light-motion

New Pics From Old Negs

2012-01-09T23:41:00.001-08:00

Letterpressed wood type on enlargements of turn of the century glass negatives. These images are from 112 years ago.

August 15, 2010 - August 15, 2011

2011-11-24T01:10:00.000-08:00

A year long Solargraph of the sun rising in the Mojave desert. The pinhole camera was set out on August 15, 2010 and picked up on August 15, 2011.

It was a hard year.

RIP Smokin Joe

2011-11-07T22:33:00.000-08:00

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. - Joe Frazier

Ed Ruscha

2011-10-27T23:30:00.000-07:00

Love this dude and his things.

Conan Keeps it REAL!!!

2011-10-13T22:14:00.000-07:00

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.

Born For Hard Luck

2011-10-06T23:19:00.000-07:00

Peg Leg Sam Jackson. I'm feeling this dude. He speaks to me.

Thanks Erik for the heads up.

Born For Hard Luck from Kimosabbe on Vimeo.

Ride It Till the Wheels Fall Off

2011-09-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

This kid is the heart of skateboarding more than any Dew Tour, Street Leauge, XGames, Mega Ramp, Shane Oneil buying Jose Canseco's old house, Million dollar contract, Red Bull, Ryan Sheckler TV show, Nike Shoe, Drunk skateboarder photo will ever be. I sleep better @ night knowing there are still kids like this.

Hot off the presses (or 11880)

2011-09-05T23:07:00.001-07:00

Just got done printing a new photo for my skateboard light project. The photo is of one of my favorite skateboarders Michael Kryger doing a nollie flip. This one is a commission for a local auction in February. The starting bid is $1000 and the curator of the auction already thinks she has a prospective buyer for this sucker. Its off to the framers tomorrow which will be a pricey endeavor (luckily I don't have to spring for it).

You

2011-08-17T11:54:00.000-07:00

C. R. Stecyk III

2011-08-14T14:39:00.001-07:00

Luxuria, C. R. Stecyk III from MOCA on Vimeo.

Hey Mr. Sunshine

2011-08-11T11:10:00.001-07:00

I've liked this for many moons.

yerp

2011-08-03T21:06:00.000-07:00

Vik Muniz TED talk

2011-07-17T16:09:00.000-07:00

I like, you like, we like.

random randomness

2011-07-14T23:23:00.000-07:00

A bunch of ladies got tattos to match mine

Kryger has been known to go in the dunk tank with cotton candy in hand.

This is Laslo's favorite lady.

I believe it as much as I don't

2011-07-13T16:54:00.000-07:00

True

2011-07-07T16:59:00.001-07:00

Camera Obscura Helmet

2011-06-26T14:35:00.000-07:00

I made myself a camera obscura helmet. Thats right, a wearable 17 inch focal length camera obscura. It is made out of thin plywood, a cloth neck cinch, Duralar and acrylic focusing screen, and your head fits comfortably into an attached skateboard helmet. You can walk around with it on your head and see the world upside down.

There is something about seeing someone walk around with a box on their head that makes me smile.

Daniel

2011-06-17T21:45:00.000-07:00

This is one of my all time favorite campers. This is his 2nd year at camp and I hope he keeps skating and coming to camp. He is 100% out of his mind. He is dirty, his helmet is always way too big with pads hanging out, his pants are usually falling down, and he is a skate rat. I can't wait to show him this video in 10 years when he is a too cool for school 18 year old.

Kids like Daniel are the reason is why I do what I do.

¡Hoy!

2011-06-15T21:05:00.000-07:00

I played photographer today with all my gadgets. Right after I took this photo a guy came up to me and asked me if I filmed rap videos.

I agree 100% in a less obvious way.

Taking off

Nothing Is Original

2011-06-14T23:56:00.000-07:00

This is one of the best things I have ever read that applies to art and the trials and tribulations that go hand in hand with the making of art. I know personally I put an immense amount of pressure on myself to make, make, make. I need my ideas to flow like water and in reality they tumble along like chunks of cement. Sometimes you get big lumps of good stuff and sometimes you don't get much but some dust.

