Posts Tagged ‘Personal Project’

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Holy Land Experience in GEO Magazine, France

GEO Magazine France ran a great spread of my Holy Land Experience pictures.  It’s a personal project of mine that is very near and dear to my heart, so it’s quite nice to see so much real estate devoted to the photos.  I only wish I could read the story.  

Heart Attack Grill

The Heart Attack Grill

There is a magical place in Las Vegas, NV where you must wear a hospital gown while eating bypass burgers, smoking unfiltered cigarrettes, and drinking butterfat milkshakes.  If you tip the scales past 350 lbs, your meal is free, brought to you by sexy nurses and surgeons.  Excess and obesity and poor heart health and [...]

Celebrity Impersonator Convention

Double Takes: My Love of Celebrity Impersonator Conventions

[A Lady Gaga greets an LL Cool J] I sent myself to Las Vegas to check out the Celebrity Impersonator Convention earlier this year.  The moment I realized this was a thing that people actually did, I knew I had to go and I was not disappointed. At first, it was every bit as strange [...]


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Runyon Sunset Voyeur

I’ve relocated back to Washington DC, but this East Coast heatwave has me waxing nostalgic for the mild California winter I enjoyed this year.  I spent a number of afternoons hiking Runyon Canyon, just a few blocks from my apartment.  One day, I got a late start on my hike and came around the final [...]

Cat Show

National Capital Cat Show

I made a series of portraits at the National Capital Cat show back in 2008 and I went again this year to add to the collection.  I suppose you could say cat show portraits are a sort of hobby of mine.  They tickle all the right parts of my brain.  I also learn neat cat [...]

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The Holy Land Experience

Last summer, I made a pilgrimage of sorts to a place I’d seen in a movie.  I caught half of Bill Maher’s “Religulous” and saw a scene in which he interviews a man who plays Jesus at a theme park in Orlando called the Holy Land Experience.  I was stupefied that such a place existed, [...]