WORD, BYRD

2010-11-12T10:24:00.006-05:00

Please make it a Mo to remember.
http://ca.movember.com/mospace/981528/

2010-10-03T13:39:00.001-04:00

5 star review, and my work on the walls.
Brockton General doing it.

2010-09-29T12:30:00.003-04:00

My website is down due to revamping/procrastination/internet mysteries. I'll make an attempt to update here in the meantime. There is nothing better for productivity than cooler weather and collective minds, and both are increasing daily here.

New things are on the way.

2010-02-21T18:13:00.003-05:00

Brain Pickings with a nice right up on affordable art.
Eye Buy Art makes the list, and Giraffa gets a bit of love.

2010-02-10T21:16:00.001-05:00

I really don't think this requires any explanation.

2010-02-02T10:09:00.000-05:00

Not quite sure how long this has been up, but I've been lucky enough to be featured on the NO CULTURE ICONS site. There is some really great work from some lovely young photographers and artists on the site.
Check it out.

2010-01-14T09:40:00.000-05:00

Timmy

2010-01-12T04:48:00.007-05:00

2010-01-02T22:45:00.006-05:00

King Franc

Long live the King

2010-01-01T02:48:00.001-05:00

Happy Year to you.

2009-12-23T13:25:00.001-05:00

A good room for great friends.

2009-12-17T23:19:00.000-05:00

2009-12-14T23:25:00.001-05:00

Rest in peace, fine sir.

2009-12-11T00:56:00.000-05:00

Five-legged Kitten in Concrete

2009-12-07T03:37:00.003-05:00

I traveled back in time for a birthday party.

2009-12-05T10:07:00.000-05:00

These two prints are now available on EYE BUY ART as limited edition prints, along with some other fantastic photography, as part of a publicity and fund-raising campaign for the Flash Forward Festival. The site features some great work, each piece ranging from $25 to $1500 based on edition size. Please check it out!

2009-11-27T14:49:00.002-05:00

Wildlife Photography, Maine

2009-11-21T01:02:00.001-05:00

Dawn of a New Day

2009-11-17T00:19:00.006-05:00

A little slow on this one
but new work, new design, check it out:
www.marshallbyrd.com

2009-11-15T23:10:00.004-05:00

Photo credit: TB

Clouds and Stuff

Rue Marie Anne Est

2009-10-15T19:11:00.003-04:00

1956 Bel Air

2009-10-06T12:20:00.003-04:00

Road trip / Time travel / Terminator appearing on Greyhound

After a long day on the bus, it is time to hit some galleries, wander around, and take pictures. Maybe even get a haircut.

2009-09-16T00:30:00.000-04:00

Just what we needed: more of me on the internet!

2009-09-02T03:15:00.005-04:00

Tee Wo = T-Woo

2009-08-28T18:06:00.005-04:00

Behind the Scenes from "NAPA Village"
Day 1

Equipment, check.

Redundancy, check.

It begins.

"Hanging" with the big boys.

Rockin' the Tupps.

"Which camera do I use?"

"Ummmmm..."

And Dangle!

2009-08-25T09:11:00.000-04:00

Odette and Bea
Kitties on Loan

2009-08-24T20:51:00.000-04:00

Five Roses

2009-08-23T00:00:00.001-04:00

Love of my life
at Parc National d'Oka

2009-08-04T22:11:00.002-04:00

Hang yourselves.

2009-07-27T17:46:00.000-04:00

Piper

2009-07-26T13:08:00.001-04:00

Foufs

2009-07-23T23:21:00.000-04:00

Admittedly, it was "Kids Week"

2009-07-21T17:08:00.006-04:00

To Halifax
From Byrd
With The Love

2009-07-19T16:23:00.009-04:00

Rue Peel

Thursday a cement slab fell from the Marriott Hotel killing a woman having dinner on the patio below. She was celebrating her birthday with her husband.

Detail

Rue City Councillors

Early Friday, just several blocks away, someone committed suicide off the Delta Hotel. Quickly thereafter it was said that the jumper was the husband from the Marriott's accident of the night before. In the end the two instances were unrelated, but the thought was romantic while it lasted.

2009-07-16T21:01:00.007-04:00

I miss the crows.

2009-07-15T01:02:00.018-04:00

Welcome to Montreal.

Mont Royal from deck.

Sergio split in two.

Chinese Community Centre

3' x 5' Screen of the Queen of Hearts in emulsion
(as curtains)

Elevator, Old Montreal

B is for Byrd

2009-04-30T22:47:00.004-04:00

2009-04-21T00:50:00.003-04:00

Dog days are almost here.
Just 12 more hours.

2009-04-06T00:51:00.000-04:00

National Film Board of Canada (facade only)

Dresden Row

New NSLC, Quinpool Road

One more week. Checklist:

- edit, print, and bind book
- 2500 words on conceptual art photography
- 3000 words on the films of Wes Anderson
- film take home exam
- graduate

2009-03-26T01:22:00.001-04:00

Camp Hill Cemetary

Centennial Swimming Pool

2009-03-23T15:24:00.000-04:00

Eastern Passage Business District

2009-03-08T21:28:00.001-04:00

Trinity Church, Brunswick and Cogswell.

The property is now a gravel parking lot.
Only during hockey games (and other Metro Centre events)
have I ever seen anyone parked there.

2009-03-07T10:02:00.001-05:00

I'm not the biggest poster of things found on youtube,
but I will make an exception in this case.
Oh how I love looking.

