01.2010the Cloisters

many layers, some art, and a threat of fist-pumping while looking across the Hudson to Jersey.

Britt meets my nose

saint britt

gold leaf

Camping in the Catskills

Packed up three cars, 16 people, and a ridiculous amount of food and beer.

the McMahon zip car- YES!

Farm Stand in Woodstock

sketchy roadside tattoo trailer- no thanks

my nature art

fresh guacamole

30 minutes from the camp site was a half mile trail that lead to this amazing waterfall. the climb got more difficult the higher you went. definitely going back this summer so i can swim since the air temperature was 50 degrees that weekend…

view from the ridge that went behind the fall and someone with more guts than me swimming in the freezing water.

matt and soohang making their way along the ridge

i’m not sure what soohang is doing here

there’s an evil side to soohang

Late Spring seen through a lomo camera

yeah, it’s been a while- forgot i had a couple rolls of film

SF

tree

bay

golden gate

alcatraz

“Brotherhood in all corners of the world”

books that light up at night

slanty

Brooklyn

feast in prospect park

birthday girl

twister in public

SF

3.5 day trip to SF with jay (in the rain).

flew in at night on a thursday, checked in, ate soup and drank a pitcher of beer. woke up and ate a great brunch then walked a good majority of the city.

apple chicken sausage

i fell in love with the buildings- they all had a unique charm and were painted crazy colors while maintaining the characteristics and details of the original construction.

SF is sign-crazy. this one was actually cool.

there’s absolutely no fun allowed in the golden gate park

we stumbled on a museum where you can walk up a tower and get a 360 degree view of SF

this was in the lobby

this was a few minutes before jay was shot in the chest by a rogue sprinkler. don’t worry, he deserved it.

we then took a bus and walked halfway over the bridge before a rain storm rolled in over the bay

these guys were surfing at the base of the bridge and had to dodge the rocks

SF love

when in rome- do a gay pose in SF with an umbrella on the golden gate bridge

how about 2?

dude! you’re a grown man!

fun times

the rain let up a little and we took a short bus ride to the beginning of lumbard street. i don’t know how many miles it was but it doesn’t matter since we walked up and over, then down to the wharf for In-N-Out Burger.

this was my favorite house

at the top

“eat shit”

stuffed

jay walked out and said- “it’s happy hour, $10 pitchers!” and then walked directly into hooters without respect for my opinion.

RC colas and whiskey

we then met up with jay’s friend jerry and this is his fridge with a random collage of decorations

and then a bar had $3 24oz red stripes

the next morning we met jerry and peter for breakfast before heading to the redwood forrest. poor peter ordered the most pathetic grilled cheese i’ve ver seen. but hey, it’s organic.

redwood forrest in the rain, hungover, dragging our feet.

if a tree falls in the woods…

taco joint

$5 loans

fiat

on the edge of china town

tourists

blinking book lights

Part one in a four part series involving a tattoo gun and my left arm.

the background to this will be done after outlining the outside part of my arm so it links up seamlessly.

Early Spring

so my lomo broke, then i fixed it, then i shot like crazy over the past few weeks, now it’s uploaded.

bloody mary’s with jay

poobie going nuts over the nip

jon in red

mccarren pool in williamsburg

the camera pretty much broke after taking this picture

then i had a few drinks, took it apart, figured out what was wrong, and put it back together minus one mystery piece.

box goes on another field trip

weird beauty in midtown

grace in midtown

color in midtown

will in midtown

verizon in midtown

best graphic on the back of a truck ever

benny waiting for the J train

just shades….really.

hell yeah on the new museum

manjulali (my favorite child not related to me) in front of deities in the lower east side.

me and poobie

jon in yellow

“don’t chain your bikes to my fence”

williamsburg

union square dog kennel

adam and his trashy skateboard

shl, benny and adam (matt is not pictured) on our way to meet chris and his family at central park.

chris with his son in central park

adam in central park

cat’s 28th birthday bbq at prospect park

greens

blues

03.11.09- Lomo

some images from a couple of test rolls from my new lomo thanks to melinda.

