I apologize if I have not been responsive to your comments, IMs, emails, calls, etc.  An impending deadline at work is occupying every waking moment.  Everything has started to slip...  I even had to cancel my wrist surgery.  I wish I could say that it will be over soon, but it is now likely that there will be, at least, an additional month added.  Please bear with me in this ill-defined meantime between now and when I get my life back.

Okay, back to work.

I started a new photo project this week. It's completely different that anything I've ever done before. Here is a quick example of where it's at:

( Optical Body Interface - Stage 01 - NSFW )

This isn't exactly a new piece, but given the date (and the recent use of 9/11 as a political device at the RNC), I felt it was appropriate to re-post it.

If I may be allowed to quote myself from sometime last year:

I completed this piece in late September, 2006. At the time, I had been thinking about the use of fear as a tool, and how the Bush administration had developed a habit of invoking 9/11 whenever they needed support. The more I contemplated this tactic, the more it felt like a B-movie horror flick, where the monster suddenly reappears every time the audience thinks it's safe.

It is my sincere hope that no one is offended by the piece. The intent, of course, is to point out an under-handed (but all too common), political practice: the use tragic events to terrify the public into compliance. It's a bit of a re-hash at this late date, but hopefully also a useful reminder that we should question anyone who uses fear as a reasoning device.

Spotted this walking home a while back...
I need a reminder every now and again.

OOZE @ Club Hell - 22 Aug 2007

 
 

I'll post the pix from my Unhandled Exception art show soon...

The Idiot Stare show last night at Bar Sinister rocked! :)  I took over 300 photos... here's a sample:



Unfortunately, I won't have time to go through and post the rest of the photos today... I have to go celebrate the Umbrella Corporation's successful revival of the deceased messiah... and then smash a burning piano. Seriously.



(I'll post the entire photo set later in the week.)

Photos from Saturday's Nightmare Before Batsday events are here.  More band photos, friends, freaks and some goth frisbee...  Stay tuned!