Sun Auto

On Rt. 38 in Medford. Come on down!

fuzzy edge

Not sure what this is, but I found it on a roll of film. So here it is.

log furniture

Handmade logchairs and logtable, by Amadeo.

elevator conference

Plotting afoot, with Chris and Misha.

shared college bathroom

Me and three other dudes. I'm sorry you had to see this.

goat and apple

Lucky goat. Got some trees, some hay, a delicious apple. And horns. Jealous.

sleepy on the couch

Or sad on the couch. Or angry on the couch. I'm not sure, I didn't know her.

Today Is The Day pt. three

Steve Austin of Today Is The Day, Jan. 27, 2002.

Rebecca

From my acclaimed "Too Lazy And/Or Full To Get Up From The Dinner Table To Take Pictures" series.

chair shadow on a door

The fall sun gives nice light.

Great Scott from above

If you can tell me who was playing Great Scott on this night, October 6, 2007, you will win. Prize to be determined. (But probably not).

Lexington leaves

Fall leaves at Whipple Hill, Lexington.

mountain shrine

A roadside shrine in the mountains above Carpineto.

December night sky

Crazy things happening up there at six past midnight.

war is over if you want it

Mikey's drum, playing for Movers & Shakers at the time (sometime in 2007).

pink fabric

Super extreme close-up of Emi's shirt.

Mariusz vs. string

My cat Mariusz when he was young and skinny. After this he got middle-aged and fat, and now he's old and skinny. He still likes to eat Oreos and potato sticks though.

green bridge

Sticking with the intersecting-webs-of-metal theme.

scaffolding

An apartment building in Amherst, MA.

Clare is a silhouette

At the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge.

bikes and door

At the end of the hall on the right is the room from yesterday.

Nora's room

Hey Harvey Milk, can this be your next album cover?

beauty queen

Moving day trash in Brookline.

tri-child

Rather than doing a traditional multiple exposure - where you take several shots without advancing the film - I just kept the aperture on the camera open and turned a lamp on and off three times.

Casiotone MT-820

So many keys, so few hands.

ghostly leaves

Clinging for dear life, even though they're dead.

regrets

In a cemetery in either France or Italy, I can't remember which one.

EDIT: The inscription in French might be a hint.

Bread & Roses

Bread & Roses at the Papercut Zine Library in Harvard Square, 2/6/07.

treebench

Baby lumberjack hammock.

firespinner

Pull your pants up, man. Kids these days...

birdhouse

And peoplehouse pieces, too.

jungle gym

Jungle gym thing in my old backyard. I came close to breaking many an ankle jumping off of it.

parking garage

Top of a parking garage stairwell. Shot on a 4"x5" negative.

pink insulation

Continuing the rectangles-cut-into-walls theme from yesterday.

skylight/Christmas lights

From my brother's bed. The skylight faces east. Summer mornings are blindingly, burningly terrible there.

mother & child (taken)

Solarized version of this one.

here's Johnny & Chris

Christopher Mullins and me: great minds.

millwheel

Millwheel in a park in the South End, Boston.

Highlander series: looking right

Another Polaroid print from the 50's. (more)

Highlander series: new dress

My current Mad Men obsession has brought me back to these Polaroid Highlander photos.

red stove

What do you think, do kitchen appliances like stoves and refrigerators count as "furniture"? Is "furniture" only something you sit on/at, like a chair or table? Or put stuff on/in, like a dresser or a vanity? Large kitchen appliances could fit those criteria. I could look up the definition of "furniture", but I can't think of anything else to talk about for this post, so there you go.

Ben: Polaroid peel pt. two

The other side of the Polaroid from yesterday.

Ben: Polaroid peel pt. one

One side of a peeled-apart Polaroid.

sawhorse

This is in New Hampshire, but it's very old-west feeling.

barn door

Is there a technical name for a barn that is also a garage?

Deconstructure 03 (exhibit version)

The fifth piece I had in the Various Perspectives show.

This one was originally in the first Mansion Show in June of 2008. Part of the Deconstructure series.

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.

Ghost Rider (exhibit version)

Third piece from Various Perspectives.

This is the first photo I ever posted here! I scanned the original negative and ended up having to digitally extend the bottom and top to make it fit a 16"x20" format.

Window Girl (exhibit version)

Second out of my five pieces from the Various Perspectives show.

David Prifti is in possession of this original print, which he uses in his classes to show kids how to be adventurous in their photography. He could easily just show them his own work exclusively to demonstrate that, so it's certainly an honor to have my work used for that purpose.

The process of how this image came to be is a long one: the picture of the girl is taken from a book or a magazine, I can't remember which. I made a print of that, and then scraped up the paper and burned it with a lighter. Then I took a slide of the piece (which was part of my college application portfolio. It worked!) I recently found that slide, scanned it into the computer, removed a few distracting dust spots, changed it to black and white, and printed it out 16"x20" for the show.

In hindsight I can't decide if making it black and white was the right choice. And then I smack myself in the face, because somebody liked it enough to buy it, so don't worry about it, stupid. But something just seems off about it to me, I guess because I've been living with the color version all these years. But even printing it out in color wouldn't have captured the tactility of the burns and scratches anyway. So in the end I think the black and white works just as well in a digital print medium, and it fit in better with my other pieces, which were all black and white as well. For the record, here's the original, with yellowed burn marks and all, mounted on a white board which I "smoked" with a lighter: