The Nighttime News

we've moved

2011-05-22T20:49:00.000-05:00

i've decided to make a new blog and will no longer be posting to this one.

you can view my current work at: johnfhook.tumblr.com

thanks!

pinned

2011-03-24T22:01:00.000-05:00

wild man

2011-02-16T12:06:00.002-06:00

funtitled

2010-09-13T13:22:00.002-05:00

untitled

2010-09-13T11:56:00.000-05:00

more sushi!

2010-06-07T18:26:00.001-05:00

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dinner at uchi in austin, tx

pokey pt 2

2010-06-04T00:34:00.001-05:00

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pup pup

2010-06-03T23:25:00.003-05:00

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retouched colt

2010-05-04T00:40:00.001-05:00

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retouched vino

2010-05-02T23:00:00.006-05:00

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retouched BBQ

2010-04-28T17:27:00.005-05:00

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recent retouchings

2010-04-23T14:42:00.001-05:00

on the road between dallas and austin.

nap

2010-03-22T13:10:00.000-05:00

car

2010-03-22T13:02:00.001-05:00

trailer space

2010-03-04T23:15:00.001-06:00

a giant dog at trailer space records on the eastside.

backyard garden, day one

2010-03-04T23:00:00.003-06:00

herb garden

2010-02-22T10:27:00.002-06:00

sushi

2010-02-19T13:59:00.002-06:00

bullseye

2010-02-19T13:35:00.002-06:00

restart

2010-02-19T13:09:00.004-06:00

As you may or may not know, my house was burglarized last Fall, and all of my camera equipment was stolen. I was stupid and didn't have any of the gear insured, and have been without a camera since. However my friend and photography enthusiast Tim Wahl came to visit a few weeks ago and was kind enough to let me borrow one of his cameras, a Nikon D60, until I'm able to save enough money to buy a new camera of my own.

So for the time being I'm going to try to start updating this blog again. I'm not shooting anything professionally right now, so I'll just post some snapshots from around the house and around Austin. Here's number one:

heading home

2009-09-29T22:35:00.002-05:00

magnus vir

2009-09-28T23:21:00.001-05:00

columbia

2009-09-09T09:58:00.001-05:00

Columbia from john hook on Vimeo.

The last project I completed in the Photojournalism program at Mizzou. I've been meaning to re-edit this for a long time but have finally given up and decided to throw it up here. ENJOY.

the model

2009-07-27T01:04:00.004-05:00

lindsey modeling some pieces from the new clothing line she designed, Whipped Cream, for Cream Vintage.

bye for now

2009-06-14T12:42:00.000-05:00

pokey

2009-06-11T23:59:00.002-05:00

pokey lafarge and the south city three at blues city deli in benton park.

a small bug

2009-06-10T01:03:00.001-05:00

buildings

2009-06-10T00:57:00.003-05:00

a few shots of st. louis architecture. the syndicate building and paul brown building, respectively. many more to come soon.

a rum drum rambler

2009-06-10T00:47:00.004-05:00

matt from the rum drum ramblers performs solo on the street at the rft's 2009 music showcase in the loop.

untitled twelve

2009-06-10T00:43:00.002-05:00

a big flower

2009-06-09T21:58:00.004-05:00

corpse flower at the umsl greenhouse.

a building

2009-06-09T21:54:00.004-05:00

303 north broadway in the river city

the pageant

2009-06-09T21:52:00.002-05:00

untitled eleven

2009-06-09T21:44:00.002-05:00

a band

2009-05-27T20:44:00.003-05:00

my favorite band right now...the rum drum ramblers with an appearance from bob reuter of bob's scratchy records and the alley ghosts, at KDHX's midwest mayhem at the city museum.

a railing

2009-05-27T20:43:00.003-05:00

a turtle

2009-05-27T20:41:00.002-05:00

an afternoon nursing a hangover in soulard with friends

2009-05-27T20:33:00.003-05:00

a baby (and her mom)

2009-05-26T23:22:00.002-05:00

a flower

2009-05-26T23:21:00.000-05:00

some water

2009-05-26T23:20:00.002-05:00

a dog

2009-05-26T23:18:00.001-05:00

untitled ten

2009-05-26T23:13:00.002-05:00

untitled nine

2009-04-27T23:16:00.005-05:00

anna hook's garden. and her dog, clancy.

untitled eight

2009-04-08T23:04:00.004-05:00

cherokee open house with performances by the rum drum ramblers and the alley ghosts at the firecracker press.

untitled seven

2009-04-08T22:48:00.004-05:00

home opener.

untitled six

2009-03-24T22:31:00.001-05:00

(post number one hundred)

untitled five

2009-03-03T20:12:00.002-06:00

the new johnfhook.com

2009-02-03T22:14:00.002-06:00

check out my new portfolio site(a work in progress)

untitled four

2009-01-25T23:37:00.002-06:00

untitled three

2009-01-23T18:11:00.002-06:00

untitled two

2009-01-20T00:13:00.003-06:00

untitled one

2009-01-18T17:39:00.003-06:00

an ode to walking home at 3:49a.m. with a windchill of -10°F

2008-12-15T04:11:00.000-06:00

ghost town pt. 3

2008-11-19T00:39:00.001-06:00

ghost town pt. 2

2008-11-17T01:23:00.001-06:00

ghost town

2008-11-12T13:03:00.000-06:00

honest obamamotion

2008-11-05T12:40:00.001-06:00

election night watch party at the blue note in columbia, mo.

mr. a. nother tree

2008-11-02T00:38:00.000-05:00

the big guy

2008-10-31T02:27:00.000-05:00

(an ode to john tully.)

bagoo!

