film shoot

the last week ive been making a short film with a friend from high school. here are a few "behind-the-scene" type photos.

night wedding

shot a wedding tonight. this is one of my favorites from the group.

dig!!!, lazarus, dig!!!

awesome

brown

the number eight

light painting II

what im listening to: john cage, "i have nothing to say and im saying it"

lost

im very ecited about tonight!

what i am listening to right now: iron and wine, "the shepherd's dog"

light paint

i did light painting with my first year photography students last week. this was my favorite shot of the group.


what im listening to right now: pj harvey, "white chalk"

ribbon cutting ceremonies

from a photo shoot this morning

ralph steadman

one of my all time favorite illustrators is ralph steadman. i ran across this interview and thought i would share it.

what im listening to: the avett brothers, "emotionalism"

happy thanksgiving

jack-o'-lantern

carve your own here

what im listening to while posting: the kinks, "the village green preservation society"

halloween

halloween has always been one of my favorite holidays. i know its not october yet but the weather is starting to get cooler (as cool as it can in florida this time of year), department stores have stocked the aisles with candy and costumes, and the freaks are ready to be the norm. time to dust of my sisters of mercy, swans and danzig cds. here are a few of my drawings with a halloween theme. each one has a haiku if you would like to read them or see other silly drawing by van cannon kirby you can go to haikus & charicatoos. happy halloween everyone a bit early!

what im listening to as im posting: frank black, "fast man raider man"

sports photos

was hired by a school to do some photos for their sports program. here r a few.

the cure

as many of you know my favorite band, since elementary school, is the cure. i have a cure tattoo that i got when i turned 18. many folks have a hard time reconciling my redneck ways and my music tastes. just a good ol boy from the south who happens to listen to good music. i just found out that i will be going to see the cure on sept. 13th. it will be the 6th time that i have seen them in concert but i am excited all the same. "never enough"

wedding pics

from the last wedding i shot

millhopper

was hired by a local band, millhopper, to do some photos at a show yesterday

california wedding

from the wedding i shot out in cali this past week. click on the image if you want to see it larger.

what im listening to while posting: bruce springsteen, "nebraska"

before & after

so while we were in cali this past week we went to the grey fox vineyard for a wine tasting and to the sierra nevada brewery for a beer tasting. the pic above is from the brewery. 16 beers, all very tasty!

what im listening to: neutral milk hotel, "in the aeroplane over the sea"

Übermensch

so last friday i showed "superman returns" for film night. another film that a lot of my friends didnt like but that i enjoyed very much. i especially loved the nod to nietzsche with the headline on the paper "superman is dead" and then i really enjoyed when the camera pans out to reveal yet another paper with the heading "superman is alive."

what im listening to while posting: ryan adams, "heartbreaker"

mayfaire

getting ready for the polk museum of art's annual fine arts show mayfaire-by-the-lake. my photo is b&w one in the middle. cross your fingers and hope i sell some work. i usually sell a good amount. could use it right now with a new baby on the way and all.

what im listening to: wolf parade, "apologies to the queen mary"

match point

showed "match point" for film night on friday. discussion was excellent. helped that i am teaching both "crime & punishment" and "crimes and misdemeanors" in class right now, since "c&m" is an existentialists(woody allen) retelling of "c&p" and "match point" is woody allen retelling "c&m." alot of people hated on this film but i really enjoyed it. woody allen seems to really want to believe, he just cant make himself. never-the-less, a beautifully made film and a nice change to more recent woody allen films.

what im listening to: the teddybears, "soft machine"

the flaming lips

saw the flaming lips last night in orlando. was the best show ive ever seen. it was literally unbelievable. like a dream. if you ever get a chance to see them you should do it. i cant explain how awesome it was. ive never experienced anything like it. everything i hoped for and more. thanks richie for the ticket!

what im listening to: david bazan, "fewer moving parts"

mac book pro "17

my new computer. so far i love it!

other blogs

richard pearson turned me on to a couple new blogs. pretty cool stuff. "mr demeo has no thoughts" and "she broke my heart so i broke her face!"

what im listening to while posting: rancid, "and out come the wolves" or "the album gordy martin almost ruined for me by playing way too many times"

nick cave & the proposition

i think ive been a nick cave fan from birth even though i didnt start listening to his music till high school. his music, poetry, lectures, plays and novel resonate like no others. when i was in college i spent a long time trying to find his novel, "and the ass saw the angel," and finally found it at a used book store in amsterdam. now you can order it just about anywhere online. i fell in love with the book and have now read it a several times. it had a dirty southern feel like flanery o'connor that i love. when i heard he had written a screenplay and that it was being made into a movie, i could hardly wait. "the proposition" holds so much; extreme violence, darkness, dirt, history, sadness and longing, depravity and redemption. what a great film!

what im listening to while posting: modest mouse, "we were dead before the ship even sank"

focus

heres an article from this months focus magazine on "yours truly." if you would like to read the article, click on the image and a much larger version will open.

