PHOTOGRAPHS
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Music-on-demand was what we danced to on new years eve.
This is me dj-ing on New Years Eve at MODE in downtown Los Angeles.
I think this picture captures the hugeness of my mother's monitor.
This is my mother, my sister, marco (off-screen) and I waiting to be seated for breakfast at Fox's in Altadena.
Christmas church service. My dad is singing in the choir.
Paul Cowan at the Miami Beach Convention center.
THE BEACH! A beautiful sight during winter. It was so humid too, my hair frizzed up immediately. I would never want to be in Miami for any other reason.
Here we are sitting at the Pork Salad Press booth at NADA. We were like seat-fillers. Any time people left their booth we parked it.
Soiled Mattress and the Springs performing at the ANP party.
Kalup Linzy (my myspace friend) performing at the Boom Boom Room.
Clubbing at Rokbar.
That is Megan and I, if you can't tell. I don't remember what song was playing, but I do remember that they played 'Deceptacon' and it blew my mind. Congratulations to Le Tigre for subverting pop music!
Thanksgiving. All vegan!
MKB and I at the Urs Fischer show at Gavin Brown.
Simon de Pury at the Swiss Institute benefit. This is right before I threw up. Apologies to everyone involved. Not my finest moment.
Installation View
We each did one, this one is mine.
Mine is the third one.
Paul Cowan, Time Management, 2007
Marco Kane Braunschweiler, Infinity, 2007, Paint, plaster, plywood, masonite, etc.
Everything I've Ever Wanted To Know, 2007, html
Marco's is the print, mine is the glass.
Cloud, 2007, screenprint
Good Mood To U, glass and vinyl lettering
Paul Cowan, Highway 1 by David Elliott
Marco Kane Braunschweiler, American Hospital Supply Corporation 1982
this is a neil diamond cover band that me and lee saw at the mall in valencia
Lee's house.
This is the tree face he installed in the front yard.
The Film/Video TA's smoking weed at Amanda's house after class, or maybe between classes.
Everything is giant on my mom's computer. I tried to capture the hugeness but it didn't work.
Driving back to Cal Arts after a short break.
No Age show at Empty Bottle.
Whitney and I at the No Age show.
I was at the gallery having a crisis about this looping device.
Me and my dad had breakfast at Roscoe's.
When Mika Miko were in Chicago, we went thrift store shopping between their in-store and their show. This in Jennifer fully into it.
While people started whispering "He's here, he's here."
Megan and I waiting to meet Kanye. We read a lot of magazines and talked a lot of shit.
Bro-fast at the Flying Saucer. All the skate dudes were in town.
This is Paul Cowan believe it or not.
My view at work.
Tiffoney, Information Coordinator, and part of the reason why I can stand the job. She is funny.
After our fieldtrip to see Sicko. Danny is telling stories and everyone's like boooorrrrring.
My old room. Now my mom's office/studio. Still painted a dark dark green, reserved for sixteen year old hermits.
Green Screen demo!
Soft Circle and High Places at Ooga Booga
Breakfast with Syl and Rachel
Paul punching a mirror. He is one angry guy.
i had a shaker in my hand
bass + organ + laptop + ladies (+ redstripe (or anything really)) = snack party
kali singing very passionately
this was the crowd feeling our cover of "this is how we do it"
me talking to my mother pre-show and hanging out with david elliott and maki. fully green room.
nature walk to the with marco and max and kira (the dog) in swizterland
thrift store where i found a rad leonardo dicaprio wallet, but decided not to buy it and buy a falafel instead
turkey that renata made for her birthday. she was trying to explain it to me but i wasn't really understanding. i think it is a centerpiece.
this is jean. he bought us a bottle of wine and talked to us for a long time. he kept saying that george bush was "no friend of his."
maki cleaning out the litter box
amazing norwegian pink floyd cover band playing behind an intergalactic space scene, notice the space eggs
the boys loved ida, and who could blame them
the viking museum was a definite highlight of my travels. lots of rad wood carvings and viking-made tapestries. i bought an amazing postcard in the giftshop and marius bought me a book on norse mythology.
lots of love for chicago in norway
we hiked for more than an hour in the woods to get to this fine dining establishment. the whole place is covered in racing trophies.
ida and marius! my norwegian hosts and rad people.
new year's eve. rachel has the rest of the pictures. she still hasn't sent them to me, but it's okay because almost all of them look like this.
PHC and katie. i love you too.
marco and sean keenan. coolest dudes ever.
my grandfather sylvester on christmas and also his sort-of birthday party
lauren in new york. neither of us can use chopsticks, but we were trying to this night.
meg and maura
mika miko backstage.
ryan and harley on halloween. i'm not sure what either of them were, but i don't dress up so i can't hate.
me and JPG trying to stay up on the train.
fog machines!
danny is pissed.
polish falcons beer hall in milwaukee
the lauren anderson society ooga bootha mini-shop.
maxwell being a nerd and having a major david robbins crush. he told me ice cream social would change my life, but i'm just not ready for that yet.
testing blood FX for nic's film. we accidentally got a lot of ketchup on our neighbors white blanket that was hanging to dry on the fence. we didn't notice it until the end and then felt really bad.
nic's birthday. he bought a two-hundred dollar bottle of scotch and told a few friends to come to the oak street beach at 10.
he's so fucking classy.
this is the type of graffiti i do on the train. you know, like street art.
some skaters.
glenn's birthday bowling extravaganza at the fireside. they put on the HOUSE mix for us and we ripped it up!!
sean keenan reading shawn reed's zine.
max scoppettone double-fisting as usual
RIP ben.
saic reunion time in new york.
megan, our lovely new york host/guide/all around ruling person
this dog only spoke swiss german and we speak english so we couldn't tell it to stop.
"the nba store is like the guggenheim." -lauren anderson
james bowen where did you go?
this was before the beef n brandy raised their prices and got all lame.
ghazal at la pasadita #3. there are four of them within one block. but only one sells vegetarian burriots.
glenn drawing beer cans
my grandma's house
carrie at the beauty shop before the gay beast/ mayor daley show
this is an immaculate candy store on fullerton.
film stills from a movie lauren and i made
post-six flags great america
BACCI'S.
block party at messhall, thrown by yours truly and MKB
Keep party in summer 06.
my fellow intern
video art show at lacma
coughs at the smell on 6-6-6
sculpture by marco and i called "guess who" at high energy constructs
frat party at USC. my first and last frat party. it was just like the movies.
sam davis at the smell
the following pictures are from finland. i was there for five weeks on an exchange program. it was pretty rad.
free bikes in finland. i kept hearing about them, but these were the only ones i saw the entire time i was there.
one euro store. i bought a nice mini keyboard from here and a tote bag and some other great things
finnish monopoly
asia and i with the mayor of järvenpää, finland.
barbecue at DJ control's house.
puistoblues fest. buddy guy was playing.
this was at the theme park linnanmäki
the alphabet magnets on the fridge changed daily. on this particular day they were about the world cup.
we made our host parents an american style breakfast which they loved.
this was my drawing class. my teacher was a gypsy.
summer cottage/mökke
DJ Control had just seen Kanye West the day before and that was all he knew about Chicago
the bike i rode while there
this was our finnish language class. we were really bad in class. we just sat in the back and laughed or fell asleep. then we stopped going. harsh. sorry host parents.
scarface shorts that were purchased in china