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Atop Jorge the boulder.

alternate invite

Alternate version of this piece. For this one I laid strips of cardboard over the paper for a few seconds as I exposed the image, which is where the lines come from. The face has a different scratch mask over it. And I solarized the area around the face, which is why everything is gray instead of white. Although it should be black, not gray, so I'm not sure what happened there.

yellow film girl

What happens when a Sony SnapLab printer runs out of ink ribbon while it's printing.

blonde kid

Me and my flannel and my poofy mullet. Things haven't changed a whole lot.

Movers & Shakers pt. two

Movers & Shakers tracking keyboards at New Alliance, Nov. 07.

stone cherub

A little garden angel dude, taken with a magnifying glass in front of the lens.

zipperface

Self-portrait by scanner, then printed out on a piece of photo paper. And now I have scanned the print back into the computer, and I present it to you here as a full-circle kind of thing.

cinnamon lady

Picture of a picture, soaked in cinnamon mouthwash for a week.

stages of laughter

Amusement - Confusement - Bemusement

Mansion Show 2: success

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported local artists at the second annual Mansion Show last night. It was tons of fun. If you couldn't make it last night, the gallery is open every Saturday in June from 11am to 3pm.

I think this picture is a metaphor for the art world, but I'm not going to think too hard about how.

in the shed

Not sure where that orange glow is coming from.

Mansion Show 2: final warning

This is happening tonight. Hope to see you there.

trashed car

Contact sheet of film shot in a crummy parking lot in Bridgewater, MA.

Mansion Show 2: one day warning

Don't forget to come to the Mansion Show tomorrow, and bring your friends. Or bring your enemies, get them drunk, and talk them into buying my photos.

Opening reception is 7-9pm, Friday June 5
@ The Beebe Estate, 235 West Foster St., Melrose, MA.

Jessamy pt. two

Another take on the same picture from yesterday.

Jessamy pt. one

I didn't take this picture, but I did make it all messed up on the computer.

spinart pt. two

Another spinart print. I scanned it into the computer a long time ago, before I knew what "pixels per inch" meant, as you can see by the chunky blockiness of it.

Astros

While Eric wonders where his rainbows are, Christian envies his beard and begins to plot his future accordingly.

restoration: C.I.B. cannonfire

Before/after of an old print of the Concord Independent Battery that my grandfather gave me to fix up. He's in there somewhere. Apparently it's grandparent week here at the PGR.

I feel there is something unintentionally hilarious about this photo, but I just can't put my finger on it.

The Spohrs

Spohr Gardens, Falmouth, MA. Also known as "The Place Where My Grandmother Seems To Have Snuck In In The Middle Of The Night And Decorated With Her Own Lawn Ornaments".

Mia close-up

"I'm inside there?"

Highlander series: schoolboy

I believe this kid grew up to be Eraserhead.

Jorge and an extension cord

According to Pete, this boulder is named Jorge.

The Mansion Show 2

Consider the above monstrosity your invitation to the second annual Mansion Show, at the Beebe Estate in Melrose on June 5, 2009.

Join my fellow mostly-broke art school alumni and me for an evening of prime art-lookin' (and purchasin'...?). Your eyes will feast on boatloads of painting, photography, sculpture, and all other sorts of artistic alchemy. Your tastebuds will be treated to free food, beer and wine. And your hands will be treated to some super sweet hi-fives, courtesy of me. We've doubled the amount of artists this year, which in turn will double the amount of fun had by all in attendance.

As Chris mentions, I've gone from 8-bit to 16-bit on these invitation flyers.

green leaves/blue sky

This is my favorite color combination.

stache-rock

I consider this Golden Age Derek. Because of the mustache.

village archway

This was my great-grandfather's favorite place to play when he was a child in Carpineto della Nora.

Highlander series: defiant beach

Wipe that smile off your face, hat girl. We didn't come here for laughs.

strike

From the train, somewhere around Baltimore.

Highlander series: birthday cake

"Vanilla frosting? Are you kidding me. Take this away."

bus station

Waiting for the bus at Davis Square at 1:freaking30 in the morning.

cd wall

Joshe with his music watching over him.

blue profile

I just found this picture, which has been sitting on my computer, overlooked, for years. It's pretty neat, I don't know how I never noticed it before.

31Knots

31Knots at Great Scott, Allston, Oct. 25, 2005.

rainslick

Lording it over Allston.

still life with green chair, metal box & vacuum

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

fern gully

Did you know they made a FernGully 2? Of course you didn't, no one does.

Highlander series: kids & comics

So gosh-darn wholesome.

misty winter night

Almost the exact reverse of this one.

Apollo Sunshine

Apollo Sunshine at the Middle East, 6/10/07.

Highlander series: new hat

Someone's dapper grandpa just got... dapperer.

Highlander series: bedpost & bureau

Recently my friend Joshe gave me an old Polaroid Highlander Model 80 camera he found while moving. It was made in the 50's, and is still in perfect condition. As a bonus, it also came with all sorts of instructional pamphlets, featuring shockingly sexist lines like "It's so easy to operate, women use it with pleasure!" Way to go, post-war America!

They stopped making film for this camera almost 50 years ago, but this came with a stack of prints that came out of it, clearly back in the 50's. Whoa. The hair. The dresses. What were people thinking?

I'll be posting a bunch of the pictures here, and I'll start off with this one because it was the first print on top of the stack. I imagine the camera's owner had just taken it out of the box moments before, loaded it up, and snapped off this test shot. I doubt he (or she! Remember, this camera is so simple even a woman can operate it!) was really thinking about framing, but the shooter really made something interesting out of a boring scene.

2002 vs. 2008

From the disposable camera that wouldn't die that I mentioned yesterday. About six years between these photos.

The Clearing - The Ghost

Listen to The Ghost by The Clearing. This was the first song we ever added vocals to.

Joe and a guitar

I bought a disposable camera in 2002, and just got it developed last week. Looking through the prints, I'd estimate I took six pictures around the time I got it, two pictures about a year later, forgot I had it for the next four years or so, found it last summer and took six more pictures, and found it again last week and finished off the remaining four shots. This one is from the early end of the decade.

Mt. Kearsarge

Radio tower on top of Mount Kearsarge, NH.

roller

For flattening out the clay on a tennis court. Remove monacle before operating.

misty morning

5am in the suburbs.

flamestaff

A level 60 firespinner wielding his +6 bowstaff of scorching.