READ AWAY!!!

Get Hyped

2011-06-12T21:13:00.001-07:00

I made a giant wheat paste image for Woodward West skate camp. It is the largest photo I have ever made @ 24'x8'. I used about $150 worth of ink to print this puppy. Hope you like it.

New

2011-06-12T00:38:00.001-07:00

Pals

2011-06-08T13:18:00.000-07:00

Another summer of skate camp. I have to deal with the dumbest shit imaginable at this place, but on the opposite end of the spectrum I get to make new friends every year. 13 years of booger nosed buddies. Its to the point that I've had grown men in business suits come up to me all excited to tell me that i was their instructor 10 years ago. That is the reason I'm still here.

I'm just saying

2011-05-29T23:04:00.000-07:00

Its a toy, who cares?

2011-05-28T23:02:00.000-07:00

i'm kicking lifes ass

2011-05-28T18:14:00.000-07:00

me too

2011-05-26T21:26:00.000-07:00

do

2011-05-25T21:04:00.000-07:00

Obstruction

2011-05-10T22:16:00.000-07:00

For design I made an instilation of 2500 plastic army men all painted bright yellow and blocked off an 11'x11' square in the main hallway of my school. The concept was simple. You either have to go around or walk through em. Nothing more than little pieces of plastic, but they will send people walking out of their ways to avoid them. People took a little coaxing before they were willing to walk over them, one guy jumped em, but once the seal was broken by the most unexpected lady it was on.
Interesting experiment. We like to avoid the ideas of what army men do in real life too, but we have little yellow ribbons that say we don't.

hold on

2011-04-30T00:23:00.000-07:00

Easter Buzzy

2011-04-24T10:11:00.000-07:00

Happy Easter, and i hope spring warms your bones.

Changing Education Paradigms By. Sir Ken Robinson

2011-04-19T23:22:00.000-07:00

Uhhhhhh, yeah thats what I'm talking about. Maybe just watch it on youtube. I can't stand the wrong size formating of youtube videos on blogspots.

Piss Christ

2011-04-18T23:35:00.000-07:00

Some Christian protesting crazies decided to throw a hammer through Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" photograph. I think this has happened a few times to Andres Serrano's artworks. He's been pissing people off for a long time, no pun intended. Its interesting work and I think a lot of people miss the point of his concept, but I think that is what happens when you start adding piss and jesus together. Its so easy to have an opinion and a reaction, while it is a bit harder to really try to unravel what the message could be. Christian's who have a problem with Serrano's work are just seeing it as a crucifix in piss, while maybe the artist intention is to convey that society as a whole treats the ideals of Christ poorly. I watched this great interview with a nun who is an art critic and she gets it and calls it what it is. Watch away.

Ai Weiwei

2011-04-13T23:12:00.001-07:00

Ai Weiwei is my new favorite contemporary artist. He is a badass. He cuts up 18th century chinese tables and rearranges them and puts them back together. He drops and paints 18th century Chinese vases. He fills a giant space with 100 million handmade and painted porcelain sunflower seeds. Most of all he does an amazing job pissing off the Chinese government.

He focused a ton of his art and influence on exposing an alleged corruption scandal in the construction of Sichuan schools that collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. He created a giant sign on the outside of the Tate Modern out of kids backpacks, which represented all the backpacks he saw in the rubble of the collapsed schools after the earthquake.

I can't do him justice with my words. The guy rules, look him up.

Dropping 18th Century Chinese Vase

reconstructed 18th century Chinese Table

100 Million Porcelain Sunflower Seeds in Tate Modern Turbine Hall

Backpack Snake

reconstructed Chairs

anyone need a tattoo (dirt cheap)

2011-04-10T21:47:00.000-07:00

I guess sometimes in art school a guy needs to make a homemade tattoo gun. I have a crazy story about making one of these and using it when I was a young teenager. I made one today to remember days gone by.

