I was reading online about some racially-motivated assault, and I was trying to imagine the feeling of having to live with the understanding that some people dislike you just because you exist. You know, trying to imagine I’m not a 20-something white American male from a middle-class family; humanity’s most generic creation. My empathy experiment [...]

You wouldn’t believe how often I try — and completely fail — to produce usable results on my BlackBerry’s shitty camera. I like this, though, after slathering on a thick blanket of Photoshop.

I was sorting through some old photography magazines to decide which were going in the garbage and discovered my December issue of The Skateboard Mag, which I thought had just been lost in the mail. So I was flipping through it and one ad immediately caught my eye. Not because it was an impressive photo, [...]