Ysanya’s post made me realize that I haven’t posted in a serious while. We all haven’t, really. I hope that changes, though, cause I like the idea of this collective more now that we’ve all scattered out of RIT and we all have more things to talk about than the same crits and shows and work. I hope everyone’s doing well.

Graduation week came and went pretty fast. It was weird and a little scary, exciting and unsettling and amazing all at the same time. For me it was sort of like six days of missing everything before everything changed.  Being really proud and emotional and feeling uneasy about this staggering and undetermined sort of in-between stage. I shot some 35mm, which is funny. But it was nice to go from really overthought, extremely composed, extremely line-conscious, extremely restricting 6×6 images to essentially just… physical reaction.

This is a really quick video from July 4th weekend in New York. Arion Doerr shot it all, but he did so on my memory card, so I threw it together. It’s “nice.” You know, simple, kinda generic, tacky. I guess sometimes I enjoy just nice and nothing else. It’s easier to digest. But video is something I’ve been playing around with since then, so we’ll see where it goes.

I’ve got a bunch of other work from spring that I’ve just gotten around to editing recently. Here’s the first of plenty.

Everyone is moving or has moved. Spring quarter and summer since graduation has left me itching for a huge change. Back in June I drove down to Cornell and got lunch with Steve Strogatz. He’s a mathematician working there, had a column in the Times this past spring, wrote a book, and is on Radiolab a bunch. He suggested I should try and get in to working with Radiolab, and I thought pretty hard about it because Radiolab is probably on my list of top five favorite things ever. I started to think I might be able to live in New York. But I can’t, and I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to. It’s just not my place, regardless of how much I do enjoy it from time to time. My plan all along was to move to a city I know like the back of my hand and be comfortable until a bigger plan came along, Philadelphia. But the more I thought about it, I would love living there, but I’d ultimately be bored, rediscovering the same things again and again. I’ve been dabbling with the idea of moving west for about a year now, and a couple of weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and just figure it out. So it’s official, I’m selling all my shit, packing my car and moving to Seattle, Washington in less than a month.