Sketchbooks have been a great way for me to practice and test out concepts without being too self conscious of the outcome.

Here is the first post in a series of pages from my sketchbooks.  I began these sketchbooks in July of 2007.

Using old photos purchased at an antique shop, I scanned them, took some self-portraits that I felt fit the image, and digitally put myself-image in them.  There is something bizarre about seeing myself in another time with strangers that have most likely passed-on and yet I seem like the ghost.  I am intruding on them, [...]

I am constantly seeing escaping baloons free as high as the ceiling will. They seem disapointed.

Animated GIF self portrait made with 22 images.

An animated gif made from 22 photographs.

Created with a painting/drawing application on an iPod Touch, these three pieces are small and cliche, but somehow making them on an iPod gives them some novelty.  Would they be as interesting (if at all now) if they were not made on an iPod?  My intention is to print them the same size as the [...]

It is rare that I shop in an empty supermarket. I had the pleasure on the eve of Christmas Eve. My girlfriend and I were shopping for Xmas day food; she hosts the holiday dinner. It was fantastic to move around the store without inadvertently playing bumper supermarket trolleys. I also [...]

Salt Space, originally uploaded by gabrielmcintosh.

Finding novel abstract shapes on various surfaces I’m starting to photograph various floors, walls, and anything that has a surface, which is everything. Most interesting are the floors of CTA stairs and platforms where salt deposits are left after melting snow.

Richard is a 13-year-old that I’ve mentored for seven years.  He is going to high school next year and looking for and applying for high schools in Chicago is more daunting then when started looking a colleges over a decade ago.   And he has to get scholarships for the private schools.  He does this because [...]