ancient chinese secret

That's a blown-out folded piece of paper.

jesus lizard

Oatmeal and the Jesus Lizard. The least balanced of breakfasts.

end of job

Reprezent. Old school 1990.

desktop with ink

That's a trading card featuring James Bond getting hit in the back of the head with a blunt object.

sleeping on the floor

Let's go to my house. Take naps.

paintbrushes

I think this would make a good painting. A meta-painting.

tree saw and cart wheel

Of course this is in New Hampshire!

everything's coming up junkhouse

A rare still life that I set up.

The Skull (exhibit version)

Fourth of five photos from Various Perspectives.

I posted this one here before in a different form. That first one is a scan of a print that I made in the darkroom. For this new one I scanned the negative directly. I melted and scratched up the negative, so it's all rippled and bent. So the point of focus may be different every time you put it in a darkroom enlarger or negative scanner.

dino mountain

This is my first-ever photo shoot, taken around the time I first saw Dino-Riders, at age 6 or so. And now I'm a photographer. Which I think means I owe this all to the sublime genius that is Dino-Riders. Which is awesome.

green eggs and ham

Do you like them?

acoustic & electric

I put Acousticy in the corner.

still life with green chair, metal box & vacuum

That little vacuum cleaner looks like a dalek. EXTERMINATE ALL DUST, DIRT AND POLLEN!

the skull

Growing up, my grandfather lived with us. He had a skull on top of his bookshelf. It stared out of his bedroom with its skull-eyes, watching over me for year after year as I grew from a human baby into a twenty-year-old boy-man.

My grandfather said it belonged to -- but was not the actual head of -- his great-grandfather, who was a dentist. Dentists back then would practice on real human skulls. This dude's jaw is held together by packing tape and string, so I hope for his sake he was dead before his face became a dental crash test dummy.

It was definitely a little creepy to have around when I was younger, but I eventually got used to the sight of the skull. Its murderous screams are another story. I'm just glad it's still out there somewhere.