Play.: February 2011

Photography: May 20, 2010

Top: Punks from the ZDC, meeting in Central Park for first ever Austin-Rochester Critical Mass.
Bottom: Critical Mass on the move.

Top: James Denzer.
Bottom: C. Mass stopping at Jenny's house.

Top: C. Mass group photo in front of Jenny's house.
Bottom: Taking a break at shit bridge.

Critical mass, stopping at Quarry Hill.

Top: Austin Derek going down big hill on his chopper bicycle, Quarry Hill.
Bottom: Bridge hopping and drinking beer, what we do for fun on Rochester summer nights.

Bricon, stopping for a break on his tall bike. Critical Mass, Quarry Hill.

Top: My bike on the rail road tracks, Shit Bridge.
Middle: Some hicks going down the Zumbro.
Bottom: My favorite kids.

David, and mystery person, carrying canoe to the Zumbro.

The Kind of Ellis Island, Winona MN.

Photography: April 13, 2010 (Part Two)

Top: Installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Illinois.
Bottom: Ali Scott, peeking over a flag in the making, by Courtney Mackedanz.

Etta Sandry hosting her themed radio show, Tuesday night, eating Chicago Style deep dish Pizza!

Top: An alley in Chicago.
Bottom: A train station in Chicago.

Top: Movie night at Bicycle sports, projected onto the side of the building.
Bottom: Double exposure. Derek and David, stopping for a break on our bicycle trip from Rochester to Winona.

Top: Picture taken by Aubrey Heil. Warehouse near Psycho Suzie's.
Bottom: A hole we dug, under Aubrey's fence one night, so that we could play tag in the graveyard on the other side.

Top: Derek breathing fire with Kerosene Oil.
Bottom: Meg at work, Caribou.

Ellis Island, Winona. Day after arriving in Winona during bike trip with Derek and David.

Same as above.

Aubrey, Chelsey, and Alex. A hopeful day at the beach, but it was too cold to swim still.

Photography: April 13, 2010 (Part One)

Top: Downtown Chicago, Illinois.
Bottom: Etching at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Close-ups of work from the Art Institute of Chicago.

Etta Sandry, lunch break in Millenium Park.

Fran Toan, giving a tour of the mammal preservation wing, where she has an internship preparing birds, at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. A cabinet of finished birds, drying.

Left: Rows and aisles of floor to ceiling cabinets, filled with birds from across the world.
Right: Bird skeletons awaiting storage, study, or display.

Left: Fran Toan finishing a bird she's been working on.
Right: Ali and Fran, in the avian preservation wing of the Chicago Museum on Natural History.

Top: The dermisted beetle colony room. Dermisted beetles only eat rotten flesh, and the museum used the insect to clean the skeletons of animals they intended for display or study. Glass aquariums lined the small fluorescent room, crackling with the sound of thousands of beetles eating.