youtube friday

Tim posted these on his new blog. They are MUST SEE!!!





Found this on Zoe's blog... so funny.





And thanks to the Post Family for this one.

DAVEY! Look!

Dude it was good to catch up today. Here is a link to that interview I was telling you about: HERE. See you soon d bag.

Along the Way (2008)

I added a ton of photos from 2008 to the site. Check 'em out:
Along the Way (2008)

some links:

Not sure how I never came across this before, but I'm pretty sure it's my new favorite website: American Suburb X





NYC artists and friends and all around rad dudes, Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin, have a new book out! They have been hard at work at it for a long time. Check this shit out FOR SURE: Increase-Decrease





This dude has some rad work too: Linus Bill

Davey III (NEW!)

Finally got a new edit up of my guy Davey and his crazy antics. See it here: Davey III

ohhighoh!

Brandon came in from Portland and we went to Ohio for the weekend
to see some family.











We got $3.50 redbulls and some medicine al a carte.












Brandon found these shades and never took them off.












I did a portrait of my Grandpa in his bedroom.












Then my Dad found us.












My grandma got jealous and wanted one of herself.












We went to OB's Bar, where there were so many hot girls.












My dad pulled out his long lens and expensive tripod.












I met my new second cousin, Leo. I liked his toys more than him.












My other cousins made me play this game in the basement.












Brandon and I went to Toledo's downtown convention center, where
they were having a RV show.

























We stopped for one last coffee.












And Brandon found this.

some snaps

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couple articles

Happy Holidays!!! Here are a couple articles I came across today. They are a bit old, so maybe you've seen them already...
Eggleston by Harmony Korine
Ryan Mcginley by Ryan Mcginley
Also found out you can now search the entire LIFE collection of photography through google. Just add "source:life" to any search. So sick.
Example: Apollo Space 1960's source:life
I've also been editing through thousands of photos (see above) from 2008 that I want to get together. Mostly snaps and shit of friends, stuff, and things. I always end up liking these types of photographs more than "real" work because, well, I think they are more "real". Anyway, keep an eye out for a edit on the website after the new year. Along with lots of new Davey work. xoxoxoxo!

miami

Art Basel weekend in Miami proved, again, to be crazy ass weekend. Here are a few that I liked off my G9, haven't got the all the film stuff back yet.

Darrin Behind Motel, Jumping Dog, and Bad Ass Pipe, 2008

I have a ton of new Davey work from the past 6 months that I have been a bit reluctant to put out on the internet because of some of the content. Anyway I guess I just have to get over that. Look for a new edit, Davey part III, on my site after the new year. It's gonna be good. In the meantime here are three new ones from this past week. Me, Davey, and Darrin drove along Harlem Ave. down through Summit for about an hour taking care of business then picked up Mitch and went to some girls house who's parents were gone at work. She had these big crazy dogs that were all stoned and acting crazy. That dog in the photograph was seriously jumping 4 feet in the air and slamming its face into the door. And that pipe, well it was just fucking huge. _b

Eggleston, Strauss, & Templeton

Happy Sunday. Here are three articles I came across this weekend worth having a look at. That new Zoe Strauss book looks AMAZING btw.
Eggleston
Strauss
Templeton

this week

whooaaaa, saw KISS, BARACK, and a STONED PANDA all in the matter of a week.... crazy!! _b

jalapenos and parking lots

Found this sad house in Stone City, IL. If you are ever out that way, near Lake and Mannheim Road, you have to check out DELUXE DINER. Amazing owners and food. They serve jalapenos with everything... my kind of people! _b

Think you're tough??

Jocelyn Bain Hogg has been photographing some thugs from London's Eastend for some time now. His pictures are bad ass, check him out. (The guy above just finished a bare knuckle fist fight.) _b

Website Down

My host is f-ing with my site! Should be back up shortly! _b

Shephen Shore

Traveled up to Milwaukee last weekend to see the Stephen Shore Biographical Landscape show at the Haggerty Museum of Art on Marquette's campus. The show was really good. Had lots of work from Uncommon Places and American Surfaces, but also had tons of early black and white work I had not seen before. Also a section of postcards he made with his own photographs in the early 70's and secretly placed at various stores throughout Texas that were unknowingly purchased. (all photos © Stephen Shore) _b

best dig yet...

