Updates

  Also, to pick up where I left off yesterday, I seem to be happily ending up with quite a few snapshots that people send me through email and this website, so I thought, just for fun, I'd create a page for some of them. I'm going to title the group and page Apocryphia, although, obviously, this material won't be all that hidden.
   And the reason I'm doing this is twofold. 1.) some of you may find yourselves in one or even several of them. 2.) Being the remarkably generous man I am, I want to provide, for my friends, an effective modality and soporiphic with which to combat insomnia. (for now, however, I'm just going to post thumbs. I'll put up larger versions the 1st . . . the first chance I get)
  So I figure a few moments spent looking at my photo album/scrapbook on any one of those sleepless nights that all of us at least occasionally experinence will put you directly to sleep — it's the least I can do.
  Plus, I genuinely appreciate receiving the picures. And those that are of me making a photograph with one of my monster cameras are always interesting in that I'm continually surprised by just how much attention one of those big machines mounted on a tripod draws.
  Also, a warm farewell to Lil as she heads back to Australia this evening. The City, myself, T, John, the music, the CJO, Union Square (with its free internet access), the weather, and the 21st floor, among many others, wish you well — until you return, via Sydney?, London?, or Dublin?.

Wednesday 30 April, 12:44 p.m.

  Okay, the first page or so of Little Did I Know is now posted, along with a couple of photos.
   However, there are already quite a few more pictures: printed, negatives ready to print, and negatives waiting to be processed that it may take me a while longer to get on the site, especially since this week is already pretty well filled up with other things (like finding out if I have to have my hand operated on, for one; damn it's slow typing these days).
   Also, this is an experiment — I'm posting the text as it's being written.
  Well, maybe not as it's being written, exactly, but, more importantly, without any editing, or at least very, very little, yet.
  Typically, I wait until that moment of completion before I go back and do any serious monkey-ing around.
  So I'm flying without a net here, because a couple of you, a couple whose opinions I really trust and value (hell, they're professors, their opinions should be worth something) nearly demanded I do so. But I think it's going to be fun and interesting. I might as well take advantage of this new tool — websites — and see what might come of a new way of working.

Tuesday 29 April 2008, 12:53 a.m.


  Too much film to process, too many phone calls: I'll get the new posts up as soon as possible. And, I know, it's April, not March. But these days it's an achievement for me to even figure out what day of the week it is — and the weekend is here again, it seems just like yesterday.

Friday 25 April 2008, 3:13 a.m.

   So, I've made a decision — by semi-popular demand, I'm going to start posting portions of the new, major opus-type, super-seminal work I've recently begun. Several of you have, first of all, complained that there haven't been any updates for quite some time (for reasons better left unspoken), and, additionally, after reading the first couple pages of Little Did I Know, and this is the semi-popular demand part, you same generous souls have encouraged me to use the new work as the source of future updates; therefore, I acquiesce — particularly given that you correctly reminded me of the value multiple readers can contribute to the writing process.
  However, what I'll be posting will be, essentially, incomplete snippets of what will eventually be the final draft. Some elements of the work will be temporarily omitted for what seem to me, compelling reasons.
  Nonetheless, given all the fun, pleasure, and peace that has been so much a part of the last week or so: the hand (and because some of you asked on Sunday, here's part of what the piece of paper before me says, "Right hand, comminuted, index, proximal, phalangeal fracture; and right hand, transverse, index, metacarpal fracture."  I'll stop there before I loose my self-control and conference call the police and my attorney), joyous revelations, and then yesterday's funeral, this seems an appropriate time to revel in an escape and a new beginning (can you say that? new beginning?).
  So, after I process film, beginning in about ten minutes (I just got back home, time to get started), I'll post the first installment of the new book. The photographs that accompany the text, however, given that the next few days are already booked with other pursuits, won't be ready until sometime next week.
  Also, I met Stephen Phillips the other day while photographing down at the port and, depending on your perspective, he was either kind or cruel enough to post three pictures on his website that, in spy-surveillance style, documented the event, such as it was. If you want to check them out, go here: http://www.pbase.com/joyoflight/image/96068962

Thursday 24 March (April), 2008, 6:22 p.m.

