And then you take off, your name aloft

All my lies are always wishes

I toss and turn, you understand. Then we learn to synchronize, tirade provoke and inside jokes.

Amanda and I are about to start our second-annual "Needful Things" project. I've been thinking back to a year ago when we first started the text-picture conversation, when we were still fresh off the boat from Orcas Island:

But when I turn up the tone

More photos from the "Trouble" shoot.

He reached an altitude of 16,000 feet, and then he landed

More scenes from the video project I shot with Ryan based on Matthew Dickman's poem "Trouble."

He gave me gasoline

My friend Claudia has a neat, interactive show up at the U of O's Whitebox gallery this month. Half of the installation is this room filled with old cassette tape players. The viewer can stop and play and rewind the tapes, each of which is either a recording of water or a sound Claudia composed to evoke water. Here are some scenes from the show.

Don't stop til you get enough

Thursday night, as I shot this video in the last big light of the day, I kept thinking to myself, "If there is a better job in this world, I don't know of it."

New Columbia dance battle small from Casey Parks on Vimeo.