 May 6, 2008  The opening for Various Photographs, curated by Tim Barber, is coming up next week: May 14 at 7 pm, 70 Front Street in DUMBO Brooklyn. Come check out my work along with the work of about a million other fantastic photographers, listed on the flyer to the right (click to enlarge). The opening is free to the public, and it should be a great time!I've uploaded a new project: Trees & Reflections; it's a documentation of the coming of spring this year, as well as a means for me to satisfy my recent fascination with photographing sun and artificial light. I like to think of these photos as visualizations of the alien in the natural, and vice versa. I've been working on a bunch more new stuff recently, poring over images and pulling ideas together. Expect more new projects soon. See you in Brooklyn! April 15, 2008 
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll have a photo in Tim Barber's upcoming exhibition at the New York Photography Festival next month, happening May 14-18 in Brooklyn. I'll be up in New York the week of the festival, hanging around with friends and getting into trouble. I'm looking forward to it!I started out my 22nd year with a bang last Tuesday; after feeling excruciatingly shitty all afternoon on my birthday, I found out I had an appendicitis. Just a week later though, and I've recovered, sans appendix. All's well that ends well, I suppose. I've uploaded five new photographs to the site; they're a brief glimpse of what I've been working on in the past few months. More new stuff coming soon. The color zine I've been putting together for the past month or so should be ready by next weekend, and it features work by lots of my favorite, mostly unknown artists. It'll be a pretty limited run, but I'll upload some pictures of the zine on the site once it's printed and make it available for a small donation. A friend and I went down to the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City earlier this afternoon to check out the current exhibition Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969-1979, but we unwittingly made it to the museum a few minutes after they had already closed. I'm super excited to finally see the exhibition, and I've heard great things. I guess I'll just have to check it out tomorrow morning by myself. March 12, 2008 I haven't really been updating the website, but I have been uploading new photos to flickr. Below are bits of what I've been working on. Click the images for larger views.               January 26, 2008 Whoa, massive re-haul here. A bunch of new photos and a couple new projects are up from the past couple of months. Chomp Womp recently put out a compilation featuring new music from tons of rad music makers from Lawrence, Kansas City, Wichita, etc. You can download it for free at the website. I really like this picture by Kevin Morby. Here's a little glimpse of what Bedroom Bazaar was like last weekend. Check out Gabe Holcombe for more photos from the event. January 4, 2008 Happy New Year. I've added a new section called DREAMS OF LEAVING. I've also added a few new pictures to WINTER WONDERLAND. Sometimes I see all the potential inherent in everyone I'm constantly surrounded by, and I'm overwhelmed by the vacuous longing that overcomes us all, the feeling that we must get out, that we must achieve something more and reach somewhere beyond. I hope these pictures begin to illustrate such yearnings. BEDROOM BAZAAR opens in Lawrence at the Jackpot Music Hall on January 18! 2008... "There is no comfort. Our lives dismay us. We have dreams of leaving and it is the same for everyone I know." - David HareDecember 22, 2007 WINTER WONDERLAND has been updated. Check out a couple of the bands pictured in the set: BANDIT TEETH and THE SPOOK LIGHTS. Both bands raucously rocked the fuck out recently (as usual) at a basement show here in Lawrence. One of the best parts about Lawrence during wintertime: retreating to cool, stony cellars, heated by warm bodies or PBR or whiskey or all of the above, to witness the Lawrence music scene at its finest, fresh and visceral in its most natural habitat: the basement house show. BEDROOM BAZAAR opens January 18 at the Jackpot Music Hall, featuring works from Gabe Holcombe, Erica Voetsch, myself & others. The party begins at 8:30 PM with Iggy Baby DJing before bands start at 10 PM. Bands playing will be Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk, Coat Party, I Love You & my band Boo and Boo Too. Come out, and tell all your friends. December 12, 2007 Changed the name of SNOWBALL FIGHT to WINTER WONDERLAND so as to broaden my scope. New pictures added to the project as well. If you don't know me personally, check out my band BOO AND BOO TOO. We've got an EP out now on IRONPAW RECORDS, and we'll have a full-length that we've been working on for the past year coming out sometime in 2008. We'll be playing an art opening on January 18 in Lawrence featuring works by Gabe Holcombe, myself and others. It all goes down at the