Egg Nogger

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kate stone

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"...it's up the the photographer to capture that on film, because like a dying day, the thing will never come back again." - Weegee on Stieglitz

Slacker has the best character names

2009-12-10T22:01:00.002-05:00

just did a large amount of scanning

2009-10-09T21:27:00.001-04:00

2009-05-14T11:31:00.000-04:00

Cracking The Chrysalis

2009-03-14T11:40:00.006-04:00

'Cracking The Chrysalis' - welcome spring 2009 mixtape

download here

1. The Notorious B.I.G - "Party And Bullshit (Ratatat remix)"

2. Fucked Up - "Black Albino Bones"

3. Animal Collective - "Daily Routine (live bootleg, Amsterdam Oct. 2007)"

4. France Gall - "Teenie Weenie Boppie"

5. Creation - "Making Time"

6. Mika Miko - "Wild Bore"

7. Wavves - "Vermin"

8. Cold Cave - "The Trees Grew Emotions and Died"

9. Psychic TV - "Cold Steel"

10. Mount Eerie - Who?"

11. Grizzly Bear - "On A Neck, On A Spit"

12. Deerhoof - "Basket Ball Get Your Groove Back"

13. Dum Dum Girls - "Catholicked"

14. Francoise Hardy - "Je veux qu'il revienne"

15. Shocking Blue - "Rock In The Sea"

16. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - "Come Saturday"

sup-stache

2009-01-30T07:56:00.002-05:00

1st graders

2009-01-07T01:51:00.003-05:00

Hrvatska xmas

2008-12-30T10:05:00.008-05:00

here's how I spent my xmas in Croatia:

upon arrival to Zagreb, I went to see Severina, Croatia's equivalent to Madonna

this is where I spent xmas and the days following

this is where I slept

here are some relatives, Nico and Ivan

2008-12-01T16:03:00.002-05:00

put so eloquently:

"Do you have any idea what a gift it is that a young man offer to share his feelings with you? For any man to volunteer his essence to you, however carefully notated, is a miraculous act of generosity. The offering of his voice in a zine or a poem or a song is a brave act because he is giving it to you for keeps. With this gift you can read and listen to him any time you want, and you will absorb his horrible secrets hidden in the words, the shame he thought he might never shake, and he doesn’t mind, because he has offered these secrets to you, unafraid and as best he can. This gift can set him free, finally, fully, and put him on his way to living as a normal, untormented human being, unshackled at last from the chains of his hormonal years. Adolescent notation is of no use until the reader completes it by reading it and by keeping it, legitimizing the filth and insanity that he has worked so hard to contain and understand, canonizing it somewhere, memorializing it somehow. The mutation ends here. The young man’s notated life becomes absorbed into the world, unadorned now, an explosive apotheosis as his sorry former existence becomes gas and light and just another normal part of everything else in the world. Do you have any idea what a gift it is that a young man offer to share his feelings with you? Do you have any idea what a gift it is for him to know that you’ve listened?"

skype degradation

2008-11-28T11:33:00.013-05:00

2008-11-08T04:59:00.007-05:00

50 Billion Served

2008-11-04T11:24:00.002-05:00

new McDonalds drawings:

how i teach first graders

2008-10-02T18:12:00.001-04:00

more photos from the last month

2008-09-29T12:38:00.012-04:00

too busy for a real post

2008-08-17T20:40:00.003-04:00

it's been too long since i've last posted. too many things happening and only 2 days before i leave for budapest. lots more packing to do and instead of getting things ready i've been going to kennywood, seeing batman for the 4th time, finding a flat (i think i've secured one [nearly] overlooking the river danube, doing paperwork, and making a general mess. surprisingly no nervousness exists yet.

Mixtape: no theme summer hits

2008-07-27T00:36:00.005-04:00

download it here

1.) Vashti Bunyan - "Come Wind Come Rain"
2.) Frightened Rabbit - "Heads Roll Off"
3.) T Spoon - "Sex On The Beach"
4.) Pissed Jeans - "Closet Marine"
5.) The Ruby Suns - "This Adventure Tour"
6.) Sybille Baier - "Tonight"
7.) Panda Bear - "Take Pills"
8.) Freya Hollick - "When Madness Came Over the Deer"
9.) Blank Dogs - "Poison Ivy"
10.) Karen Dalton - "Something On Your Mind"
11.) Martha Wainwright - "Bleeding All Over You"
12.) Warsaw - "You're No Good For Me"
13.) Tristeza - "Shifty Drifty"
14.) Italian Horn - "Skinhead With Bluetooth Earpiece"
15.) Headlights - "Cherry Tulips"
16.) Das Oath - "Tourettes (nirvana cover)"
17.) Charlotte Gainsbourg - "5:55"
18.) Beach House - "Gila"

2008-05-30T21:20:00.003-04:00

The following are two c-prints from an ongoing project I am doing in an attempt to socially document and re-contextualize realities.

Post for E-Train

2008-05-14T13:47:00.002-04:00

crappy slide film scans. not color corrected, cleaned, etc.

my life as of late in circles

2008-05-08T21:03:00.004-04:00

oh and i went to this. haha. 30 pkbkpk!

a dying breed

2008-04-18T12:25:00.007-04:00

Record stores are dropping off the map thanks to the Internet, this NY Times map illustrates:

In vanity-filled related news, I was pictured in a NY Times article.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/10/nyregion/10towns.html

four from north carolina

2008-03-24T01:27:00.005-04:00

"Twenty-Two Years"

2008-03-12T19:19:00.004-04:00

For Dylan Thomas

Twenty-two years my eyes have seen past.
(Though closed they remain to much of what has come before.)
In the shrinking box that is love came the walls crowding ’round me
The unexpected package in the mail
Amidst the snowstorm that has covered my own address.
Wearing only hat for head, and no sweater for chest,
My hands willing to tear tape from cardboard,
Instead I crawl inside without knowledge of the container’s will
I am confined to mind separate from heart.

"Wearing second hand clothes is a nice fuck you to mom and dad"

2008-03-05T09:08:00.002-05:00

"The piss bum trying to sell his scribbles is just a “nigger” trying to get money for crack but Basquiat is a genius. Jean didn’t have to live in a box but it was a nice selling point and a reason to get hooked on heroin. Addiction is frowned upon unless art is involved, then it’s romantic. With a few great white minds involved, friendly safe negro art was created and viola! High priced scribbles for all! It was also a safe and cutesy blueprint for fake graffiti branding, paving the way for Obey and other streetwear geniuses."

Anthony Pappalardo speaks some awesome truths about America in the essay, "Irony, White Power and Obama. Nu-Racism Part 2." Please read on...

hot depressing garbage

2008-02-24T15:25:00.001-05:00

All Photos:J.Pastrovich. Music:"Gila" - Beach House

babes

2008-01-04T00:24:00.001-05:00

"Babes" - J. Pastrovich - 2008

Hello.

2007-10-15T15:38:00.002-04:00

Photo: J. Pastrovich - "Shitty Irony" - 2007