Des Moines
Bush Jr Birthday - June 22, 2006
In summer 2006, Sheryl Oring staged a cross-country tour of "The Birthday Project." For this work, Oring wore a 1960s party dress and set up a portable "birthday party" in parks and flea markets. As people passed by, she invited them to send cards to the President for his 60th birthday. Using a manual typewriter, she typed their thoughts onto the card. With this project, Oring offered people across a broad spectrum of society a chance to extend very personal wishes to the President on this landmark birthday, thereby painting an intimate portrait of American views on the presidency halfway through his second term in office.
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Stone Sour - August 20 2010
Corey Taylor is the lead singer for Stone Sour and Slipknot. Corey, Dave Lundberg, the drummer, and I drove in Corey's car to the Council Bluffs Westfair Amphitheater for Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, Stone Sour, and Halestorm. I was allowed to take photos from the stage front for three songs.
Kunst Automatica
Germany has Art Vending machines in various cities. Here are the ones I found. I display the kunst box first to separate each section. The machine is shown, follwed by the art and then the artist bio included in the box and other images from the internet by the artist. Some cards have something on the back.
Kofu, Japan - DM Sister City Photo Contest - Feb 2002
The lettering in the 2nd photo reads: Award for Excellence
Greg Wilcox
Your exceptional photograph has been selected for the Award of Excellence in the 2001 Sister State Friendship Photo Contest.
February 19, 2002
Governor of Yamanashi Ken Amano
Yamanashi Culture Festival Operation Committee President Eichi Noguchi
Recreations & Reclamations
I have always been a purger of stuff. But throwing away my art hurts me the most. I have tossed out art, photographs, and negatives. I have thrown out mementos like bike ride patches, bike medals and purchases from overseas, like a Lomo camera kit purchased in Melbourne. I had over 40 film festival catalogs, threw them out, got them all back, threw them out and have about 1/2 now. I don't have my first anything. It makes me sad and I don't do it any more. I am always trying to locate these items or try to recreate it.
Jesus 2012 - 2015
Christ Crucified is a 1632 painting by Diego Velázquez depicting the Crucifixion of Jesus. A billboard based on this painting was moved around Des Moines for at least three years. I photographed it in different weather, locations, and with scenes I created.
Politics and War
October 1 2014 - DM Art Center photography class
This might have been a fashion photography class held in a few sessions and coincided with the Andy Warhol and Des Moines-born fashion designer Halson which ran from Sept 19, 2014 - Jan 18, 2015. A few models were brought in. I once thought the US sucked and now I think it is great. Sorry for the offending photos. Ben Easter talked about his photography experience.
Conversation with Richard Dawkins - April 12, 2014
I was asked to videotape the event at the Hoyt Sherman. I had two Panasonic HVX-2000A cameras and had my actor run the static two shot camera on the main floor. I ran the panning camera on the balcony. I also went to the house party and Dawkins was a bit of an ass to me. I was initially to be paid but wasn't. Not sure if I paid my camera guy. I did have Dawkins answer my question in his book.
Election Signs
I made all of the signs below in Photoshop and printed them off on my 17X19 inch printer. I added these to the election signs that I gathered from campaigns prior to the Iowa Caucus.
Tone Spices
Two of my friends are Rachel and Catherine tone, decendants of the Des Moines, Iowa, tone spices company. I have created some tone spice related art for the tones.