2009-03-06T04:39:00.000-05:00

Ghost of Bellows Past.

2009-03-05T04:28:00.000-05:00

D is all his glory.

2009-03-04T00:56:00.003-05:00

Some "panoramas" from the field trip last month. Such a good afternoon. We should be doing stuff like that more often. Winter camping. Trips to Cape Breton for a weekend. And if people are really up for it... the ferry to Newfoundland.

2009-03-02T23:24:00.001-05:00

Twin Sisters.

A work in progress.
Small 3 1/4" prints, pinned in a 2" deep
butterfly style curatorial case.
Should be alright.

2009-02-24T16:19:00.001-05:00

The Image Fulgurator!

Just brilliant. Completely subversive photographic manipulation. Check out more of his stuff.
All pretty interesting.

2009-02-22T14:31:00.002-05:00

Another reason to love film:

2009-02-16T12:28:00.001-05:00

Okay, weekend, you are done. Thank heavens. I've spent most of today fantasizing about nihilism, and now it's time to make some work.

2009-02-12T01:10:00.000-05:00

I just found these on an old burnt CD of work. From about 3 years ago now. Mmm, diptychs and triptychs is where it's at. Back at it.

Ps - Another flashback: For the first time in years I went on a field trip. To a field! Of rocks. Honestly good times, though. More stuff for the book, I guess. Stay tuned.

2009-02-10T22:37:00.000-05:00

Christmas in the Valley. Not a lot of snow, but enough food that I didn't notice. Annapolis Royal: Home of Pretty Much the Oldest Stuff in North America. And a great surrogate family.

2009-02-09T22:34:00.003-05:00

Another cat. This time a big retarded one.
Taryn Simon, will you marry me? Seriously.

2009-02-04T07:30:00.003-05:00

While we're on the subject, this was my little
light-leaked buddy on the lower east side.

2009-02-02T23:18:00.000-05:00

Twin Sisters.

A work in progress. Small 3 1/4" prints. Building a butterfly style curatorial case to pin them in.

2009-01-29T01:04:00.000-05:00

This was such a good day. We kept running into people we knew, who, like us, were absolutely awestruck but what they stumbled upon at the Dartmouth Sportsplex that rainy weekend. Alan Randall, you are my hero.

2009-01-27T21:37:00.000-05:00

Take that, Prince!

2009-01-23T23:58:00.001-05:00

North Commons

2009-01-22T01:00:00.000-05:00

2009-01-18T12:08:00.000-05:00

I wish I had more than 3 frames left, I could have shot in this place all day. I love open houses.

2008-12-30T23:32:00.000-05:00

My new years wish this year is that Greyhound becomes a hostile, opportunistic company. Seeing weakness in the Acadian Lines organization, and fed up of their monopoly on maritime bus transport, they move in a strategically start busing in from Bangor and Quebec. Acadian can keep PEI, nothing more.

I have twice as many horror stories about Acadian Lines than trips I have taken on their buses. That's right, multiple incidents per trip. I'm pretty sure an abortion was performed in the bathroom last time I went to the valley.

2008-12-21T10:24:00.001-05:00

This is not my fight.

2008-12-15T17:42:00.000-05:00

Submissions for Flash Forward are due in a couple weeks, so of course I'm just getting my act together now. Last year I was a little intimidated by the project, seeing as a prof of mine had just been accepted the previous year. However, after the success of the Omegas at SNAP!, and with some motivation and coaching from Maryann Camilleri, I'm throwing my name in the hat this year. I feel that getting into the book would help consummate the project, giving me enough momentum to try something else. On the other hand, not getting into the book would also allow me to walk away from the project, feeling that the work had run its course. Wish me luck?

There are still two more images to polish up, an orangutan and an amur leopard, but here is how the project stands:

2008-12-12T21:53:00.000-05:00

Andrea asked me if I could see the ocean from where I live. I get to see it everyday. It can be hard not too. Most days it is in the form of the Halifax Harbour, which leaves something to be desired from an oceanscape, although I did get to hang out with a seal down there once. The one above is at the Bay of Fundy.

Photos of the ocean will be a theme in the book, I think. South Shore. North Shore. Off the cliffs of Cape Breton. Without getting too touristy; that's not really the point of the book. I'd really just like to being able to show people this place as I see it.

2008-12-12T21:14:00.000-05:00

Out-takes from childhood.

2008-12-09T15:34:00.000-05:00

I've struggled for while now to figure out how to make work about my life on a bike. One issue is not really being able to haul around a camera while I'm working/training/riding. I pack it in every now and again, and then will hit the ground a couple days later and thank bike that I didn't have it on me. But I think I'm making progress on the subject, slow as it may be.

2008-12-08T19:34:00.000-05:00

Dear Canada Post,

Get your shit together and return my polaroid back to me. Christmas happens around this time every year, and you're acting like it is a completely unprecedented event. Had you bothered to ring my doorbell, my polaroid back wouldn't be on a journey to the center of the earth in the back of one of your trucks. What a dick meeting.

2008-12-07T00:51:00.000-05:00

When inspiration is at minimum, this is what does it for me every time. And there is loads of this stuff at Square America.
Never fails.

Catsup, out.

2008-12-03T23:19:00.000-05:00

I need to spend more time in Boston.

2008-11-30T13:52:00.000-05:00

I am going to make a book of this place.

2008-11-29T01:26:00.000-05:00

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