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Photothug

That rug really tied the room together. --The Dude

About Me

I'm going to Africa in June....thats the latest...here's the old stuff. So I live in Florida. Its nice and warm here most of the time. here's my story I guess. I am a photojournalist. I lived in San Francisco for six years. Moved out of SF after graduation. So I moved to New York for a summer, the hottest summer in the history of the world. Then back home to good old Cleveland. I grew up there...but I will be the first to tell you there are other great places to live besides Cleveland. It sucks in the winters when the snow is all brown and grey and its ass biting cold...but hey its home, always will be and I will get my friends to jump your ass if you talk shit about the CLE. So then I moved to Gainesville, Florida, for a year and I made pictures for a newspaper there. Now I am living in Daytona Beach, Florida, well Flagler Beach to be more specific. Working at the News Journal. I am comprised of all the bastard countries of Europe, or some of them, French, German, English and Scottish, all fun. I have brown hair but my beard (if i have one) is orange from my sideburns down....I guess that is the viking scotsman in me. I have been skateboarding for 16 years. I have a shoe fetish...I buy a lot of shoes. I am impulsive and excessive...I have no will power when it comes to self indulgence and new shoes. I indulge on others too, sometimes, only those that will appreciate though....I don't dig Self Absorbed and selfish people.Never trust a girl with one of those small mini-backpacks...you never know what could be in there....... I guess I am just a functionalist....ok...sorry, I got carried away, wait...update...for the new year...2006-Those little mini boob warmer sweaters, i think they are called Boleros? What the hell is that about. They are everywhere. These are funny, I find the UGG boots peculiar too and small backpacks. I mean...why wear only half a sweater, its not a tube top, tube tops are hot, they are supposed to be hot, but half a sweater/jacket/coat thingy? Every time I see one...I think to myself, "somewhere there is a poor lonely toddler with no sweater just freezing to death." or, "give your little sister her sweater back, return her mini backpack cause you can't fit anything in there anyway... I sound completely retarded now, I am going to give up.....ok ok ...After trying to fight it...I just wrote an entire paragraph about tiny sweaters. I am so lame. i like the shrunken sweater, they are cute. stupid but cute....like a retarded puppy. I can't fight it anymore. THat shit is old anyways. Who cares....blah blah blah.

My Interests

Traveling, cooking guerilla style (no recipes), people watching,Vanilla Silk, driving, skateboarding more than snowboarding, surfing...yes I just started surfing...that shit is Its all about timing. What else, camping, cycling, hiking...although I never do it in Ohio, or Florida for that matter. hi-tech gadgets, my iPod, Central America, Thailand, drinking coffee, herb, chilling (they usually go in that order), buying shit I don't need, wearing shoes, traveling to places and taking pictures, thunder storms, expensive denim, German automobiles, and Subaru's. "The beauty of all wheel drive"-you laugh but i'll be driving through the snow-rain-mud-sand while your crappy front wheel drive GM shit ball is in the ditch....oh god...I sound like a ricer...with a bad wing on the back of my car. I'm such a nerd. I'm a guy I like cars ok? I don't care much for Nascar. I have to shoot it for work....its kind of ridiculous.Croissants, 50 Cent PBRs, rolling C-Lo (its a dice game from the Ghetto even tho I am from suburbia), live rock, more coffee, Guinness, firm handshakes, people with conviction, strong minds, warm hearts. I am writing for Hallmark now....and Whisky, I am interested in whisky. World Rally Competition, APPLE, Heineken, Amstel Light and Sushi. Rain at night....sleeping weather. FLORIDA, its cold as shell in the wintertime here too....well its not 30 degrees but...its cold, sushi, coffee, free wifi, i am such a loser.

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet Claude Monet, Fletch, Bruce Lee, Lao-Tse, Chuang-Tse, Audrey Tautou (the girl from Amelie is way hot). Jack Nicholson too, Mandela, Rev. Martin Luther King, Scarlett Johansson, Milla Jojovich, any go along type of girl that is easy to please, yet has high standards and appreciates things that are done for her, and gives a little in return, you know....one that isn't socially retarded. Anyone that drinks Knob Creek...I like whisky...so what. Ketel One, Martinis. I want to meet anyone that is over this president....well that's everyone. I want to meet everyone. Jon Stewart's pretty cool too. Girls with pocahontus braids....swiss miss style. I don't know why...I love those things. People that aren't lame.... Girls that have their shit together.

