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Dec 23 2009

35mm a’Merica: Another Midwestern winter arrives.

Below are 35mm Lomo film shots I took before the first awful Midwestern winter storm this year and during, 4am near my home and a half mile away at the actual north end intersection, Main & Auburn, Rockford, IL, “The North End.”

The snow then arrived like every year, 4am, with film and flash. Continue reading

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Dec 22 2009

Designing Garbage 101: Joie De Vivre

Above: the Japanese version for the upcoming release by Joie De Vivre, “The North End”

The record will be released in 2010 by Count Your Lucky Stars Records with distribution everywhere. The Vinyl and Japanese version will feature bonus tracks and different artwork.

Below: The US version of said record. Continue reading

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Dec 1 2009

Uh oh, this is a test a’Merica.

Call this the first one in a line of many more to come. Static, buzz, pop goes your balloon. Everyone and anyone making noise and causing chit chat to become decipherable will be getting there own article, essay, monologue, poem or a do-over. This isn’t baseball but there’s still some rules of the game to follow. Names and places may be changed to protect the privacy of the anyone that dares call me friend without thinking twice about the things said and done in front of me. Continue reading

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