26/365. They say things come and go, so maybe enjoying it while it's there is the balance.
22/365. pb & f l u f f
20/365. i n c o m i n g (at Barcelona, Spain)
12/365. Seen across the aisle. Split second stranger (at Shanghai, China)
12/366. Seen across the aisle. Split second stranger (at Shanghai, China)
Little clip from the visual poem yesterday. If you know me you know I hate social media and have been torn about it for years. For those who post, its a ceaseless stream of consciousness mindset focused on: "I-I-I-me-me-me" - and it's so easy to get sucked into this really myopic version of life, where you are consistently the most important thing in this fake reality. It's why we count likes and seek approval. And for everybody, even just scrollers, it's a constant state of judgement and comparison and easy to forget about the real people, real lives, real struggles behind the screen, behind the post. This poem is about losing sight of what's important when obsessed with progress and 'growing' as a creator today. When your eye shifts to the wrong prize and you see one thing. If you're compelled to art in any way, I'd urge us to not to get super hung up on the social media bullshit. It was never about mass approvals and never about editing/curating a life before, it's always been about vulnerabilities and intimacy. Know I've fallen trap to this stupid form of media like a lot of others, it's a bit of shame it's the only way to distribute work these days, but the spotlight and pressure of silent judgement behind computers and disconnected praise is something I think can be really unhealthy if you want to share work, and gets us away from the reason we create in the first place, which is passion! Thoughts!?!?????
Little clip from the visual poem yesterday. If you know me you know I hate social media and have been torn about it for years. For those who post, its a ceaseless stream of consciousness mindset focused on: "I-I-I-me-me-me" - and it's so easy to get sucked into this really myopic version of life, where you are consistently the most important thing in this fake reality. It's why we count likes and seek approval. And for everybody, even just scrollers, it's a constant state of judgement and comparison and easy to forget about the real people, real lives, real struggles behind the screen, behind the post. This poem is about losing sight of what's important when obsessed with progress and 'growing' as a creator today. When your eye shifts to the wrong prize and you see one thing. If you're compelled to art in any way, I'd urge us to not to get super hung up on the social media bullshit. It was never about mass approvals and never about editing/curating a life before, it's always been about vulnerabilities and intimacy. Know I've fallen trap to this stupid form of media like a lot of others, it's a shame it's the only way to distribute work these days, but the spotlight and pressure of silent judgement behind computers and disconnected praise is something I think can be really unhealthy if you want to share work, and gets us away from the reason we create in the first place, which is passion! Thoughts!?!?????
I took a photo of a stranger in Bangkok and it turned out to be one of the craziest moments of my life. I made my first ever short film about it. This is her. I'm personally donating $1 for every share it receives to @projecthopeorg up to $500. Link in bio. Hope you enjoy. (at Bangkok, Thailand)
38/365. Found a summer 2011 disposable camera photo. was thinking about college in this moment and everything that was ahead. The white circles are from shining a flashlight into the lens thru some cut up tinfoil. Ff 5 years and I'm still reachin, but now it's just for different stuff. weird how time works huh? #focalflows
27/365. This is one of my favorite black and white photos I ever took at umass. Here's to being frozen on a problem set all day, having it finally click at 4 am, and peacing out of the lib feeling like Macklemore before everyone realized he sucked #focalflows #365project
23/365. Messenger; a portfolio piece for 2013 photo class in Barcelona #focalflows (at Barcelona, Spain)
Ay new vid is up! Can pretty much guarantee you won't guess the ending. Link on fb page - ARcaptures , You can watch me pretend I do spoken word again 😂 #focalflows
Today went like this. New #focalflows film out tmrw.
14/365 was an awesomely weird one so I'll always remember it. Cross a deep Maine fog, a sparkler, 2am spongebob quality advanced darkness, and a 3 min exposure, and it might all just sum to a jumping up and down, happily shocked, 2014 version of Alex. #focalflows #nightvision (at Otisfield, Maine)
10/365. a peek at next episode. Seen just before flying out of JFK in my favorite NYC weather. #focalflows #TheMonthsBeforeCorporate
3 continents, 6 countries, solo. My new film & photo series. First film, "The Intro" drops tomorrow // also, 1 photo per day for a while. Tell a friend! #TheMonthsBeforeCorporate