The Swing Shift

Laura

Jesse Pollock — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:08:47 +0000

I thought I was going up to Washington in order hang out in the town where Twin Peaks was filmed (North Bend if you are wondering). However, I got sidetracked as I have been known to do from time to time and ended up on the other side of the state in a Rainforest. As I made my way back towards my original destination I ran into some things that merited a photo or two and saw a good chunk of the road before I tasted that Cherry pie. It was damn good coffee and the pie wasn’t half bad either.

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Roadside Memorial

Jesse Pollock — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:22:26 +0000

As a man of repetition and superstition, I have formed a rather costly habit of taking off on a trip after completing a big project. By the time I finish whatever I have been working on I’m usually pretty exhausted, so it’s sort of a way to send myself to work rehab. Not sure how we picked the location this time around. I think maybe the tickets were cheap or something. Anyways, we chose Maui.

After being there for an hour, I found that the island is filled with roadside memorials. There are so many that it’s almost to the point where you realize that someone has died on every mile you have driven. I saw so many of them that I realized my photographic theme was leaning in a pretty morbid direction. At the end of the trip I had eight rolls of death, abandonment or isolation. With a couple of sunsets mixed in.

Not sure if it was all the death and loneliness, but when we got home we broke up. †

Endless Summer

Ariel Zambelich — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:11:15 +0000

Now that summer is nothing more than a fleeting memory, drowned out by the icy downpour that is winter in the valley, I figured it was time to go through my photos from North Carolina. I’m greeted in the morning by a thick frost on my windshield, and I wistfully remember how just a few short months ago I dreaded sitting in that oven of a car, which lacks a proper air conditioner. The days go by faster and faster.

This past summer was filled with a few big firsts, the best of which was my first trip to North Carolina. It’s a place that I’ve romanticized for years, hearing stories from friends of summers spent at watering holes, diving off boulders, green, lush forests and a mild, humid climate that you never really get in California. Little Derballito rounded up the troops in an effort to share his hometown memories with us. We rented a giant cabin next to a waterfall and spent the days hiking and swimming and the nights cooking together, lighting sparklers and watching the stars.

Here are some pictures from the adventure – really just a glimmer into the epic few days lost in the woods.

- az

Scoooby-Dooin’ it

Alex Welsh — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 20:37:17 +0000

Last week a group of us took a trip to our friend Erica’s beach house in Port Washington. We swam, kayaked, fished, explored an abandoned mansion, danced and ate. All of us agreed it was the best day we’ve had all summer.

I WAS PROSTITUTE

Alex Welsh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 03:09:36 +0000

Killed it in Poland with Bryan, it was my first time ever to Europe. I ate raw beef, drank vodka, dropped some flashes, saw ‘Valentines Day’ and had a slumber party. Oh lets do it.

Remembering The Snow

Alex Welsh — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:28:33 +0000

On one of the last snow days of the year, we went sledding and had a snowball fight in central park. We killed it.

Shadows Lengthen By The Sun

Mustafah Abdulaziz and Justin Maxon — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:31:52 +0000

Friends Mustafah Abdulaziz from MJR and Justin Maxon from Razon did a cross-country road trip a few weeks back. This is how they saw it.

thinking of you

Alex Welsh — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:53:17 +0000

These pictures are from my last month in San Francisco. I gotta say, even though yesterday I bought a bed from Ikea moved into my new apartment in Brooklyn, I still haven’t come to terms with the fact I’m actually living here. My home is San Francisco, I was born and raised in the Bay, and I don’t think my heart will ever leave it. All I can think about is seeing the faces of my friends who have been with me for the past five years, who have stood with me through the hardest shit I’ve ever been through, and I can’t help but feel that I am abandoning them. I think about meeting my friend Jessie for the first time at her old house on 24th and Portrero, eating friendship (ending) cupcakes, and watching Degrassi till 5 in the morning, I think about driving into Hunters Point for the first time and listening to Kanye with Isabella, watching Alberto walk around and take pictures of the view, I picture Jeff dancing around on top of our nasty white couch in the villas in his honey pot costume on Halloween, and I remember belting out Usher lyrics with Norris on our last drive back from Fresno together. Every memory is so vividly happy it becomes painful, and as I return to them over and over everyday here, I can’t help but break down. I am trying to find happiness here in New York, I love people here too, I just can’t bring myself to say goodbye to my life in SF. I am at this point where I really don’t know what I am doing, and it scares me that the rest of my life is what I make it, and being away from the people I love right now is making everything so much harder.

But I need to try here. I can do it…

Princeton in Motion

Alexander Klein — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:18:13 +0000

I recently had the pleasure of shooting a music video for the band Princeton. Â After months (days) of labor, it birthed itself unto the Pitchfork site yesterday afternoon, weighing in at a healthy two minutes and fifty seconds.

List of inspirations: palm trees, sea air, Terrence Malick, slasher films, Agnes Varda, jewel thieves, Greek myths, taco trucks, faded loafers, Les Quatre Cent Coups, super 8 cameras, blue skies and lemon trees.

Note: no band members were hurt in the course of the shoot, though not for want of trying.

The following photos were taken by Andrew White during the filming process.

New to New York

Owen Murray — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:00:49 +0000

First time in the big city…