Worth getting up for in May: UNC baseball winning the ACC tournament; the beauty of the 18 inning game against State in said tournament; #1 national seed in the NCAA tournament; the UNC women’s lacrosse team’s national championship; a day second-camming for Gorman; ice cream sandwiches; The Closer; Fall Out Boy at the 9:30 Club*;…
Category: life or something like it
a dog named gucci (and a dog named susie)
(This post might feature things that are triggering; there are some photos of the aftereffects of animal abuse.) Spent yesterday in Greensboro playing second camera for Gorman while he shot interviews for his current doc project, A Dog Named Gucci, a piece about animal cruelty and animal rights laws in the US. We hung out with…
worth getting up for in april
Worth getting up for in April: Opening Day; the Orioles’ Opening Day win; this photo of Matt Wieters; the Orioles still being over .500; spring; Phuzz Phest; Wintersleep and Frightened Rabbit on tour together; Fitz and the Tantrums at Haw River Ballroom; the way North Carolina looks like someone turned up the saturation on Photoshop;…
worth getting up for in march
Worth getting up for in March: Carolina’s gorgeous 2-1 victory over Team Wayne Graham; 24-1; Bombadil, Drive-By Truckers, Gaslight Anthem, Hollis Brown live; a week at the beach; crossing three more restaurants off the 100 restaurants list; roadtrips with Mom; painted barns; US 1 in North Carolina; Florida Gulf Coast, Cinderella; starfish and shark’s teeth; sunshine; my…
the pointy kind of good luck
The women on my mom’s side of the family are, at the beach, inveterate shell collectors. As soon as I was old enough to tell the difference between the shells, I learned to pick up the unusual, the beautiful, the ugly. Above (top) is my haul from this week at Holden Beach. It’s the best…
a photo series, abandoned beach style
If I was giving a pretentious interview to a pretentious arts journal, I would say, of these shots, “I’m just really into chairs right now.”
you can’t not be on a boat
ROSENCRANTZ: I’ve frequently not been on boats. GUILDENSTERN: No, what you’ve been is not on boats. — Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
cameron, nc: painted barns
On a tiny roadtrip with the Maternal Unit, we stopped in Cameron, NC (a small town between Sanford and Southern Pines) to check out the crazy painted barns in the area; they were originally commissioned by David Ellis, a Cameron native and artist who brought street artists from New York and Japan to his hometown…
worth getting up for in february
Worth getting up for in February: Fall Out Boy getting back together; Fall Out Boy tickets; Tame Impala and the Last Bison live; an advance copy of Josh Ritter’s The Beast In Its Tracks; big ideas and good collaboration; my dad emailing me so I’ll email the son of his coworker about places for the coworker’s…
baltimore, february 2013
I always eat well when I go home to see my folks.
brand new kind of photography 