Geryon and Orthrus

2011-09-14T20:35:00.000-05:00

2011-09-09T23:53:00.000-05:00

Q: Where do you shoot paintball?

A: Ground Zero.

2011-05-14T21:40:00.001-05:00

Ratface is a very nice band in Pittsburgh. Its hard to take good photos of drummers. They always seem to get left out. Chopping off the heads of their band mates kinda works. Listen.

2011-05-13T22:37:00.000-05:00

Average views of downtown Pittsburgh from the Hot Metal Bridge.

2011-05-10T13:07:00.000-05:00

This cat will someday be Mathilde's friend. Its filthy and refuses to stay still. Good things in a cat. Mathilde still knows how to be in a picture.

2011-05-09T13:18:00.000-05:00

Grey hairs in the sun.

2011-05-04T01:15:00.000-05:00

So I guess my dog does have at least one nipple.

New camera. First shot. Mathilde on the roof of 538 Johnson.

2011-04-03T23:45:00.001-05:00

Shooting film is worth it. Im never going back. There is something wonderful about taking film in for processing and being able to remember every shot on the roll perfectly. Also, for all the trouble scanning negatives is, not having to do anything but sharpen an image afterwards is well worth it. (Im working on a crappy little netbook so forgive me is something looks awful about this)

pgh

2011-03-07T01:20:00.000-06:00

Here would be nice, right in the middle of town. A good mix of stars, modern utilities, wildlife and highway noise to suit both Mathilde and myself. I might just be able to pull this off. Also, sorry Prospect Park, you just cant compete with this.

This is familiar.

2011-02-18T15:13:00.000-06:00

The only tag that has made me scared enough not to enter a building.

RIP Jerk Haus

M is doing better.

Some poor dog ate new years.

Tornado in Brooklyn? I believe it now.

2011-02-05T13:31:00.000-06:00

home for now.

2011-02-02T23:38:00.002-06:00

The move to Brooklyn has been a little rough on this lady. She has always traveled so well in the past. It was foolish of me to think her dog brain would think it was just another trip. Shes working on getting up and down some tricky stairs and Im getting a pretty good workout in the meantime. She has already managed to poop without grass and the metal grates everywhere arent so intimidating anymore. We'll have the hang of it pretty soon. Im taking back every time Ive thought that it would be nice to have a dog without the stubborn executive decision making skills that Mathilde shows most of the time. Our relationship is changing a lot right now. Ive always felt that I needed her more than she needed me, but its the other way around right now. Its only been a few days. Im not sure how exactly to teach a dog to be brave again. Ive never known her as anything but during the last 5 years.

2011-02-02T22:47:00.000-06:00

I kinda told myself that I wouldnt start posting snapshots from my dog walks out here. Guess I was wrong.

2011-01-16T15:25:00.000-06:00

100 hours of tonsillitis. 3 heads of garlic.

so thats over...leftovers from 2010

2011-01-08T20:05:00.000-06:00

1.01
Dawn swimming in the lake.

1.12
Family

1.20
The old Cat Mafia alley.
Old bike routes die hard.

1.30
Rosie's room in Richmond, IN.

2.02
The last one you want help
from when shoveling.

3.08
Long rainy bike ride.

3.32
Built some bikes and this smirk.

4.13
Indiana Dunes.

4.27
The city cleared acres of wonderful forest. The dog and I were not happy, not to mention the people who called that place home.

4.29
My favorite photograph. Jeff Kolar.

5.13
Livin with this guy.

5.22
Century to WI.

6..23
Hail and lightning.

7.03
Tornado

10.01
Later bike shop. I never should
have stopped walking dogs.

10.07

10.08
Nashville gets its claws in me.
The best people I know aren't
very photogenic.

10.10
NACCClanta. Makes me miss bike club.

10.20

10.21

rasslin'

10.25
I have so many pictures of kudzu.

10.26
I didn't spend enough time
in abandoned places.

11.04
More hail.

11.26
Mathilde gets to be a human for her birthday.

12.02

12.04
Champaign Il

12.19

12.23
Lots of regret in not spending enough time with these folks. Staying in town and living with them might have been a good call.

Everyone joked a lot about 2010 being the worst ever. I'm not arguing. If I didn't take any pictures I doubt that I would remember much at all. Even these memories lack the emotions I know they should carry with them. I put a lot out this year and didn't seem to get much back, not from other people, but just from the experiences themselves. Its pretty awful. Here starts another year of expending myself while moving blindly forward, hopefully with less depression, delusional fits, and stammering.

