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Collaboration with Jared Frank and Sam Jacober of Topsy Design.

Dr. Leroy Hood photographed in Seattle, WA for July/Aug issue of Discover.

Conceptual Artist Nicky Watts down to her last dollar as she prepares for her solo exhibit in July

Nicky, down to her last dollar! Literally as she prepares for her solo exhibit installation WEAR RECYCLE. Squeezing every penny out of every dollar, seems to be what we’re all doing these days.

Thisisaphotoblog.com was featured on one of our favorite sites, No Plastic Sleeves! No Plastic Sleeves “…is the creation of co-author Danielle Currier and will continue to feature new work, articles, interviews and resources”. Thanks Danielle! Check out the article here!

TOKION Magazine

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Title: Squeeze

Assigner: Dan Busta

Description: Illustrate “squeeze”. Interpret how you like.

I went to Mt. Zion for a hiking trip a couple weeks ago. The trip came just in time for the “Sports” assignment! Since one of my big passions is hiking (and I didn’t use hiking as my “Passion” assignment), I thought it would be a great subject for this assignment. These photos are shot with my Holga. You can see more photos from this trip on my photoblog.

Tamar has some photos in the new issue of Chaos Magazine. Check out the first image below and please click on it to see the full spread on her blog!

I went to a Moto Cross track in Piru, CA.  His name was Josh.  This is his passion.

I have way too many hobbies. But one that transcends hobby, and is more of a passion, is music. I’ve played in terrible punk bands since high school, and go to shows on a regular basis.

Last week I had the pleasure of seeing Coalesce play in NYC. It’s been about 10 years since I’ve seen them, and I brought my trusty point and shoot, loaded with slide film.

curly red hair

Christopher Dibble has several pages in the Feb/March issue of Paper Magazine, including a photograph of actor Donald Glover.

Please click the image below to see all the tear sheets on his blog!

I love riding my bike! I didn’t ride all winter cause it was pretty chilly in NY but its finally warming up and the bike gets to come out again. This was shot this weekend in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The first shot is my bike and the other shot is Blake.

My dog is one of my biggest passions! I take her everywhere with me- we go hiking almost every day, she hangs around me while I work, read, watch TV, everything!

Title: Your Other Passion

Assigner: Chris Dibble

Description: It can be a self portrait of you doing your other passion, you representing your other passion, someone ELSE doing your other passion, or representing your other passion. It can be a series of images, one image with a story, its really really open.

The main thing is, illustrate in a photograph, “your other passion.”

it was on the 2nd floor on Coronado Street
I used to get drunk
and throw the radio through the window
while it was playing, and, of course,
it would break the glass in the window
and the radio would sit there on the roof
still playing
and I’d tell my woman,
“Ah, what a marvelous radio!”
the next morning I’d take the window
off the hinges
and carry it down the street
to the glass man
who would put in another pane.
I kept throwing that radio through the window
each time I got drunk
and it would sit there on the roof
still playing-
a magic radio
a radio with guts,
and each morning I’d take the window
back to the glass man.
I don’t remember how it ended exactly
though I do remember
we finally moved out.
there was a woman downstairs who worked in
the garden in her bathing suit,
she really dug with that trowel
and she put her behind up in the air
and I used to sit in the window
and watch the sun shine all over that thing
while the music played.

-Charles Bukowski, A Radio with Guts

Rearrange a “Wife’s” affection!
When they dislocate my Brain!
Amputate my freckled Bosom!
Make me bearded like a man!

Blush, my spirit, in thy Fastness –
Blush, my unacknowledged clay –
Seven years of troth have taught thee
More than Wifehood every may!

Love that never leaped its socket –
Trust entrenched in narrow pain –
Constancy thro’ fire — awarded –
Anguish — bare of anodyne!

Burden — borne so far triumphant –
None suspect me of the crown,
For I wear the “Thorns” till Sunset –
Then — my Diadem put on.

Big my Secret but it’s bandaged –
It will never get away
Till the Day its Weary Keeper
Leads it through the Grave to thee.
-Emily Dickinson