2008-10-26T16:19:00.000-05:00

studio

2008-10-23T10:07:00.000-05:00

messing around with the lights in the studio with lindsey last month...definitely need some practice.
(an ode to caty smith)

my sister's wedding

2008-10-06T01:13:00.001-05:00

photo/tim wahl

photo/jessica mclaughlin

before...

2008-10-06T01:08:00.000-05:00

...and the day after

2008-10-06T01:03:00.000-05:00

macro garden party

2008-09-14T23:11:00.000-05:00

(an ode to katie barnes)

straight talk express

2008-09-01T00:34:00.000-05:00

john mccain & co. at t.r. hughes baseball stadium in o'fallon, mo

legs

2008-08-31T23:38:00.000-05:00

i was cleaning up one of my hard drives, found this pair of mystery legs.

modeling with lindsey

2008-08-14T14:36:00.000-05:00

lindsey and i went out one day to work on her modeling portfolio.

lollapalooza scans

2008-08-14T14:32:00.000-05:00

film scans from two toy cameras i took to lollapalooza 2008

the death of print newspapers

2008-08-14T14:29:00.000-05:00

photo illustration for upcoming centennial issue of the Missourian documenting the state of news media.

tropic thunder protests

2008-08-14T14:26:00.000-05:00

people gathered outside of Hollywood Theaters in columbia wednesday evening as part of a nationwide protest organized by the Special Olympics against the use of the word "retard" in the movie Tropic Thunder

soup

2008-08-09T21:04:00.000-05:00

homemade mexican tortilla soup.

mr. a. dream

2008-08-05T17:40:00.000-05:00

at the fair

2008-07-27T16:02:00.001-05:00

at the creek

2008-07-27T16:00:00.001-05:00

gwog

2008-06-08T13:32:00.000-05:00

yesterday i realized i hadn't posted here for a month so decided to get back in the habit. i went to gwog(gas without gas, a.k.a. hitt street mini mart a.k.a. no gas) to buy a six pack of these and this guy was chilling outside.

glimpse of eternity

2008-05-09T21:19:00.000-05:00

multi-denomination worship ceremony, Glimpse of Eternity

skate shop owner

2008-05-09T20:51:00.000-05:00

Shane Stander, owner of Columbia' only skate shop, Small Time Skates

hip hop underground

2008-05-04T21:30:00.001-05:00

another party on east campus with local hip hop artists performing.

people

2008-05-02T00:19:00.000-05:00

larger

martin

2008-04-28T00:43:00.001-05:00

on friday danny wilcox frazier came to town to give a workshop on personal vision. i'm so glad i participated, it was an incredibly intense and rewarding experience. eleven of us were sent to paquin towers to shoot all day, before going home for a group edit and presentation. i think we captured the spirit of the place...i'm still so proud of and awed by what we as a group were able to come together and create.

this is martin, my subject for the day. he's 68, and has lived in paquin for 4 years. he shares an apartment with his friend jerome. it was really tough to connect with martin because it was almost impossible to understand what he was saying most of the day. he spent most of the day painting in the art room

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jerome

2008-04-28T00:38:00.001-05:00

jerome is martin's roommate. he was born in boone hospital on april 12, 1931. as a teenager, he took photos for the tribune before joining the air force. he was watched the price is right in the morning then slept for the rest of the day.

paquin towers

2008-04-28T00:18:00.000-05:00

sherry

claudia and earl

jenny and earl

this must be the place

2008-04-23T23:24:00.000-05:00

today i found out i won a prize from the study abroad photo contest at mizzou, so i thought i'd share the image. it was shot in germany out of a train window on my way to a castle in the alps.

earth day

2008-04-20T21:22:00.001-05:00

daytime drinking pt. 2

2008-04-20T20:32:00.000-05:00

drag show at soco club

2008-04-18T13:03:00.000-05:00

shipping out

2008-04-14T23:52:00.001-05:00

today was my first day shooting with my final story subject at the missourian. her name is amanda and today her husband jason was deployed on a 400-day peacekeeping tour in kosovo.

trees

2008-04-14T21:30:00.000-05:00

i got back to columbia from an early morning shoot in jeff city today...i wanted to take a nap but didn't want to sleep through class, so i went out and shot some trees, and then went home and slept through class.

yellow

diptych

not a diptych

framers

2008-04-13T16:58:00.001-05:00

i was working on a computer in the printing lab and came across two images from paris that i made prints of for christmas presents.

for lindsey

for mom and dad

water polo

2008-04-12T17:02:00.001-05:00

macro pt. 2: flowers and the bee

2008-04-09T12:52:00.000-05:00

daytime drinkin'

2008-04-07T23:57:00.001-05:00

the cardinals had a day game over the weekend, so my friends from around the neighborhood decided to have a barbeque, which developed into a day of ol' fashioned afternoon drinking...

...which developed into this...

...which developed into ralphie's third trip of the day to Trops...

...which made for a long, hazy night.(taken on my cell phone)

macro + ring light

2008-04-07T21:44:00.001-05:00

kite flying day

2008-04-05T16:20:00.000-05:00

outtakes from kite flying day at douglass park

spring break six: truman

2008-03-31T23:28:00.000-05:00

a patroller from sea turtle, inc. spotted a kemp's ridley sea turtle stranded on the beach in south padre on our first day of work. it was covered in barnacles and very close to death. we helped jeff and the interns give the turtle steroid injections and draw blood for testing. despite rescuing the turtle the workers were pessimistic about its chances for survival. we named it truman.

brian administering a steroid injection.

roland giving the second steroid injection.

jeff trying(unsuccessfully) to draw blood from an artery in the turtle's neck.

barnacles covering the turtle's shell.

spring break five: turtle turtle

2008-03-31T22:53:00.000-05:00

spring break four: workin'

2008-03-31T22:19:00.001-05:00

spring break three: south padre island

2008-03-31T22:02:00.001-05:00