digital pyramid

In-camera light abstract. The light source is a computer monitor.

scratch mask pt. two

A regular negative printed through a scratched-up negative and then solarized.

HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

ALLSTON = 2XTREEM!!!

implements of destruction

A crazy shop full of weapons in Paris.

gas station wall

Shadows. Sunset. A wall. Allston.

Torche

During Torche's set at the Middle East Downstairs, 7/11/08.

Oddly enough, my friend Prifti did a portrait sitting with the moustachioed fellow on the far right, which you can see here (third row, first picture). It's part of a series of wet plate collodion pieces that he's been doing for a few years now. I really recommend checking out the rest of Prifti's site, he does some amazing stuff.

looming creepiness

Is he aware?

shakes my teeth

Another one from this series. And referencing the same song no less.

Nov vs. Dec

November 2 and December 19, 2008.

house & valley

Above Carpineto della Nora.

logpile

FIREPLACE FUEL.

spinveloped

I got this effect by putting the exposed paper on a SpinArt machine (one of the best contraptions ever contrapted) and dripping developer on it while it spun round and round.

Epiphany

Even though no one in my family is particularly religious, about 10 years ago my grandmother decided we would start celebrating Epiphany every year. For a few years I thought she made this holiday up, but it turns out it actually is a real thing, which you can read about here. But whatever, all it means for us is that everyone brings their Christmas trees over to my grandparents' house, we eat some good food and everyone gets drunk, and then we stuff the trees one at a time into a metal trash can and light them on fire. Hey Christmas, way to be super lame. At least you're not Lent, I guess, so... there's that.

tweez

Happy New Year, Marco! Have a splinter.

Triforce

Bad framing continued... Triforce painting in Christian's room.

Greenroom cam

This picture is so crappy that it's strangely interesting to me.

gasmask & broken hands

The gasmask is a 35mm negative. The hands are x-rays. The x-rays were laid on the photo paper and the negative printed through them. It's my broken hand. I broke a bone at the base of my thumb and had to have pins put in my hand to keep everything in place. Actually... at the emergency room the doctor just set it and put a cast on. When a different doctor checked it a week or two later, he said the first doctor was an idiot and had set it wrong. So then I had to have surgery, and THEN they put the pins in. Weeks later, when it was finally healed, the doctor took off my cast, had me put my hand on his desk, and pulled the pins out with a pair of pliers, WITHOUT ANESTHESIA. Don't ever break your hand.

2009

In honor of the birth of the new year, here's a picture that looks like an embryo with eyelashes.

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.