I have some photographs up on Scott’s website that I took while he was filming his video, “Tangle with Your Mind”.

See them here under the Photo Section.

Howdy Folks!

On tour with STP in Canada for most of November.  You can find my photos in my new Canadian flickr set.  I’ll be updating this regularly!  So far, I can tell you the first week has been awesome, but OMG cold.  I am remembering what it was like to live in New York during the winter and while living in the Tehachapi mountains during the winter is certainly freezing, at least I spent nearly all my time in the kitchen so I was always warm   Sending you love from Canada, eh!

Ok Folks.  I have a new Merch site for my stuff.  I so super love this I can’t even handle it.  I will, for sure, be updating this as time goes by but I already have some super neat stuff for you to buy.  I have always imagined using my architecturally based drawings for other mediums, especially on housewares.  So, I was super stoked to design these mugs.  I really love how they turned out.

But that’s not all I have for sale.  Nope, I also have note cards, small posters (larger ones coming soon), and cute little buttons!  Take a look, why dontcha  and tell all your friends.  I promise that I will be adding tons of neat stuff to this site, so check back often. Get your Shop on HERE!

And I’m sorry, but did someone say they needed some new bad ass kicks?  Well here you go!

I just came across this cool site in Japan that wrote about my Burlesque photography. How neat is that! Take a look here! I should mention that you might not want to view around kids.

This photo is of the

Aerial Goddesses of the Velvet Hammer.

Bill Callahan, O how I love thee.  I have spent the greater portion of my adult life listening to Bill Callahan aka Smog aka (Smog).  There are few musicians I listen to as often or as much as him except for perhaps William Oldham aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy  aka Palace aka Palace Music aka Palace Brothers and the worth mentioning Superwolf.  And just to make this tangent even longer, I just want to throw out that my idea of the “DREAM TOUR” would be Bill Callahan and Will Oldham touring together.  Just saying.  hint hint Drag City   Anyway, I am so super excited about yet another record from Bill Callahn coming out soon, soon, soon.  And came across this OMG amazing cover he just did streaming on Pitchfork.  Yay Pitchfork.  So take a listen to it here and enjoy this picture I took of Bill on his last tour. It’s one of my favorites

Hello New York!  I can’t believe that I have not been back to New York in almost TWO years.  That is just craziness to me.  I’ve been totally fortunate that it has only rained once since I have been here and that was for only a few hours.  I haven’t walked this much since… well, since I was here last.  I love me some Los Angeles, don’t get me wrong… but you know what I can’t do there?? Eat perogies at Veselka at two in the morning.  The other thing that L.A. is missing is B&H.  If you’ve never been there, it’s basically porn shop for photographers.  I mean that have a full blown audio/video department as well, but I just beeline it straight to the photo dept and try not drool too much.  Here’s why they are so super great.  You can walk into any department, ask a miriad of annoying questions and they will gladly answer your questions and guide you to the exact right thing you need.  I LOVE IT!  I went in, I asked tons of questions, I took a bunch of notes on what I want to purchase later so I don’t have to schlep a bunch of stuff on the plane, and then headed over to the digital point and shoot camera section.  What did I buy you ask? Nothing fancy, but there is a Zeiss lens involved, I won’t lie.

Pictures

Here’s what this neat lil camera can do.  Be amazed with my super arty photos I took down by the river in Williamsburg.

One of my favorite teachers at Santa Monica College, Ronn Davis, once told our class that everything you do is a self-portrait.  I have a habit of taking things literally and was relieved when he said this.  While not all of my pieces are photos or paintings of me, there is a hefty portion that are.  Below, is a piece I showed at the Mountain Bar in Chinatown entitled “Come Home”. This type of mixed media portrait is what I offer my clients when they are looking for a different take on a portrait for themselves.

One of my favorite bands and really some of my favorite folks are the Akron/Family. I originally found out about them because they were playing with Michael Gira from the Swans in the band Angels of Light and were serving double duty as his opening band as well. As life in New York can sometimes be, you end up meeting people that know people and well you rather quickly find yourself becoming friends. As was the case with these boys and me. I saw them play at a little record store, knowing nothing about them and a few months later we were running around the East River, taking pictures.

This one served as their promo poster and on their promotion items for their Akron/Family and Angels of Light split album. It was a total honor for me to even be associated with such a great label and over the years I can honestly say that I wholeheartedly agree with M. Gira that they are the best live band around.

Their new record just came out and if you know what’s good for you, you’ll buy it then go see them play when they come to your town. You’ll be glad you did!

So one of the things I really enjoy doing is children’s photography. Kids are just so naturally and honestly expressive that photographing them is always fun for me. I try to shy away from bad props and formulaic poses and just approach them from a documentary style.

I was just interviewed for the work I do with kids. You can check it out here.
And you can see more of my kid’s stuff at LittleOnesForever.

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Being an artist has its perks.  One of them being, meeting other artists.  Mei-Ling  is a crazy talented artist.  She went to Cooper Union in NY and at the time I was the Studio Manager for a photographer in Chelsea, NY.  I had her come over one afternoon to take some photos of her.  I have been lucky enough to photograph her on more than one occasion and we even swapped places before and she photographed me as well.  Her talents bleed into any avenue she focuses on, so never limited to one medium, of course when Mei-Ling decided to focus on photography as well, the results were stunning.

There are occasions, where I have an idea of what a perfect image should look like.  Or, as I’m surveying magazines and online portfolios, I look at certain images and are taken by how simple and pristine their compositions are.  To be able to focus inward and see that in your own work, well, at least for me, at times can be a bit more difficult.  Always striving to become better, I can usually focus on the negative more than the fact that a job was well done.

This photograph was done traditionally with film, so there was that waiting period that doesn’t exist in digital that came with this shoot.  When I processed my negatives and created my proof sheet (I had access to a darkroom at that time) I was overwhelmed by the results of this particular image.  I loved the flocked, damask wallpaper in back and how the repetition of the design fills up the negative space in the composition and worked with the patterned couch she was sitting on.