PICTURES IN THE MAIL (FROM BLAKE ANDREWS)

Awhile back Blake Andrews had posted something on his blog regarding free prints. Of course I had to jump the gun and see if this was real or not. And indeed it was. He had also mentioned something interesting in his blog that had me intrigued

"Last summer I replaced my website with a simple filler page, and a few weeks ago I stopped my daily postings to Tumblr. So mail seems like an inviting alternative."

The evidence is below

"The motivations for going offline are complicated and I'm still sorting through them, but I think at root it's general malaise. I realize I wasn't getting much satisfaction or feedback from posting recent photos online. Worse, they grew stale quickly. For me the most exciting photos are the new ones. I pump shit out like crazy -and shit is definitely the operative word for some of it. But when I throw a photo online it begins to age before my eyes. It becomes yesterday's news."

This is pretty interesting. And I do admit that most of his work does fall short of direct understanding for any normal person, but to me Blake's work represents figments of life I try to capture. I'm sure not a lot of individuals see my work as "life changing" or "controversial", but my work doesn't encompass anything to that degree. No.. they are just photographs about my life. Documents about nothing if you think about it. But I can't be too cynical about it. I do hold a special moment with many images I take.

I value the prints Blake sent me. They're pretty damn awesome and I wanted to see if there was a theme selecting these images. I was given 10. Here's how I synchronized them.












I'm not sure if I'm close or not, but I call it "AFTER WORK". Thanks Blake. I owe you a book.