I spent the better part of the weekend at a good friend’s house in southern Wisconsin. Besides deciding to kayak across the lake at midnight, getting the best sunburn a kid of German/Irish descent can get without going to the hospital, learning how to paddle board (when you have friends who work at Hammecher-Schlemmer you [...]
I’m currently editing through a batch of scans that’s something akin to a notebook of my last two months in Athens. Stroud’s Run was a pretty beautiful (keep in mind my reference is the Chicago suburbs) state park that was hardly a 15 minute drive from my house. So close but I didn’t get there [...]
My humble, now semi boxed up living space for the past year.
It’s a weird time, I’ve finished graduate school, officially finished. I completed my coursework, defended my master’s project, I’m on my way out to pay my parking ticket so as to leave no debt here and get my diploma mailed to me. I opted [...]
It’s been a great but transient past few days.
Festival of the Photograph (so many photographs), Charlottesville, Va and Morningside Heights, NYC.
I’ll settle home (home) in a few more days. How strange it will be and how much I will miss.
Nikki Jason is a woman I met recently on a freelance assignment. She’s put her passion for skateboarding into goodwill gestures towards her community, organizing skate events and a skateboard camp for girls. As someone who grew up skateboarding, and who credits it for no less than changing my outlook on life, it was really [...]
This vertical sliver of Athens seemed to me a microcosm of things.