After admiring Brent’s work for a long time, I finally got to randomly meet him in Marfa last September. He’s a great guy with fantastic work. This portrait of Ted Turner is one of my favorites, and is featured on his new site. He has a ton of new work, and some older stuff I had never seen before. Do yourself a favor and check it out.
I studied political science at the University of Texas, and by chance one semester, I took a photography course taught by Professor Dennis Darling that would eventually change my life. Dennis normally taught graduate journalism programs, but once or twice a year he would teach the course I took, for students who were majoring in things outside of communications and journalism. It focused around the basics of using a camera, but for me would be the eventual basis for a career change.
Well this year Dennis has turned 65, and has opened up the archives of his life’s work to some of us who have stayed in contact with him. For the last few months, a couple times a week we receive an email with a single photo and a short caption. The shot above is one of my favorite’s that I have received thus far. Taken in 1975, it is of a Ku Klux Klan member and his wife in East Texas. Dennis’ work is incredible and spans many decades. Luckily, along with me, he has also been forwarding his work to some folks at NPR, who decided to publish a bunch of it today on NPR.org. If you’ve got the time, I’d recommend checking them out. They’re powerful pieces of work.
Casey just wrapped up a shoot for the new Elizabeth Street Cafe on South First. Check out the new photographs after the jump and the review over at Culture Map. The building and food are both incredible.
Last week I was asked to photograph bad boy of literature, Tucker Max. After nearly a decade of writing about his mid-20′s exploits, his final book in the Frat-ire genre is coming out tomorrow. The Daily published a feature yesterday on their iPad only newspaper app, but you can catch the article online, as well as a couple other portraits that I shot of him here.
Alexander & Sons is the personal photographic work of Casey Dunn. The name comes from a mercantile owned and operated by his great great grandparents in the late 1800′s. Casey has borrowed their title to simply carry the torch and pass on the family business by sharing the stories of what is important to him. My personal favorite body of work is Dunn’s “Hoop Dreams.” I have seen this project unfold slowly over the past few years and I am so glad it is finally gathered in one place for everyone to enjoy.
I spent hundreds of hours out there over the next ten years avoiding family functions and shooting hoops on that rim. I usually spent less time working on my game and more time daydreaming. Shooting hoops has always been my escape. As I started to travel a bit more, I started to notice more and more back yard goals that had fallen into disrepair the same way my childhood rim had. I loved the idea that some other kid had spent countless hours dreaming while shooting baskets the same way I did.
Dunn has successfully captured and collected basketball goals from around the country. This is a simple idea with a complex and intricate message. Each weathered goal tells a new and different story to the viewer. The goals are not just seasoned structures, they are tales of dreams, hard work, and eventually abandonment. I have collected a few of my favorite of Casey’s photos after the jump.
Let’s jump rope!
The internet, it’s open.
Not your typical Walgreen’s pharmacy.
It’s called the spoon prank, and it is hilarious.
Brine Icicles don’t mess around. They’re killer.
Would you ride a giant spoke-less ferris wheel?
Stop annoying your neighbors with these cheap soundproofing techniques.
One of our favorite Austin spots receives FFFest praise for their “Slayer Dog”
One used time traveling DeLorean for sale. $600,000 OBO.
How good at Kerning are you? Why not test yourself?
It’s October, so why not celebrate with some Dia De Los Modernists posters?
While we’re talkin’ food, how about a pencil sharpener that dispenses parmesan pencil shavings? Yum!
Need to peel an entire head of garlic in under 10 seconds? Do it with two bowls.
This is the kinda Garden Gnome that lets people know you mean business.
Darth Vader blows some hot air.
You really need to be following Adam Garcia’s sketchbook blog.
That’s a really cool fountain. I want that in my yard.
Hey Portland! Cheat Local!
Marty McFly and Doc Brown have a backstory finally.
It’s the cartoon color wheel.
What if Charles Schulz wrote Jaws?
If there’s anything you learn from this, it’s that you shouldn’t get a discount taxidermist.
Not that you don’t already, but keep in mind that chain emails are bad.
I’m all for this kind of nuclear proliferation.
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