photography

a portrait of the artist right before he ate your face

August 24, 2010
By michael lujan
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Not only is a print of this image NOT for sale, but one will be forced upon you against your wishes, unless you run away right now.
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sara’s hat

August 10, 2010
By michael lujan
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Photo shoots and fine art portraits available for commission (Los Angeles, West Side).
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101010 \/\/ love, excuses, dj tiësto

August 2, 2010
By krupnick krupnick
101010 \/\/ love, excuses, dj tiësto

Dear follower: forgive me while this contributor takes a turn for the personal. Is it the season? Is it the weather? Is it the lack of a personal blog to get emo on? Who can say. With the best of intentions, I was crafting a project about Tiësto, the “#1 DJ in the...
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jtc \/\/ julia tuttle and her causeway

July 26, 2010
By krupnick krupnick
South from the Julia Tuttle Causeway, 2008

Following the death of her husband, Julia DeForest Tuttle decided to sell the iron foundry and leave Cleveland for good.  She’d visited Florida once and thought it would be a good place to raise her two kids. In 1891, she bought 640 acres of southern Florida around Biscayne Bay and took the steam-train down...
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summer sounds in winter grass

July 13, 2010
By michael lujan
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December 12th, 2005 I found Thomas Tallis in the dried winter grass today, a 40-voice motet devoid of chlorophyll, building a glass cathedral of its own. I have never put my hope in any other but in you, O God of Israel, who can show both anger and graciousness, and who absolves all the...
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unsilent film

July 6, 2010
By michael lujan
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Friday, April 22, 2005. Collierville, Tennessee. About a week ago, not far from where I work, I discovered this forested area which had, in the not-too-recent-past, been an obvious favorite get-together spot for the neighborhood children— the place was littered with the preserved but decaying detritus of offhand and carefree youth: toys, bikes, broken pottery,...
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blockbuster\/\/neon enthusiast

July 5, 2010
By krupnick krupnick
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I called the 800-number to inquire about the signage for sale. Could I purchase the letter K in exchange for a story? No, said the woman on the phone. They were all about to be sold. What kind of person was the buyer? Did he own a Blockbuster? What were his intentions with the...
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