Music:

Radiohead, Rolling Stones, Tortoise, Slayer, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Drake, The Roots, De La Soul, Cursive, The Good Life, anything on Saddle Creek, yeah I guess Bright Eyes too, Wilco, The Doors, The Gladiators, The Sundays, Burning Spear, Bob Marley, 70's Punk, The Saints, Archers of Loaf, Stereolab, Sea and , Morrissey, Cat Power, Minutemen, Firehose, John Coltrane, The Shins, Jimi Hendrix, DJ Shadow, MC5-"Kick Out the Jams Mutherfuckers!", Black Keys, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, The Walkmen, Pixies, Wolfmother, The Real Kids, Outkast, Neil Young, Agustus Pablo, The Who, Cymande, The Flaming Lips, Nirvana, Fela, Modest Mouse, The Cure, Wolf Parade, The Comas, Blondie, Ramones, Black Flag, Old Metalica, Journey, Radiohead and Radiohead, The Dead Boys, DEVO, Beck, Bloc Party

Movies:

Red Dawn, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Barfly, Office Space, Full Metal Jacket, Baraka, Slapshot, Revenge of the Nerds, National Lampoons Vacation, Fletch, Big Lebowski, Waking Life, American Splendor, Full Metal Jacket, Pi, Buena Vista Social Club, Heathers, Escape from Alcatraz, Amelie, Dirty Pretty Things, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not...Anything with Audrey Tautou, Dark Days, Family Guy-although not a movie I would watch that before I watched any movie that I had...so there.

Television:

If I ever watch it......DAILY SHOW, COLBERT REPORT, Tour of Duty, Jeopardy, DisscoveryHD, National Geographic Channel, Three's Company, Chappelle Show, Sopranos, McGyver, Crank Yankers, Eight is Enough?(I am kidding, really) Family Guy where have you been all my life?42 inches of DLP bitches.

Books:

Women-Bukowski, The Tao of Pooh, Shooting Under Fire, Shutterbabe, The Knife and Gun Club, Hunter S. Thompson, Bill Burroughs, Webster (not the short little black actor from the 80's), I should read more

Heroes:

My Father-Rest his Soul, my Mother, Eugene Richards, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ron Haviv, Mandela, Jim Nachtwey, Noam Chomsky, anyone that replaces George Bush...anyone please....

My Blog

Flying the Frustrating Skies

My brother and his wife had just had a baby girl and it had been since Christmas since I had been home to Cleveland.....the rusty grey paradise that is Cleveland. So I used my last personal days off.....
Posted by Photothug on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:10:00 PST

Daytona Beach.... a desert on the beach

So I moved to Daytona Beach, Florida to take a job, a great job, at a great newspaper. Its a dream job....good money, good people to work for, enthusiasm and the like....all things that make for happy...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:10:00 PST

DISPATCH FROM THAILAND: PARADISE LOST

Dispatch from Thailand: Paradise Lost January 10, 2005 1:19 pm Flight DL 7850 from Atlanta to Incheon International Airport, South Korea It started out on Thursday, when I received my assignme...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

COACHELLA! My take on this modern rock monster

It was hotter than the face of the sun; you could have fried an egg on my titties. 103 on Saturday and 117 on Sunday. This quiet desert town, Indio, was flooded for 3 days with rock stars, meatheads, ...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Lil Back packs and shoehiders.

Ok....things that suck bad...little backpacks that girls wear...what the fuck is in there? you never know what kind of sketchy shit could be in there. I f you have one of these don't even step. Sh...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

It was my birthday then...Flight 3606 CLE-DFW

What is it about going on a trip, that gives me the creative cathartic itch, to write, to commit thoughts to pen and paper? Is it the separation from everyday life, into the atmosphere, where I am for...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Losing a love[d]...one.

Its been seven months since I lost my father. Losing a parent is something I was ready for. I guess, since he was sick. I knew it was going to happen. I had the scenario played out in my head. That so...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

San Francisco, a view from Cleveland

I just returned to Cleveland from 2.5 weeks in San Francisco. It was a strange visit. Only because I spent the last 3 years of my 6 years of life there thinking a certain way and feeling a certain wa...
Posted by Photothug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST