PUBLIC SCHOOL

Brian Gossett: New Site

My buddy, Brian Gossett, has a great looking site with loads of new projects! Get inspired. Also, if you’re in need of some new jams, check out his Since78 mixes here.

Alexander & Sons

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.

Benefit for Wyatt McSpadden

Our friends from down the street at Charla Wood’s studio, along with a handful of other local business, will be hosting a photographic benefit for Wyatt McSpadden this Friday. Wyatt has been one of the best photographers in town for decades, and helped pave the way for my generation of shooters in a smaller Austin Market. He also shot a book on Texas BBQ that gives me “photo envy” on a regular basis for not having had the idea.

The benefit will have a silent auction including prints from Dan Winters, Platon, Keith Carter, and about two dozen other renowned photographers from across the country. Benefits will go towards the Wyatt’s medical fund.

Full event info after the click.  

I Gave My Kids a Bad Present

Here at PUBLIC SCHOOL, we’re in the final throes of the year with work, so have been a bit tied up the last week or so. Despite that, we ran across a little gem that will bring some holiday cheer to your morning. Check out this hilarious collection of parents giving their kids fake gifts on Jimmy Kimmel.

The Lego Kid

This kid is amazing. He lives on a mint farm and is incredibly interested in Legos, but was disappointed by the lack of farm equipment models in the Lego lineup. He took it upon himself to instead design and build custom working replicas of all of the equipment. They are insanely complicated and insanely cool.