Found "zebra" photo

An old roommate of mine found this on the street in Boston when he was a bike messenger. The back reads "To Tyrone, Love Shirl, 2001." Poor Tyrone is bummed he lost this. (This was posted on a friends website several years ago as well, where it generated a lot of attention.)

Burroughs Stencil & shotgun blast pt. 2

Spray paint, stencil, house paint, shotgun, plywood board, measures about 2.5 x 3 feet.
(Sorry, no film this time)

Found and (subsequently) damaged photos 15

Four more photos found in a pile of abandoned property, and then damaged by myself.

Lonely Tree Stencil

Another stencil designed for a possible LP cover. It worked out better than I envisioned-- the white-paint version makes it look like the scene is shrouded in mist. (You can see I had to reinforce some areas with masking tape where the blade went astray.)

Found photo

Boomerangs thrift shop, Jamaica Plain (they actually had a basket full of old photos near the register, this was one of the better ones, mysterious and dark and damaged.)

Damaged Photos 14 (rejects)

For all the photos I damage only about half of them come out interesting, the others get tossed in a pile of rejects. Recently I began looking at the rejects for a possible large scale collage, and noticed these two that are pretty good. The bottom one is very early, when I couldn't figure out how to get the photos to disintegrate beyond a certain point, I tried scraping designs into them before abandoning that technique.

Stencil T-Shirts

When I was a teenager I made my first stencil, a Husker Du t-shirt using the classic Husker Du logo, a couple years later I made Radio Birdman and Magma t-shirts with stencils, and then I forgot about stencils for many years. When I started making stencils again about 7 or 8 years ago I recreated those, plus a bunch more obscure rock bands (Chrome, Univers Zero, Regressive Aid, as seen here, plus the comedy "Abba" t-shirt I posted a few months ago.) These don't always withstand washing very well (I've tried spraying with a sealing coat after the paint, which sometimes helps, but they still fade after several washes.)