Helluva span documented here. When I needed to get a grip on my work, class, reading and project schedule my first year of art school, I found these weekly calendar/journals from moleskine fit my brain so well and have used them without fail every year since then. Wrote down quotes, documented all the movies I watched and books I read, stashed concert ticket stubs and weird subway pamphlets. I have carried one of these calendars every day for 15 years and feel totally adrift without it, way more than if I leave my phone at home. @moleskine sponsor me? Also plz bring back the international reference pages at the front, they made me feel so cultured

Glad news today that one of my eclipse photos (2017, Missouri, detail hereof) is going to grace the cover of a book. More details when it's officially announced. 🌚

I left KC when I was 18, but the parts that could still make me feel like home were the West Bottoms and everything else Downtown.... Crossroads, Westport, Strawberry Hill, etc etc. A lot (a LOT) has changed about KC in the nearly two decades I have been gone, but I am especially dismayed to learn about the proposed development in the Bottoms. On top of the proposal to demolish the Crossroads and build a football stadium (don't even get me started), it makes me so sad for all the little weirdos like me who need this vibrant oasis in an otherwise depressingly homogeneous city. I think it's time to revisit the little snippet I captured of this beautiful wasteland. I didn't like most of these photos at the time. Funny how things change, but one thing that shouldn't change is this grungy heart of KC. Shout out to @keepthewestbottomsweird

Still riding the high from last week's mixer. Lucky for me, @chloesartjournal took this photo of the work showcase table. This was the part of the night I most wanted to happen: people sharing their work, ideas, and experiences. There was such vibrant creative energy, everyone doing something different even when working with the same techniques. Vermont is truly spoiled for artists and I'm excited to keep people coming together.

Well, I didn't take any photos at the mixer, but I took these two photos before and after, so that will have to do. Thank you so much to everyone who made it from far and wide to share their art and excitement over handmade photography. Tintypes, cyanotypes, polaroids, hand-stitched books, silver gelatin, and inkjet were all represented. I'm so thrilled to share creative space and abundant enthusiasm with you all. More soon!

Latest roll off the Rollei. I make so many dorky mistakes with this one, but it's my dedicated camera for the next several months til I get it into my bones. Phone photos inverted in LR and taken while negs were hanging up to dry. Thus the weird side stripes (shiny water streaks) and the strange texture (the paper plate I held behind them for contrast). We're not Ansel-Adams-precious here.

Calling all Central Vermont and Upper Valley photographers to come out of the woods and meet each other! Bring work in any state of completion Bring your questions and hopes for the WRCC darkroom---currently the only public darkroom between Burlington and Brattleboro. BYOB

One of the exciting projects I have cooking this summer is a projected video sequence for an experimental Shakespeare show. Here are some stills from the first shoot day, taken right up the road from my house. Last 2 are just off my phone so I can brag about my ridiculous Vermont Subaru lifestyle. Slide 3 uses my beloved moon filter from @spektremeffects I'm looking forward to sharing the final video here later this summer.

Open Studios was awesome. Before folks came in to see the darkroom, I managed to develop the last black and white mystery roll from my dad's stash. It's 616 film, aka 70mm--IMAX size. This probably was shot with a Brownie. Tank reels for this size are really hard to find, though there is a method of rigging 2 Patterson reels together. I tried a few months ago, but the film was wound so tight, there was no coaxing it into the grooves. I said some prayers and developed it by dunking it into a pitcher of HC-110. I was able to drag the film through enough that I ended up with...5 shots of something. It might be my grandparents' house? Negatives are dense and show a lot of damage from 50 years of being pressed against the backing paper. But this was the final roll before I attempt developing the very fragile color film.

Pulled together some prints and cyanotype business cards for @wrcraftcenter open studios 🎞🚨🎞 Here 10-5 today and tomorrow. Turn the spaceship door and say hi!