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ajaymalghan — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:44:50 +0000

Since I’ve spent the last week looking through old work I’ve found shots that I totally forgotten about, this one was a pleasant surprise since it has all my favorite colors. I took it walking back to the BART after shooting TVOTR at Treasure Island. I’m pretty sure I used a parking meter for stabilization.

Lost in the Horizon

ajaymalghan — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:45:55 +0000

In my handful of years as an artist, no project has come together so easily as this one. I think its due to numerous factors but the main one is either patience or purpose. Sticking close to the story line cuts out all the guess work as well as disengaging the ego.

Tomorrow I’m going to upload The Long Way Home to my website so everyone can see it. My reason for keeping it hidden this long is I wanted to leave some element of mystery but its irrelevant when no one is even looking for it. I submitted it as my portfolio for Grad school and it got me a scholarship. All I wanted was to sell 100 copies of it so I could break even, I guess I came out on top.

I took this shot on the side of the road somewhere in Arizona. I was driving to the Grand Canyon and a snowstorm came out of nowhere….in May.

3 Days

ajaymalghan — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:18:45 +0000

August is going to be one of the greatest months of my life, just thinking about it makes me want to pass on sleep for the next week. Soon I’ll have my (mental and physical) health back, I got a nice scholarship to Grad school and Ian is coming to town in a couple weeks. I’m putting out a single this weekend, Volume 4 is in the works and Live in the Living Room is just waiting for the artwork to be completed. Add in the freedom to work out, record a new album, my brother getting married and life is bursting at the seams with happiness and unbridled excitement. Chris is coming into town for a day so we get to rock some Spacecreep; that could be a session for the ages, we have a musical connection that is truly a gift from the musical gods.

I hardly think its a coincidence that subtracting certain people from my life lead to this process going smooth. Last summer Demetri gave me the harshest tongue lashing I have ever received, it was also one I needed and deserved. It was so bad nearly everyone in the restaurant was bewildered by our interaction. “Why is that guy yelling at his friend with the crutches?” I had made terrible decisions on who to let in and depend on and he was fed up with it. After he dropped me off that afternoon I reassessed everything wondering how I got to such a low place. Thankfully for myself and everyone around me I tried to correct the issues and focus all my energy on healing. There was no miraculous turn around but learning from those mistakes prepared me for this past month.

Declan could tell what’s ahead so he raised his fist in celebration. Its been a while since I could hold him and carry him around, playtime is going to be a blast this weekend.

Portfolio 2

ajaymalghan — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:35:05 +0000

If I put together another portfolio of images, these will be in it.

Full Moon

ajaymalghan — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:58:17 +0000

Perk up

ajaymalghan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 05:50:58 +0000

Amazing how in a field of thousands of sunflowers only one was upright that night. It must have heard I was coming.

One crutch

ajaymalghan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:36:02 +0000

I had the urge to shoot and the conditions were decent last night so I used one hand to grab a lawn chair and tripod and a crutch in the other. I heard dogs barking in the distance and it was the first time I’ve ever been shook by those sounds. Being defenseless in the middle of nowhere isn’t the best feeling in the world; creating this on the other hand…

10 more days

ajaymalghan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:52:04 +0000

and I’m back on my feet. I feel a record coming on, I’m beginning to like the EP alot more than the complete album. An album seems like work and an EP seems like fun…kind of like writing one chapter rather than an entire book.

Sky Blue Sky

ajaymalghan — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:30:07 +0000

7-16-10

ajaymalghan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:22:48 +0000

I’m starting to get anxious for this new Interpol record. What I’ve heard so far is golden.