X

2011-04-05T22:53:00.000-07:00

This is the page of Teddy Roosevelt's diary from the day his wife Alice died of Brights Disease. She was 22, he was 25. He never wrote about Alice ever again.

I keep asking to have my old old heart run over.

2011-04-04T21:34:00.000-07:00

I think I'm a pretty good guy. I love people, I care about people, I always try to act out of compassion for others, I will always offer my help, but I am on a bad streak. I am so fucking ready for the tide to turn. I have been getting beaten against the shore for a long time. I keep telling myself it has to get better soon. Then it keeps coming. I watch others who don't always act out of compassion and they seem to be up to their necks in the roses.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

exit

2011-04-03T22:44:00.000-07:00

Vik Muniz, Waste Land

2011-03-29T20:45:00.001-07:00

Vik Muniz is a Brazilian born visual artist who uses pretty much everything you are not supposed to use to make images, for example sugar, peanut butter, chocolate syrup, and garbage. I recently watched a documentary Waste Land where he goes to the worlds largest landfill in Rio De Janeiro and creates giant portraits of garbage pickers out of garbage, then photographs the garbage portraits for his finished product. They are amazing. Watch the documentary (its on Netflix watch instant) and pay mind to what you throw away and where it goes.

UhhhhhhUm (clears throat).....

2011-03-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

"I don't know any other way."

2011-03-27T21:32:00.000-07:00

Went to San Francisco with Jamie over break to hang with Stretch, Merrie, and Charlie. It was helpful for the soul. Good creatures all around. I am having serious thoughts about packin up the wagon and heading to more urban pastures. Who knows? the future is unwritten.

New photo project

2011-03-20T00:34:00.000-07:00

I printed giant photos. these were super fun to make and i will be making more. They are all inkjet prints printed on an Epson 11880 64'' printer. They will live on the streets soon.

You Fucked Up - 8'x12'

Every Moment 8'x6'

Liability 7'x5'

Consume 6'x12'

Departure and Interim

2011-03-08T00:24:00.000-08:00

New photos. Hope you like em.

INTERIM

DEPARTURE

No Promise of Saftey

2011-03-05T10:10:00.000-08:00

Holy shit, these people are awesome!!!! Lee has posted links to this blog a few times and every time I get re-amazed by their stories. The Golden Gate bridge!!!! damn.

NoPromiseOfSafty

John Baldessari

2011-03-03T22:14:00.000-08:00

Another great graphic/photo artist. I am a fan.

Barbara Kruger

2011-03-02T23:15:00.000-08:00

One of my all time favorite artist. Simple, clean, witty, Futura. I'm making a project right now that is lightly bitting her stuff, and I have no shame.

Loud As Shit!!!!

2011-02-13T23:24:00.000-08:00

Fuck it as crazy as the crazies get some times you gotta just listen to music really loud and cleanse the brain unit. I want to be like the badass dudes in the movies who have the bad guys pointing guns to their heads and their still talking shit. Total bad ass stuff.

I've never heard this song till a few days ago on Tim's music blog

Simple Again

2011-02-07T20:14:00.000-08:00

A little action on the side. Simple Again

A song a day.

Waiving the White Flag

2011-02-04T01:49:00.000-08:00

Not feeling bad about life, but just going to say fuck it about certain aspects and get rolling.

On the Fly

2011-02-02T22:16:00.000-08:00

I have made a shit ton of art over the last year, but I haven't posted any of it for some reason. Yet, I made this collage in about 20 minutes and here it is. Sometimes goofing around makes for more enjoyable stuff. Total Dead Kennedy's rip off, and I think everyone has made fun of shitty famous women before but sometimes you gotta roll with it.

