show: MEW @ The Henry Fonda Theatre (12/14)

tears out, it would feel so heavenly, heavenly, heavenly

a word

i got a new point & shoot camera very recently, above is the first picture i snapped right when i popped the battery in after it was charged for the first time. it came about because she pleaded with me very excitedly (and was hovering me very excitedly as i was getting the new camera set up) 'take my picture take my picture'. i'm not trying to show-off any skill or lack thereof, but, i just want to say this pic and everything about it what it stands for and how it came to be, just makes me extremely happy. i know i haven't had the best few months, as she can attest to, but maybe i have, maybe we have. maybe we've gained the strength to get through anything. and that she can be by my side, so excited and enthusiastic for an immediate or further future, still after everything we've been through, just puts me in so much awe, gazing at this picture i feel all that passing through me.

sightings: lost London rolls pt. 1

selections from the first of 3 rolls of slide-film that i haven't gotten around to developing for some odd reason.

for the record, i love fujifilm.
and london.

portfolio: Historic Filipino Town

these are a few shots from a project I did a few years ago and I just now entered into the Magnum Expression Photography Award contest. you know you've hit it big when susan meisalas is on a panel of judges of your work!








a special thanks to Ace for tipping me on Historic Filipino Town in the first place and for being my biking guide!

check out: Tierney Gearon

I discovered her when she photographed No Age for FADER magazine (dec 2008) and was immediately floored.

sightings: a Getty visit

show: Pictureplane, HEALTH @ The Troubadour (9/9)

are you broken? are you leaving? is your blood red? are you breathing?

sightings: on the set of ilana-ruth's dusk project

portfolio: olympics

shot during the 2008 Olympics, the project consisted of digital photos of televised footage. as the images have been filtered so much by first a television camera, then a cathode ray tube, then another digital camera, the idea of technology plays an omnipresent role in the thematic content of the project. is it oppressive? is it freeing? the compositions, flickered and strained, themselves seem to float in a black haze of uncertainty.this is all juxtaposed and countered with something else that was distilled by all the technological filtering: a spirit of humanness. the sincerity of the athletes' exploits is also juxtaposed by the presence of pervasive advertisements and such.

check out: Mark Borthwick

i was reminded of this living legend and huge personal influence as he had a brief interview in the current issue of Oyster magazine. in it he shines light to the fact that digital photography is not like photography, but painting, because it is no longer a record of truth (thus he keeps it at arm's length, for now). i'd quote exactly if i had the magazine in front of me, but anyway, what inspires me about his work is how the world in his pragmatic eye is foiled by this unveiled sentimentality in evocative washes and washes of color.

Happy Anniversary Ilana-Ruth,

i'm sure you remember this. i mean, it is your chicken-scratch:







i love you.

show: mew @ the Troubadour (9/1)

in a big, big way
i am really small


















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show: the new room, war tapes, & The Chameleons LA @ The Echo (8/30)

alive in here, i'm alive in here
























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