mmm.

1:13 am  •  9 November 2009

i just think this is so precious.

janna’s father watching her walk to him, waiting to walk down the aisle.
from joe and janna irelands wedding this past september.

3:41 pm  •  7 November 2009

hello there. as i sit here with my split pea soup, i have decided to host a little print giveaway. i have two 8x12 prints left over from this past spring when i was selling prints. instead of selling them i’d rather just gift them to you! im not telling you which photographs they are, and i really hope you enjoy them, but…well, yeah. the prize package will include one of the two photographs as well as some extra handmade goodies. so yes, that means you have two chances of winning! yay!

the winners will be chosen at random, but i feel like asking a question anyway, so respond with your answer and you will automatically be entered!

contest ends tomorrow (november the 7th) evening.

Q: what is one of your favourite non-profit organizations and why?

EDIT: CONTEST ENDED NOV 7, THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING :) stay tuned for the winners.

6:59 pm  •  6 November 2009

"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately…
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!
To put to rout all that was not life…
And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived…"

— Henry David Thoreau (via reneelilley)

11:37 pm  •  5 November 2009

the caption for my most recent self portrait is accurate and i do intend on disappearing for a while, i just have a lot of things that i need to figure out. my life has become somewhat of a mess… scratch that, it is entirely a mess and at my own fault, but there are some things i need to point out before i hibernate.

at the end of this year i will be releasing my first zine of sorts. i don’t want to share too many details about it, i want it to be a surprise, but i will tell you that i have over 30 rolls of various film sitting in my refrigerator, waiting to be developed. most of the photographs in my zine will (hopefully) come from those rolls, which leads me to this…

i will be selling prints once again to raise money to cover the costs of processing. this of course means that i will be selling prints at a low price to hopefully sell more. the only thing is, i will be doing it differently than i have in the past. instead of posting prints on etsy for you to choose from, i will instead ask you to look through my website, flickr, or wherever you can find my photographs and simply email me a link to (or copy+paste the photograph) the ones you are interested in possibly purchasing. from there, i will let you know if the photograph(s) you like are available for print or not and i will also let you know how much they cost :)

aside from that, i will most definitely let you know of the progress of my zine and film processing.

3:01 pm  •  4 November 2009

i’d like to disappear, if just for a while.

1:39 pm  •  4 November 2009

‘tis roid week and i miss keith. that’s all.

11:52 am  •  3 November 2009

me with my current weapon of choice.

photo by ka xiong.

5:57 pm  •  2 November 2009

i am spoiled with talented friends.

photograph made by neal c.

1:30 pm  •  1 November 2009

my mask for halloween/dia de los muertos, which took me four hours to make. crow feathers, eight different kinds of ribbon/lace, black leather, a turquoise heart pendant, cardboard, and a wood chopstick (haha.) better photographs soon, if my cat doesnt rip it to shreds

1:02 pm  •  1 November 2009

one of my tattoos. 
photograph made by neal casal.

5:43 pm  •  26 October 2009

click here to read about the prize giveaway yellow bird project is hosting!

2:05 pm  •  26 October 2009

post script.

10:31 pm  •  24 October 2009

"You need music, I dont know why. It’s probably one of those Joseph Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic and bliss, and power and myth, and celebration and religion in our lives and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it."

— Jerry Garcia (via - who else? -  newspeedwayboogie) (via yvynyl)

10:33 am  •  23 October 2009