Things I have Done

2011-01-30T22:58:00.000-08:00

Smith Grind in Carlsbad

Caged Turkey in Portland

Just trying to figure out all my bullshit.

2011-01-29T19:24:00.000-08:00

Takers and Leavers

2011-01-29T00:27:00.000-08:00

One hundred years from now when our grandkids have all had sex, will they look back to the past and know what they've missed?
Will they think we had it better than the way they have it then?
Will they gaze at a strip mall where a field had once been?
Will they think they're born late like the way we now do it?
Or will they curse at the present and lend credence to it?
Will they hear all the old songs and think they're all true and hate all their own songs and everything new?
Well I'm here to tell you something that's known, from someone who's lived it from someone who's grown, the somebody who somebody once loaned a home to.
The grass is always greener, the past is always cleaner, the present is crap and everyone's meaner.
They say we're moving towards something, but I think we're moving from something.
There are some folks who are more apathetic and then there are some folks who are more money grubbin'.
Well, I know there's always been greed and green acres, and war and peace makers.
And then there's your takers and your leavers, your havers and your needers.
And in this great froth as we skim through the batter, there's now many more of the former and less of the latter.
Help us climb out of this pitfall disaster led by dynasties, charlatans, but not poetasters.
Where there is a mortal disconnect spawned by gluttonous connection, where you pick your own culture without viewer discretion.
Where there is no more history and nothing is learned.
Where you shun all your kin and all your bridges are burned.
Where you are what you buy and you're who what you own; and you think of yourself and you live all alone.
You make yourself feel fine when everything's wrong.
The world keeps turning but you're brittle as bone.
So to all you future dreamers and lovers and leavers, to all those who know there's still something between us that binds us
and reminds us of times that passed,
I appreciate you listening to this one man's last gas.
In spite of all the words that we can't fit to song, I'd thank you to take off your eye shades, please... sing along.

-Scott McMicken

Everything Look Like Gold

2011-01-26T22:41:00.000-08:00

Son House

Attraction to others

2011-01-22T11:20:00.000-08:00

In no way am I a fashion orientated photographer, nor do I really even shoot many actual people (even though I am going to try to more) but I am a fan of this little film about Scott Schumann and his super famous street fashion blog The Sartorialist. I like his history of simply picking a camera up and not being bogged down with the technical aspects of the medium, then taking that tool and build your knowledge around what you actually do. The idea of using a camera as a antenna to relate and react to who and what the world puts in front of us is a very romantic view of photography. Going out and falling in love a little bit every day.

why is the night so long?

2011-01-17T00:44:00.000-08:00

The whole album is good and at different times each song is my favorite.

Nice cat

2011-01-15T01:12:00.000-08:00

Men are a hurting breed. Women are by far the superior sex.

"The Police Bother Big People."

2011-01-13T15:58:00.000-08:00

the odd mind of a 4 year old living in the Haight in the 70s. Its kind of a long one, but worth its time. My favorite parts are when he waters the cat and when he talks about speed freaks.

Neat and great wrapped up in a wonton

2011-01-07T15:14:00.000-08:00

Timmy sent me a link to this video about Vivian Maier's found negatives. 100,000 negatives and most of them have never been seen, not to mention the drawer full of film yet to be processed. I have never wanted to print someone else's photos more in my life. I love people who thrive at making stuff outside of any kind of spotlight.

It is a super cool story and you better watch the whole video because she has an amazing quote at the end that pretty much sums up life.

Um

2011-01-07T00:09:00.000-08:00

FUCK!!!!!!!

Still in Montana

2011-01-04T17:54:00.000-08:00

I've been running up and down the M trail every other day in Missoula. It is a mile each way. This day it was 4 degrees out and I was wearing shorts. Running up hill is a perfect way to kick your own ass.

One of the best ones out.

Jeff Ament's Bass bowl

2011-01-01T22:00:00.000-08:00

Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament lives in Missoula and he pretty much has everything a man boy could ever want. Since it was -2 degrees today we skated his indoor bass shaped bowl. So perfect, 5 foot shallow end to a 9 foot deep. Can't wait to go back on Wednesday to skate it again.

