back in march and october i had the chance to spend a few days visiting matt nathanson in silver lake, california, where he was recording his new album, modern love. matt was the very first person i met at college. he was a year ahead of me and had volunteered to mentor incoming freshmen during [...]

last sunday morning i got a phone call from sebastian. i hadn’t seen him in almost eight years, i think, but we were facebook friends. he said apologetically, “my wife said i was crazy to call someone at 9:30 in the morning on a sunday, but i thought it’d be all right.” it was fine. [...]

ramping up to a new website design i’ve been spending some time this week searching through old archives for things i might’ve overlooked before. the other day i came across this out-take of flavor flav from 2004. originally shot for a short-lived and well-intentioned publication called “pink and the almighty”, at the time i had [...]

coming up for air after a few very busy months, i’ve been going back through things and find there are just a whole lot of straggler images from 2010 (and the first part of this year) that i’ve yet to post. in the next several weeks i hope to catch up a bit, including starting [...]

this past winter brought two visitors to LA. in march i was able to meet up with tim archibald when he was down from san francisco just for the day. it was a brief visit, but even in the rush back to the airport tim was still gracious enough to let me take his picture [...]

losing a child is an unimaginable grief. when it happens it seems to be against the very rules of the game. we are supposed to be survived by our children. that’s just the way the world works, isn’t it? the things that parents do to come to terms with such a loss are as varied [...]