I’ve been waiting to photograph this spot for over a year. I got it done today. Happy New Year.
Ya Filthy Animal
Any Home Alone fans out there? I took these photos last holiday season when Blair and I were out capturing photos in Pittsburgh. It’s been six months since we’ve seen Blair last. Thankfully we’ll get to see him again soon in January.
Reykjavik Graffiti
I captured this photo in downtown Reykjavik at around midnight last summer. I took one night and walked around the harbor and downtown area taking as many photos as I could. The place was completely empty.
Washington's Street Art
I did a small photo walk today with Joe and Brad in downtown Washington Pennsylvania. I also did a photo walk in this area a few weeks ago with Blair and Lisa. Here is just a small sample of the street art that the City has sponsored to help improve the downtown.
Clemente Mural
Before we got snow in Pittsburgh this winter, Blair and I spent a little time in the Lawerenceville area photographing graffiti. This one takes up the entire side of a building honoring the great Pittsburgh Pirate Roberto Clemente.
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Homer
The morning of New Year’s Eve, Blair and I walked around Lawrenceville taking photos of graffiti/murals. We found this painting on the side of a building. Homer’s hand is reaching for the donuts which if you look closely is a shipping container. It wasn’t the best mural we found that day, but I loved the Homer.
Reykjavik Graffiti
On one of our evenings in Reykjavik, I spent a couple hours wandering around photographing the city. I was trying to capture a bunch of iconic spots and happened upon this mural. I love it.
I'm Not Okay
I’m posting this photo today, because it reflects how I feel right now…. I think I’m just getting tired and it’s been a long year for all of us. I’ll be better tomorrow.
By the way, I captured this photo in August when the Shutter Rush Team (Jason, Blair and I) explored an abandoned performing arts theater in Pittsburgh. The footage from that weekend explore will be in the next Shutter Rush film (currently in production). The first two documentary films are currently streaming on Amazon Prime.
Chernobyl Mural
Here is a mural I captured inside an abandoned building in the city of Pripyat. Sorry I can’t remember which building. Maybe some of my travel companions will remember. I think it was the Post Office in the town square….maybe????
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Jackson 5
This massive mural is in downtown Gary Indiana. I captured this during my Shutter Rush trip to the Urbex hot spot. We had a great time (laughed a lot, explored some cool locations and burned up memory card space with ton of photos).
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I Am Free Now
I took this photo in March (right before COVID blew up our world) on our urban exploration trip to Gary Indiana. As you know by now, that was the last @TeamShutterRush trip which resulted in our 2nd film on Amazon Prime. This specific location was an abandoned classroom.
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Detroit's Eastern Market
I know that others like great graffiti art like I do, but we’re probably in the minority across the population. Of course, everyone hates bad graffiti, basic “tags” or just people tagging any random building, wall, etc... But great graffiti is as good as fine art, just on a larger scale in a public location. So, if you like that type of thing, Detroit’s Eastern Market and Miami’s Wynwood Walls are amazing spots for this. This photo is from the Eastern Market area of Detroit. They host an international graffiti festival every year where they feature some of the world’s best. This specific painting would probably fall into the Pop Culture art category, similar to Peter Max and others who work in this art genre. Sorry I don’t know the name of the artist who completed this painting.
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Welcome to Baltimore
Tonight, I’m sharing a photo I captured in Baltimore while we filmed “Shutter Rush – Baltimore Edition.” Our film crew was walking around the Baltimore Harbor taking photos and video until after sunset. Afterward, walking back to the hotel, we came upon this spot, which I almost missed since our back was to it as we walked down the street. Somehow it caught my eye and the rest is history.
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Gary's Graffiti
I was lucky and got to visit Gary Indiana recently with a great group of photographers (Blair, Jason, Jake, Mike and Bob). You might ask, why visit Gary Indiana??? We went to capture the beauty of their numerous abandoned buildings and film our experience for the next edition of “Shutter Rush”, which is now entering post-production. I don’t know the release date yet, but I’m looking forward to watching the final product.
By the way, I captured this photo inside the abandoned Post Office. I love really good graffiti and I appreciate the talent it takes to create art like this. I’m not exactly sure what it says, but I loved how the light comes down through the roof lighting the art.
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Graffiti Alley
Here is another Baltimore photo for you on back to back nights. This is from the famous Graffiti Alley in West Baltimore. We (Jason, Jake and I) hung out here for a while capturing photos, video, drone footage and steel wool shots. At this location, we met a large group of young men who kept saying they were “100% Bangers” whatever that meant. Jake got wrapped up into photographing them all, like a mini photo shoot.
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Weird Skull
I love this abandoned hotel. The ball room where I took this photo and the attic are great spots. I’m not sure who painted this mural and I wish I knew. I love the colors and general design. The artist has talent.
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James Bullough
I took this photo during my last trip to Detroit in the Eastern Market area of the city. They have a ton of amazing murals in this area that are done as part of their annual graffiti festival. This area is worth a visit if you appreciate good street art.
This mural was done by James Bullough. Bullough is an American born artist who lives and works in Berlin Germany. The sun was a little to harsh when I took this photo, but I didn’t have benefit of waiting until the light changed.
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Bonaire Squid
Short post for you tonight. I need to get in and out quick….I’ve just got a bunch of work to do. So, I’m sharing a photo I took of this “squid graffiti” in an abandoned resort on the island of Bonaire. Have a great week.
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Pitt Wall
I’ve looked online and can’t find anything about this decorative wall on the North Shore of Pittsburgh. I’ve lived in the area for 9 years and it pre-dates me, but I don’t know the history. At some point over that time, they gave it a facelift…Otherwise it just been sitting there.
I took this photo a week ago while Michael and Robert were in town. We walked around downtown Pittsburgh Friday evening taking photos. I liked how the river and city behind the wall look in this photo.
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Detroit Graffiti
If you’re ever in the Detroit, please go check out the Eastern Market. What a cool area. Lots of great businesses, nice spaces and awesome world class graffiti murals like this one.
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