Holiday Light Show at Macy's

Some Old Work

After discovering the Franck Juery work, i had to pull these out of the box (so similar!)....i made these photographs in 2000, probably my first ever attempt at staged photography...they were all made in what we called the bike closet of my first apartment- a narrow little space with two old wood shelves in the way back....i used little desk lamps and flash lights and mirrors and anything else i could get my hands on...the figures were found in my parents attic- from a train set i believe...

i got wonderful feedback from my professors, but, at the time, i was heavily into the work of the new topographics and such....so creating little scenes like this was not something i felt like pursuing...but looking at it now makes me want to take a bunch of objects, hole up in a closet somewhere with my camera, and make some worlds...

so this one time, i was traveling in an '86 ambulance converted to run on vegetable oil...this was with my band robot attack...it was the summer of 2003...it was the best summer of my life...we stopped in a lot of places east of the mississippi...i took this picture at a rest stop somewhere in florida...



fast forward 4 years....it is 2007 and it is autumn...i have traveled quite a bit across these united states of ours....and i am on tour again...covering vast distances, becoming familiar with so much....i have been in every one of the 48 contiguous states except for oklahoma (how have you eluded me, lovely shape?)...here i am in florida again....we stop at a random rest stop...something seems vaguely familiar....i take this picture...



look at that tree...look at that light post...look at the concrete shape that cuts into the grass...

they are, indeed, the same place...

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The Work Of Franck Juery

These images blew me away. Thanks to the always amazing Plrds.com for highlighting such amazing work. More of Juery's work can be seen on his website Here .

Spray Painted Shoes

Jesus Is Our Savior...

Yeah! A New Post- and it's about other dimensions!

I stumbled upon another story, this time in audio form, that i would like to share with as many people as possible. It is called The Street That Wasn't There by Clifford D. Simak and Carl Jacoby.


http://www.archive.org/details/short_story_016_0709_librivox

An old man is taking a walk, the same walk he has taken every single day for decades. But on this particular day, a street is missing- it just isn't there, nor is their evidence that it ever was there. He returns home and pulls an old book off his shelf. He begins reading his own words, from a theory he posed in his earlier years- a theory which saw him expelled from his prestigious university position and completely ostracized by the scientific community.

"Man himself, by the power of mass suggestion, holds the physical fate of this earth...seeing trees as trees, houses as houses, streets as streets, and not as something else. Minds that see things as they are and have kept things as they were. Destroy those minds and the entire foundation of matter, robbed of its regenerative power, will crumble and slip away like a column of sand."

"Granting, then, that the power of men's minds alone holds this universe, or at least this world, in its present form, why not go further and envision other minds in some other plane, watching us, waiting- waiting craftily for the time they can take over the domination of matter."

"Other worlds lie in juxtaposition with ours. Perhaps the day will come when our plane, our world, will dissolve beneath our feet and before our eyes as some stronger intelligence reaches out from the dimensional shadows of the very space we live in and wrests from us the matter which we know to be our own."

With massive plagues and war diminishing the earth's population, could he be that his theory is correct, and about to be proven at this very instant?

Get psyched!



Tree

Rittenhouse Sqaure, from the roof of 1845 Walnut

Yes We Live Here & We Like It: More Photographs From The Road

Full Of Rice And Rocks: The Life Of A Touring Musician

Okay…..i finally have a bit o’ time, and im feeling calm and collected enough to formulate a little photo essay post…

For the past three weeks, my whole life has been these places- inside a van; rest stops; green rooms; bars/clubs/venue spaces; hospitable stranger’s homes; eateries. It felt a bit stifling for me at first- traveling so much but having limited time to wander about and take photographs....but i'll take what i can get....

I’m still trying to accumulate more and more of those overlooked scenes that say a little something more about the world out there…..the minutia, the mistakes, the evidence of tiny little actions that reflect upon the entire life of the responsible party....small things that tell of larger things.....these can be found in a bulletin board of business cards at a rest stop in Wymoning; a hastily made sign scrawled in sharpie; a "wall of shame" of confiscated fake id's; etc

Hope you enjoy these. More in a month!