Congratulations on your election!

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Seconded, with a side of code bork-ed-ness

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Congratulations for sure, Kyle, it's great you were elected, but I want to comment on that amazing photograph of Avery's dazzling room. What a pure and absolute DEN.

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I know! When I walked in I just stood in stunned silence. Then I thought "Why don't I live closer to this guy? I want to come to a party at this place."

I'm just fascinated by people's interiors (as you've no doubt guessed) and that one was just extra-special. The loft bed too! with the command center underneath. Extra cool.

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you will be happy to know that beetleman mike no longer has any living snakes. and jabba the bullfrog has passed and been skinned. they now have chickens in a coop and mike has a source of dead exotic animals for the beetles

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How could anyone sleep in that room with that much going on? Where's the feng shui? :)

Groovy room, really!

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It must have been...overwhelming. It would take days to fully appreciate what he's done.

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That looks a lot like my little apartment back in 1983-84ish in SF.

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I especially like the ghost kitty.

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Yes! I was just going to comment on that!

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i saw that too ghost kitties rule

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Oh man! I want that room.

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That is, indeed, some room!

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Congrats on your win, whatever, blah blah blah HOLY FUCK THAT ROOM IS AWESOME.

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Wow, I love that image- very powerful.

Was Avery's personality outside his home as overwhelming as his place itself was/is? Everything about it seems to demand the visitor to PAY ATTENTION. It is very overwhelming. I had a point in my life where I used to cover every inch of any wall space with mixed media work, but I also was very quite outside my home (I was coping with a lot, I trying to work through some things and wanted people to notice, but I also didn't know how to talk about it). It was an odd disparity. Just curious...

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Avery's room actually reminds me of mine when I was in high school (minus the guns, Mom wouldn't deal)! Your video was great! I think I'd love to check out the book as well!

Congrats on the election!

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Talk about personal space. Good for him.

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I find the image to be interesting for several reasons.

1) There are guns in the room, which are separated by the assumed owner. You are actually closer and allowed more access to the guns than the owner. One could even question: Do the guns belong to the man in the picture or the man behind the camera. Is the man a room mate and is the photographer making a decision to shoot his room mate, you know? Which leads me to

2) The camera as a weapon comparatively to a gun. They both can be used to shoot things. Cameras are used to construct. Guns are made to destruct in order to either construct or instruct.

3) There are certain materials in the room which certainly draws a certain dialogue amongst the man in the photograph, you as the photographer, and the participants as the ones who are viewing the work. You as the photographer are acting in some way as a form of surveillance. The man being photographed in the space is assumed to be inspired by the posters and imagery in the room. There seems to be a distrust of government intervening in freedom. You as the photographer has to be either aligned with his values or distrustful of his values. To be aligned with his values, means you are a guest making meaning of the space. To be distrustful means you are similar to the government which uses surveillance much similarly addressed by Michael Foucault about the prison's use of the Panopticon.

All these things interest me in this photograph. It's very political in the politics of art and the art of politics.

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wow thats amazing!

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