"Paris suits you well"

Been calling Paris home for almost 3 months now. Moving from California back into city life, after 3 years of jumping around in Santa Barbara - Mexico - Paris - Marfa, feels incredibly new again. I feel new. Speaking of new (say 'new' 4 times. wierd), I have some rad ideas for projects and have already began exploring video as an extension of photography again. Back in art school, I had a bunch of friends in the film department, and shot lots of 8mm and 16mm footage from the back seat of vespas and inside creepy old Chicago hotels. Some of those old 8mm films are now living in the archive of the Art Institute. I can't wait to see those again. It will be either tear-style funny or really heavy and poignant.

The latest project I finished was working with EMI records on the new Kings of Convenience record. It was a sweet surprise when they said I had "won" the competition. The image they
chose was shot on the Rolleiflex camera and has a natural mood at the dusk hour in Mexico. Considering the hang outs in Mexico are always super-duper-intense-and-rad, I was proud the photographs from such a magical vortex will live on ... attached to music that I LOVE.

Will be heading over to Belgium for Pukkelpop fest after Vetiver perform tomorrow. Will chill with Mike and see him play with Wilco, and then hook up with the duke when WBA play the following day. Between Vetiver, WBA, and Bart Davenport playing here and there, along with visits from travelling bros, I feel Im living in a place with a beautiful glistening bridge between Paris and home. Let our worlds expand.

Even though I've moved far away from home... home keeps coming back to me. PARIS SUITS me well I guess.