waiting to eat Pho with Jon

williamsburg

Chelsea

Jon and Joon

diCorcia exhibition- 1,000 Polaroids

Sundays with Penny

oh, hello. my name is jason, here’s my heart, it’s yours…

additional coney island pics

forgot two…

Coney Island in Winter 01.2009

the past few months have been slow for my photographs, i’ve felt uninspired- perhaps it’s the winter and seasonal depression, maybe it’s 12 hr work days in a dark room behind 3 monitors that seem to glow criticism in my direction, maybe i’m making excuses. but i overheard someone on the train talking about coney island getting torn down and i instantly wanted to go with some friends and my camera. i love beaches in the winter because it brings a different perspective on a regular summer activity and i tend to notice more, walk slower, and apparently shoot 200 pictures in 2 hours. what made this day great was the snow storm that rolled in just as we left my apartment- i began to visualize the photographs and got antsy on the drive over. the photo spark that went out at the end of summer feels like it’s been re-lit.

matt and benny

what’s left of the haunted roller coaster…

benny dropping knowledge, matt warning soohang about loose wires that are probably still active, and jay is most likely texting andrea on his asshole phone.

soohang

we finally made our way down to the beach and came across a dog having the best day of it’s life.

what’s left of the volley ball courts.

as we walked along the boardwalk three hasidic jews came out with huge black umbrellas and headed towards the water. i pretty much ran down the boardwalk, on ice, in tread-less clarks, to get these two shots that are by far my favorite from the entire day. the balance i displayed on the icey boardwalk would bring tears to an olymic figure skater and brian boytanno is slitting his wrists as we speak out of pure jealousy.

“shoot the freak”……ok.

nathan’s cheese dogs and a $3.50 killians. ’nuff said.

a frenzy of unwrapping.

everyone- “that building across the street looks interesting.”

me- “the balcony reminds me of the scene in spiderman where the goblin blows it up and almost kills kirsten dunst….good scene.”

12.20.08

Woke up this morning to this lovely scene outside my apartment. Guess someone got fucked up last night…

Holiday Card with my amazing roomies. Photo by Huong Nguyen

From my office party at 1 Oak in NYC. This wall is absolutely amazing and i want to steal it.

11.09.08- Breakfast at the Hathaways

the hosts

Bloody Marias

a 20 year old brass french press that mike managed to break 10 minutes later while composting the coffee grinds.

composting

home cooking

mike is a renaissance man of automobiles- ford festiva and ford diesel truck

circa 2000- “i hate those assholes that talk on the phone when you’re hanging out with them, i’ll never be that guy.”- mike

GO-BAMA: tears, beers, and a DJ that should be shot.

hipsters contemplating a riot: give them a break, they’re not used to being filled with this much joy, at least they care about something.

a sad and lonely republican contemplates forms of suicide…and what he should do with his 401k in a volatile market.

ross erin “feeling” the significance of history being made…

and the beers too.

that says it all.

time to go

10.2008

i’m the middle shelf…guess i’m a minimalist.

Brooklyn Botanicals

probably over $25,000 worth of koi in this shot

a shot of the brooklyn museum’s “storage” section that they turned into a movable exhibition. the paintings are mounted on metal sliding walls that can be arranged in an infinite amount of ways….pretty brilliant.

night-time walk over the brooklyn bridge with some company, beer, and a camera

woke up to a sunny 72 degree saturday in october and decided to give myself a photo project for the day- shoot murals in williamsburg.

west williamsburg and the manhatten skyline

benny’s friend lindsay saw this on our way to a yard sale and jumped right in…gayest van i’ve ever seen

Belated Apt Warming BBQ

a very belated apt warming party that should have been thrown back in july. the first day of fall, beautiful weather, 20 some-odd friends, food and beer….life is good. i really dropped the ball on taking a lot of pics so some of these are from benny.

i spent about 1.5 hours grilling for our guests- 5lbs of hand packed italian sausage, who knows how many hot dogs, 4lbs of chicken featuring my custom rub, 2lbs of chicken with maker’s mark bbq sauce, and “rat tails” brought by matt which is a hollowed out jalapeno with a jumbo shrimp stuffed inside and wrapped in bacon.

kyle coming up the ladder of death

the vegetarian grill being manned by shannon

kyle is head of his fraternity at williamsburg university thanks to moves like this

your hosts

me- D-R-U-N-K

the lovely shannon

the typically regal benny, looking absolutely psychotic. notice the pink stripe down the front of his baby blue button down dress shirt, one dapper gentleman

and this is what happens when i leave my camera unattended around annie