paint + time

gorgeously time-decayed industrial paintscapes, east coast USA

the occupied new school

in november of 2011 a contingent of militant students briefly occupied a study space at the New York New School, expressing all manner of political opinions with exuberant splashes of graffiti. the students were violently opposed to photography in the space but facing the likelihood of immanent eviction finally consented to my request to document the art eruption minus any ...

daily show appearance

late october 2011 i resolved to pay an open-ended visit to new york’s zuccotti park, fascinated by the bacchanalian / populist occupy wall street protests. eventually sleeping there with hundreds of others, i managed to get mixed up in the business of the press relations working group. early one morning some daily show producers came ...

geodesic

my mother and stepfather reside in the countryside along the james river, just east of springfield, missouri. since supermarket food appears trending ever more expensive / compromised by dubious industrial farming techniques and genetic modification, we decided now’s a good time to begin growing our own stuff. comprehensive calculation tools / plans provided free by SimplyDifferently.org, ...

overpasses

north american naturescapes

strange things

cities

france

friends

bilston glen

late summer 2010 : i visited edinburgh, scotland intending to stay a few days only. via couschsurfing.com i discovered a place in the forest just south of the city where a constantly shifting mix of european eco-activists, international backpackers, and british misfits live in a treehouse village, subsisting on the city’s luxuriously discarded excess. 8 years ...

UK climate camp 2010 vs RBS

late summer 2010 i ended up attending the uk climate camp 2010 direct occupation / action against the royal bank of scotland’s headquarters outside edinburgh. the action was intended to aggressively protest and publicize RBS’s deeply irresponsible investments in the canadian tar sands oil extraction project, one of earth’s biggest currently unfolding environmental disasters. several ...

portugal

atmospheres

portland

prairie ruins

central oregon is abundant in abandoned homesteads, here’s a particularly scenic one discovered on a meandering camping trip, summer 2009

shifting shadows

every sunny summer afternoon a beautiful play of treeleaf shadows danced on the bathroom floor, so one day i filmed it.

lazy sunbathers

from a great oregon summer campout

sparkler party

celebrate independence

abstractions

guatemala

nicaragua

mexico

japan

summer 2005 – summer 2007 i lived and worked in japan, first in osaka and then in the fishing village of hososhima on kyushu island, altogether surely one of the more rewarding experiences of my life thus far. here are some images captured during that time.

hong kong

maya

in 2004 i was the fortunate recipient of PSU architecture department’s annual travel grant, having proposed to visit central america to get acquainted with the epic ruins of fallen empires on our southern doorstep. i visited 19 different archeological sites in an attempt to broadly survey and document diverse styles and developmental periods of mayan ...

laurelhurst

laurelhurst park  

grow to hell

this sign modification proved surprisingly popular! south austin already had a good handful of beloved, independent video rental shops when blockbuster moved in, so we let them know how we felt. the construction crew must have approved and incredibly did nothing about it for several months, while every day thousands of motorists rolled past on ...

tiled photos

experiments with tiled photographs