It’s been exactly two years since the event that changed my life irrevocably. I always used to wonder about fate, if it existed, you know, how our lives unfold and what control we have in it all. If each little action truly causes a reaction … Read More →
Category Archives: Art
New York Fashion Week
I was gratefully able to attend a fashion show this season and given backstage access. I’m not so much interested in fashion but the whole production of shows and the industry as whole does fascinate me. So I was given about 30 minutes backstage at … Read More →
Graceland in Brooklyn
My wife Jennifer Jones, the hair dresser, recently made the decision to leave her salon in Manhattan to work at a brand new salon in Williamsburg. I was thrilled for her as soon as she told me the concept. Graceland is half tattoo shop, half … Read More →
Halls and Doors
I recently shot a commercial assignment for a self-storage company. You know those huge buildings with floor after floor of cubes and doors. I was fascinated by the starkness, repetition and geometry. Here are few outtakes.
Raymjones.com redesign complete!
About a year ago I finally realized that something had to be done with my website. It was a quick and dirty html website that I built while in college to have a public place for my work to live. Finally I said enough was … Read More →
Bicycle Film Festival
The 2009 Bicycle Film Festival in New York is going on right now. Tomorrow is the big street party and tons of films and then the after party. Sunday is Polo, more films and the closing party. Check it out here. Image via Prolly.
Lens, a new blog from The New York Times
We recently, finally, launched Lens at The Times, a photo blog meant to set the bar for all the other photo blogs out there. I think its slick and polished and very well done and the quality of work presented there is spectacular. The best … Read More →
Faces of Straight Edge on Google Books
Thanks to my buddy and Empire Press one man show Dave Kruidenier, Out of Step: Faces of Straight Edge is up on Google Book Search. If you haven’t seen Google Book Search its pretty cool, you should check it out. There’s definitely some controversy surrounding … Read More →
Where the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was published in 1963. I was fascinated with this book as kid and have already begun reading it to my 9 week old son. It’s more of an excuse for me to read and … Read More →
Lord of the Rings Symphony
The other day I was nerding out searching for news about the Hobbit movie and somewhere along the way I came across the LOTR symphony. It has been performed all around the world since the movies came out. So I started to wonder, had it … Read More →
The Road
Read that jank. I just finished it in like four days. I heard about from a friend who was reading it so I picked it up. It was written by Cormac McCarthy who won the Pulitzer Prize for this book in 2006. He also wrote … Read More →

Photography Tattoos
Jenn from the new KEH blog recenly wrote a post about people with photography related tattoos. I’m not sure how she learned about mine. But I sent her a pic and told her about it. And if you’re not familiar with KEH, it’s like the … Read More →