Its been a while

I have been uber swamped lately and this blog has yet to make it to the top of my list in things I need to get done. But I did have some time to upload and post to day so with out further delay.......PHOTOS!! Aight boy listen up up first we got may nigga scuba egg. strait from the deep blue he is rising up just like dat zombie jesus to say "yo..im scuba egg"   

Next we got a puppy peakin through a porthole. well a door, but that does not start with a P and that is uber lame. 

Last.....BIG WHEEL BITCH!

WAR SCARF

The top is a photograph of a scarf my girlfriend made. She makes a lot of scarves. I mean a lot. Our dishwasher is currently used to store yarn. We are thinking about selling on Etsy but we are not sure yet. The photograph is some trash on the side of the road I saw today.

I watched War Photographer today and I must say that is a great way to not only get very sad but feel like a shitty photographer. I def recommend it to any one that is into photography or documentaries. 

The first photograph My girlfriend took of our friend's pet H. Hog. She took it a few days ago. I am just now taking a look at it and realizing how much I like it. The one below it is me being a fucking loser taking photos of my self like Ninja from Die Antwoord. Petty much the lamest thing I could do.

 

The first photograph is of a church in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago. The second photograph is some thing I saw in the meat packing district of Chicago. It has be rather hard to keep up with the blog as of late. I have way to much going one. school, two jobs, volunteer photography, and im sure I have more stuff that makes me seem more important and way more busy than I actually am. I need a book on Mary Ellen Mark to write a paper on dat bitch. 

Wedding

I photographed a wedding today for my internship with Colin Lyons Photography. I was actually surprised with how much fun I had shooting. I think in this shot I actually got my bosses flash which is crazy to think about. I don't remember what the shutter speed was but thats like a very small fraction of a second to take a photograph at the exact same time. cray cray. 

Weird Day

Oxford Owls

Oxford Owls

Dana Zimmer

Bridget Nejmeh

My card got corrupted so not only was I not able to upload any photos on to the blog. I also lost everything that I shot. Luckily there was not anything to important but it just sucks that that happened. At any rate, do I have a funny story for you! So I needed to get a suit jacket today for the wedding I am photographing tomorrow. I decided to check TJ Maxx/filene's basement assuming It would be cheaper. So I walk in the store and I think to my self "well gosh! Why is it so humid in here?" Once I got to the bottom of the escalator I see a bunch of women running around in their underwear and every one was screaming. I don't mean like when there are a lot of people talking so you have to scream so people can hear you like at party or something. They were just screaming. not words...just screaming. Like at a Justin Bieber concert. Apparently there was a huge sale on wedding gowns and every time a girl found a dress she liked the whole staff had to scream at the top of their lungs. It was very surreal. I thought I was in a dream.

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Oh here we are. So here is count em THREE photos for you. So lets do the run down. The top one are some shoes that an old lady was wearing at the train station. You would think a 13 year old boy. The middle photograph is a tree that I pass nearly every day and to be honest with you I would rather not see it as much. My life is becoming to stale. I should go rob a bank. And the last although pretty is a view I see ever day while crossing the Madison St. bridge to go to the train station. 

So I have been running nearly every day now. I sort of have a goal in mind to run a 5k. I guess that is a good goal I mean that is a pretty good distance. The thing is I used to run a 5k every weekend when I was in high school....now I am just an old fat man who can't fit into his old band tees. To bad I was never into Van Halen cuz then I could look like a middle age white man.

TWOFER

You get two today. or should I say TWODAY!!! hahaha im not funny...... at any rate. The top photograph is of the storm last night. I'm not sure if it hit where I live. The photograph just above is of the Woodstock square earlier today.  I can't say I am happy with these photos. They are not really anything special but I did run almost two miles today and I am not about to go out and take some photographs. I am so tired. 

oh boy

Boy it would suck to fall from there.

Hot peanutz?! Shuzam!!!

I wish this cat had lazer eyes. So I had a pretty nice weekend with the ol' Gee Eff. Drank maybe a little to much. prlly not going to do that for a while. Cats are so amazingly cool and weird at the same time and my allergies are starting to go away so I want to get one.

Man at the coffee shop.

This is becoming a "why I hate the metra" blog. So I almost missed the train so I had to pay the $3 sur charge on top of the $7.50 to get on the train. If that didn't suck enough the guy got all pissy. Im sorry I have to give you extra money. Why does he care any way, It is more money for him or at least his boss.

I feel like I will never become a famous photographer from this blog if I keep blogging about any thing and everything except the photograph I post. I feel like photographers are only famous among other photographers and thats like a band playing to the other bands that are playing that show and that my friends is lame. trust me i did it a lot

My eye ball hurts

This is today's sunset. I saw this while coming home from crystal lake. I got a new pair of running shoes. They make me look tall and if you have seen me in person being tall is something I could use some help with.

