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“If you’re not really hip, we don’t really want you.”

Kendall, Her­shey, Pa., 2009

Or so says the New York Times. Don­ald Rums­feld famously banned the pub­lic pre­sen­ta­tion of any images of the coffins of return­ing Amer­i­can sol­diers killed over­sees. Because if you can’t see it, it must not be happening.

The French port­fo­lio site Ju Suis Une Bande De Jeunes just put up a set of my pho­tographs. Head on over and check it out.

I’m not try­ing to com­plain here. The idea is not to throw a pity party. I’m mostly just curi­ous how every­one else out there is far­ing what with this apoc­a­lyp­tic eco­nomic sit­u­a­tion and all. I’ll say that for my part, it seems that my life has come to a com­plete stand­still. Blog­ging no longer pays due to an absense of adver­tis­ing rev­enue and the hand­ful of pho­tog­ra­phers that take me on their com­mer­cial shoots with them aren’t work­ing too much for essen­tially the same rea­son. Tim Bar­ber is off in LA for a cou­ple months and things seem slow over at Hum­ble Arts also, leav­ing me with a sur­plus of free time. I use these totally free day­time hours stalk­ing Craigslist for work, refresh­ing every 36 sec­onds or so, but it seems that so many other peo­ple are doing exactly the same thing that my inquiries almost never receive any kind of response. It’s the cra­zi­est thing. I say we form a union and col­lec­tively bar­gain with the State of New York to insti­tute some kind of artist assis­tance well­fare pro­gram so that I don’t have to move back in with my parents.