2.29.08 {jsl}

Cracked Wall

Shadow Puppet

My favorite model.

2.28.08 {jsl}

Day/Night--my photography is my own.

2.27.08 {jsl}

It's hard to come home sometimes

--Everything about our lives seem to be dilapidated. The place we live, the health services we receive, my brother's education, etc. So many aspects of our lives are affected by poverty. It is all encompassing.

2.26.08 {jsl}

Seizure Precautions --I was there to see my grandpa but I didn't recognize him.

2.25.08 {jsl}

The Traveler Series
[MA/CT border]

--My life away from home is more of my life than when I'm home. In fact, I often feel uprooted when I leave for home. So I guess "home" is ambiguous for me.

In the morning {dst}

Post by Danny.

Happiness is a warm rink {dst}

At the rink!

Sprinkler. {dst}

More minimalism. Post by Danny.

Roads to come... {dst}

Post by Danny.

Just another drive, somewhere in America... {dst}

Sorry for breaking up the polaroid parade... : ( Post by Danny.

Change 2.19.08 {jsl}

It is once again snowing beautifully outside but I am wishing for warm, breezy summer nights. It has been a long time since I've had a haircut. Haircuts are small rebirths for me so I'm painfully overdue for a transformation.

2.18.08 {jsl}

I hate scanning Polaroids. There is always something lost in translation. With that said, I've fallen head over heels for you, Mr. Polaroid.

2.17.08 {jsl}

Spontaneous portraits

2.16.08 {jsl}

Saturday night @ The Bean Counter

STIR Magazine Model Call

email your photo to JesacaLin@gmail.com

So what will it be? {jsl}

Who will you believe?

2.12.08 {jsl}

Hannah and the Peace Lily

Sadly, my adventure with the SX-70 maybe coming to an end. Not only because of the discontinuation of Polaroid film by 2009, but the camera itself has become temperamental. The poor thing has trouble ejecting, among other technical troubles.

Anyway, for a taste of how one photographer pushed this format,
check out Nobuyoshi Araki's New Polaroids June -August 2007 @ Dirty Pilot Gallery :

My brother Jonathan {jsl}

New images from my family project. It's mid February and my thesis project still feels aimless. My problem is that I've included the spectator in my image making process: is it accessible to them? Do they GET IT? I've lost touch with how inherently personal family history is and what my original motivations were. I must ask myself some hard questions and scrutinize my intent to truly gain clarity.

"He could close his eyes and try to believe that all that mattered was that he knew his work was great... and that other artists respected it... and that History would surely record his achievements... but deep down he knew he was lying to himself. I want to be a Name, goddamn it!--at least that, a name, a name on the lips of the museum curators, gallery owners, collectors, patrons, board members, committee members, Culture hostesses, and their attendant intellectuals and journalists and their Time and Newsweek--all right!--even that!--Time and Newsweek--Oh yes! (ask the shades of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko!)--even the goddamned journalists!
-Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word, 18.

"Pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me pick me...O damnable Uptown! By all means, deny it if asked!--What one knows, in one's cheating heart, and what one says are two different things!" -Tom Wolfe, The Painted Word, 19.

Darlings! {jsl}

We are panda bears in a bamboo forest- free, elusive and highly indulgent...

Ballyvaughan Buddies {dst}

For life.

2.8.08 {jsl}

There was the possibility of... and I felt unprepared. Can anyone truly be prepared to face the most cardinal function of our biology?

A Vermont Winter's Night {dst}

Nothing like it. Post by Danny.

2.7.08 {jsl} Happy Chinese New Year!

My polaroid froze so I got purple snow.

2.6.08 {jsl}

"I perceive you to be changing, if you continue, you will disappear..."
-a stylized translation of what a professor said to me today and it had nothing to do with my art. I am exhausted by this weather.

SUBMIT to STIR! the official poster... {jsl}

Submit to us!

STIR wants you to flaunt your assets...

To be back in Paris... {dst}

*the view outside our hotel window.*Duckies outside the Louvre

Enough Said. Post by Danny.

Hillary Clinton was 2.5 hours late...{jsl}

I met the friendliest secret service agent that day. I also met the most radical Hillary supporter who breathed down my neck and shouted into my ear lines such as: "You're beautiful, Hilary!" "Fuck Obama!" and "Down with the House of Bush!" etc. for three hours regardless of whether Hillary was in the building or not...


And... a Blooper!

Mr. Deval Patrick {jsl}

Deval Patrick's visit to Clark.

I aimed to be forward and ambitious when I emailed these photos to the major photo and news editors of the Boston Globe a few hours after the event... I have yet to hear back from them but I felt stronger despite the possibility of not be acknowledged. I only have two edited right now. Sorry! Tomorrow's my chance to photograph Hillary Clinton! I whole heartedly am looking forward to observing and interacting with the secret service...

A Homely Sight {jsl} posted by {dst}

I love how your glasses are amongst my oyster shells and random pebbles. It is such a welcomed sight. I miss you babe. Post by Danny.

Life as of Febuary 3rd, 2008 {dst}

Life needs a little more. Post by Danny.

Normal pets or spawn of Satan? You decide... {dst}

(Disclaimer: This photo has NOT been photoshopped.) Post by Danny.

I am a novice {jsl}

Juno: I need to know that two people can stay together...

Dad: Your best hope is for someone to love you for the way you are.

It is painful being a novice.