For the last month I have been filming a documentary in the South. Made some friends, ate alot of catfish and fried pickles. Listened to Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters. Made a deal with the devil down by the crossroads….Now Im back up north, smack-dab! in the heart of New York City. Never thought I’d say this, but I really miss the south.

Here is some amazing art I found on the streets of Who Knows Where, AMERICA.

As promised, I present this short video about my trip to Joshua Tree two weekends ago. The video is actually a sequence of lots of digital photographs shot mostly on a Nikon D70 with some supplemental footage from a Casio Exilim (you may notice the difference in aspect ratios). I haven’t made a video for a long time, so I’m pretty excited about this. I’m also pretty psyched about the photo to video process; it was a lot of fun to take tons of photos and not worry about anything I’d have to worry about if there was actual video involved. Sorry for the current picture quality, I’ll have it posted in HD by tomorrow and will update as such. In fact, the HD version might be up by the time you’re reading this, so feel free to check for it.

I spent the past weekend camping, hiking and rock climbing in Joshua Tree–a place I’ve come to love since moving to Southern California a year ago. I’m working on a short experimental movie about the trip and hope to be able to post it by next week. Until then, here’s one of my favorite photos from the weekend. The sky was perfectly clear and the moon was incredibly bright, which made for fabulous night photography.

Allow me to share these assorted photographs taken with my cell phone over the past year:

A dynamic minimalist composition composed of a jet trail, a cliff, and a strikingly blue sky		Nove Ties

Accept no imitations!

A baffling UFO-like residential structure built at the base of a beach cliff accessible only by a rickety tram.

Very large very decrepit pickup truck with a blue tarp cape.

Almost got it right…

Took a trip to Ensenada down in Baja California, Mexico this weekend and found lots of great stuff. Here’s some of it (sorry about the first two images, our gallery doesn’t handle portrait orientations very well and I couldn’t bear to exclude them…):

 

Sorry for lack of postage again. I was away at the Worcester Art Museum for Art All State. 150 and high school juniors from all over Massachusetts participated in making studio installations facilitated by professional artists. I was blessed to work with Catherine Judge and 18 of the 150 students to create this installation based on three pieces of art (Two Chinas, a piece from the Japanese Collection and the Chapter House) in the Worcester Art Museum Collection. We were only allowed three materials. Paper, thread cones and ink. The students came up with amazing design that spoke of a world of order vs. a world of chaos and destruction.

I’d like to thank the students for a great time and great job on a very well thought out intelectual design. I’ve posted a page of photos here.