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By Request

Alright, so I’ve had multiple requests to see the pieces I displayed recently at the fundraiser for Help the Children of Ecuador. This is for those of you who live out of state and couldn’t make it. The rest of you who live in town and simply declined to drop by — you have lame excuses and I would hide this post from you if possible. :-D

(I kid! I kid!)

Some of these you may have seen before. The first ten were shown at 12×18, and the last 7 were roughly 15×23. (And I’m just sayin’, but they look awesomer large and in person than tiny on a computer screen…) A few are music pieces from various artists I’ve shot live over the past few months. The six black & whites span five different states — California, Virginia, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. The abstract light images are from an evening spent at Port of Long Beach. The abstract color mess is a bartender in Austin. And of the remaining color images, two are from Point Dume, Malibu and the last was taken when Heather took me to Edward’s Crossing over South Yuba River in Nevada County, California. (Miss you, Girl, by the way!)

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Perfect 10s

Houston, March 6th

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Halloween

I actually got dressed up and went out for Halloween. For the first time in. five. years.

Anyway, Kerry and I attended a party hosted by Fashion Industry Gallery in Dallas and had a blast.

Decor.

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Lights outside the building. The little white light is the moon.

Self-portrait. Yes, in the restroom.

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Girl talking on phone in "office" (restroom.)

Appropriately Halloween-creepy.

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Cornucopia, July 18th

While hunting for houses in Houston back in July, I claimed one night for myself and attended an art show in Huntsville I’d been long anticipating. Braving vicious thunderstorms, Kerry, Heather, and I made the long drive up from Houston, made even longer by the stop-and-go traffic that hindered our egress through the heart of the city, the blinding sheets of rain, and an almost palpable fog at times. At some point north of Houston the rain cleared suddenly, sunshine broke, and we flew the rest of the way.

The first annual counter-culture art show of Huntsville featured the works of Kevin Sechelski, Jamie Winn, Beeks, Jody Donaho, Jeru Gabriel, Y. E. Torres, and Julie Zarate. It was a bit smaller and less populated than we expected, but we had a splendid time anyway. The after party was a blast, too. I know it’s been f.o.r.e.v.e.r. but I just wanted to share images of the lovely Julie Zarate and Jamie Winn with their respective work.

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Giant Mimosa

This is hands down the largest mimosa I have ever seen in person. It’s sitting right off 287 at a rest stop somewhere between Fort Worth and Wichita Falls. (I know: that’s helpful.) It’s utterly breathtaking! There was just no way for me to do this beautiful tree justice in just a few quick snaps. I’ve included one with Ryan standing in it to try and put the size in perspective.

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Beeks!

Alright, I couldn’t resist. I need to add these to the images from neopopstreetfunk. I spent a few minutes with a rather drunken artist by the moniker Beeks. Apparently drunken artists make compelling subjects. Observe:

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On April 4th, Heather and I had the pleasure of attending a wonderful show here in Houston. The artists included Kevin Sechelski, Nicky Davis, Robert Hodge, David Wilhelm, Julie Zarate, Beeks, Jamie Winn, Vanessa Baron, Fidel Ordonez, and William Witte. I just wanted to share a handful of my favorites that I feel capture the essence of the night:

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Once Upon A Blue Muse

On the 9th of this month, Heather and I were privileged to attend a show of the Coronation Vintage Fall ’09 collection, Once Upon A Blue Muse. The show was fabulous. (In fact, the whole night bordered on perfect.) It was out back of AvantGarden, a quirky little bar (if you could really even call it that,) with two levels inside, and a lovely area out. The first thing Heather and I noticed walking up was the smell of jasmine. Mmmmm. And I did discover firsthand that the tiny bathroom upstairs lacks air conditioning… and gets rather hot rather quickly, (even after midnight,) in the torrid heat of May in Houston.

To be completely honest, I got distracted talking, (social butterfly that I am.) And as a result, my camera didn’t get nearly as much use as I intended! I did have some fun experimenting. (Well, to whatever degree a controlled experiment where I have a good idea what the outcome will be is wont to happen. Although, to be fair, I did shoot a good portion of these with my camera in my right hand and my sangria in my left.) I wanted to capture as much of the ambient light as possible, (as little of it as there was,) so I boosted my ISO, got low, wide angles and dragged my shutter (in some more than others.) I was pleased with the effect, which I feel verges on dreamy, ethereal, romantic… too bad I didn’t shoot as much as planned!

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