what im listening to while posting: wilco, "a ghost is born"

j.d. salinger

im a huge jd salinger fan. i picked up "catcher in the rye" in high school, finished it that day and with in the next few weeks had read everything he had published in book form (which isnt much). ive been waiting for him to die for sometime now so that maybe the piles of stuff hes written, but wont let anyone read, will be published. dont get too excited, he hasnt died yet. but i did find a website that has a bunch of his unpublished writings. in college i had tried to search the web for his twelve short stories that had been published without his consent and although i found several sites advertising the work, all came up dead ends. most saying they were involved in a law suit with the author or apologizing to "mr j.d. salinger" and had removed the work from the site. once, my brother saw a copy of the book in a used book store, figured i already had the book, asked me about it the next day, i yelled at him, he went back to the store and the copy had been sold for $1. i could of killed him!!! well if you are also a fan and have been searching these many years, heres the site. j.d. salinger, uncollected writings. enjoy!

what im listening to while posting: regina spector, "begin to hope"

film night

watched two films this weekend. "the exorcism of emily rose" (which i had seen) and "brick" (which i hadnt seen). i showed emily rose for student film night on friday which went very well. we didnt have a lot of students show up but i half expected that due to the type of movie but discussion of the film was excellent. brick, i just bought because my brother-in-law had recommended to me quite some time ago. very cool film. someone has definitely been watching a lot of "twin peaks." i highly recommend it for anyone who wants an alternative to most the crap out there on the rental shelves.

what im listening to while posting: archers of loaf, "white trash heroes"

cambridge photo blog

my photography class now has a platform for digital photography critique. if u would like to post comments on any or all the pictures it would be a big help.

what ive been listening to: jenny lewis and the watson twins, "rabbit fur coat"

platform florida

the last few days have been nothing but darkroom, touch-up, matting and framing. ive been getting ready for a show called platform florida. heres the poster and one of my new prints.

what im listing to in the darkroom: sonvolt, "okemah and the melody of riot"

paint like a pollock

"autumn rhythm" by jackson pollock

the other day i was looking for new digital slides for my class and i stumbled across this webpage, jacksonpollock.org. if youve ever said, "even i could do that!" well now you really can. click your mouse and the paint color changes.

the abstract expressionists have aways been my favotrite painters. robert motherwell being my all time favorite but pollock will do in a pinch. pollock was a part of the "gesture field" group where the process of the painting was maybe more important then the end result. the ultimate goal was to record motion. and for all you chaos theory freaks, pollock denied the accident.

what im listening to while posting: yeah yeah yeahs, "fever to tell"

dancer in the dark

yesterday i showed dancer in the dark to one of my classes. what a great film. lars von trier, what a great director. that was probably the 5th time that ive seen the film and the last 30 mins get me every time. i feel like such a little girl by the time lars lifts me up then stomps on my heart.

what im listening to while posting: the cure, "the cure"

philly art & friends

great friends and great art. you cant ask for a better combination. these are the pictures i promised from our trip to philly over christmas break. the philadelphia museum of art has such a great permanent collection. this was our second visit to the museum. its becoming a tradition to go when we are visiting leahs mom. afterwards we went to south philly and got cheese steaks at jim's steaks. they were delicious!! maybe that should be apart of the tradition.

what im listening to while posting: arcade fire, "funeral"

os guinness

kiko wins! it was os guinness that i had the pleasure of hanging out (more like follow or stalk) with all day friday. one of the perks of being a photographer in the reformed circle is that you get paid to meet some pretty cool people. i was hired by berean christian academy to follow os around and take pictures during his visit to the school. he was there to speak to the teachers and at their annual gala and impact fund raiser. he was an extremely nice man. got to talk to him a bit about cultural apologetics and his time with schaffer but most importantly his guinness beer family and the history of the brewery.

trying to figure out which one i like better, the color or b&w version. maybe u can help me out deciding.

what i'm listening to while posting: tom waits, "blue valentine"

picture word quiz

who can be the first to solve the puzzle and guess who i got to hang out with all day yesterday?

what i'm listening to right now while im posting shane macgowan and the popes "the snake"


had the privilege to see shane macgowan in concert while i was in amsterdam. he of course was drunk as a skunk but the music just wouldn’t sound the same if he wasn’t.

yet another blog

i know i know, "another blog?" its a bit crazy but i wanted a place to post pics of friends, articles, ideas, music, art and just general crap and it just didnt seem to fit on any of my other blogs. maybe its just my natural tendency to dichotomize things. a product of the fall. maybe thats why i titled it "foucaults outhouse" or is it "foucault southouse"??? wouldnt he just luv that... words wurds werds. okay now im babbling, but that kinda fits as well.

anyway, the first thing i want to do is post up some pics from a visit to the philly museum of art with some old friends.