New Year's Eve Hearts Of Darkness

E.A. 12/2010
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W.A. 12/2010
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T.A. 12 / 2010

Xmas Eve Snowman Cookie

Frosty The Red White and Blue Snowman, W.A. 12/ 2010

End Of The Gauntlet Is Near

Elf On The Shelf, 12/2010

Have I ever mentioned that I hate this time of year? I feel like its something I tell everyone...there I am on the phone talking to my sister who has been in the hospital for months and I'm complaining about the holiday. Don't you have anything real to complain about? On the phone with Kate from Tidepool, telling her the same sentiment. Maybe you should keep these thoughts to yourself? It's just too much work!

Oh...but here we are...near the end. Let's try to enjoy it with photographs in the home stretch..more to come as we end the year.

The Last Xmas Cookie Photograph

Overloaded Tree, W.A. 12/2010

Sex Story Suburban Dad Redux

With the holiday coming at us all with no brakes, no cushioning, no hesitation...its been a real treat to put together this story that has kept us busy and fascinated for the past 3 days. Gotta keep it kinda quiet until the issue is out of course...but two things stuck with me:

1. Make-up is the secret weapon to every great photograph.

2. Some things were just not meant to be photographed.

Details to follow.

Suburban Dad Shoots Sex Issue

The subject asked us to meet her at VIRACOCHA .

In the basement, before it was VIRACOCHA, animals were sacrificed for medicinal purposes.

Yesterday, it was our studio. We thought of E.J. Bellocq.

Shoot continues through out the week...more to come.

ECHOLILIA Installation at Union College

The ECHOLILIA installation that we hung in Live Worms last month is being reworked and reconfigured to hang in a show opening January 3rd at The Arts Atrium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. The show also includes work by artists Clarissa Amaral and Raymond Felix. Of course ya' all know I was born there, correct?

Exhibit Co-ordinator and Photographer Frank Rapant and I shared some sketches on what shape it would take in the new space. We have 30 feet of wall space really allowing the show to open up and spread its wings into something different. I did some drawings ( shown here ) and shared them with Frank who now is making the thing come to life. The added space allows the images to form a line, a sentence, a mathematical equation that can be read from left to right. The show at Live Worms was interesting...but I was never sure if it really worked or not. Now this is getting closer to something that really works for me. Exciting stuff. Frank is still messing with the hanging but sent me a jpg of it as it goes up, at bottom.

Work In Progress Photo By Frank Rapant