2010-12-15T12:41:00.001-06:00

Bakersfield, Ca. On tour with the F -Ups and Papa Raoch. Strange times. Awesome place.

2010-12-15T11:23:00.000-06:00

"That bird food is expensive." -Mom

2010-12-12T23:59:00.000-06:00

Ohio/Hell

2010-11-29T17:36:00.002-06:00

2010-11-27T14:22:00.001-06:00

Neil pt.2

2010-11-27T13:35:00.001-06:00

He really hates carrots and beets. They were everywhere.

Neil pt.1

2010-11-24T13:26:00.001-06:00

It's been just over a year since I cleaned out my older brother's room. He stayed in this attic for 3 years, coming out only when no one else was around for food and materials for his inventions. The windows and doors and had been blacked out and barricaded.

2010-11-13T09:44:00.005-06:00

North American Cycle Courier Championship Atlanta 2010

Stu's last drop before winning the whole thing.

Main race start.

Augie getting ready to secure one of the most impressive DFL wins ever. The yellow bike is his.

2010-11-12T22:57:00.000-06:00

Abandoned Turnpike

2010-06-02T13:24:00.000-05:00

lake pollen

2010-05-28T01:11:00.000-05:00

as close as it gets to making sense right now.

april, so far

2010-04-20T18:49:00.001-05:00

2010-04-14T13:31:00.004-05:00

The other two blew away. The dog was good and brought one of them back. She jumped the gun on the "let go" command and it blew away again. Sorry lake Michigan, you were looking cleaner than Ive ever seen you today.

2010-04-12T00:24:00.000-05:00

2010-03-26T13:19:00.002-05:00

2010-03-25T20:39:00.017-05:00

2010-03-24T22:41:00.001-05:00

Why don't you just come back?

2010-03-15T04:22:00.004-05:00

2010-03-10T11:52:00.003-06:00

Roman candles and pellet guns.

2010-03-06T09:54:00.002-06:00

#13

2010-03-03T23:20:00.000-06:00

Snapshots from last week.

2010-03-01T22:31:00.002-06:00

Shedd, Art Institue, Rogers Park, Rockford.

Urban decay makes me sleepy, but that isn't what this is about.

2010-03-01T17:17:00.009-06:00

Pilsen, Fall 2009

This is where Marcel once lived. We light off firecrackers together when hes feeling antsy. Mathilde likes him a lot and he kicked some hipster's kneecap outside a show last week for insulting the Old Grandad bourbon we were sharing.

The city had these row houses fenced off, the fence having two overlapping layers of green mesh on both sides of it. I managed to find a chink in the armor and took this photo right before a private security guard came up to harass me. What the hell is up with private security guards protecting city property from a guy taking a picture from the sidewalk? Five wreckers took the whole complex of 6 buildings down in one night. I wish Chicago was this efficient at building housing. The wreckers are still there sitting idle 5 months later. Its all fucked.

This place is ten times creepier in person.

Broken elevator and incidental greenhouse.

Fire pit in the vacant lot a block away from my house where I take my dog sometimes. Its warm half the time, but Ive never seen a person back there yet. Must be some kind of ninja homebum.

2010-02-22T00:31:00.001-06:00

I miss you Philly

2010-02-19T14:55:00.004-06:00

2010-02-18T12:50:00.008-06:00

Northeast and Southwest from Damen and 29th

2010-02-17T13:17:00.002-06:00

Science & Industry Sitting In a Tree...

2010-02-14T23:43:00.013-06:00

doing physics.

2010: A Good Year for Dignity

2010-02-03T16:01:00.008-06:00

37 hours at Earlham College

2010-02-02T11:20:00.009-06:00

Chronological

OKC OK

2010-01-26T00:31:00.007-06:00

Brownie Hawkeye, thanks to Stacee.

abandoned church complex ne23rd st past mlk drive

hearse collector, fiddler, and miller of pistons for prewar triumph motorcycles.

Pilsen

2010-01-10T00:56:00.018-06:00

Places to visit while walking the dog.

Day after Thanksgiving

2009-12-02T22:58:00.002-06:00

Entertaining guests

2009-11-18T13:02:00.007-06:00

Syfactory

Dirty windows. Dirty lens.

2009-10-29T22:22:00.011-05:00

Red Grand Am

Take it, leave it, or just break it.

2009-10-28T23:09:00.011-05:00

Braddock, PA

Just because you can see the grass doesn't mean you can feel your hands.

2009-10-28T00:38:00.008-05:00

Braddock, PA

Fireplaces in Need

2009-10-27T00:08:00.013-05:00

Braddock, PA.