brain soup lust

the princess bride

2012-01-22T19:56:00.001-08:00

the early hours

2012-01-12T22:53:00.000-08:00

ouchie

2011-12-29T22:38:00.001-08:00

I almost walked right into a foot fryer.

night walk

2011-12-26T12:04:00.000-08:00

with me brother

night vision

2011-12-11T14:57:00.000-08:00

last days on earth

2011-12-07T21:30:00.001-08:00

as well as my final apocalyptic jewelry post.

medium range ballistic missionary

2011-12-01T23:21:00.000-08:00

all of the jewelry from the last few shoots is available for purchase. if you're looking for some apocolyptic treasures for a special person in your life contact stephanie.mandolesi@gmail.com . She is the maker of this jewelry line, and an extraordinary woman who would be happy to help you find a finely fashioned Apocolyptic piece for you, or her, or him, or it.

chessie system

2011-11-23T09:54:00.000-08:00

new project

2011-11-15T18:59:00.000-08:00

I'm shooting the jewelry line Apocolyptic. I am a huge fan of this line which is assembled from found pieces of discarded/abandoned jewelry, charms, metals, bones, watch parts, old locks, beach glass, rusty washers, skeleton keys, foreign coins, and quite a lot of other things.

I will post lots more photos of these pieces soon.

make new friends

2011-11-12T10:11:00.000-08:00

11.11.11

2011-11-11T07:52:00.000-08:00

tube troll

2011-11-08T18:10:00.001-08:00

one crash after another rent the sky

2011-11-05T13:23:00.000-07:00

Feliz Día de los Muertos!

2011-11-01T11:20:00.001-07:00

from the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles

far from the splendor and squalor of hurrying cities

2011-10-26T20:45:00.001-07:00

miss world

2011-10-25T22:54:00.000-07:00

bed sheet curtain face

2011-10-25T22:47:00.001-07:00

feel like a flaming ball of helium and hydrogen just TRYING to make lead

2011-10-24T20:56:00.000-07:00

zero at sunset

2011-10-23T19:01:00.000-07:00

one really good whiffleball game

2011-10-18T20:22:00.001-07:00

please fix the shower

2011-10-16T17:59:00.001-07:00

mi hermano con ukulele

2011-10-10T07:59:00.000-07:00

this is what he was PLAYING

Indian Summer

2011-10-07T10:18:00.000-07:00

I need help identifying these mushrooms, if anyone wants to play...

roar

2011-10-05T19:03:00.000-07:00

I found you nailed to my cellar wall

2011-10-03T12:44:00.000-07:00

I discovered this portrait nailed to the outside wall of the coal room in the cellar of my family's home. Our house is about 150 years old. She was facing the wall, the photograph was turned over with the number 924 scrawled on the back in pencil. From where she came no one knows. How long do you think she's been down there?

you have grown old

2011-10-02T18:08:00.000-07:00

white sand

2011-09-28T06:33:00.000-07:00

art on train

2011-09-20T12:05:00.001-07:00

last saturday an orange line train was turned into a traveling art gallery
each car offering the exhibit of a different artist or collaboration
it went around the loop in circles
it was dizzying fun

jack o lanterns

2011-09-18T13:25:00.000-07:00

secret flowers

2011-09-16T11:06:00.000-07:00

make up a basket of paper boats
from the torn out pages
of hillbilly romance novels
skewered together with matches

under the light of a full moon
take the boats to the crik
after chop chop chopping a path
through thick jungle plants
stretched twelve feet tall

set the boats to flame
and watch them float down the crik
while their smoke pushes them
into the darkness

secret flowers

creaky trees and imaginary friends

2011-09-07T12:24:00.000-07:00

ground dwellers

2011-09-07T12:14:00.000-07:00

one of the most beautiful people I have ever known

2011-08-31T08:40:00.000-07:00

briny and fresh

2011-08-31T08:20:00.000-07:00

a stone's throw from mexico

2011-08-29T17:31:00.000-07:00

magnets

2011-08-28T16:19:00.000-07:00

grotesque head

2011-08-28T15:12:00.000-07:00

trailer park dioramas

2011-08-26T08:52:00.000-07:00

from the museum of jurassic technology

tempest

2011-08-26T08:30:00.000-07:00

dioramas

beefcake

2011-08-26T08:29:00.001-07:00

[start]

2011-08-26T08:21:00.000-07:00

Nuclear Indiana

2011-08-26T08:18:00.000-07:00

macomb, cannibal test site

2011-08-17T11:14:00.000-07:00

wizards play badminton

2011-08-17T11:12:00.001-07:00

I hereby proclaim this planet Trumania of the Burbank Galaxy

2011-08-15T08:36:00.001-07:00

both photos taken at midnight, after fireworks, on a pier in the great glass lake, by the light of the full moon - it was nice

blocked brains

2011-08-05T12:31:00.001-07:00

i am having a shooting block. my sincerest of apologies. hopefully, it will pass soon. in the meantime, i recommend going outside and playing, for both of us.

