Bed, Breakfast and Bars

I spent the night in the new Cole County Jail, Friday July 15. It cost me $30 and netted me a free t-shirt. The jail was open to the public and 90 people showed up. I wrote about the jail and the people who went for the Missourian.

Officer John Pecher shows Kylee Binder how to pose for her mugshot while being booked. Binder celebrated her 25th birthday at the jail for its Bed, Breakfast & Bars event."

Officers Vance Hortmeyer (far right) and Keith Strutton relax after booking is complete. The guards were on duty as training for when the new Cole County Jail opens to inmates sometime in next couple of weeks.

Harlene McPheeters stares at her reflection in a one way mirror at Cole County Jail for the Bed, Breakfast & Bars event. Officers can look into pods, inmate housing, through the glass, but inmates cannot see out.

Jail Superintendent Russ Bemboom fields questions from his guests at Cole County Jail. People paid $30 to stay at the jail for a night.

Sheriff Greg White gives a presentation to assembled guests. During the talk, White discussed riot suppression, tasers and interrogation techniques.

Motocross Track at Finger Lakes

 

Old Crow Medicine Show at the Blue Note

Smuggled my camera into the Blue Note last night to get some shots of OCMS.

Pirate Fest 2011

Two days spent at the 2011 Central Missouri Pirate Festival at Boster Castle.

Aaron Haley of the Central Missouri Renaissance group wanders the grounds of Boster Castle, south of Kingdom City, in executioner garb during the 2011 Central Missouri Pirate Festival..

Robert Young as the pirate king.

Rita Maloney and Diana Long perform the climactic scene for “The Play Within the Play”, from A Midsummer’s Night Dream, with a pirate twist. The pair are a member of 5th Wall Productions who will be performing A Midsummer’s Night Dream in its entirety during the Summer Shakespeare Festival in Columbia.

Robin Vickery at Pirate Fest.

“The Sea Sirens”: Captain Cinn O’Lawt, Luna Teaque, Lotta Luscendz & Willie Finder.

John Potzmann, in pirate regalia, looks on as Joshua Jennings of Pirates Inc. and Brian Berkman of Minstrel Sojourn perform at Boster Castle during the 2011 Central Missouri Pirate Festival.

Captain Cinn O’Lawt, Master Gunner Luna Teaque and Master Helmsman Willie Finder, members of the acting troupe “The Sea Sirens”, recruit new powder monkeys from the assembled crowd of young festival goers. “The Sea Sirens” are based in Kansas City, but perform at pirate festivals and renaissance festivals around the country.

Chris Bowling and Meg Phillips star in the steampunk themed performance, “The Somewhat Sinister Scheme of the Moderately Malevolent Dr. M.” The pair also co-wrote the production.

Molotov the Gypsy prepares to juggle three flaming batons while blindfolded.

Brent Allan, performing as Molotov the Gypsy, prepares to take a bite of an apple he is juggling.

Camp Jackson Civil War re-enactment

Earlier this summer I went to the Camp Jackson Civil War re-enactment in St. Louis as part of a group multimedia project for APJ. These are some of the stills I took.

Joplin: The Day After

A day after the tornado touched down in Joplin, Mo.

Two people look through the ruins of Adele Street in Joplin. The street, like most others in the devastation area, is unrecognizable and now marked only by words scrawled on a trash bag drawn over a wheelchair.

Surrogate street signs.

Service workers and people curiously searching the ruins of Joplin take to the deserted streets by a large, toppled building a couple of blocks from St. John’s Hospital.”

Workers clear a street opposite of the St. John’s hospital

More fun with light in the Middle of the night

With Rebekah, Jarrod and Peter in from out of town, we thought we’d all go out to the farm and play around with fireworks and flashes.

The Tree Man

Multi-Jess

The Greeting

Painting with Light – APJ

In the spirit of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series, contemporary authors such as J.K. Rowling have rejuvenated the fantasy genre in literature. This renaissance has helped spur childhood and adolescent reading and literacy rates over the last decade. These books are also beloved and well read by adults of all ages.

Allison, BJ, Sarah and I made two attempts at putting this project together. The first was an old dune buggy chassis that didn’t turn out as hot; then we went out to the farm and put this gem together.

Here’s how the magic happens:

Multi-Flash – APJ

Alex Vaenberg and Geoff Stumbaugh work on their ball room dancing at Dance Studio B in Columbia.

Interview with Sarah Hoffman

My interview with Sarah Hoffman as she talks about a picture she took in her hometown in Minneapolis.