Tigers Tears at Myers and Chang

I shot this for the Phoenix recently.

Urban Eyes

MCA: A Toy Story

Posh Spice

January 30, 2008 - Victoria Beckham, aka Posh Spice, promotes her new clothing line at Saks 5th Avenue in Boston, MA. I shot these for the Feb. 20th issue of the Improper Bostonian magazine.

O Ya sashimi

January 15, 2008 - If you are a fan of sashimi, the Phoenix recommends this dish: kinmedai, served with white soy ginger, myoga, and lemon oil at O Ya, 9 East St, Boston, MA. I shot this for the "Hot Plate" column of the Dining Out section of the Jan 18-24, 2008 issue of the Boston Phoenix.

Thai food, Thai boxing

January 21, 2008 - This is en-toon-mor-fai (beef tendon), a fire pot soup at Montien, 63 Stuart St, Boston, MA, an award winning thai restaurant. I shot this dish for a column called "Hot Plate" in the Dining Out section of the Boston Phoenix.

January 15, 2008 - Mixed martial arts fighter Collin Tebo, 21, of New York, NY, delivers a knock out punch to his opponent during a muay thai kick-boxing match in Revere, MA. I shot this match at the request of the fighter.

Urban Tarzan

December 9, 2007 – Fuji, a four-year-old scarlet macaw (above), displays his amicable nature, while Sam (below), a twelve-year-old macaw, displays his temperamental personalityon their respective cages in New York. According to John Brennan, or “Urban Tarzan”, a 35-year-old professional animal wrangler, to whom the parrots belong, the difference in personality can be attributed to their difference in age.

October 7, 2007 – Urban Tarzan displays a East African Nile Crocodile to a mostly 8-year-old audience in New York, at the Halloween-themed birthday party of his friend Doug’s child Dougie. December 9, 2007 – An East African Nile Crocodile named Gustav, who is close to two years old, enjoys a shower in the New York home of animal wrangler John Brennan, known professionally as “Urban Tarzan.” This crocodile species is one of the largest in existence, second to only the salt-water crocodile, which can grow to be over 20ft.
October 7, 2007 – A rhino iguana, about 7 years old, from the Caribbean, bathes in the fluorescent lights of its tank as John Brennan, 35, cleans the tank of an albino cobra in the reflective background. Brennan is a professional animal wrangler, whose stage name is “Urban Tarzan” and is seen caring for his animals, all of which are rescues, at his home in New York. December 9, 2007 – “Mr. Sparkles”, a crocodile monitor, who is 18 months old, sits in his tank in the home of John Brennan in New York. The species gets its name from Papua New Guinea due to the natives who call them “crocodiles of the trees” because they live in trees and can grow up to 8ft. long (including the length of their tails). The crocodile monitor has the same dentation as the Tyrannosaurus Rex and is the largest monitor species next to the Komodo dragon.

December 9, 2007 – John Brennan, 35, lets his rat Merlot crawl down his arm before he feeds her a leaf of lettuce at his home in New York. Brennan, a exotic animal caretaker and professional animal wrangler, found Merlot in the produce aisle of a King Cullen supermarket as a pup. “Instead of feeding her to snakes, I kept her and raised her up.” Merlot is now one of his favorite pets.

The Crumbling of MA State Parks

November 19, 2007 – The unfinished roof on a barn on Brookwood Farm, part of the Blue Hills Reservation, in East Milton, MA, exhibits the inability of the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), due to increasingly low budgets, to maintain Massachusetts state parks. Additional repairs are needed on several broken windows, its rotting foundation, and its peeling and fading red paint. Former MA Governor Mitt Romney bequeathed current Governor Deval Patrick with an overwhelmingly large deficit causing Patrick to cut the operating budget of the DCR at the expense of the land.

November 19, 2007 – Behind the Houghton Pond visitor center on the Blue Hills Reservation, a state park in East Milton, MA, which is maintained by the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), trash is scattered along the banks of the water, coexisting with the wildlife as part of the ecosystem the state is supposed to care for. Due to a significantly low budget, the DCR is unable to fix such vital issues.

November 19, 2007 – Massachusetts’s state park employees exhibit concern about erosion and fallen trees on hiking trails that run throughout the Blue Hill Reservation in East Milton, MA. Trails are unable to be maintained to the extent they should be due to understaffing caused by the low budget of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, a problem that has its roots in former Governor Mitt Romney’s administration.

November 19, 2007 – Don McCasland, an employee at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Science Center, explains past efforts to remove graffiti from the top of Eliot Tower on Blue Hill, part of the Blue Hill Reservation, a state park in East Milton, MA. He mentions that due to their significantly low budget they were only able to repaint park benches and trashcans, leaving many existing problems behind.

November 19, 2007 – Despite past efforts to remove graffiti from Eliot Tower on Blue Hill, near the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory Science Center, part of the Blue Hill Reservation, a state park in East Milton, MA, there are still countless visible marks of vandalism remaining. The administration of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has left current Governor Deval Patrick with a $1.3 billion budget deficit, making it very difficult to improve the conditions of state parks to the necessary extent.

Veteran's Day Ceremony

November 8, 2007 - Air Force Cadet Brandon Hong, a freshman in Boston University's College of Engineering , takes his turn walking on red carpets outside of Marsh Chapel last night to honor soldiers in the annual Veteran's Day ceremony. Pairs alternate among 300 participants from the Air Force, Navy, and Army ROTC, and pace for twenty minutes.

November 8, 2007 – Air Force Cadet Johnathan Meehan, a freshman in the College of Engineering at Boston University (no relation), walks west while participating in the annual Veteran’s Day ceremony in Marsh Plaza in Boston, MA. Walking east is Navy Midshipman Mike Burke, a Boston College freshman. In pairs of two, participants from a group of 300 students, rotate after twenty minutes of steady pacing to honor veterans.

Zombies Protest the BU Biolab

November 7, 2007 – Boston resident Jeff Reinhardt, 21, holds biohazard caution tape as he is followed by a group of zombie protesters rallying against the construction of the controversial Boston University Level IV Bio-safety Laboratory in Roxbury, MA. As they stumbled through the streets, the zombies moaned, “The bio-lab has infected me.”

November 7, 2007 – Suffolk University student Clay Adamczyk, 20, is seen dressed as a zombie protesting the controversial Boston University Bio-safety Laboratory that is being constructed in the South End of Boston, MA, which will be the nation’s only Level IV research facility in an urban environment, holding some of the world’s deadliest pathogens. Adamczyk spent his afternoon in his kitchen creating slabs of flesh and gore out of various ingredients including flour, strawberry Jell-O, and food coloring, among others, to don in the evening, intending to make a dramatized statement as to the effects the lab could have if these viruses were mishandled or released.

November 7, 2007 – In an effort to protest the Boston University Level IV Biosafety Laboratory, David Wu, 19, from Roxbury, MA, gathered among others dressed as zombies to stumble through the streets of Boston, MA. To make his appearance more menacing, Wu bit into fake blood capsules, letting the red liquid trickle down his mouth and onto his shirt.