Some out takes from my recent ‘Mantis’ shoot, which illustrates my poem by the same name about a praying mantis. Such a funny shoot! My very platonic friend Ryan agreed to help me recreate the mating/killing rituals on the praying mantis by posing for this shot. He was very surprised […]
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Brooke and I both did self-portraits atop a giant boulder near Topanga Canyon. Climbing up was rather scary. You can’t tell from this photo, but we are up very high. Test shot. Clearly dreading the next part where I have to be topless in public. Especially with that elderly couple […]
Originally we were going to wrap me up in duct tape, which I thought would be rather painful in contact with my skin, so I geared up head to toe in this dorky out: Upon beginning the mummification process, we realized this would look too shiny, so we went back […]
I was inspired to create this image when I was driving through Pictou, Nova Scotia and I came upon this 1940’s fighter jet mounted in the middle of an intersection. I wanted to create something noir-ish and I think it turned out somewhat in the vein of Sky Captan and the World of Tomorrow, which is cool. It was surprisingly simple to create- thank you to my new green screen!
Jacob’s Ladder (on top of being a biblical reference) is a real staircase in the park in my hometown. I composited the photo I took of the ladder and the clouds on vacation, with a photo of myself on my apartment building staircase in NY. Then just toyed with hue/sat, curves, filters afterwards. For extra drama, I added a spotlight to the right hand side of the clouds.
I used the top image as the main one, and added the arm from the second image to it, in order to better illustrate the line of the title of the image “shadow of a kiss”.