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5.25.2009

1.14.2009

Space Needle (13)

From the front window, home. © Ryan Schierling

12.19.2008

Space Needle (12)

Day 2 of snow. © Ryan Schierling

You can't blame me. I already told you the story.

8.28.2008

Go Away Come Home.

©Ryan Schierling

Twenty years ago, I made magazines.

Well, little magazines.

We just called them 'zines. They were xeroxed – filled with photographs and writing about whatever it was we were doing back then, usually skateboarding and BMX and lamenting about girls – and often traded via mail with other like-minded teenagers in far-flung parts of the country. It was an incredible creative outlet and I met a lot of interesting people.

I've still got a stack of 'zines from the late '80s in the closet – with some notables being Stapled and Xeroxed Paper by Spike Jonze, Aggro Rag by Mike Daily, Marcel Marceau's Speech Therapist by Nor-Cal Swami Scott Davidson and Disobedience by Alberto Kroeger.

But self-publishing a full-color, high-quality magazine hasn't ever really been an option.

Until now.

Go Away Come Home is a 56-page visual retrospective of my 2007 and 2008 summer tours with Seattle band Spanish For 100. Five weeks of shooting. A month of editing. Two weeks of magazine layout. Two blind-drunk days of wondering whether or not this was a good idea.

After having lived on a hard drive and/or strips of black-and-white negatives for the last year, it's good to finally have given these images a home.

Copies are available here.

There are additional projects/magazine issues underway, so send me an email if you'd like to be notified when they are available.

7.30.2008

Multimedia.

The Uptown. Minneapolis, Minnesota. ©Ryan Schierling

I've been working on a two-headed approach to a single project lately - my 2007/2008 tours with Seattle band Spanish For 100 will, by the end of August, be presented in a couple of different formats. The first will be an online retrospective, with music by the band (hopefully the only reason you'd ever use music on a photography website...). The second will be a magazine, which is something I've really been wanting to do for a few years now. I'll keep everyone posted on the progress.