October 6, 2020 - Northside Yacht Club in Cincinnati keeps folks smiling & fed with specials like bringing Nihlist Arby’s tweet to life, “Drain the blood, cure and slice the flesh, season and fry the potatoes, feed them the sugar water. Be born. Toil. Die. Arby’s. We sell food.”
October 5, 2008 - Miss Oktoberfest and runners up wave from their float in the Minster Ohio Oktoberfest parade.
October 4, 2013 - Jason Snell gets the crowd pumped up with Ohio Knife before a talk from Aaron James Draplin during Cincinnati Design Week at Rhinegeist Brewery.
October 3, 2006 - Website navigation made with masking tape, manilla envelopes, a tiny Post-It® and a stamp that says Wire & Twine
October 2, 2015 - Getting my haircut at Tiny Tina’s in Ludlow, Kentucky. I asked to take a photo on her birthday and she insisted I was in it.
October 1, 2022 - Sometimes the outtakes really sum things up.
September 30, 2017 - Walking in Northside with a camera strapped around my shoulder & these gentlemen asked if I was a photographer. “I just take photos for fun” then they asked for a portrait. I was happy to oblige. (If anyone knows them, holler! I emailed it back then but it bounced back!)
September 29, 2016 - This juxtaposition of tree and El Camino makes me think of a moment in the movie Harold and Maude when Maude decides to rescue a tree from the city.
September 28, 2019 - 80’s Prom fundraiser up at McGuffey Montessori in Oxford.
September 27, 2006 - The second year of ’So You Think You Can Dance‘ was so good they put the show on the road with the top 10 dancers. Caught ’em at the Aronoff Center and it was fabulous (and they let me take a Canon 20D in… times were different then!)
September 26, 2013 - Painting a mural outside Junker’s Tavern in Northside
September 25, 2016 - Ben Jason Neal, Melissa Mitchell and Janet Creekmore turned a vintage trailer into a traveling art gallery.
September 24, 2016 - Added my Polaroid selfie to the wall at Candyland Recording Studio in Dayton, Kentucky. I’m also still with her.
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September 23, 2016 - Filming in Over the Rhine with Taylor Dorrell for People’s Liberty
September 22, 2005 - Cincinnati, Ohio - The National perform live in the WOXY lounge
September 21, 2015 - Pulled out this Maxell cassette to use for an Open G Records concert poster. (I used a pencil to save the tape.)
September 20, 2021 - A collection of buckeyes my brother was drying out on the dining room table — so much luck in store! (New to me: Native Americans named these seeds for their resemblance to the eyes of male deer, known as bucks.)
September 19, 2010 - Luang Prabang, Laos - Monks move through the streets at dawn in saffron robes with collection bowls to collect morning alms from local Buddhists (usually sticky rice). Known as Tak Bat (or Sai Bat), the ceremony is conducted in total silence as a form of meditation.
September 18, 2008 - iPods Nano window display, San Francisco
September 17, 2008 - Sierra Classic badge on a GMC Jimmy
September 16, 2019 - We celebrated Chris Pratt’s birthday (not that one) inside Cape Peninsula National Park South Africa, taking a hike around the coast before settling in with wine and canapés at the guesthouse.
September 15, 2012 - Tom holds the fort down at our t-shirt booth at the City Flea in OTR.
September 14, 2015 - PDX carpet
September 13, 2015 - It’s the last day of my first XOXO fest, Amit Gupta gave an incredibly moving talk about facing the end and finding a foothold for the future. It culminated themes of the festival and shifted the course of my life. The rest of the story
September 12, 2013 - This photo of bike riders in Northside is technically not great — it’s grainy with bad focus and not framed well. It was shot on an iPhone 4 and I totally dig it — without a hint of overprocessing or HDR.