Oahu Graffitti Style, some JET JET action, and a big big bug!

 So when we were in Hawaii we found this abandoned chunk of some kind of convalencence home with no roof and all grown over and under with amazing drippy banyan trees. This is the kind of place I love most of all in the world. Portland used to have one of these awesome abandoned spaces by the river, that we called pirate town. It always smelled like a dead fire and was covered from ceiling to floor in awesome graff. Olympia has the double tunnels and Tacoma had the underworld. These are the free spaces of the world, and one day millions of years from now scientists will find these hidden spots and realize how unsoppable the creative impulse was in the humans of our time. Anyway, I congratulate and thank the north shore for producing and preserving a space like this.

 Anyhow I'm too old for painting on other peoples walls, but  still get all fired up about the freedom of the art. So my solution I came up with years ago was to pant on garbage I find and leave it around for others to find. This way nobody gets hurt feelings and I still get to do some free art.

 And our last item for the day is the tiny video of the centipede that our eleven year old shook out of her bed things the night before we left for the mainland. It was trapped in a big old wine glass. That sucker is like five inches long. Another awesome thing about Hawaii is they know how to make cool bugs.

Signs I love, graffitti in my hood, some death and some pure living joy!!!!

this charlie sheen piece was in Michigan, not my hood, but awesome nonetheless.

Cannon Beach, mummified batman? Love it!

This is my hood!

Nature photography, how to...

Photographing animals in their element is a thrilling hobby and a worthwhile pursuit. Challenge one is getting close enough to the subject without them disappearing into the underbrush. For that reason I prefer to shoot captive and or deceased wildlife.

Often the hardest thing is finding subjects that will stay still long enough to photograph them.

I just keep my eye out for "wildlife" that looks like it might stick around for a while. This feller looks like he's been sticking around for a few days.

That's how I get that peaceful look. SHHH!

I shot all of these with a handheld zoom-less camera phone. So i just get up there real close and irritate the hell out of the animal.

I don't know anything about this.

Trying to achieve natural lighting is especially hard when photographing in museum exhibits.

Good luck out there, keep clicking away!

Arthur Crews is my friend

record room mural @ Killingsworth and Webster

keeping my eyes open...

Upon closer inspection I realized this was in fact a yard waste bin...the tree was just trying not to put anyone out. 

 This is this faded old hamms beer bear window painting by the delapitated mini mart down the block. Great in the same way that this next shot is great....incredibly goofy looking.

 Portland is just obsessed with pirates.

totally flawles.