No photos of my own for now, will have to wait for a trip to the lab…might even be a few weeks. For now though I’m blown away by Magnum’s Patrick Zachmann and his recent In Motion piece “Un Jour, La Nui”. The night always felt like such a romantic and mysterious time of day, [...]