Oh c'mon. You know by the cool kids I most definitely wasn't referencing myself. And I actually read the books. ;-) Which I think makes me implicitly.. uncool.
happy new year to you too! sorry i never responded. i feel like a total bitch!! but i have my response on my blackberry.. so get excited cause its coming! hope all is well.
My favorite thing to see on the trip home (ps - this is my J. A lil different, a lil the same).
I can't fucking believe it, but it's been a year since i was in Portland. Everything seemed so different back then... everything. Friends, job, life, myself. Right now it seems like it was a better place, but hopefully history can erode away some of the jagged edges of 2008.
I did a thousand fucked up, dirty, silly, charotic things, and shot some fun, interesting, incriminating photos, but you have to know the guy at the door to see those ones. Sorry guys, you get whackass waterfalls and leaves!
This was my friend's law school... seriously, this is where he went to class everyday No 405, no tow-away zones, no taco trucks... but i guess no place is perfect. I grew up in new mexico surrounded by boring shit that completely mystifies a lot of people - flowers and sunsets and kachina dolls and all kinds of dusty boring artifacts and shit, so I hate "pretty pictures" of landscapes and dead shit, just like i hate dead ass figurative oil paintings, but oregon was definitely
For all you kids out there, prehistoric. More MPs than you can count
If you talk to me semi-regularly you know you much I complain about A) my piece of shit camera and 2) never shooting any photos with said camera. So like last week I went on a little adventure with my friend stacy and her endearingly tragic brother to Malibu. I've got a lot of shit to hate on, and I type fast too ;) but I'm not in the mood, so here's some back + white ice... because sometimes you don't need colour to be vibrant suckas.
Kind of ironic... that was the last song I listened to before leaving work yesterday. Your luck can change just that fast I guess... One minute playing Wii tennis with Justice and Chris Holmes and Murs at 4am, next minute not sure where you are in the world and up against the clock...
Mehdi, Sébastian, Aoki
Dim Mak anniversary was pretty ridiculous. Everyone was in the house -- the whole Ed Banger crew, AM, Aoki, De La Soul... 1000 other heads screaming and bobbing. Even saw Audrey on the cobrasnake haha. I'm not really in the mood to write shit about this right now, but it was a lot of fun and the afterparty was even better.
Not exactly HCB voyeuristic street photography, these girls were more than happy to show their support for the cause. Fuck i hate posed photographs. Fuck that one girl was hot. I really didn't notice the neon until i saw the print. This is a horrible scan from a degrading print but I remember that night like it was yesterday... a lot of hope, and lot of feeling that things were about to change. Then i remember a night not too long after, like a bad joke. Like how Tom Brady must have felt after the superbowl, like what the fuck just happened.
It's been a minute... I've said it before, there's something about fortune cookies. I can't explain it but.... well you know. Listening to George Michael's Freedom, riding 'round bumpin with the top down. Fuck it's beautiful outside. Hey girl hey!
Random photos from New Years Eve. The really important things in my life never exist in my frame. But they aren't lost... Hopefully when you're with people you care about and having a blast the last thing on your mind is reaching for a camera. That's kinda what we're here for though - the photographers, the documentarians, modern historians. It's our cross. And everyone knows. I woke up on the first with a pocket of paper scraps and too many text messages from people i had never met, "Thanks for being the best photographer ever cutie! Can't wait to get those pics!" "You made me feel like a rockstarrrr! xoxoxo" Seriously, i can't make this shit up. I'm not sporting the ridiculous TMZ kit, I'm not even trying to shoot, but when people hear you're a photographer you become something more to them (and on the other side of the velvet rope they don't even ask to see your MFA).
So these are a few random shots i made for myself. No human condition, no statement, no exceptionally fabulous creatures. A lil narcissism, a lil flashback, a LWD (little white dress).