Dawn and I stopped down at the Hyde Park Powell's this afternoon to see if they had anything worth picking up. $150.00 later I walked out with three bags of photo books. I go often because for some reason they overlook a ton of good stuff. In the past I have found titles such as Richard Billingham's "Rays a Laugh", William Eggleston's "Guide", Tina Barney's "The European's", Terry Richardson's "Son of Bob", and Tom Wood's "Bus Odyssey". All for a mere fraction of what they are actually worth. "Ray's a Laugh" was $12.50 and is worth like $700.00 bucks now. My brother actually got that one, not me. (fucker) Anyway the Hyde Park location still has a ton of good stuff. If you are in the area go there and bring your mobile internet device with amazon bookmarked so you compare the prices. You may be suprised... _b

ass whoopin

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five

the man with the camera, snaked, ducted, jack, like father like son. _b

another good link:

kick ass essay

Not quite sure when this was first posted... I guess I missed it. Anyway kick ass essay by Darius Himes. _b

from wooster collective...

Nokia

A couple months back I did some work for Nokia in conjunction with GenArt. Here are some of my favorites from the job. They sent me this crazy new 5 megapixel camera phone and asked me to photograph whatever I wanted. _b

Waldo's Garage

For a quick ten bucks or a sawbuck you too can get some grafiks from Waldo. (Waldo, Davey, and Darrin, 2008) _b

Winogrand Wannabe

Shit after watching that Gary Winogrand clip I hustled my ass down to Michigan Ave and attempted to make some "street" pictures. I forgot how hard it is.. but damn it is fun and good practice. Get your butt out there Guido! _b

Gary Winogrand on PBS

new book

I just got my new Blurb "Davey" book in the mail. I have to say the quality is better than I expected. It's not perfect, but for the cost I do think it is one of the best options out there to get a body of work into a book form. See it here.

BLURB photo book contest

Anyone else sending a book in for the BLURB photo book contest? I decided to last week and have been in full blown tunnel vision working on it. Their software has come a long way since the last time I looked at it. I'm reworking a new edit of the first three years of the Davey project. Keep a look out for more about this. Let me know if you are submitting anything for this contest, I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts. _b

various from the past couple weeks...

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davey's new friends

$20 tattoo and puke. _b

8x10 inches

See being a photographer does get you the ladies. _b

two things:

Really excited to be a part of both of these events. Make it out of you can. _b

and Davey's new grafiks:

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various from the past month

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my ladies

Heading to NYC for the art fairs this week. Maybe I'll see you there... _b

LIONS NEVER SLEEP, CHAMPIONS NEVER CRY

Go to this show. See photos from the last one here. It will be good.

a hand fulla middle fingers

As I said, that little punk loves to show me that middle finger of his. These five are just from the first 2 weeks I knew Davey. _b

Four from Los Angeles

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motherf@cker, so many times!!

i have a shit load of photos of Davey tossing the finger in to the camera, i think i could make a book on just that. i think they are rad though. _b

DNJ - Age of Innocence Opening

The ladies at DNJ were amazing. The show had a great turnout as well. I almost look like I know what I am talking about in this photo. I was also the only guy in Los Angeles to have a beard. _b

Every Bond Girl, 2008

46 years - 50 girls, lets see that's an average of about 1.09 girls a year. And we thought Bond was the king of seduction... _b

busy weekend / "Lady Liberty 1", 2008

Heading to Los Angeles this weekend for my first show out there. See it here. Two things happening in Chi not to miss:

5 from london

from a couple years ago. anyone know how those leica digital point and shoots are? the ones in the $400-$500 range? _b

5 from '07

i'm so sick of the cold. _b

Davey, In Doorway 2005Davey, In Doorway 2007

Found this today, I though it was pretty interesting... _b

up to no good

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something to believe in.

Been working hard on editing and laying out a side project, "something to believe in." A 45 image book with a quote by Albert Einstein should be wrapped up in a couple days. These are a few images from the book and the top one is the cover. word up. _b

happy holidays

Davey says try to take after him and have a little fun over the holidays. _b

5 different pictures

A couple random pictures from Walgreens film. _b

Davey and Dawn

Here are a couple new photos of Davey. The quality is shit because I just shot them super quick on a lightbox with a digital camera. The pictures are from the factories were he hangs a lot. And one of him and his girlfriend kissing. The last one is of Dawn a couple days after a crash on her bike. _b

Joe Dirt

This is one of my Dad's buddies. They call him Joe Dirt. _b

busy, busy

Things have been very busy for me the past couple months. I apologize for the infrequent postings. Have been working like crazy, hanging with Davey, and designing a new html webpage that should be complete soon. I am saving $$ to get one of those new iMacs to speed up my workflow. That's about it. Oh, heading to London next week with Bridge Art - should be very fun. _b