Jackpot, and also playing will be BABY BIRDS DON'T DRINK MILK and COAT PARTY, as well as I LOVE YOU. More details later. December 8, 2007 New mini-set of pictures up in the work section, quickly uploaded after witnessing/taking part in a spectacle of drunken debauchery on the streets of Lawrence last night. We had our first snow of the winter, and there totally was a 2 a.m. SNOWBALL FIGHT on the corner of 10th and Mass. It was fun. This one dude in the black car pictured was totally speeding back and forth through the intersection after his car got pegged numerous times by snowballs and handheld bombs of frozen slush. He was totally insane, as you can see Dan in one of the pictures running away from the car. Dan was actually knocked up on the car's hood at one point. Eventually, the cops broke it up, and one of them out of nowhere seized Dane (not Dan) and forced him facedown into the snowy street corner planter, even cuffing him for apparently throwing a snowball at the cop car. Dane was finally let go after numerous people, including himself, protested that he had done no such thing. So bummed I didn't get a picture of the Dane/cop action. I was too busy trying to make sure my friend didn't get arrested, I guess. Enjoy! Hopefully, this project will be something I can continue to add onto as we trek through the treacherous wintertime. November 29, 2007 New set of pictures up in the work section, called SOMETHING IN THE FOREST, documenting the beautiful trees and leaves of the Ozarks, amongst other things. You know that feeling that creeps up on you when you're all alone and desolation really sets in? When you're so sure some unspeakable entity or some malignant presence is trailing your path--keeping stealthily out of sight, just patiently awaiting the right moment to slip from the shadows to rear its horrible face--that it's unbearable? It's the feeling of evil among us, in dark back alleyways, down long, dimly lit hallways when everyone's gone home, in the woods when you hear brush crack from under some mysterious foot, suddenly realizing you're completely, utterly alone as some phantom stalks you from the gloom. It's a scary thing. Remember to catch BABY BIRDS DON'T DRINK MILK on tour throughout the Midwest, now! Tonight's show at BIG V's in St. Paul. Also, check out a new song from Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, AKA ATLAS SOUND, available for download on the DEERHUNTER BLOG. It's called "COBWEBS", and it's amazing. November 15, 2007 Tonight is St. Ides Heaven night. In honor of the late great Elliott Smith, my friends and I decided to buy 40 oz. glass bottles of St. Ides "high gravity malt liquor" and walk around Lawrence drinking them out of paper bags. So far, we haven't made it outside of the house yet, besides Derek (whose brainchild this night was), who wandered off about an hour ago and recently phoned in to assure us that if we go walking around and drink all of our 40 oz., we'll get drunk. My latest set of photos is "SOMEWHERE SAFE", titled after a phrase my friend used to describe a photo I took of him in New York City. Everyday experiences, emotions, expressions--they're all such transient, intangible substances. Memories are so fleeting; events and thoughts and moods always fade away, are swept up in a dark, nebulous tide and replaced by whatever ephemera comes next. Some pictures capture these short-lived instances of experience, holding on to brief moments and storing them where they can be held, looked upon, remembered, until these time capsules eventually decay too. The days are getting shorter and darker and colder, and I wake up later and want to sleep longer. The dark cloud of winter is setting in. It feels all right. Check out BABY BIRDS DON'T DRINK MILK on their upcoming tour of the midwest later this month. Dates on their myspace page. Listen to "HELICOPTER SOUP" on their aforementioned myspace page and "CAPTURED BY TREES" on their virb page. Dig it. Cheers! "everything is exactly right / when i walk around here drunk every night / with an open container from 7-11 / in st. ides heaven / i've been out haunting the neighborhood / and everybody can see i'm no good / when i'm walking out between parked cars / with my head full of stars" - Elliott Smith November 6, 2007 The current series of pictures on this website (see: work) is a subtle testament to the unhinged spirit of LAWRENCE, KANSAS: the smells, the yells, the swells of color bursting from every crack on every street corner that echo endlessly throughout the night; fading reverberations of days spent lounging, scrounging, bumming, working, exhausting the resources of a city so isolated from the beacon metropolises of progressive culture, yet so purely in tune with its own accelerating pulse and revolutionary impulses; it's all there somewhere. Happy early birthday to Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.). You will not be forgotten... "America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." - William S. Burroughs |