This video is of my Montana pals Kim and Kevin, and then has a bit of me. I especially like my stupid commentary while i film.

I am in need of a new year

2010-12-31T09:32:00.000-08:00

This one sucked.

My Tim Ward inspired resolutions.

• Print a series of 3 foot or bigger photos
• Listen for 5, talk for 1
• Get in where I fit in
• Bro down with the bros more
• Noseblunts on mini ramps
• Switch nose manual the stupid manual pad @ camp
• Come home to Montana in the spring or fall
• No or minimal temper tantrums
• Learn the art of being ok
• Cut my fucking hair and mail it off
• Quit stressing about stuff I have no control over
• Go to Arizona with Charlie and Nate
• Spend more time in the darkroom
• Stay away from facebook and all the online narcissistic weirdos
• Have a doctor figure out what is up with my shoulder
• Gain 10 lbs (I know I sound like a tard, but it is fucking hard for me to do)
• Snowboard

These images are from my photo final last semester. I would post my artist statement, but I don't have it on my computer. You can make up what they mean and be pretty close to the mark.

HOMELAND

2010-12-29T22:11:00.000-08:00

To help rip me out of my bummer session of life I have been experiencing as of recent I have been spending a few weeks in my hometown of Missoula Montana. It has been amazingly helpful to be around my friends and family. They should bottle up Missoula and sell it as an antidepressants.

I went snowboarding (which was fucking fun) and had to borrow some pretty pink boots and raver gear from my pal Jake. I was the best dressed guy on the slopes. I grew up snowboarding and just kind of lost interest in my early 20s, but I"m not going to wait another 8 years till I go snowboarding again.

Lance has 3 kids and a wife, that doesn't slow him down.

I love these guys. Both of them are fathers/husbands.

It keeps rolling

2010-12-27T10:58:00.000-08:00

Kevin Ollie

HWY 26

Seems like years ago, but I took both of these last fall before the rain took over life.

And on the 7th day the sweet jesus created Pam.

2010-12-22T23:06:00.001-08:00

Total Eclipse of the Heart or Moon

2010-12-21T00:14:00.000-08:00

Tonight I watched the eclipse of the full moon right after my mom picked me up from the airport in Missoula. I haven't been back to my hometown in a few years and with my life being in a bit of a mess it feels good to be in a familiar place.

Missoula is in a valley so it is often socked in with clouds, but tonight the moon gods were on our side and the clouds parted so my mom and me could watch the eclipse. The moon was eclipsed @ 12:41 and I don't think I have ever seen my mom awake at nearly 1 am. It was a special event.

Here is a funny conversation between me (ryan) and my mom.

The Office

2010-12-19T01:25:00.000-08:00

I have watched almost every episode of The Office in the last week. I knew nothing about the series before i started to Netflix it, and now I have no idea how I made it this long without it.

Also, I am in love with Pam. Serious dream woman material.

Workin

2010-12-17T22:03:00.001-08:00

The advice I like to give to young artists, or really anybody, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work.

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.

-chuck close

how darkness is made

2010-12-12T21:11:00.000-08:00

This is a little video I made with cornstarch, food coloring, a speaker, and some bass booster music.

May You Grow Up To Be True

2010-12-06T22:48:00.000-08:00

Hold On vs. Let Go

2010-12-01T22:52:00.000-08:00

Let Go Won.

Ah umm

2010-11-30T23:54:00.000-08:00

My mind is racing. I am 10,000 steps ahead of right now. My life is hanging over a ledge. Who is coming? Who is going? Where should i be heading? I'm learning and living in the middle of a few important lessons right now. I walk when I need to think clearly and as I feel right now i need to walk and keep walking. I have no idea where I will be in a few months. I do know I'm going to try my hardest to be a good friend and smile at everyone I pass along the way.

