SHIT MATTERS, NOV 04

  

this is a big candy ball that i made in halifax, it was supposed to disintegrate, but people started licking it, and then it was smashed. whenever i wonder what the hell i have done with my life since high school, i just look at pictures and its like, whoa... i made shit,

 and shit matters.

STAGE SWIMMERS, NOV 08

stage swimmer at rest

note swimmer,  stage right.

ghost cats at play.

what the hell is with stage swimmers? laying and rollin all around as the band plays.. like, what the...? 

GET OFF THE STAGE !! 

we know your own band sucks, but palease, just let us enjoy this band without your face gettin all in our bizniss. 

SKATEPARK, NOV 08

straight from the book of bokonon, this was a post-sushi adventure that ended up with bruised knees and a renewed appreciation for the coolly unconcerned lost boys of millenium park. the nonchalance of the night and their willingness to let whatever photographs i wanted to take, be taken. there was no posing or awkwardness because i think, skateboarders are always just doing and moving and falling and getting back up again. like, nobody even cares... nobody is even watching.

this is probably my favourite grouping of photographs in a long time. skateboarding photographers are always lookin' for the moves... the landing of the crazy trick... documenting  the goods. and uhh, i caught none of that. and i didn't even want too. to be fucking vague, i just wanted something that said something about the kind of night it was. 

BRIGHT FLASHES, DANGER

these people would just like to say...

"you can rock on... HARD!"

BAD HABITS

suddenly we were running through the co-op parking lot feeling like we were going to throw-up.

we drew some crummy doodles, ate some expensive chocolate, took bad pictures and psychoanalysed each other to degrees far beyond necessity

HALLOWEEN OTHER, OCT 08

dead shriners, eric and ryan sadler.

HIGH RIVER, OCT/NOV 08

GEISHAS, OCT 08

note the pursed lips.

ta-da!

geisha babies rocked the premiere halloween event. posin', and posturing, and actin' all japanesey... these ladies knew how to please the crowd of best friends and creepy awkward strangers. that's what i call talent!

GHOST CATS, OCT 08

ghost cats take the cake, the best costumes ever

these ladies not only knew how to be ghost cats, they knew how to rock the ghost cat like it had never been rocked. claw the ghost cat claws like they had never been clawed. and otherwise demonstrate to everyone at the party that their costumes are doo-doo lame. and then there's shawn at the top, who was wearing a lot of leopard print, and i kept asking him "so, are you a leopard...?"

 and he never even responded.

THE OLD APARTMENT, OCT 08

CRAZY EYES, OCT-NOV 08

SEPTEMBER 08

portrait of a young man in his childhood bedroom

and acting like a blue alien

NOSE HILL, SEPT 08

lori

DAUPHIN MANITOBA, AUGUST 08

baby lilly

i went to Dauphin with some friends, it's amazing that you can drive to Winnipeg in 12 hours! i did this pigeon in celebration of baby sophia's birth, she was born with the same sun that shines, refracted, into the lens, on this day

BURNING MAN, 2006

harry

bun bun

big e and pink geotensic tent bun and i built

on the last day of burning man 06, bunny and i found a disposable camera kicking around the bar at pink mammoth, so we took some pictures and brought it home. i completely forgot the camera existed and it hung around under my bed in some boxes of dusty junk for two years. i really should have checked out how many pictures were taken on the thing, because when i developed it, the film was super colour saturated and only had the 6 pictures that we took on it.