flowers & tv glow

Top of the tv cabinet. And the ceiling. And some shadows.

AND THAT'S THE LAST PHOTO-GO-ROUND ENTRY OF 2008!

NH mountain

Some mountain in New Hampshire. That's all the information I have.

magnified Minolta

Self-portrait with my old 35mm Minolta, which is now broken :.(

That's the magnifying glass I hold over the lens of my camera to make such pictures as this and this.

happy tabby

Windowshopping in Stockbridge, MA. That has to be the I Can Has Cheezburger cat. IT HAS TO BE.

I bleed

Sophomore year in college we were assigned a project where we had to make a series of photos based on a theme of our choosing. I picked Pixies songs. This is a picture of a mold of my teeth, and I wrote the letters on the negative with a gel pen.

Clouds

Clouds at the Middle East Downstairs, 7/11/08.

jingle bells

Christmas is in your face.

opera house piano

Here's the old piano I was talking about in this post.

cellar light

This picture is on the first roll of film I shot when I started taking photo classes. As you can see, my sense of subject matter and framing was fully developed from the get-go.

rat pee

Misha and Sir Reginald "Reggie" Mousington the Rat. And Mel's arms.

bear head

Bruins 4 Hurricanes 2. But the real winner here is Justin and his awesome foam bear head.

Today Is The Day pt. one

Today Is The Day at the Middle East Upstairs, 2002.

Afghan war rug

I saw this at an indigenous craft fair. I'd never seen anything like it before, but apparently these are a thing. Even weirder, it's almost like there are just a few patterns all these rugmakers work off of. Here's one that's almost exactly the same as the image above, adorable grammer and all. "HAND BOM"? "ROOKET AND KLASHENKOB"? "THE AFGHANISTAN'S MAP"? You know what this means..

Lolrugs exist.

Jesus at the opera

Inside an abandoned opera house behind the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mission Hill. This is a pretty popular place to break into. There are remnants of parties and makeshift hobo beds all over the place. We got in from a high window behind the stage. It was pitch dark inside and I just snapped this picture blindly from the top of the ladder. I looked at this picture a bunch of times before I noticed the creepy Jesus hanging right there.

The best thing inside the opera house was the ancient piano next to the stage. I think I got a picture of it, which I'll have to find. It was totally out of tune and sounded really spooky echoing throughout the arena. I'd like to go back there with a tape recorder and play a tune or two.

scratch mask pt. one

A clear, scratched up negative sandwiched with a regular negative and then printed.

Grandma's in winter (exterior)

Late afternoon in January '04.

Grandma's in winter (interior)

Late afternoon in January '04.

MER WILL N FORG

A marquee on an appliance store shortly after 9/11/01. It said "America Will Not Forget". Sort of.

streetlight glow

The sign on the bench says:

Catherine & Eddi
Our Wedding Day - August 29, 1998

Who gives a bench for a wedding present?

Antores

Picture of a picture, through a magnifying glass. It's hard to tell from this version, but he's wearing a Bartman shirt.

Randy

He's giving Tiny Elana a piggyback ride!

Moulin Rouge

Entrance of the Moulin Rouge.

mini barrel mug

Everyone wishes they had a good old barrel mug full of root beer, even troll doll-teddy bear-creepy baby faced abominations.

ESPECIALLY them.

quite an eiffel

Woman on the Eiffel Tower, 2001.

flying heads

This was captured by waving my digital camera in front of a light source. Each one of those blue "heads" is the same light source (in this case I think it was a tv screen). By waving a digital camera around, it's possible to get multiple images of the same thing. The number of multiples depends on the shutter speed and how fast you're moving the camera.

I've always been interested in the differences between film and digital, and how each of them captures light. In this photo the shutter was open for 1/8 of a second, and as my hand waved the camera from left to right, it captured four images of the same thing, from slightly different angles. It seems like with a digital point-and-shoot - which is what I was using - as long as you keep the shutter open it processes the photograph in chunks. If I had shot this picture the same exact way on film, it would just look like a long blur going across the frame. It's a fundamental difference between film and digital that I've tried to use to make (hopefully) interesting pictures.

gullet

NIGHTMARE FUEL.

trophy boat

Sadly, maritime law did not restrict the poaching of tiny ships until the last one was stuffed and mounted in 1905.

tunnel vision

Taken through the large end of a pair of binoculars. Mounted askew on a white board.

Motionless pt. two

Right at the grand finale of the Motionless set, someone set off some firecrackers. Cheers!

Motionless

In an Allston basement. Two drummers always rules.

edge of the pond

I just found yet another bro+water photo. That's the same little pond from the last picture, but a couple years later. I've always liked this one better upside-down.

old backyard

The backyard of the house I grew up in. I took this picture from my parents' bedroom window when I was probably about 14 or so. This continues the completely unintentional "My Brother Standing And Looking At Bodies Of Water" series, except this time his back isn't turned.

babymower

Two negatives, scratched up and combined. One negative is a picture of a baby. The other one is a close-up picture of a lawnmower part. I wish I knew what I was thinking when I created this monstrosity.

AM

Those are my initials. Yeah, I did it. You'll never catch me, coppers.

hand and rose

Photo of a portion of a book cover, shot through a magnifying glass.

lawnmower & bikes

Nice hog.

hurricane

My high school psychology teacher named this picture "Hurricane". I'm not sure he noticed there's a face in there.

scentOmatic

This is in the men's room at the Hu Ke Lau restaurant and karaoke bar in Chicopee, MA.

I'm usually on the move, so this was a great find. Luckily I had 75 cents on me, so I think you can imagine the sheer magnitude of the manly aroma that was radiating from me that day, and the next several days. These things should be everywhere.

close up eye

Shot through a magnifying glass.

Brattleboro stairway

Nighttime in Brattleboro, VT, 2006.

village driveway

Driveway from above, in Carpineto.

light notes

Looks like sheet music made of light to me.

Joshe with red hair

Two or three years before this one was taken.

the big sleep

Near Jim Morrison's grave, Père Lachaise Cemetary, Paris.

field bench

I picked this picture to post today completely at random. I just spun the ol' Photo-Go-Round and it landed on this one. Then I happened to glance at the date on the photo, and it turns out I took it exactly two years ago today. Ka-ray-zee.

tree lady

This sculpture used to be outside the entrance to the DeCordova museum. The print is solarized.

God bless pizza

The little piece of the red car up in the corner looks remarkably like the picture in my "vein" post. This can only mean one thing.

MY ART IS BECOMING REAL.

It's like that Stephen King book where the guy's pen name becomes a real person and tries to kill him. If I end up being murdered by a glowing heart or a laser cat or a pyramid-headed Mick Jagger, please write to Stephen King and make him feel guilty, because it will be his fault.

King Andrew

Headshot for Andrew's street performer license.

collapsed lung

Lee, showing his surgery scars to the wedding party.

white wall

Leaves. Dirt. A wall. Framingham.