i love you but it drags me down

happy birthday.

zen guerrilla at UD

I found this shot of zen guerrilla recently, even though i took it probably in 2000. It's crazy I even got a picture like this because this show was so bluesy and mellow, and Marcus was sitting down most of the time. I only remember this because this show was the opposite of the one they played the night before at the East End where they killed it with the rock, including the Iron Maiden and Rolling Stones covers. Probably the best show i ever saw at that place. Of course, no photos from that night because I was too busy drinking and rocking out. Now I regret it a little.

old newark bands

I dug through the crates and found a bunch of old photos from Newark bands from the late '90s and early 2000s. I never claimed to be a good music photographer and going through these negatives was pretty embarrassing and funny at the same time. First of all my composition sucks. I'm always cutting some shit off in the dark. I also realized I CANNOT shoot drummers at all for some dumb reason, so I'm going to apologize in advance for not having any good shots of Steve Hollis or Rif. If I have a single decent photo of a drummer I'll build a time machine. Anyway, some of you might remember these shows because they weren't *that* long ago. They're old but not like Fire Tribe old. All photos via the Nikon F4, and I thankfully didn't use the 14mm fisheye on any of these.

Unleash the Bastards at Girls Inc.
I know I still have this tape or cd somewhere...




hey look, it's that guy from Dr. Dog

Miles to Failure at Girls Inc.

in case you didn't know, Allen Hitchens was straight edge back then.


and emo. Sorry Allen, haha.

Trailer Park Riot and The Bureaubrats at East End Cafe
These were two of my favorite bands to see toward the end of my time in Newark. I still have that 7" and a tape Rif gave me. Trailer Park Riot was Ken Adams, Nate Eggink, Scottie Curran, and Steve Hollis. Bureaubrats was Dave (Aaron Watkins), Lee Dickerson, Jon Riffenburg, and some metal dude; I don't know his name. They also had one of my favorite songs of all time called "Grave Digger." When I was in seventh grade, Aaron was one grade above me. We went to this tiny Catholic school in Maryland and there was this custodian we called Mr. Wally and he had been at the school forever. A couple years earlier Mr. Wally got cancer and he died around the same time Aaron got in trouble at school and was suspended, only instead of making him stay home from school the nuns sent him across the street to dig Mr. Wally's grave. Fucking incredible.









again, no pics of Steve or Rif. sorry dudes. i suck.

cabin living

saturday smornings




corrina, gabby, ernie. dinner time.


zach, so gangster he sits shotgun in his own car. he has a blog with much better photos than these, here.


China-Eazey




danny and his girl at Camelback. never have a party without this guy and Zach.


pig showing his girl corrina how to skate.


kevin about 30 seconds from busting his ass on a powerslide




see?


new friends. putting on the zipline harness.






lord chesterfield


fire girls


jean fox and anthony on his birthday





"the only time we get to do this is if someone gets married or someone dies." thanks for putting it together ant.

Wish I Could Have Frozen Time

I finally got a new scanner (Canon 9000F, basically the same thing as my last scanner, but a little faster) and i've been working on getting some old and new photos archived. These were taken with the Seagull 205A on Long Beach Island, i guess about a year and a half ago—Fall 2009. I wish I hadn't cross processed them. More stuff coming, hopefully more regularly now.

iphone stuff

i just got my credit today for the scanner that broke, but they made the check out to Susan instead of me, so i have to wait until she gets back before i can use it. so in the meantime with the dearth of new photos and old photos to scan in i decided to throw in some photos i take occasionally with the iPhone. i don't usually look at these pictures on anything but the iPhone, so it's sometimes interesting to see what i have on there. it seems to have this weird selective focus if i look really closely, but otherwise it takes pictures "just ok" for evidentiary uses (it's an older 3G model). these are pictures i took of weird or interesting looking graffiti, mostly within a few blocks around my work.


Ross the Boss comes back to America


JA and SANE


BERE + MENO over JA


sloppy white wall


DAYS over someone, can't read it. KACE over LEETO


JA and OJAE over COLT45


a quick MR. GRACEFUL across the street


he was a cool dude


i love stuff like this. found in a back alley while scouting fishing spots.


the Philadelphia favorite

Golden Gate

I got my computer back this week. It had some major problems and had to get the hard drvie and video card replaced. So far so good. I sent my scanner back to the warranty place, and while it can be a pain in the ass, the extended warranty B&H sells you is usually almost always worth it to replace broken gear, especially in these days when stuff is obsolete the day you bring it home. So I haven't been able to scan anything new in yet, but I have pics from the Pen-FT from the summer and some Yashica t5 stuff from the recent Poconos trip. No idea what will come from those. I'm going to process some stuff this weekend, but i gotta wait for the scanner or the check to come back before i can get anything new up. Sorry.

I took this photo of Emily on the Golden Gate Bridge with the Yashica t5. This must have been 2004. It was near the end of a really long trip to get from downtown SF to the bridge. We ended up taking a bunch of buses, got lost a bunch of times, ended up stranded in shopping centers in Marin, stranded in a little sea town (maybe it was Tiburon?) waiting for a bus that seemed would never come, ended up begging that bus driver to let us off basically on the highway because we were on the wrong bus again and were headed over the bridge. We got off on some onramp/offramp on the north side of the bridge and started walking over. It was one of those early summer days when the fog is just starting to roll in during the evening, but before those August days when the fog just covers everything. The light was quite nice though you can't really see that in this shot as I used the flash so the red of her sweatshirt popped a little more. I guess there's a balance in there somewhere, but i didn't get it. Gorgeous up there around that time of day, especially on the west side. Windy up there, though.

Have you ever seen the documentary The Bridge?

scanner down!

i haven't been able to post much lately due to the Brooklyn Fishing Derby, which you can check out here. For the record, I think Wordpress sucks. Also, my scanner has a problem and I have to send it back to get it fixed, so i haven't been able to scan in anything new yet, but i'll dig through the crates to see if i have anything interesting already scanned that i haven't posted yet. on that note, the computer i bought off Shelly is taking major shits all over my life: repeated kernal panics, software repair issues i don't understand, and a major heat sensor hardware problem i have to get fixed. technology is wreaking havoc right now.