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Because I can& #39;t go anywhere, I think I& #39;m going to make a thread with one snapshot from each state in alphabetical order. Please mute this feed for a bit if that sounds annoying. I understand and am not mad at you for it.
This is the SECOND of these threads.
This is the SECOND of these threads.
MISSISSIPPI - March of 2010. Shaking hands with Morgan Freeman in Clarksdale. Was there for a book release party (Delta Blues, Tyrus Books 2010). These are the kinds of thing that happened when I was younger.
MISSOURI - My mom and I were in Kansas and we were like, "We should go on a drive." And then we did. Somehow we ended up at Park University (a school neither of us knew about). Then we did a photo shoot because that& #39;s what we do.
MONTANA - I went to a place in Bozeman called the Montana Raptor Conservation Center that rehabs injured birds. This birb was in the office. 2014.
NEBRASKA - I spent a week in northwestern Nebraska in the summer of 2019. It was a research trip and like often happens I fell in love with the place. This is me from the buttes above Crawford, NE during a full moon (slow exposure).
NEVADA - In 2017 me and the dudes @UndeRadar and @HrubyThruby went to Las Vegas to see Propagandhi, RVIVR, and Bad Cop/Bad Cop. This photo is trash because of the light, but this memory is cherished. Great people. Great music. Life affirmed.
NEW HAMPSHIRE - whenever I used to go to the Boston area I& #39;d usually hop on I-95 and head north to Maine. I also ended up going to Portsmouth, New Hampshire to visit friends. This was from night in 2014 when we were walking around and marveling at street magicians.
NEW JERSEY - As far as usable photos for this project? I don& #39;t have much. I& #39;ve either not had a camera or haven& #39;t gone anywhere. Here& #39;s something I saved from 2014.
NEW MEXICO - 2017. Waiting on the end of the Sandia Mountain Shadows Trail 10k. I thought about putting up a photo from Meow Wolf in Santa Fe and maybe I should. But I love the crispness of this.
NEW YORK - I don& #39;t even know where to begin. This is one of my top 3 photo catalogs. I& #39;m not going to overthink this. I& #39;ve got celebrity and book photos, but this is from my first trip ever in 1997. I was 21. I found a "good price" on a hotel. St. Mark& #39;s.
NORTH CAROLINA - 2014. Girls Rock NC benefit show. Mary Timony of Ex-Hex absolutely shredded her guitar. I remember when I was shooting this I felt like she was sacrificing her guitar in the name of rock n& #39; roll and I was blessed to be present.
NORTH DAKOTA - this is from 2016. That& #39;s my dude @HrubyThruby from Fargo and the only reason we know each other is because of this website. So this is me thanking Twitter for being a positive conduit, not just a hot take battleground.
OHIO - I& #39;ve got a ton from Ohio, especially the Cincinnati area. But this pic of me and @underadar and Nathan Singer is my favorite. This is a day after we all saw Neurosis in Louisville.
OKLAHOMA - Picher, Oklahoma | 2010. If you don& #39;t know the story of Picher, it& #39;s one of the great American environmental tragedies. I& #39;d already been there a few times before this trip. But on this visit, a local drew a map for me and told me where to go and how to get there.
OREGON - I probably have more photos of Oregon than any other state. Lots of people that I love live there, the coast is the most beautiful place on the planet, and there are mountains. Here& #39;s me with my niece and nephew being awesome like they always are.
PENNSYLVANIA - 2014. Centralia. Have you heard the story about Centralia? Like Picher, Oklahoma it& #39;s an environmental catastrophe. A coal seam under the town has been on fire and will continue to be on fire for a long time. The town is abandoned now.
RHODE ISLAND - 2014. This was a park. I don& #39;t remember much about it. I have exactly three photos of Rhode Island. It may be the least represented state in my personal collection.
SOUTH CAROLINA - in 2014 I did my first and (until now) last stand up comedy performance that was me making good on a blood pact that @carolynleeadams and I made years earlier.
SOUTH DAKOTA - One of the elements at the center of the novel I& #39;ve been working on for the last eight years is a Woolly Mammoth. Hot Springs, South Dakota is the sight of one of the most amazing mammoth burial grounds. You can tour bones and watch scientists uncover more. 2019.
TENNESSEE - 2013. I went camping in the Smokies on Easter Sunday. It was empty and beautiful (and a little chilly).
TEXAS - 1992 This is not a flattering photograph, but I& #39;m okay with that. I was 16 and trying to show off for a girl by sticking my head out of the window of a Ford Escort. I had bangs. Lots and lots of bangs. Outside Austin.
UTAH - If somebody showed up in America looking for natural beauty it& #39;s quite possible I& #39;d tell them to go to Utah. For a long time my favorite photo from Utah was grim. I& #39;m not in the mood to be grim anymore. So here& #39;s some of that natural beauty. Near Moab. 2017.
VERMONT - I lied earlier. Apparently Vermont is my least photographed state. This is it. This is all. Outside the Boys & Girls Club of Brattleboro. 2014.
VIRGINIA - I don& #39;t have a lot of photos from Virginia, but all of them have significant memories attached to them. I& #39;m putting in 3. One is of my friend @_raven_mack_ from the night my friend Pete killed himself. Another from Charlottesville. And another of Cornel West.
WASHINGTON - If it wasn& #39;t for my friend Stompermonster, not sure that I& #39;m here right now. Quite possibly a guardian angel. We usually take adventures along the Oregon coast, but one year we kept going north and found Cape Disappointment, WA. A harsh and beautiful climate. 2015.
WEST VIRGINIA - Somewhere I& #39;ve misplaced a few dozen West Virginia photos. Like Utah, West Virginia is a naturally beautiful state that people underestimate in a variety of ways. Thankfully, this butterfly didn& #39;t. 2010.
WISCONSIN - This is my home state and I& #39;ve got a million photos. Here are some of my favorites.
WYOMING - 2010. My paternal grandmother grew up in Laramie. Wyoming was one of the last states I made it to. When I got there, I didn& #39;t really know where I was going, so I drove around until I found things. This is one of the things I found.