So my eye hurts real bad and I don't know why. I was thinking that if I had one eye I would get pretty tired of explaining why I always wear sunglasses, but then I thought it would be really funny to go to a job interview in sunglasses and say "pardon the sun glasses I have one eye." Or I could wait for the interviewer to ask why I was wearing sunglasses indoors and snap and be like "Uh cuz I have a hole in my face where my eye used to be" and then take off the sunglasses and stick my finger in the hole.

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This man is on the same street every day selling the sun times and he looks like he is smoking a huge blunt in the photo.  I think more people need to realize how amazing twitter's role in the uprisings going on in the news currently. I mean thats pretty great. 

sun set

Just sort of a purdy view from earlier today. kinda sleepy so not going to write much

is this a cat in the hat

nope just on a window sill

more JOOSE

Now I am thirsty. Here is a photograph of something very yummy looking from a place called Jamaica Jamaica in Evanstan IL. 

I spent all day today working from home. It was a huge bitch but I am glad I am done so I wont have to do anything tomorrow after work! 

JOOOOSE!!

Here is a friend of mine and I love this photo because he has a cup of juice and his mouth totally looks like he is saying JOOSE!!! 

Man on steps

 

Here is a photograph of a man standing on the stairs leading to the clyborn metra stop. I stayed over a a friends house the other day and was unable to post. no need to worry I have two photos for ya gents. The lighting in this photograph is pretty. It was like a wind tunnel on this stairwell though. Not fun. I think it was Stieglitz that stood in a winter storm for a few hours waiting for the perfect shot. He kind of makes me feel like a wimp.

Cutest thing on earth!!!

Wow! Thats cute and I got to hold it. So apparently Lady Gaga wanted to be able to have all rights to photographs taken of her live.  Come on?!? really?!?! Dont you have enough money? you are like a pirate of intellectual property. Also I heard some photographer in I think Texas took a photograph for a young girl about 9 for her mom. Like a simple portrait. And then she went missing and was killed. So while she was missing the family used the photograph for news media and the photographer tried to sue because they did not have his permission to use the photograph... What a douche bag.

Zobster the mobster

Oh poop. It is hard to write things. I have no idea how journalist and writers do it. I mean come on be easy! I have a huge paper I need to write for my history of photography class. Let me tell you how much I do not want to do that. well. I guess I better get started on that

Ice cream and cake and cake

Ice cream cake. wow.. ice cream and cake together. Most cultures are rich with dance, art, language customs. American culture is two really bad things put together. way to go!  

I saw two guys screaming at each other. They were both huge and even though I don't like seeing people fight I did sort of want them to because I really really want to see to giant transformer type size men go at it. I picture it like some sort of godzilla movie. One would throw a car at the other. In all actuality one guy dropped his Ipod and then ran away as the other one half assed chased him.  

More Stranger Danger

I had to baby sit yesterday and did not have time to upload last night. I would really like to do some sort of show of all the strangers I take photographs of. I have been working on an artist statement for these photos but that is no where near presentable. The funny thing about this photograph is if you notice the title of the lady's book is  The Kill Artist. Well I actually killed her after taking this photograph. Im just jesting. Thanks to the lack of any phsycopathic nature in me she will be able to live on and see what Daniel Silva has in store for her.

Im not even sure if I am supposed to be at work today. I thought it would be best to go in, just in case. To bad my commute is almost 2 hours, so if Im not supposed to be here im going to be rather upset that I woke up before any one else in the midwest and sat on a cold train for an hour and forty five minutes.

ewwww

I drew this on this doll today before visiting my girlfriend's parents house. We usually hide weird creepy babies in their house when ever we go over there. Its a bit of a tradition. This is probably what Kat Von D would look like if she had a stroke when she was a baby. Baby Von Stroke D

Hair of the dog.

That expression confuses me like cray cray. You know I always think of funny things to write about in the blog and im all like "I should totes blog about this" (which is a pretty lame thing to think) I should get " blog life" tattooed on my knuckles. That is a great way to get made fun off.

This is another photo from that body of work i have been doing on this abandoned house. I always thought that photos of abandoned buildings were kind of lame a cliche, but there is some thing about being all alone in a place that was once considered to be a home and is now so detached and forgotten. Here is my artist statement for it. Let me know what you think. I'm planning on making a book on this.

Depreciation of 2807 Raffel Rd.

At first glance one might think that these images are of a place in a way a survey photographer would take. However these images represent more than just how light falls on an abandon barn or the texture of decaying wood. These images illustrate the idea of depreciation.

To the person driving down the narrow country road in Woodstock IL this may just be an old barn that goes unnoticed but to the architect or even the carpenters or electricians or plumbers who built the house this is their art work. Just like the photos of it are mine. Now it sits unnoticed, rotting, and depreciating as nature takes back the land it once had. Could one day these photographs who’s purpose is to document and preserve the past end up in the same condition, rotting and forgotten?