  Well, there a few new items that I've recently managed to get posted: a photograph of Blues Power that Ron had me make, possibly for the cover of their new CD, which I'm thrilled is finally in the works; also,yet another photo of my buddy David on the Saloonatics page; and some new/old photographs on one of the Trinidad, and other stories pages.
   Other than that, it would appear that I'm going to have some extra time from now on to devote to bonefog, so check back whenever you're terminally bored.

Thursday 6 March 2008, 3:23 a.m.

   New Saloonatics scans, the 11x14s I promised, are on the Saloonatics thumbs page. Some of them date back two or three years, but, as I mentioned, the bed on my scanner is too small to accommodate anything larger than 8x10, so I'm using the tools at Rayco to get some things done.
  Rayco, on 3rd Street, is a great photographer's resource and gallery, check 'em out.
  Also, I've been receiving numerous complaints about the S.F. Chronicle article. They range from some people upset with the fact that they weren't included, their photographs, I mean, to others offended by the fact that more photographs of women weren't included.
  Well, just to clear things up, I had NOTHING to do with designing the article. My sole contributions were the interview by Sam Whiting and delivering to them a box of more than one hundred prints, from which THEIR photo editor chose.
  I never saw the article until I went and bought a newspaper the day it came out.
  And, as I think most of those who know me and my work clearly understand, there are probably as many photographs of women in the collective body as there are men.
  Plus, many of the photos of women are among those I most like myself -- had I had anything to say about it, the photo spread would have probably been about equal, women to men.
  So, I'm sorry to those of you who were somehow offended; however, I had no control over the final choices and design. Actually, I didn't have any control at any point during the process.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 5:09 p.m.

   Road Noise is coming together, the text that is. I'm still behind on the photographs, but plan to catch up soon.
  New Saloonatics stories should be up within the next week, and new Saloonatics scans, of 11x14s which are too big for my scanner, should be posted by next week as well — Oh, and Trinidad 11x14 scans will come with them also.

Wednesday 6 February 2008, 2:33 a.m.

  Well, I'm starving to death at almost 3:00 in the morning, however, I've managed to post another significant section of Road Noise, so I suppose I can go get something to eat now. Thankfully, I live in a town that functions 24 hours a day, so the choices are considerable.
   But this new section of Road Noise includes a trip to Laredo, Texas and one of the stinkiest, slimiest bars I've ever been in. It would make the Saloon seem like the Ritz Carlton. Although, I've never actually been to the bar at the Ritz, here in San Francisco, but Julie tells me it's wonderful, and that we should spend some time there, especially since it's just kitty-corner from my apartment.
   The section on Laredo, however, does include a nice accounting of the prostitutes there at the truck stop, as well as my comical interactions with them.
   Unfortunately, I was unable to manage the time tonight so that I could post the photographs that accompany the text — but soon.
   And the text my have some farts in it yet. I'll go over it more thoroughly in a couple of days.
   Now, however, I need some gruel and then some sleep.
   Also, I learned today that three of my Saloonatics photographs are going to be included in the new Third Edition of Robert Hirsch's book Photographic Possibilities. It will be some time, of course, before the book actually comes off of the presses, but, for me, it's something more to look forward to.

3:16 a.m., Saturday, January, 19

  2008 — okay, time to have some fun, or I suppose I should say "more fun".
  And thanks to all of you who sent messages, through one form of communication or another, regarding the 23 December '07, San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Saloonatics article. Now it's time for me to get the book published, which, at its best, is an arduous, lengthy process. But I don't really have anything else to do (except expose a few thousand more sheets of films and write a couple million more words), so I'll try to make it fun.
  Also, since so many of you complimented what you saw of it here and asked about seeing more, I'll start putting more Road Noise text and photos up beginning later this week. However, there are 653 pages of manuscript, so it will take a while, about as long as it will take a long, long time to ever, if I do ever, get the whole thing posted.

Wednesday 16 January 2008