1. Duane Michals - 1974 The text reads: This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen, she did love me. Look see for yourself! ——————————— How can you not love this?

    Duane Michals - 1974

    The text reads:

    This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen, she did love me. Look see for yourself!

    ———————————

    How can you not love this?

  2. I like to drive. I like to travel. I like the idea of pursuit. So I took the job, I did the job and my life will never be the same.

    — Scott Carrier / This American Life.

  3. I am placing an order for a zillion of these today! Fall semester is here - my last one ever as a student.

    I am placing an order for a zillion of these today! Fall semester is here - my last one ever as a student.

  4. last days of summer.

    last days of summer.

  8. I came across this interesting park while taking the back roads home from Asheville, N.C. It was in a lot across from an elementary school and next to a farm - nothing much else around it. I am curious about how a memorial for Vietnamese refugees came to be out in a field in Greer. Sometimes good, sometimes bad but South Carolina always surprises me.

    I came across this interesting park while taking the back roads home from Asheville, N.C. It was in a lot across from an elementary school and next to a farm - nothing much else around it. I am curious about how a memorial for Vietnamese refugees came to be out in a field in Greer. Sometimes good, sometimes bad but South Carolina always surprises me.

  9. I am finally getting around to posting this last bit about our show at Zeitgeist this summer -  a nice mention as the Pick of the Day on the Nashville Scene website.

    I am finally getting around to posting this last bit about our show at Zeitgeist this summer -  a nice mention as the Pick of the Day on the Nashville Scene website.

  10. My buddy, Mike Prault, put us on to a place he has been photographing this summer and after hearing about it we had to go check it out for ourselves. He had learned about it from one of his students last semester… It’s a sub-division in Georgia that was never completed and never actually inhabited from what we can tell. Possibly some of them were foreclosures but that had to have been back when the mortgage crisis began. There are about 20 to 30 houses that were close to finished but at this point nature is literally started taking the whole thing back. Kudzu climbs over the drive ways, kids have broken out most of the windows, and target practice has taken place throughout most of the buildings. It’s an incredibly interesting (and an extremely creepy) place. It’s an odd feeling to walk around a place that looks and feels like a neighborhood but stripped of all signs of human life. It’s like a world after us.

    My buddy, Mike Prault, put us on to a place he has been photographing this summer and after hearing about it we had to go check it out for ourselves. He had learned about it from one of his students last semester… It’s a sub-division in Georgia that was never completed and never actually inhabited from what we can tell. Possibly some of them were foreclosures but that had to have been back when the mortgage crisis began. There are about 20 to 30 houses that were close to finished but at this point nature is literally started taking the whole thing back. Kudzu climbs over the drive ways, kids have broken out most of the windows, and target practice has taken place throughout most of the buildings. It’s an incredibly interesting (and an extremely creepy) place. It’s an odd feeling to walk around a place that looks and feels like a neighborhood but stripped of all signs of human life. It’s like a world after us.

  14. This summer, for the first time in a long time, I have been able to get to some books that I wanted to read - some for pleasure - some for research -  I have come across some that I have really enjoyed. When my summer is officially over on the 15th of August and classes start up I will most likely post the ones I have completed on here. The book I am currently reading (about half way through) is Heaven is a Playground by Rick Telander and it is seriously one of my favorites from this summer. At the root it is about basketball and the grim realities of living in the Brooklyn projects in the 1970’s but the character studies are really just amazing and you find yourself attached to so many of them very early on. I have a feeling I will read it more than once. It has given me a lot of ideas in terms of my thesis work which will be my primary focus this year as well as teaching.

    This summer, for the first time in a long time, I have been able to get to some books that I wanted to read - some for pleasure - some for research -  I have come across some that I have really enjoyed. When my summer is officially over on the 15th of August and classes start up I will most likely post the ones I have completed on here.

    The book I am currently reading (about half way through) is Heaven is a Playground by Rick Telander and it is seriously one of my favorites from this summer. At the root it is about basketball and the grim realities of living in the Brooklyn projects in the 1970’s but the character studies are really just amazing and you find yourself attached to so many of them very early on. I have a feeling I will read it more than once. It has given me a lot of ideas in terms of my thesis work which will be my primary focus this year as well as teaching.

  15. Just spent a week in Spartanburg, SC - in the studio with my good buddy and super printmaker Andrew Blanchard. It was good to spend some time on some new processes and to just really change up my studio practice for a bit. It has me thinking about lots of new stuff!

    Just spent a week in Spartanburg, SC - in the studio with my good buddy and super printmaker Andrew Blanchard. It was good to spend some time on some new processes and to just really change up my studio practice for a bit. It has me thinking about lots of new stuff!