Swallows were kind enough to ask me to shoot some impromptu photos for them, something odd and playful and rock and roll for their upcoming release.

More to come , obviously.

More to come.

Inspired by both a life long fascination with adaptations of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and a love of Pink Narcissus the lone film created by James Bidgood, this final revised version of Peter Pan in Crimson combines both the fantasy of an other worldly bed time visitor and the fantasia of stylized color and sound Bidgood so adeptly utilized in his masterpiece of erotica. It is one of the few films I have ever made that had me so completely involved, written, edited, directed, and scored -not to mention going in full frontal and sexually explicit in front of the camera. No regrets as I think the film is a beautiful piece of work that I am very proud of.

An updated edition of of my film Les Hômmes . This finalized festival version of the film was lit only by available light, in this case a severe thunderstorm in rural Georgia. The short piece is a mediation on the memories of lust, sex and longing.

Leo Bersani stated (and I'm paraphrasing here so forgive me) that homosexuals spend more time remembering a sexual encounter, memorializing it and rhapsodizing it as opposed to heterosexuals who spend their time anticipating the sexual act (which explains the lingerie industry if you ask me).

Les hômmes represents the tactile memory of a sexual encounter, the electrical storm of passionate physical attraction, the absorption of scent, taste, touch, of hearing , seeing and feeling with the entire body, the body of another.

"Clear View of Tomorrow" 2009

"Land" 2009

   "When man walked upright" 2009

Baby Bunting       2009

Three random self pics for today. It's humid and hot here and being naked seems the only response. 

                                             Untitled self portrait (Gold 02) 2009

     Untitled self portrait (Gold 03) 2009

"Please 01" 2009

"Please 02"               2009

Mysterious, repulsive, beautiful and ALIVE these subjects are ever evolving , growing, mutating, decomposing and re-birthing. As they rise and raze their own topography new organic shapes and colors arise giving way to new life, new subjects.

"New Landscape 06" 2009

"Albert, piano" 2009

"Albert, rising star" 2009

"Albert, in repose" 2009

"Albert, in reflection" 2009

Straight, young (21) and single actor and model Albert is on top of the world. I shot these pics for a profile I ran on him over on Digging To China so I'm kinda double dipping here, but hey work is work.

"Matthew Kern Candy Triptych" 2009

Fabulous piano man Matthew Kern (who also stars in my new film Inheritance due out this June!!!!) has become a new model for me. Good times!

"I am here, Where are you?" 2009

"Long Hallways and Long Nights 01" 2009

After a bit of a break (and clearly a break from the gym-geez) I shot these self-portraits with my assistant last night. It's a fine line between beefy and bloated. While I concluded that'll be nice to have a document of the change it's sometime difficult to look back when as an artist you are constantly revealing yourself, and reinventing at the same time.. I was having dinner recently with some friends and the subject of my older teenage self portraits came up and how I had been too skinny. Far Far too skinny. 

"New Landscapes 03"

"New Landscapes 04"

"Intention" 2009

"Seduction" 2009

"Initiation" 2009

"Before" 2009

"After" 2009

"In dreams 01" 2009