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I'm A Liar

Post #86

The Nine of Cups, 2011

I'm heading on over to Tumblr, folks, sorry to say. Find me there as shakeylegs. ShakeyLegs, SL, Stephanie Leibowitz, get it? HawHaw. I felt like it was time for a change. It's been grand but honestly I like the layout better. Please continue to look at my work! Thanks for all the good times.

Post #54

Hooping, 2011

Tweet

Just a quick post to let everyone know; I'm a tweeter now! My boss recommended it the other day in a effort to help my self-promotion, of which I'm kind of lackluster at.

So, tweet me! I'm going to learn how to do it in a totally awesome and cool way that will have everyone else tweeting back at me and offering me jobs and checking out this cray-cray blog.

News

Pardon my absence, I've been busy moving in with this guy.

I also am in possession of a new camera and soon to come, new materials.

Thank you for your patience.

More to come. Please Stay Tuned.

Post #52: Tiny Tim

a nod to bygone eras and a lovely ukulele player.

IDEAS.

"And you've gotta be true to them, because they're bigger than you first think they are. They're almost like gifts, and even if you don't understand them a hundred per cent, if you're true to them, they'll ring true at different levels. But if you alter them too much they won't even ring; they'll just sort of clank. I really believe it's like the Beach Boys said: 'Be true to your school.' Later on someone might tell you, 'That's a very uncommercial idea', or 'That's going to make a hundred million dollars.' But if you're thinking about that up front, for me you're thinking about the wrong things."

-David Lynch

post #50: inspiration

Image Credit: tumblr, emily shur, blue valentine(derek cianfrance), vintage american circus collective, lise sarfati.

Enjoy!

Post #49

Until Denny gives this guy his money, I won't be able to post any more photographs. Please help him get some money, and also some extra for Johnny, because you know Denny freeloads like cray-cray.

#48

Lucia and Harold, Ridgewood 2008-11

Post #47

In The Middle of It All, March 2011

"April is the cruellest month,

breeding lilacs out of the dead land,

mixing dull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth with forgetful snow,

feeding a little life with dried tubers."

Not lilacs but gerbera daisies and some twin peaks on this mid-april evening.

Cash Money Chickens

Greg at the Sugar Shack, March 2011

In other news, I've been really into this podcast called UhhYeahDude. It's a weekly update "of America through the eyes of two American Americans".

Check it out! I often find myself listening to it while on the crosstown bus, on which I don't sit down for fear of scornful looks from women with children.

Something that sucks when you're kind of broke you realize quickly how shitty your diet is, and then when it affects your already low energy level due to lack of income/job it just seems like a triple whammy. Like when you have to budget food money for a week, leafy greens don't seem like they're going to last long enough, but tomato sauce and bread can get you through four or five days.

ANYWHO..listen to this podcast! Then tell other people about my blog that have fistfuls of cash to throw around. What's it gonna take, people? Outfit posts? Fashion trend posts? Or maybe I'll just post work more often. That makes more sense.

blind mentions

Some of my work has been featured on tinyvices(!), check it out:

tinyvices various

ohmygaw

#26

Eloise, December 2010

#25

Nina, Kensington, 2011

Old Man House

Ben, OMH, August 2010

Finally got around to editing the work I shot of my roommates from my last house. More to follow soon!

new work

Bensonhurst, October 2010

it's not you, it's me.

Weighing my options for this month and making resolutions and goals for 2011. When I was a kid (or a tween, technically) and it was 2000, my dad bought me those sunglasses made for the new year with the O's for eyeholes. A great gimmick, I thought then and now, until I saw ones for 2011 on the street the other day. Alec & I both remarked on how stupid this gimmick has become, one that needs to retire.

And with that in mind....just kidding. I haven't quit making pictures or being an artist just because I didn't get a residency post or haven't had any place to produce tangible photographs(which is kind of my fault anyway). I guess I could say that it's just taken a backseat and with two jobs and moving for the 3rd time in a year, I get home at the end of the day sometimes and just sigh. I wish I had the capability to just pull out some paper and start drawing about all the things in my head, get it all out, get over it. I was never this stressed out about small things when I was at SVA and able to produce work on a daily basis. I thought I could replace photo with baking or biking or other peon little hobbies but I don't like eating too many sweets and it's really tedious to have to wake up at 5 am to bike to work. I thought that with the residency all of these problems would be solved and I could get back into that flow, but instead of being sad about this I just think, Fuck. Now what? I know I will work it out soon and things will be good.

Anyway, in case anyone still reads this I just wanted to say that I really really wish I had things to post on a weekly, daily basis and have comments and viewers and make work for me and anyone else interested. Soon I'm sure.