james daley

2011-07-22T10:45:00.001-07:00

marilyn on michigan, pre-unveiling

2011-07-22T10:37:00.001-07:00

la luna para ti, mi amor

2011-07-21T08:05:00.000-07:00

thailand

2011-07-21T07:47:00.000-07:00

classic rookie mistake

2011-07-15T08:35:00.000-07:00

witchy sisters

2011-07-09T06:59:00.000-07:00

tents

2011-07-08T10:25:00.000-07:00

if you relax your eyes there is a skull face hidden in the foliage of the first photo

wizards

2011-06-28T20:43:00.000-07:00

Bromeliad Neoregelia 'Purple Rain'

2011-06-21T23:00:00.000-07:00

ma maison de spectres en été

2011-06-21T08:41:00.000-07:00

est. 1863

bioart project finished

2011-06-19T13:17:00.000-07:00

now i must make more

inside and outside a seed at the Garfield Park Conservatory

2011-06-18T18:05:00.000-07:00

bom cabelo

2011-06-07T07:47:00.001-07:00

vamos a la playa

2011-06-05T18:30:00.000-07:00

terpsichorean

2011-05-11T09:26:00.000-07:00

krang

2011-05-10T21:50:00.001-07:00

FORT

2011-05-09T09:22:00.001-07:00

went to china

2011-05-09T08:27:00.000-07:00

met a boxcar kid

dramatic dissectee

2011-05-09T07:33:00.000-07:00

what a woman

2011-05-07T21:09:00.000-07:00

making a muliebrous moss mannequin

2011-05-05T10:14:00.001-07:00

business shark

2011-04-30T21:21:00.001-07:00

the ceiling is peeling

2011-04-29T21:52:00.000-07:00

too much bleach

2011-04-28T16:57:00.000-07:00

these are photos of a deer skull that I over-bleached

elefante

2011-04-28T15:34:00.001-07:00

maxilla

2011-04-28T15:18:00.000-07:00

tintinnabulation

2011-04-25T17:04:00.000-07:00

boochichi

2011-04-25T16:56:00.000-07:00

your big backyard

2011-04-22T09:15:00.001-07:00

IMAGINARIUM

2011-04-18T19:47:00.001-07:00

strip the sheets

2011-04-16T17:50:00.000-07:00

rana catesbeiana

2011-04-16T17:25:00.001-07:00

interior view of bullfrog abdominal skin, central nervous system, and spine

bog zoomz

2011-04-14T20:57:00.000-07:00

sisters

2011-04-13T11:12:00.001-07:00

the kid

2011-04-11T07:16:00.000-07:00

crocheted lichen

2011-04-10T21:22:00.000-07:00

artist Carol Hummel is currently working on an exhibition crocheting lichen at the Morton Arboretum. the exhibit officially opens on May 20.

LICHEN link

friday

2011-04-08T15:44:00.000-07:00

2003

blue tapetum lucidum

2011-04-08T15:30:00.000-07:00

this is the layer on the back of the eye of a cow. it helps with the animal's night vision. the heart of the ocean tapetum layer can be found in other strange reflective eyes in the dark creatures like cats, dogs, and spiders. it reflects visible light back through the retina, increasing the light available to the photoreceptors. it has been known to improve vision in low-light conditions, but can cause the perceived image to be blurry from the interference of the reflected light.
we do not have them.

isn't it exquisite?

you feel me?

2011-04-07T12:10:00.000-07:00

alien tea party

2011-04-06T11:33:00.000-07:00

leave me alone

2011-04-05T08:31:00.000-07:00

a date with jacques cousteau

2011-04-04T07:19:00.000-07:00

(actual rock lobster)

pieces of people : dissection lab

2011-03-31T12:49:00.000-07:00

bone

under an electron light microscope

scalp

NEURONS

in a cottage in a wood

2011-03-28T12:31:00.000-07:00

horizontal or vertical?

dean

2011-03-26T23:47:00.000-07:00

(bedroom)

phylum chordata: the birth of the vertebrate

2011-03-24T11:54:00.000-07:00

Filmy Fisheyes : Mardi Gras NOLA

2011-03-23T10:06:00.000-07:00

serious contenders

2011-03-23T09:40:00.000-07:00

Green Fluorescent Protein Self Portrait

2011-03-21T15:20:00.000-07:00

angiosperms

2011-03-21T14:37:00.000-07:00

Jellyfish Injection Genetically Engineered Living Light and Plaster hands

2011-03-19T23:32:00.000-07:00

I collaborated with Hunter Cole to create these photographs with the light of bio-luminescent bacteria as the only light source. Hunter Cole taught me how to inject a green fluorescent protein plasmid of a jellyfish into a bacteria agar cultured in Petri dishes. This light is alive.

look for the crow moon tonight

2011-03-18T22:37:00.001-07:00

(shhhhhhhhh)

2011-03-15T10:48:00.001-07:00

the French Quarter after dark

2011-03-10T21:45:00.000-08:00