The future is unwritten

Beware of the knowers.

2010-11-07T21:00:00.000-08:00

This part is perfect in all ways.

speak spoke

2010-10-24T22:49:00.000-07:00

3 months of a photo

2010-10-04T22:48:00.000-07:00

sunrise sunset pinhole image of summer solstice Tehachapi, California. the sun doesn't know it is a star.

Love,
Buzzy

Take Our Jobs

2010-09-25T16:34:00.000-07:00

More good quotes from Stephen Colbert's opening statement to congress about immigrant workers lack of rights.

"Maybe the easier answer is just to have scientists develop vegetables that pick themselves. The genetic engineers over at Fruit of the Loom have made great strides in human-fruit hybrids."

"This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan, then served by a Venezuelan, in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian."

"I am not going back out there. At this point, I break out into a cold sweat even at the sight of a salad bar."

TAKE OUR JOBS

YEAH!!!

2010-09-04T08:48:00.000-07:00

HOLY SHIT!!!!

My newest and mostly unseen photo project has been featured on Lenscratch, which is an amazing photo blog.

PEEP IT!!!!

The Air

2010-09-02T21:07:00.000-07:00

The air in Portland tonight has a little bit of something special in it.

The best temperature i have ever felt. Warm, slight breeze, sunset over looking the costal mountain ranges, feeling tired the honest way from 4 days of using my brain. I want to go skate and do some work.

Damn, sometimes the life thing is pretty good to an old fella like myself.

3 month exposure of the sun's path shot in the high Mojave desert.

STREET CRED

2010-08-28T21:30:00.000-07:00

This is proof that I used to be a street rat. This is a Skateboarding ticket I got skating the EMB in Sept. 97. 3 months after I moved to San Francisco. Fresh outta Montana right into the fucking jumble of SF. I miss those days of skating and not really thinking about anything else.

I never ended up paying this ticket. I remember trying to call the court about it and ended up being on hold for 30 minutes only to be transfered to another person who put me on hold. After about an hour of that treatment I decided to say fuck it and take my chances. Never heard back about the $285 that I owed the city of San Francisco.

I'm pretty hyped I saved this little skate souvenir.

pretty much

2010-08-28T17:52:00.001-07:00

Ronnie Creager came to skate camp

2010-08-05T21:45:00.000-07:00

Yeah the guy has been a professional skateboarder for like 15 years. Hes a big timer, but not too big to eat shit on the log roll fully clothed.

Skate Rats

2010-07-23T22:32:00.000-07:00

We had the coolest skateboard kids at camp this week. They made me so hyped on skateboarding and my job. After 18 years skateboarding is still amazing to me, but it is way different @ 31 than it was @ 15. Being around these kids lets me see them experience the same feelings I had when I was a dirty little skate rat. I LOVE THIS SHIT.

Buddy System on the Weenie

2010-07-09T14:51:00.000-07:00

Kryger is on a diet so Tim had to share the weenie with him.

Sometimes i get it.

2010-06-26T11:15:00.000-07:00

If I had a kid the little fella would look like this

2010-06-25T13:32:00.001-07:00

HANDSOME DEVILS

Earwigs

2010-06-23T20:56:00.000-07:00

Trying to take year long pinhole pictures of the sun's path, but instead I am providing earwigs and spiders a place to live for a year, not to mention meals as they eat my negatives and brass shim.

My weird job

2010-06-22T11:24:00.000-07:00

Everyday that I am @ camp I have a point in my day where the weirdness of what goes on here kicks me in the face. Seriously things that go on here are not going on anywhere else in the world. This place is a temple of weird. Here are a few goofy pics of yesterday.

Skate 4 Money???? Modern day skateboarder attitude. When I was a kid my thought was "skate to be the lamest dude @ school."

