2008

Jul

Reaching for the Out of Reach 30: Boys behind a snow fort,...

SELFPORTRAIT W/CANDY CIGARETTE

THIS IS MY BRAND after a nice italian dinner & fancy...

FEVER MATH No. 5

Herb rains laughter is the same letter progression as Her brain slaughter. ps. like crosswords w/out...

Worldwide Love Vibe Detected

Reaching for the Out of Reach 29: Men on Middle Street,...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 28: Boy, drum & dog on a...

Jun

IN PROGRESS

in an apartment on the top floor i held myself against the cold, shivering & sick w/out sleep or...

LA DOLCE VITA sorry about the focus… i am not a...

NEW BOOK illustrations from a 1938 edition of tom...

2:11 AMa record playing…

LAST FLICKR OF DAYLIGHTmoving out of the LSD house...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 27: Putnam Machine Company,...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 26: Women working at a long...

“room? womb! womb for rent.”
— OVERHEARD: Market &...

CITY SQUAREour reading lamps & television sets are...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 25: Kids help their uncle tap...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 24: Dinner time at a cowboy...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 23: A dog rests outside a log...

REJECT THE REJECTERS

the doorman at my office building doesn’t do his job very well. i don’t mind at all....

SONGS IN THE SUN #3this camera died a spectacular death last summer. recently the hardware blinked...

“ultimately, my fantasy is to stop making lunches.”
— OVERHEARD: Geary & Hyde.

Reaching for the Out of Reach 22: Two men take out ore in a...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 21: A street vendor balances a...

AHHHHH MEGA-ZINE, No. 3

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE FEATURING WORK BY:charlie lumanlan (flickr)beth ables (email)adam garland...

WE HAVE TIDES IN OUR BLOOD& songs in the dark.

TONITE, LAST NITE, TOMORROW NITEshould be sleeping… up...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 20: American Civil War...

“i don’t know how she can screw up a wig like that.”
— OVERHEARD: 1st &...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 19: A train runs between large...

TRAFFIC JAM

if cursivebuildings.com was a highway, we’d all be bumper to bumper this week… serious....

PARAGRAPHS FROM A NOVEL I'LL NEVER...

The next morning, sunlight brought me out of bed, into the streets before noon. I stopped at the...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 18: A buffalo causes a stir in...

I am Sisyphus - expired slide film

IDEAS, NOT IDEALS

IDEAS, NOT IDEALS

Philippe Petit is a French artist who used a 450-pound cable...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 17: Cassiano indian at San...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 16: Amateur barber during the...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 15: Horseshoe Curve in the...

Home is Everywhere: “Nous avons vu des astresEt des...

TRAGEDY + COMEDY = PEACE OF MIND

epic cities w/canyon streets like these echo day & night w/the sound of a thousand tragic...

AHHHHH MEGA-ZINE, No. 2

FREE DOWNLOAD HERE FEATURING WORK BY:anthony sacco (website)sarajo frieden (website)jamie lawson...

HOME PLANETmy s.francisco (via)

THE (CODED) MORAL OF A (TRUE) STORY

i step into a bagel shop on mission this morning for breakfast. inside it’s quiet w/cups &...

CASUAL TIES OF WAR: A Flickr Comic

KARAJAN CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S FIFTHmovements i & ii (1966)

KARAJAN CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN’S FIFTHmovements iii & iv (1966)

3:02 AM

today i listened to beethoven’s symphonies in order, one to nine. i played them very loud...

May

Let the Street Write its...

SOMEWHERE OVER THE FOGBOWrainbow + fog - rain = nasa’s...

“hey, no deal. he already has his teeth out.”
— OVERHEARD: Church &...

NEIGHBORHOOD LIVING ROOMSonce there was this place that...

I AM THE BOY W/OUT THE FUTUREselfportrait at the cusp of...

AHHHHH MEGA-ZINE, No. 1

DOWNLOAD HERE FEATURING WORK BY:joshua longbrake (website)michelle k. anderson (website)pamela...

“since the dot-com bust, i’ll try any & all ways to...”
— OVERHEARD: Burrito joint on...

HALFSQUATCH: A SERIAL NOVEL

Portland, OregonDecember twenty-seven, 2 thousand 5 [ ps....

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

i’m floored by the staggering talent of my friends, of acquaintances & anonymous...

WE ARE A CITY OF CAVE DWELLERSi left the air-conditioned...

“narnia ain’t got shit on me, narnia ain’t got...”
— OVERHEARD: Giants Game.

MAJOR LEAGUE B. BALLERSwe’ve been into coca cola...

FUN FACT

a bedroom in the old victorian on duboce park where my girlfriend lives used to be one of the...

CAFFE BIANCO the sun is a shining white lie - it’s cold outside.i lie below, between your...

I was struggling w/words in the window above, doing pushups...

this is a photo of my girlfriend & i, front &...

I became a photographer the day I realized my camera is only...

ERNEST HEMINGWAY, JUNE 1901one month before his second...

