November 2011
1 post
So the last two or three months have been a bit of a blur. I turned 27, found a spectacular woman, got situated in my new job, took three trips of a week each (two to san fransisco and one to mexico), decided to start shooting film again, drank, ate, and told stories, and generally lived it up.
There are some photos of all this. They are coming soon, I promise.
September 2011
2 posts
My friends Heather and Kyle got married, oh a month and a half ago now, and I was lucky enough to attend… really beautiful ceremony, in the alley where they had their first beers together. While some of my longtime friends know that I refuse, under any circumstances, to be a wedding photographer, I didn’t take any money for this one, and I would have been there anyway, so in this case I made an...
Work has been especially worky and my personal life has ben a crazy roller coaster, and that means the blog has been a bit neglected, but I’m trying to catch up. A wedding (not my own), a vacation, two business trips (the first one to vancouver and the other to san fransisco), all that really wears on you. There’s not a ton of energy left to blog. Add that to the fact that when I’m working, I’m...
August 2011
1 post
Today is my first day with Engine Yard. Last night, I got to go out with a couple of the managers and one of the other new hires, and I really like their style. Also, had some really awesome food and drink wandering around downtown Vancouver.
Earlier, I wandered a bit- just down to the bay from my hotel, really. Saw the Olympic torch, heard about four languages (Welsh, something scandanavian,...
July 2011
3 posts
Riding down the highway last night and saw this.
Really fun night, just by showing up. It’d be nice if I could remember the name of the band or the singer, but I do remember that it was their first night playing together live. It was a really fun show. I’ll let the photos tell the rest.
Just two random photos from the queue. Woke up with a sober hangover this morning. It’s like waking up after a night of heavy drinking, but without the fun of the night before. A full night’s sleep, where you wake up still tired and wondering just what the hell happened to you. Luckily, this morning, somebody brought me coffee, and life was good again.
Anyway, the photos: Traci and Sky after a...
June 2011
2 posts
Weaning myself off the fisheye with a standard wide zoom. Things are afoot. Time to get away from the computer.
I promise I am using my normal lens more now… but the fish is so fun.
May 2011
8 posts
So right before we all left for the plaza district, another photographer that was there took some of the girls out to shoot, and I sort of butted in and shot a few things too. Couldn’t help myself. Anyway, good photos. Now I have a chore to take care of. Don’t tell anyone, but I’m making little 4×6 prints of the actual fashion show to give to the girls and or their stylists.
Velvet monkey puts on an annual fashion show at their Plaza district location, and a couple people I know were modeling and since I’m friends with a few of the stylists, I went and did some behind the scenes shooting at the downtown location while they were getting ready. Some good concepts, some good looks, pretty fun overall. I’ve got another post coming where we did a little guerilla shoot in...
sometimes, the night is just too good to give up at 2am, and there’s no place to go, so you just chill outside the bar till things die down.
chick-fil-a is always mobbed with people and always fast. but that’s not what this is about.
So yeah, day of, I get to the fest, anticipating one hell of a day, and instead I get an unmitigated disaster. My camera broke and a bunch of other things happened. And then I heard about some other shit, fights and bullshit. And a pretty girl that I’m into left town for L.A. (Sidenote: I really should cut back on the women, but what fun would that be?). On the plus side, I was sober when it was...
well, given the strong possibility that the world might end today, I figured I should go ahead and get a coupe more photos up. by strong possibility, I mean that it’s as likely now as it is at any other minute in history. anyway: more norman photos. Friday Night. The Mimsies and some other madness before.
I was walking home from somewhere west of my apartment, in the middle of the night, and I saw these and thought How Nice. And because it would be rude to pick someone else’s roses, I took a picture, and moved on.
those controllers aren’t hooked up to anything… they’re so good at rockband they no longer need the xbox. er, something like that.
April 2011
9 posts
These are the last photos in the queue to be posted; luckily, today, I got contacts, and I can see again. By see, I mean see pictures, not just focus on stuff. I can already tell, it’s better this way. Which I really knew all along. Anyway, photos…
These are from a totally excellent show I went to at Belle Isle. The Saturday Sirens played a great set. thanks @jane4oh5 for tweeting about it,...
Author’s Note: If you don’t care about my personal life and just come here for the pictures, well, ignore the text and look at the pretty photo at the bottom.
f yeah yesterday was a good day. better than the song. Guess you could say I started it off right. rolled over and kissed a pretty girl. really don’t wanna screw this up, so I’m gonna have to remain coy. We’re going slow(ish). Slower than...
Right now, I’m at work, on lunch, just sort of waiting for it to be over. When I have lunch here in the office (microwaved something-or-other) it only takes ten minutes, as opposed to the hour or hour and a half going out somewhere usually takes. And it’s cheaper, less than a buck for a sandwich and gatorade. And since there are only a couple decent restaurants in edmond anyway, I’m not missing...
Went to bartlesville again, two weeks ago? three? I’m thinking three. And when I go to bartlesville, there is some madness. In no particular order: A broken cell phone. Divorce. Drinking. driving. A puppy that I couldn’t keep, for now. Inappropriate jokes at 9am that were funny for all by 9:05.
