yanks @ o’s, originally uploaded by minervacat. I resolve to get up to my hometown to take more photos this year; Baltimore is a weird, gorgeous, decaying city, and I never give it enough credit. (It’ll have to be after mid-June, though. February through mid-June are sort of consumed by baseball already. As it is…
Author: brandnewkindof
Photographer, baseball fan, lover of rock music, sweet tea, chili cheese hotdogs, and Matt Wieters.
always had more dogs
The function of music is to release us from conscious thought. — Sir Thomas Beecham From top to bottom, the Drive-By Truckers, Josh Ritter, Wye Oak; three artists I’ve shot before, three artists I’m hoping to shoot again this year.
road to nowhere
road to nowhere, originally uploaded by minervacat. I can’t stop listening to Frank Turner’s cover of “Thunder Road”. [Frank Turner — “Thunder Road”] 6MB, .mp3. Bruce Springsteen cover. The NC is in the middle of a cold snap that is even unseasonably cold for January for us, and I am craving spring time, warm sun…
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009
holden beach, nc — christmas 2009, originally uploaded by minervacat. I love urban exploration photography; the decay and abandonment of places that used to house humanity is so striking and gorgeous, when handled by the right photographer. I do not do more of it myself for three reasons: a) I live in perma-surburbia, b) fifteen…
unc: north quad in the fog
unc: north quad in the fog, originally uploaded by minervacat. Rocking my world in terms of inspiration this week: Big Huge Labs’ Favorites Surfer. Start with one of your Flickr favorites; navigate through the favorites of that photographer, the favorites of those people’s favorites, and so on and so forth. Whenever I need a boost,…
shooting film & toy cameras
ncaa baseball regional, originally uploaded by minervacat. I’ve said before that my first SLR, once I got serious about shooting in 2008, was a Nikon F65 film SLR that my friend Michelle sent me, and I’ve talked about my film learning curve before — learned very little about the technicalities of photography, learned a shitload…
single artist cover albums!
drive-by truckers two-night stand at the cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. This week at work I’m listening to a huge playlist on shuffle; songs rated four or five stars that I haven’t heard in three months. Today, Adam Sandler doing “Werewolves of London” kicked up, and it got me thinking. I love a good cover…
olin & the moon — terrible town
lucero @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. Olin & the Moon — Terrible Town. Out 5/6/2009, self-released. I was turned on to Los Angeles-based indie rockers Olin & the Moon via a free download of their sophomore album, 40 Miles of Bad Road, on ninebullets.net last year. They straddle that line between indie rock…
one from the archives
one from the archives, originally uploaded by minervacat. This photo I did not take. I did not take this photo because that’s my mom, small, riding in the little red wagon (her older brother Jack is her chauffeur). I stole this photo from my mom’s Facebook page. Today is my Mama’s birthday. I get my…
the new familiars @ local 506
the new familiars @ local 506, originally uploaded by minervacat. At the end of the summer, when I was asking people to pick out photos for me to talk about, my Kat picked this one. It has sat in my “to post” folder every since, waiting for me to figure out what to say about…
brand new kind of photography 