NEW STUDY: Chemical Composition of Vintage...

IMAGINARY VOCABULARY

DUDIO \DOOD-ee-oh\ noun:one-room, inner-city bachelor pad.example sentence: clancy’s tiny...

VETIVER AT THE GREAT AMERICANi first heard san...

“i set the record straight. i was like barack obama in...”
— OVERHEARD: Taylor &...

the sun is a shining white liei lie below, between your...

Capitalism at all costs. [ note: unaltered polaroid |...

CITIES HAVE CURSIVE SKYLINES THAT WEAVE...

cities are such BULLSHIT. cities are some pillars in a sea of people. nothing more. & these...

it’s so hard to be human here, so hard to be soft...

expired slide film

ALCHEMY

Love takes bodies & makes them magnets.

Piss at Corner: In America, even bums follow directions.

Auto Erotic: Cars are so lovely when they’re...

The Tangled History of Typewriters & Guns

Apr

EXCLAMATION POINTSthis morning i found a polaroid screenshot...

“no, i like the fettuccine. i just don’t like the...”
— OVERHEARD: Front &...

FLICKR AS A GAME YOU CANNOT WIN

FEVER MATH No. 4

Car in golden dings is the same letter progression as Caring old endings.

`Umikûmâlima - expired slide film

THE STATE OR CONDITION IN WHICH HUMAN...

tonite at the grocery store, i watched a fat man take a candy bar w/out paying & then get...

“he wants me to make a killin’.”
— OVERHEARD: 1st &...

Brazil: Rescuers Fail to Find Priest Carried...

2 Girls Reading, 1 Bird Feeding: Foreground, middleground,...

JASON LEVINS PRESENTS THE SKELETON DANCEjason levins of...

`Umikûmâkolu - expired film

QUE CERA SERA

this morning i realized michael cera is our generation’s bob newhart.& dudes! i have...

SEWER PEACE 2008when the top is old & cold, maybe start...

SONGS IN THE SUN #2my favorite space to place anxieties is w/in a chord sequence. it’s an ok...

STUDY: Secondhand Smoke Linked To Secondhand...

ROOM W/A VIEWsometimes i feel like a guest in my own...

`Umikûmâkahi - expired film

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i stumbled out the door of my office & straight into caroline rhea after work this afternoon....

PILE OF PHOTOGRAPHS

i apologize for the weight of photo after photo here lately. i have so many from recent travels that...

RADICAL BANNER (via rach)

`Eiwa - expired slide film

NEW TUNE IN PROGRESS look at the morning the way you look at medoe-eyed, you’re fawning for...

EN ROUTEfrom one half of vacation to the other. (via...

“she said no sex. ahh i’d rather drink beer anyway....”
— OVERHEARD: Larkin &...

The Model by the Photographer

The Photographer by the Model - polaroid by matea

`Ehiku - expired slide film

`Eono - expired film

`Elima - expired film

COUGHING COFFIN COFFEEif i had money, i wouldn’t...

`Ehâ - expired slide film [ this photo was featured on the...

`Elua - expired film

`Ekahi - expired film

WAVES

my father is a pilot. he took me flying before i could walk properly &, as a child, i had many...

Bee Aye Cee Kay: I try to understand why a beautiful photo...

Mar

ANSWERING MACHINE (CALL BACK MID-APRIL)

CURSIVEBUILDINGS:this phrase was first a songwriting moniker. for years i wrote & wrote &...

Selfportrait: Spring 2008 Our lives are measured in many...

CETTE CHANSON EST POUR LITTLE GIRL by LEO LONDONmy friend happens to be the greatest songwriter...

PREPARATIONS

it’s cool tonite in s.francisco. i sat on the stoop, warmed by the fire of a cappuccino &...

COHEN IN HYDRAone half of the equation, sketched in ink...

IF I COULD LISTEN, I THINK

my soul is an unfocused collaboration of l.cohen & the velvet underground.

German fighter ace claims he shot down the...

“when i get up in the morning… my real concern is to...”
— LEONARD COHEN, 1964(“if...

DRUNKEN IDIOTS: A PARABLE

they appear, these men, every holiday weekend…drunk in the streets & yelling because they...

A Visual Theory of All Art: <art>birth ›...

SONGS IN THE DARK #3hear a recorded demo version here. SitD#2. (via vimeo)

€U > U$

the american economy is no longer the largest in the world. it feels sort of nice. maybe now we stop...

Angelic Melancholic, 2008: He smokes… nearly all of it...

TO SEE THE PAST BETTER

please click on the date or plus sign next to each photograph for the raddest view. there are so...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 14: Vine-covered structure in...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 13: Broadway, New York City,...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 12: Photographer 18 stories...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 11: “Powder...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 10: Cooking classes at...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 9: Coffee cargo &...

REACHING FOR THE OUT OF REACH

i’m breathing new life into the past using old digitized photographs from the new york public...

Reaching for the Out of Reach 1: Spring Street during the...