We set up a crazy ass bungee thing that takes 5 dudes to stretch out and then put it in a guy on a skateboards hands. Going from 0-30mph in about 4 seconds without a hill or pushing.

This is what I look like when I'm scared and going 30 mph. You can see the bungee handle that I just let go of in the right of the picture. Goofy ass pose.

We made a new friend

2010-06-20T22:17:00.000-07:00

So, some pals and I were sitting around shootin the shit when we started to talk about chatroulette. we were all newbies, but we really wanted to talk to some naked horny dudes. What we ended up finding was a 68 year old naked fisherman from the Netherlands, who was down to do pretty much anything wee demanded. So I did what any person in this situation would do and took some screen shots. I don't think I quite understand the naked dude chatroulette thing yet, but I do think it is amazingly funny. Enjoy......

ps. the text is amazing & sorry bout the penis thing.

a whole bunch of meat things

2010-06-19T13:58:00.000-07:00

A composite creature I made shot digitally and acrylic lifted onto birch panels. Here is my shopping list-
1 octopus
1 pack of 12 duck heads
1 salmon head
1 pack of 24 chicken feet
1 pig heart
2 pigs feet
2 chicken legs

Camp Stuff

2010-06-17T19:54:00.000-07:00

I am up to my gills in little dirty hand skateboard kids. I love it. I revert into a 15 year old candy eating dirt face. I am teaching a few kids every week how to screen print shirts. Its cool to see what kind of weird stuff they come up with to screen.

Diego Printing up his Shake Junt shirt. I have no idea what shake junt means.

The Crue and their shirts

Dirty cookie eaters.

Susan Derges

2010-06-13T11:25:00.000-07:00

There are photographers who have produced work and ideas that I am 100% envious of. Susan Derges is one of those artist. Her creativity and lack of camera use in her photography is seriously mind numbing. She has created a direct relationship with her images and the organic environment. I am serious in love with the idea of the natural environment being the main factor in creating abstraction. We take our realities as fact, and when we let a brainless object record our surrounding they never appear as we think they do. She has a ton of different series, but my favorite 2 are Chladni and River Taw.

In the series Chladni she sprinkled carborundum powder directly onto photographic emulsion where it was exposed to sound waves at different frequencies. The vibrations of the frequencies on the emulsion created abstract, organic shapes in the final black and white prints.

In the series River Taw she takes long sheets of color photo paper and submerges them in a river bed thet is near her darkroom. She lets the ambient light and the refraction of the flowing river water expose the emulsion. She then pulls the wet paper from the river and processes through.

Here is her website: Susan Derges

Chladni Series

River Taw Series

total toolbag

2010-06-11T23:26:00.000-07:00

I'm way into my looks lately (this is internet sarcasm). This photo was beyond fucked up when it was taken, but I couldn't pass it up.

16 hours

2010-06-09T01:06:00.000-07:00

I drove for 16 hours today I feel like a fried turkey. I decided to shoot some pictures while driving down the highway. Words and the brain ain't working too well right now.

teeny quiz (even though I'm 30)

2010-06-07T00:55:00.000-07:00

I answered yes to all of these questions, and I clearly need instant relief from this world.

SIN!!!

2010-05-30T19:17:00.000-07:00

When did it become common place for everyone to pick on rollerbladers? I thought that was just a skateboarder thing. Fucking funny.

Served

2010-05-22T19:12:00.000-07:00

Really, if you fucking torture a wild animal this could happen??? No way..... The dude lived after a few surgeries, and the bull was killed. People are ding bats.

Me in 30 years

2010-05-21T21:53:00.000-07:00

I'm not talking about dance lessons. I'm talking about putting a brick through the other guy's windshield. I'm talking about taking it out and chopping it up.

RIP Ian Curtis 5/18/1980

2010-05-19T01:06:00.000-07:00

Imagine the music that could have been made if he didn't die 30 years ago today.

Them People

2010-05-13T21:01:00.001-07:00

I am an analog man, but god damn I love photoshop.