phil is my muse

phil

phil

phil

phil

taking a break

not much to report about. i’ve been working a ton. i did get some film developed…so that’ll be posted sometime soon…in the meantime, here’s a fortune that i got today..

fortune

Phil Dembinski Solo Show!

Phil Dembinski Solo Show

art shows and polaroids

come see this art show my good pals are in.
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and this sweet polaroid.
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the ronettes

i can’t stop listening to the ronettes. they’re the best girl pop group of the 60s, i think…
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cassie and morgan

here are some photographs from the summer.

cassie
cassie

morgan
morgan

hopefully i’ll get to photograph them again. good models, interesting girls. there should be more to come..i’m going to be photographing next week i think…

work work work

i’ve been working like crazy lately…sorry i haven’t been posting anything. here’s the past month of my life.

cheryl
cheryl came into town. it was a BLAST.

cookies
we made cookies.

southunion
south union closed. this is from the apartment upstairs.

copa
the copa show opened in milwaukee. these are all the chicago kids that made it up to the opening. i love you all!!

hotdog
after the show we went to a bar that had hot dogs, kareoke and beer, duh. they even had vegan hot dogs…how amazing!

guidos
the brothers guido

daniel
the one and only, daniel shea.

kareoke
crazy guy doing kareoke

depants
and then he took his pants off…

nate
nathan moved to germany.

tutu
terttu visits us at the digital lab.

juhyun
juhyun gets smooshed in the elevators after work.

things have been going really well here. working at black point editions and still at columbia as part time staff. i even got a staff ID card and the picture is obviously horrible. next week the columbia chronicle will have an article about south union so i’ll post that..some time. fall is here and it’s chilly and sunny out, my favorite things in the whole world.

my lady story

she’s here….watch out people.

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photo by miss ashley

new york

i’m back after a ten-day stint (is that the right word?)

anyways, i uploaded a buttload of pictures on flickr. here are some high lights:

my bed for 10 days
my bed

friends forever
friends forever

ashley in beacon, ny
ashley in beacon, ny


david byrne installation

picture-esque
coney island

best lunch ever
yummy foodz

we are so bored with eachother
joe and i having a ton of fun on my last night in nyc

i think i got some pretty sweet pics…even better ones from my yachica. i’ll get those developed someday….

new things.

i haven’t taken many pictures with film lately but here has been my life via lil digi cam that i love so much.

i got a new bike! it’s pretty and i love it and i love riding it around chicago and have wind blow through my helmet.
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trevor turned 21! and we went to bars and ate chips and dip!
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rob was surprised we noticed the crazy curl on his head
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anna moved to rome and we sent her off on our shoulders. she’ll be back in december….thank god!
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i’ll miss you moo moo moo

we found bee’s at south union….another scary thing about the place.
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went to a demolition derby.
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smash em up!
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annddd that’s about it. i leave for new york city on wednesday morning at 7am! whoa! i can’t wait!

CoPA!!

Congrats to the 41 other people who will be showing in the CoPA show this coming September. I’ll be showing two images..

nicole
Nicole

love
Kimmie and Bridget

CoPA 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition
Sept. 12 - Oct. 18

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts
911 W. National Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53204

List of the 42 Accepted Artists

Tim Abler, Milwaukee WI
Zach Abubecker, Chicago IL
Caitlin Arnold, Chicago IL
Dona Arntzen, Chicago IL
Chuck Avery, Plymouth MN
Sara Belleau, Minneapolis MN
Andrew Breen, Chicago IL
William Brusky, Fond du Lac WI
Jeff Burk, Chicago IL
Sarah Christianson, Minneapolis MN
Dennis Darmek, Milwaukee WI
Patricia Delker, Madison WI
Christine DiThomas, Chicago IL
Lisa Mauer Elliott, Minneapolis MN
Aidan Fitzpatrick, Chicago IL
Christine Flavin, Marine on Saint Croix MN
Teri Fullerton, Minneapolis MN
Brian Guido, Livonia MI
Perry Heideman, Milwaukee WI
Caroline Houdek, Marine MN
Brett Kallusky, Stillwater MN
Jeffery Kennedy, Milwaukee WI
Debra Levie, Chicago IL
Ellen Mahaffy, Eau Claire WI
Micha Markos, Minneapolis MN
Norelle Lorraine McCleaf, Minneapolis MN
Andrew McComb, Chicago IL
Sarah McKennie, Chicago IL
Robb Quinn, Milwaukee WI
Mike Rebholz, Madison WI
Dawn Roscoe, Chicago IL
Kristen Schnid Schurter, Springfield IL
Lucas Schulze, Minneapolis MN
Michael Schwartz, Chicago IL
Daniel Shea, La Grange IL
Chris Smiar, Minneapolis MN
Carl Sweets, Chicago IL
Cardi Toellner, Milwaukee WI
Bill Vaccaro, Chicago IL
Jeffrey Weber, Grafton WI
Victor Yanez-Lazcano, Chicago IL
William Zuback, West Allis WI

…it’s been a little while.

things that have happened since i last updated:

got a new tattoo

tattoo

the country turned another year older

i turned another year older
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(my bday crew at the sox game)

i bought my plane ticket to nyc. i’ll be there from july 30th to august 9th.

and
my work will be in the chicago art open in september. how exciting!

i’m going to the farm this weekend to photograph some girls (and cows, duh). i’ll be sure to post some new pics as soon as i get back!

what friends are for..

I’m honored that many of my friends are talented artists and amazing people. My friend Cheryl asked if there were any photographs she could paint pictures from and of course, there are some sweet pictures of me when I was a kid, so I gave her one. This is her interpretation of me on a horse when I was twelve. She doesn’t have a website but here’s a link to her blog.

Finished+Caitlin

this is why he’s hot

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purple rain

christine

i’m not there

just read this article about the dylan movie i’m not there. pretty interesting.

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paul

paul

sarah

sarah

props

time to talk about people i love….

MATT AUSTIN!!!

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this is one of the photographs from a project he’s been working on for a year now. i would have to say it’s about growing up and being in your twenties..about our generation. if you go to his website it’s in the gallery titled ‘art student’. i suggest you go check his work out…there’s more where that came from.

upcoming shows

I Support the War/The War Supports Me

Burtonwood and Holmes have put together yet another kind of collaboration with lots of artists and their work (myself included).

GARDENFresh Gallery Chicago
May 30 – June 28, 2008
Artist reception: May 30, 2008 from 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm

119 N. Peoria #3D
Chicago, IL, 60607

It's All Relative

my lovely roommate Joseph Rynkiewicz and good friend Brian Guido have curated a show at South Union Arts titled It’s All Relative. There are some great photographers in the show, opening reception on June 6th. Horse in the Sea, another friends band, is playing too and they’re quite good as well.