useless steps

Pretty but pointless stairs that start nowhere and lead to nothing.

ominous hallway

The room at the end of the hallway is where the skull lived.

leafy path

BUSHES. And a paper bag.

fixer splash

A blank piece of photo paper, coated with developer and fixer in varying degrees with various implements. After the paper dried I cut little windows in it and mounted it on cardboard stock with fragments of other prints underneath. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

nature's haircut

Epic bowlcut.

burn & rip arch

Combining the ingredients from these with this.

acoustic & electric

I put Acousticy in the corner.

tractor guts

I love me some farm equipment.

green light

I want one of these lightbulbs for every lamp I own.

cyanotype hand

Cyanotype printed on weird little Chinese paper found at Super 88.

deer bucket

I took this picture at a friend's house right before we went to see Low, and now whenever I listen to The Great Destroyer, this is what I see in my head. But it works.

motorcycle helmet

Me as a little kid, getting ready to take my dad's bike for a ride.

The previous statement was in jest. At the time the original picture was taken I was far too young to pilot a motorcycle.

mother & child pt. two

Going with yesterday's theme, my mom originally gave this to my cousin as a birthday present last year, minus the accessories. He was horrified, and when Christmas rolled around he regifted it to her. For his next birthday, she re-regifted it back to him, all trashed up, complete with cardboard box grotto. He loves it now.

mother & child

I have a version of this print somewhere that has the shadow of a hand reaching across from the left side. It gives the picture an entirely different meaning and feeling. I'll post it if I find it.

animal crew

What.

spotlight

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.