A Field Guide to the North American Family

The long awaited book by Garth Risk Hallberg is finally out! Contributing artists include:

Jordan Alport, Timothy Briner, Jessica Bruah, Kara Canal, Sandy Carson, Alana Celii, Janice Clark, Jason Curtis, John Paul Davis, Chris Eichler, Amy Elkins, Jason Falchook, Elizabeth Fleming, Catherine Gass, Hans Gindlesberger, Andres Gonzalez, Maury Gortemiller, Jonathan Gitelson, Jennifer Greenburg, Ben Huff, Christy Karpinski, Mickey Kerr, Liz Kuball, Michael Kwiecinski, Shane Lavalette, Jason Lazarus, Stacy Arezou Mehrfar, Nick Meyer, Matt Nighswander, Alexis Pike, Colleen Plumb, Gus Powell, Abby Powell-Thomas, John Putnam, Shawn Records, Rebecca Blume Rothman, Christopher D Salyers, Matthew Schenning, David Shulman, Kevin Sisemore, Brandon Sorg, Brian Sorg, Sai Sriskandarajah, Tema Stauffer, JJ Sulin, Brian Ulrich, Consider Vosu, Grant Willing.


PRESS RELEASE:
Mark Batty Publisher announces A Field Guide to the North American Family

New York, September 4, 2007: Mark Batty Publisher announces its first foray
into illustrated literary fiction: Garth Risk Hallberg¹s A Field Guide to
the North American Family, with accompanying website: www.afieldguide.com

For more information or to request a review copy, contact: pr@markbattypublisher.com

The story:
For years, the Hungates and the Harrisons have coexisted peacefully in the
suburbs of New York. But when the patriarch of one family dies, the
survivors face a stark imperative: adapt or face extinction.

In sixty-three entries and a website, A Field Guide to the North American Family offers a collaborative portrait of two fictional specimens and the environments they inhabit. Both established and up-and-coming photographers contributed this edition¹s lavish illustrations via the website an ongoing, networked internet community. The novella¹s entries can be read straight through, but alphabetical headings and cross referencing also enable readers to move through the narrative on their own as they see fit.

Part fiction, part reference work, part photo-essay, this singular Field
Guide invites readers and participants to consider the state of the family .
. . and to explore the future of the book, since visual content for a book
has never been generated this way before. Quite simply, this is a novella
like no other.

Garth Risk Hallberg, 28, will be included this fall in the anthology Best
New American Voices 2008 (Harcourt/Harvest Books), guest-edited by Richard
Bausch. His short stories have appeared in venues such as Glimmer Train,
Canteen, Evergreen Review, pindeldyboz, h2so4, and Em. Garth also writes
about books for the website, The Millions. His essay, titled Why James Wood
is Wrong About Underworld..., will appear in the fall issue of The Quarterly
Conversation. A graduate of New York University¹s M.F.A. program, where he
was a Starworks/Geduld Fellow, Garth earned the William H. Gass award for
fiction and the Leana Boysko essay prize as an undergraduate at Washington
University in St. Louis. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at Hofstra
University.

A Field Guide to the North American Family
Garth Risk Hallberg
Fiction, Media Studies
144 pages
Color throughout
Casebound 7 x 9 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0-9779850-9-8
$19.95
October 2007

more Davey

Jenny in Parking Lot, 2007


Davey and Jenny, 2007


Grandpa and Davey, 2007

Harvey Benge

Man, work has been super busy, I haven't had anytime for myself. Urrgh. Anyway Harvey Benge has put up a new site and blog. Check him out, his work is amazing. Hopefully there will be time for more posts soon... _b

lions and tigers and BEARS

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the cicada's sound

My buddy Josh and I went to a forest preserve out near Lyons, IL to record that eerie howl of the Cicadas. This short clip is about 8 different recordings layered together. Download the file to iTunes here. _b

new work: Davey

Davey with gauze, 2007


Jenny and friend, 2007


Davey and Mom, 2007

I've been spending a lot of time with Davey and his friends and family this summer. I think the work is heading in a good direction. We'll see... _b

some dirt

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Uncle Joey

Joey is Davey's Uncle. They break stuff together often. _b

new card...?

My homegirl Caitlin sent my this jpg the other night. I think I might have to make it my new business card, that is, if she doesn't mind... _b