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Nov 20, 2018

Gay Games, Paris, Carjackings in St. Louis, and why I needed Le Marais.

The experience of photographing the Paris Gay Games was more than the event, but a lesson in exploring your own community and background...

Jun 12, 2018

Oh Hay-ch KWEEN! (the art fair effect)

An opening party barrage where galleries display "alternative" work, like male frontal nudity, or Uncle Sam fist fighting a werewolf cake

Mar 27, 2018

Double Vision with Jeongmoon Choi

The way to my heart is heavy neon accents and a good wall to take my own photo in front of; Choi's show was thusly, my perfect Sunday

Feb 13, 2018

Lusting for Nature with Jack Penny

If you want me to critically analyze this and say that it's is as contemporaneously sexy as sliced bread with the crust pre-removed...

Dec 15, 2017

Tokyo Re-Disposed

The experience didn't leave me with a great feeling at the time, but it did give me an ultimately positive takeaway. ...

Sep 8, 2017

Burner Dust Memories

In the summer of 2013, Mat Cerniglia and I drank a lot of craft beers and ordered tickets to Burning man.

Aug 1, 2017

Disposable Prague (feat. Vienna)

For those of you who have never been to Prague or Tokyo, they may as well be existing in different galaxies...

May 17, 2017

YOSHITAKA AMANO: DEVA LOKA GENESIS

Amano's works are flanked by ancient Buddhist sculptures from which Amano drew inspiration. The artifacts pairing themselves to Amano's work

Mar 30, 2017

TOMOKAZU MATSUYAMA: OH MAGIC NIGHT

Yes, that is a life-size Playmobil figure riding a silver stallion away from its own poo (aka, pretty much what I doodled in the margins...

Feb 22, 2017

The Lost Thesis

It wasn't until I dusted off the old hard drive to look for a different, old project that I found this file of half-edited mystery portraits

Feb 5, 2017

Disposable Tokyo

By testing out a new kind of camera (than what I'm used to) it allowed me to give myself more experimental freedom....

Jan 23, 2017

Neon Tigers

I've never written a blog post before... Ok, that a lie... I used to keep a blog of very old graphic design projects during my time at...

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