And then, a delicious, calm breakfast from Heather, and an nice tranquil couple hours...
well, this is a first. I’m up at 5 am, really awake at this hour for the first time in years. had a good day yesterday, and I’m planning on having another one today. I had a date, too, and I’ve got another one of those coming today, too. If you ever hear me complaining about my life, feel free to tell me to fuck off. (Now, that’s different than bitching about oklahoma,...
mcnellies was nuts. the streets ran green with dudebro money. couldn’t stop us from dancin’ though.
where the most exciting real thing to happen is the sunlight I see as I come in. saying more about me than the work, I think.
went up to stilly, to a cabin in the woods, 12 hours of get away from it all… It was pretty all right. Calming. I wouldn’t say restful. But hey, there you are.
The dude in the hat! Amazing. I wrote about momentum for the naked earth blog but I have no idea when it will go live; sort of depends on the editor. The chair, I wanted to sit in it, I wanted to steal it and pu tit out by the curb; that chair did not belong in that show. Inconsistent curation. Also I’m supposed to write about graffiti for the NE journal. HA!
Anyway the last two images: Haley in...
March 2011
5 posts
Going over to kj’s here in a minute to do a photo shoot, not either of the planned ones (that I’ll have to get off my ass and do here pretty quick, before summer tries to kill us all), but just a test shoot getting ready for a thing in early april. Anyway, photos unrelated:
for now. drinkin wine with my neighbor. laptop party. yep, we’re nerds. she’s cuter than your neighbor, though. (photo unrelated, from the blue note several weeks ago).
My photos from the first snow storm were a little too depressing… not in that they were bad, but you can tell looking at them that I feel like shit. Since I feel a lot better now (o hai spring), I’m leaving them out. But these, from the second storm, are better.
Meanwhile, everything is moving along. Haven’t gotten any closer on planning those shoots I wanted to do. I need to email a bunch of...
just a couple photos… got a bunch more in the queue. It’s amazing how far behind you get when you start a month behind and then lose the use of your laptop for a week and a half. But enough excuses. I’m working on a bunch of things… couple photo shoots coming up hopefully, coding some interesting side projects. I have to wonder: is the extra mental energy spent on coding a drain on my photography?...
It’s been a long week and a half actually. Broken laptop and hospital time and exhaustion and stress. But on the other hand: drinking and good times and great friends and new beautiful women. really, I’ll take what I can get. and now I’m back on the air, everybody’s healthy (knock on wood) and my lappy is more or less restored. Done and done.
July 2010
11 posts
more ringlight
“The piers are pummelled by the waves;
In a lonely field the rain
Lashes an...”
– ALSO I NEED TO READ MORE AUDEN.
W. H. Auden (via theraddest)
about shooting film
So these are the last images from that night of the blues saloon, the night of the party, only a couple nights before I would decide it was time for a detox.
It’s funny, but my camera has been away at the service facility in El Segundo, CA, and I’ve been using a film camera to get my fix. The shooting is very different. A lot of people will talk about the different qualities of the...
Dance Floor
Blues saloon:
The night of the blues saloon
Took these the night of the blues saloon… this is only the first third of what I’m going to post from that night… more later. Madness. Good times.
and then the night ends...
I don’t really have much memory of taking these pictures. Apparently I was falling asleep, waking up for a few seconds, snapping a photo and falling back asleep.
to the pool
Of course we were guests of a resident at the unnamed pool. We had every right to be there.
Now for some photos...
From… Last friday? Friday before? something like that. More coming from that same night soon.
not drinking...
So, I haven’t had anything to drink in three or four days, and I’m stating to notice a difference. I can type faster; My pool game is better; I see pictures just a little quicker, focus better. My memory too, it seems improved. But it took me until today to really see any improvement, even a subjective one. I like it; it’s like the moment when I got my first pair of glasses and...
@christaemay at a party
I was editing at my parent’s house and my mom looks over my shoulder and says, “Wow, she’s pretty.” Yeah mom. She is. Pretty and dangerous. Like all my friends.
first a word from our sponsors
These are from my show opening. The show is still up, but not for much longer. Also, this was the first time I’ve shot film in ages, and it came out all right, for me not having a light meter.
June 2010
24 posts
light out for a day
Took a little road trip to the Wichita Mountains, which are nowhere near Wichita, Kansas, incidentally. Berlin (second photo) came along and took pictures too. You can see her photos form that day on her flickr. I finally got to try a meers burger, which was good, but their onion rings weren’t that great. Irma’s is better. It was a nice chill day to get away from the city and see some...
morning after
Brunch at Café Antigua.
A bunch of good things
from a party. I mean, these are great things that happened. I just took the pictures.
with the ringlight
I know I’m cheating and skipping ahead, but I really like this. now back to your regularly scheduled blog…
from @kriskanaly's art show
Also, because the queue feature is eating posts right now, I”m gonna have to manually post things. Oh well.
no, don't take my picture
Only let me look really cute while I hide from the camera.
single photos
Jus to get them out there, I’m gonna post some singles. One at a time. I do this mostly to torture @maeghan. That and they don’t go together. This is KJ and Lindsey.
Booze Cruise Again
Yep, it’s happening again; Youths on bikes out terrorize the local bar scene. Or at least get drunk and have a good time.