Storm' a brewin..

I saw my first thunder and lightning storm in a long time. I grew up with thunderstorms, but since I've been in LA, I've seen maybe 2, and they're nothing like a real northwest storm. And now i realize that a northwest storm is nothing like a midwest storm. This storm came out of nowhere, and was green..

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Eat my dust

Old film.. new scans.. I've been going through tons of old stuff, and scanning at will .. my scanner screwed up on the gareth scan, but it gave him a cute colorfull mustache, so I kept it in.. clicky for bigger

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Glasvegas pic..

Here are a couple glasvegas shots from the vegas show.. click to see it bigger

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Me and Mike G in the Place to be.

Mike Galt and I were on a bunch of trips in the last couple months.. Some with mustache and some without, but always fun..

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Vegas, day trip

This is how the first picture went down. I was in Vegas a couple weeks ago to shoot Glasvegas playing at the Viva Las Vegas wedding chapel. Across the street there was a Marilyn statue and a blue pool underneath a couple empty swings in front of a gentleman's club. About an hour later, someone turned to me and said, "hey look, there's someone on the swing." I crossed the street and asked the girl if I could take her picture. She told her friend she'd call her right back, looked at me and said "Five bucks". I told her I didn't have $5, I was a photographer working across the street and just wanted to take a picture of her. "Where are you gonna put em?" I gave her my website, she put it into her phone and said "you're lucky, I never let anyone take a picture for free." She started to pose on the swing and I asked her to just stay like she was and to call her friend back. I shot four frames and said thanks. Then she said. "And by the way, I'm not a fuckin' stripper, so don't say that I am on your website." so I promised. She's not a stripper.


Downtown

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Shepard's warehouse space

Shepard's warehouse work space is right down the street from my house, and I stopped by as they were getting a bunch of pieces ready for his retrospective and the Obama portrait show.. this was from Jan. I just forgot to put em up..

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Swingers

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film 1 2 3..

Photos from the AP offices, and other places in Cleveland with a 4 year old roll of 1600 color neg. film and my olympus point and shoot.. straight from the scans..

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Putting the level in Cleveland

Metal shows are the best.. most intense crowds, craziest bands and loudest music.. I shot chimaira in Cleveland.. and the crowd was nuts.. it was a myspace secret show so you can go there for all the photos.. but here are some of the extras.. at night, all these pigeons were swarming the lights at the tops of all the buildings.. it was really amazing..

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Sleepy Sun and Entrance Band

I went to a great show last night at the eagle rock center for the arts.. slang chickens, sleepy sun, and entrance.. No pics of slang chickens cause it was my first time seeing them and i was busy head-banging. Plus there were so many other photogs that i figured there would be enough photos out in the world ....

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Sorry for Technology

I was talking to Anthony this Sunday (here is his band) and we ended up talking about technology and where we stand, which is a very broad topic I know, but it seems like its not an uncommon conversation to be had these days. He ended up saying, he finds himself feeling sorry for old unused technology, like he need to swoop down and make it happy again. His band's next release is VHS only, of animations backing-up/going along with the new songs, its going to be AWESOME. That being said, my brain clicked that I was feeling the same thing, but dealing with photography. I had written off film for the most part, (not in general, just for myself) because the quality of digital, and the ease of working with the photos is so much quicker and controllable. But I could never get rid of my old cameras. My Nikon FE2, now lensless, because I sold them, Yashica TLR 120, Polaroid bigshot, Zeiss Ikon 120 foldout, Olympus stylus epic zoom 80, I just couldn't sell them. Jeremy just got a Leica and I shot some frames with it at a BBQ and I was hooked again.. the mystery is back!! Here is the photo of Lyla and Jeru that came from that click.
So I bought some new batteries for the old point and shoots, and am looking for a nikon manual focus 35 or 28 so i can bring a little slice of film back into my life.

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