goodbye dc!

Have we talked about how much I like...

Stephen Schuster's work?

Oh Hey, Other People Publish my Photographs Sometimes

So Saturday I attended Capitol Punishment and shot it for my friend Bobby, who works at the City Paper for an entry he was writing for their blog. It was my first time ever really shooting a band, I'm pretty pleased with my results.

Ponytail was great as was to be expected...


Screaming Females was the other highlight...epic riffage forever...


More on my flickr, and more in the coming days.

NEW YORK CITY SPRING BREAK '82!

Can't Stop, Won't Stop

So the friday before last, my good friend Farley Miller had a recital for his senior thesis, and one man 8-bit/experimental project, Cannot Be Stopped. He held it in the recital hall at the Katzen Arts Center here at American, and it was great and interesting to hear him in a really different space (both acoustically and physically).








Also, I recently decided to try out my new scanner with some old prints I just found, so expect more of that soon. Here's one of my favorite prints i've ever made and my first scan with the new scanner. I think it came out alright. This is a shot I took of Jose De Lara from Protokoll that I took back in the summer of 2007 for an assignment for a class.

Submitted for the approval...

of the Midnight Society...

nomenclature

So I figured I should mention something about the new title of this blog. It comes from my English translation of a Spanish translation of a quote by Sci-Fi Novelist J.G. Ballard, author of the book Crash, adapted to the David Cronenberg film. In Spanish, it reads "El Futuro Será Aburrido" and it was the title for an exhibition at CCCB. I latched onto this phrase mainly because really the future will be boring. Where is my flying car? Where is my hover board? But more seriously, perhaps I identify with this phrase differently than Ballard meant it when he said it, likely because I encountered it decontextualized. I identify in that our futures that actually matter, our foreseeable futures, will be boring. We will keep going to work, keep driving our same cars, keep going to the same stores, eating the same things, seeing the same buildings walking to our homes, the list goes on. But I feel this may be where the power of photography lies, and I know there is nothing radically new in this statement but I feel it dovetails nicely with the Ballard quote, photography allows us to radically reimagine the spaces we inhabit on a daily basis and gives us the tools to elevate the banal to the academic and artful.

"I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again ... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul."
-J.G. Ballard, Interview