 As you view the photos notice the composition and use of available light. More importantly keep in mind this idea of depreciation and your own work. How can you stop your art from becoming an abandoned barn on the side of a country road.

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Ok. So pretty drunk right now which is why there is no photo. I feel like im talking to my self with this blog. Does any one actually look at this shiet. I mean come on gurl. Am I the only one that wants a gangsta version of fantastic 4 called fantastic fo. that would be pretty nice. nigga please

yep

Yeah I took this.

Dog town Bitch.

This is yesterday's photograph. I didn't post yesterday because it was late and this boy was sleepy. This is my girlfriend's mom's dog. By the way its so fuckin nice out. my windows are open right now.

Elder on the Train

This photograph was taken on the red line from the south side. For some reason I like photographing strangers. I usually do not even talk to the person when I take their photograph and more often than not they just look at me or away from me in this case and act like I'm not there. There is something Interesting about having a photograph of some one I will never see again. I am able to make up a story for them. I wonder what they are thinking. This lady is most likely thinking "What is this young whipper snapper doing taking photos of me"

Unrelated, there was a bird on the metra today and it would not shut up. Every like 30 seconds it would peep. No one seemed to care except me. Maybe there was not even a bird and I am just going insane.

More Woods

So I am going to be showing work at the marengo public library at the end of the month. The whole thing is kinda disappointing because well. no one goes there any more and to add on to that the photographs are going to be hung in a place that no one will see them.  Id like to think that that all my international viewers are disappointed. Thats right I have international viewers....They are prolly people that just came across my blog by accident. Even so thanks for taking a gander person from India! 

You make me feel so young!

You make me feel like spring has sprung. I don't use the word sprung as much as I would like. I took this photograph on my walk today. I can't wait for winter to be the thing of the past. That is until it becomes a thing of the future. Thats pretty depressing to think about. I do not want an other winter. Way to orbit earth!

LMFAO "I'm Ansel Adams Bitch!"

Went on a walk today in Coral Woods near Marengo. There were a lot of beautiful things to look at and got to pet the friendliest dog in the world! It was however, very cold and muddy and almost slipped like 20 times. I was like "Nuh uh girl! I can't run in no heals!"

Sick as a Dog

Sorry about not posting yesterday. I was pretty sick. It was one of those days where you bring a pillow and blanket into the bathroom and set up base camp near Mt. Toilet. I'm sure you all know what I am talking about. Luckily I am feeling much better and am able to post a few photographs for you today. These are photographs of my mother and her favorite child, Lola. I like the top one a lot more but when I viewed all of these photographs together to choose which photo I wanted to edit I noticed that they looked pretty cool right next to each other. Kinda reminds me of Eadweard Muybridge or how ever you spell his name.

The Sack Pipes!

Wouldn't it be so funny if after he got done playing the bag pipes he was like "Nigga Please!" Now your picturing it and at least smiling.... maybe even an el oh el

This One's for the Birds

Holy shit! Thats a lot of shit. and birds. My girlfriend Loves the show Hoarders. If you ever swallow some sort of chemical I'd say watch hoarders before you call poison control because you are sure to vomit after watching it. In fact I am sure they will just tell you to watch an episode. Maybe 2 if you swallowed bleach or anything with a skull and cross bones on it. You know pirate juice.

Maybe I want to drink sun.

I got his tea called Healthy Fasting. On the box it says "Supports a dieting program."  well... which one stupid yellow box filled with things that make my water brown! (like my skin) So is everybody excited for ash wed.! nope same here. Am I the only one that wants to call people with ash on the heads tomorrow a bunch of ash holes.

hipstamatic

And I don't even have an ipod. Suck it. How bout this weather huh? Its way to cold. I hate when people say "Hold the Ice".....shut the fuck up and say "no ice please" I mean come on do you think your life is some bad movie.

I took this photo on a really long walk I took. I feel like if I didn't have a camera and was taking photographs then taking a long walk would be depressing.

Bicycle shmicyle.

Writing is difficult.   ^ Bike

I guess your just what I needed!

All day at work I was like "Fuck where am I going to get my dollar shamrock beads!" Then this extremely happy man came into my life! Look at him. Can't you picture him saying "Nigga what choo think your doin right now?" and then I'd be all "Taking you picture now gimme dem beads bitch!"

Maybe he was hoping for some Irish girls to come and flash him and give him a dollar. 

YARRR

This bird had one leg. sad. I wonder how that happened. There was also like a bunch of other birds. Like prly 50 birds on this shit covered bridge. It was kind of gross but all I could think about was in Ace Ventura when he is trying to catch the bird. That movie is soooooo funny.  Almost as funny as any work out VHS from the 90's