Punk Rock Flyers, circa 1994

The good old days, being broke all the time, working in a dusty hot warehouse for just above minimum wage, and occasionally making flyers for the local rock bands I was sorta friends with. Unfortunately the very bottoms of these got cut off in the scanner, but you get the idea.

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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.