Joe and I were in Detroit I think around 2000.  A friend and artist Drew Bachrach was showing us around his home state of Michigan. (Dearborn / Detroit) I was shocked by the abondenment of houses all around Detroit.

I found this photo series called 100 Abandoned Houses.

“The abandoned houses project began innocently enough roughly ten years ago. I actually began photographing abandonment in Detroit in the mid 90’s as a creative outlet, and as a way of satisfying my curiosity with the state of my home town. I had always found it to be amazing, depressing, and perplexing that a once great city could find itself in such great distress, all the while surrounded by such affluence.” by Kevin Bauman

I stumbled upon the site These Americans through American Suburb X.  I am fascinated with the times of my grandparents and American culture from the 30’s to the present.  Check out some photos from These Americans and take a look at American Suburb X as well.

The first time I could remember seeing a guy on a Harley was on the New Jersey Turnpike at around the age of 9 or 10.  It was raining really hard and this dude was going about 70mph.  He looked so cool just not giving a fuck about the rain or the danger around him.  I have always been fascinated with bike culture, but in the last week I found some black biker gang photography that I fell in love with.  The stereotype is some crazy white dudes in the Hell’s Angels, but these photos show the great black biker clubs of the 60’s.

“When you talk of the Outlaw Bikers you automatically think of ‘Them Crazy White Boys’ doing what a lot of folk wish they could do. Live Life Like You Want & F*ck You And Your Rules. Well Guess What? There was some crazy Black bikers who felt the fame way, and didn’t give a F*ck. Thus was born the Black Outlaw Bikers ! ” by theselvedgeyard

The photographer Simon Høgsberg shot photos for 20 days from the same spot on the a railroad bridge on Warschauer Strasse in Berlin in the summer of 2007.  There are 178 people in the picture.  The image is 100 meters long.

www.simonhoegsberg.com

I have been following Ryan Schude’s photography ever since I worked at a skate magazine in San Diego.  It is amazing to see his progression and creative mind expand in just a couple of years.  In a recent Digital Photo Pro Magazine Issue he said ““Photography saved me from the cubicle,” he says. “I realized I must have been nuts to keep suppressing what I really wanted to do.”  I couldn’t have connected more with his words at the time.

“If most pictures are worth a thousand words, the portfolio of photographer Ryan Schude is worth a library. Each image is meticulously planned and stylistically executed, combining wit, mood and humor into visually complex stories. Schude is only in his late 20s, skipping from a business major to art school to auspicious beginnings as a pro shooter. His impressive portfolio was built quickly and at little cost, thanks to a year and a half spent working for a rental house” by Digital Photo Pro

http://ryanschude.com/