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Merry Christmas 2011 / Happy New Year 2012

admin — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:21:39 +0000

Merry Christmas, heading into 2012, a year I never thought would come. Meanwhile downtown Detroit, a streetside window on Woodward sends it’s bright light holiday chill into the air. Plenty of seats left for singing, souping and lecturing.

Photobook “state fair” Now At Blurb

mvrf2 — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:19:22 +0000

My new photobook “state fair” available at Blurb. Photo documentation of one of the last State Fairs held in Detroit, Michigan (2005) before funding ran out. Photographed with a Leica M6 on Fujichrome Velvia 100F 35 mm slide film, cross-processed into negatives.

Machine Empty…

admin — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 16:45:24 +0000

Do not use. Recent scan from cross-processed neg, 2005 Michigan State Fair. Near the end.

Detroit Painting

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:09:32 +0000

Nestled there in the pines off of Woodward Avenue, downtown Detroit, a lovely painting. Steps from the sidewalk, out of all context. Part of a DIA “out of home” display. Near the Fox Theater.

SuperChurch Detroit

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:19:54 +0000

I see from South Woodward Ave. a new spire going up. If you could look around to the side of this construction you’d see that it spans a dozen or so football fields. I mean this is going to be big. HUGE.

Fresh Cuts of Faux

admin — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 19:15:49 +0000

Downtown carnival with a new prize offering: fresh hanging cuts of fury faux lions and tigers. Like fuzzy sides of meat in a butcher’s playland. Or something like that. (Shhh…they’re sleeping…)

Non-Rangefinder Break

admin — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:19:16 +0000

Like many snap addicts across the land, I have been living with a condition known as Hipstamatic. I hear it will naturally run its course and leave the system in weeks. But right now I am in the thick of it. Fun but fake old photos. And returning to my home via Amtrak, passing through Detroit, I hade to do a Hipstamatic study outside the train windows. Here are but a few of what I could get in between the iPhone choking on low processing power:

Start A Juicy Day

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:50:51 +0000

At the counter of an area Coney Island. A hint of health behind (or in front of) every chili cheese fry and coney dog.

Dave Bennett Recording Session

admin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:27:54 +0000

Recently was invited by Ed Wolfrum to a Detroit recording session for Dave Bennett, clarinet phenom deluxe. If you like Benny Goodman (think Carnegie Hall 1938), you’ll be very surprised. CD from this session forthcoming. Go to www.davebennett.com for release and show information.

Big Time Wrastlin’

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:45:00 +0000

Fourth of July, 2009. Mexican Town wrestling match downtown Detroit. Absolute genius. Finest theater since Shakespeare. It really went to the street and stopped traffic. Here, a baby sleeps through the excitement. One day she can say she missed Chuck Wagon beat the tar out of the man in the foreground on Vernor Hwy. Rematch coming Labor Day Weekend.