The gallery opening tonight is a Dutch art collective that basically paints giant murals & plays an abstract completely distorted kind of music.

Their 40 foot mural has everything from a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a bra giving birth, to a giant severed penis with a distraught looking face, to a life size, human-like pedophile Grandpa Smurf, dick and balls dangling ominously between his legs & all in colors of the pastel pallet...um yeah, that's pretty much it.

I was going to spray paint my blue chucks a shiny silver & I exploded the can in my face, not the whole thing, but enough that after 10 mins of scrubbing u would still look at me and see the remnants of shimmer in my beard...I'm not really feeling it tonight...It's sad that I've resorted to complaining, I'm feeling an overall negative vibe at the moment...Gotta change that.


http://www.antistrot.com/


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Tags: blah...
Current Location: 3rdWard
Current Mood: indifferent-ish
Current Music: Bjork, Medulla

So I guess the point of my photography lately is to embrace the "imperfections" of my subject, or details anyway that would otherwise be washed out in the high gloss of fashion & Kate Moss replicas.

I'm all about the portraits and the people behind them these days. It's a thrilling feeling to do work that even if it's not there yet, is at least headed in an honest direction...

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DAVID BLAINE SPOOF PART 1 & 2





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At work bored-ish...have a lot of photography related work upcoming, doing portraits w/my friend & sometimes business partner, probably something like the one above at Rebel in midtown on the 7th @ an estimated 1400 person theme party...we actually have a budget & are getting paid, which of course doesn't always happen in this city.

The theme is: The Righteous & the Wicked the date of the party is of course 7/7/7 all the freaks/club kids/drag queens/fallen angels & various hangers-on will be in attendance...it's bound to be interesting...until then.


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Consolation Pixtures (i.e. these have nothing to do w/my post):

(Skating fun in the rain/my skateboard)



So yesterday I assisted...um yeah...

I couldn't snap any pix cuz even the flash from my little cannon elf would have triggered the 12 strobes rigged to ceiling to burst w/non-ambient sun light, so...

It was kind of strange, we were pulled on last minute, to a set full of diva's i.e. (yes I'm fonding of using i.e.) film guys who weren't really feeling me or my compatriot and the lack of communication throughout was profound...

The shoot was @ Horvath & Ass. Studio on Greenwich & 12th, sounds like a dental office I know

Long story short as not to bore u too much, it was an ad for Hyundai, supposedly w/Rachel Ray modeling in front of their latest SUV, it ended up being 3 other food network chefs, that I didn't recognize, prob cuz I don't have cable or watch TV (and I'm not bitter toward those that do)

We spent about 6.5 hours setting up to shoot for an hour

-12 strobes w/12 accompanying power packs & a bevy of lunchboxes (electrical units w/multiple outlets) on the ceiling in which case I had to be up on a 14 foot scaffold, beneath that we put up a 20x30 foot frame w/a giant silk over it, which is not a treat to put together while it's at ground level :-) and...etc., etc.

Basically the entire power supply was rigged to the ceiling, halfway through the shoot, all of the lights blow!!!

Anywho, u can fill in the blanks, long 8 hours, but totally worth the $250 payout

Now I'm eating an eggroll, chillin' like a villain might chill, and longing for the RR.

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Tags: egg rolls, film jerks, food network, hyundai, photo shit, rachel ray, rain, skating
Current Location: 3rdWard
Current Music: Audioslave

Go to the link below then click portrait parties @ the bottom to see the entire bash!

There's a deliciously tattooed bear 13th row down 3 portraits in...trust me he's hot!


http://www.jeremynelsonstudio.com/#

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Tags: 3rdward, brooklyn, photo fun, portraits
Current Location: Work
Current Music: None

Snaps taken @ Fast Ashley's Studios anual ping-pong tourney!!!
That's what u do when u get knocked out by some hipster chic in the first round...
It also helps to watch u'r lager consumption prior to competing, I suck :-)

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Current Location: Earth-USA-NY-Brooklyn-E. Williamsburg-Morgan Ave.-3rdWard
Current Mood: friendly
Current Music: Bright Eyes, Cassadaga

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Or does a mugging involve actually being beaten up???

It was 11pm, my friend from Sandiego was in the city & visiting me at work, I walked her outside, came back to the desk...noticed a dark figure on my peripheree

A guy in black & w/a fucking ski mask on, is telling me to give him all my money before he murders me...WTF!!?? He had a large object pointed at me from beneath his sweater, which could have been a chemically injected bananna for all I know, though I decided I wasn't too keen on finding out...

I honestly was particularly hesitant before I handed him the $60 in my pocket, he said it wasn't enough and motioned toward the register, which he ended up scoring $600 dollars out of

I've had a few fantasies since about him coming back and this time getting a mouthful of nuckles and a gut full of converse from me, but considering we were seperated by a 4 foot counter, I would have had no leveredge against a guy who potentially was packin'

The following day u could have caught me sporting a SHOOT FILM NOT PEOPLE button w/a picture of a little dv camera. I got some sympathy, but mostly people pertending to shoot me & or telling me not to get robbed on the way to the bathroom.

On the upside, I accquired a powerbook G4 laptop due to some swift bartering, I got my paycheck today(that was the last $60 I had to my name) and I've been shooting in the studio recently...all and all, I'm prodominately smiles :-)

pix above

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Current Location: Trying to leave work
Current Music: Bright Eyes- Cassadega