3: SCOTTS (Handle on Fire Truck Door)

3: SCOTTS (Handle on Fire Truck Door)

Found a red label "3 SCOTTS" on a handle of a fire truck. I have no idea what it means, but I love the colors in the reflection of the handle. You can see a yellow fire coat hanging on a white and seafoam green wall.

7: Gate House

7: Gate House

What's behind this door!?!

Painted Robins Egg Blue with Black Stencil Spray painted Letters and Number - its so mysterious.

I love the whole weathered look it has.

45: Firefighter Helmet

45: Firefighter Helmet

My brother had his 3rd Birthday Party at a Fire Station; Fire Truck and all. This is a helmet that was hanging up on the wall amongst many others.

218: Vintage Metal Trash Can from School

218:
Vintage Metal Trash Can from School


I started a new job at a Photography Studio recently. One of my job duties entitles me to visit high schools around my area to help with Underclass Pictures. This trash can was sitting in a teachers lounge at Boone County High School, in Florence, KY.


I love the vintage look/feel to it.

0 - Mile Marker In Quicksand, KY

Mile Marker 0
My friend Amanda, whom I've known since the 9th grade, works for a magazine called Kentucky Monthly. She started a column called 'Kentucky: A to Z'. She has 24 hours to drive to a small town in Kentucky and find a story about anything in the town. She invited me to find a story with her in Quicksand, KY. I love going on these trips with her because they are thrilling, adventurous and life-changing. You end up finding a person with an amazing story and come back feeling like you can conquer the world.

Mile Marker 0 in front of the only entrance and exit to Quicksand, KY - a one lane blue bridge. It should be in a Horror movie, lol. I loved it.

57 - Heinz Ketchup Bottle

57 on the Heinz Ketchup Bottle.
 Eating at Red Robin with my Best Friend in Florence, KY - our favorite place to eat before we go thrifting.

What does the "57" stand for in Heinz’s famous slogan, "57 Varieties?" While riding a train in New York City in 1896, Henry Heinz saw a sign advertising 21 styles of shoes, which he thought was clever. Although Heinz was manufacturing more than 60 products at the time, Henry thought 57 was a lucky number. So, he began using the slogan "57 Varieties" in all his advertising. Today the company has more than 5,700 products around the globe, but still uses the magic number of "57."

Just armed with an idea and a camera...

I use to work at this graphic design place right off an entrance to the highway. On my way home I would drive under a bridge, past a tall brick building with an enormous address number of 2099 plastered on the side in Chrome; with a beautiful ambient glow underneath. Needless to say, it was veerryyy visible coming off the highway. I drove by it 5 nights a week admiring its beauty, until one day I decided to pull over and take a picture of it.

Let me back up... this whole crazy idea started when I went to Frishes' for dinner one night. (For those of you who have never had the pleasure of coming across a Frishes - I think it is called BigBoy in other states... It is a sit-down restaurant with a diner feel). This particular Frishes had just been remodeled into a swanky new retro looking diner. Complete with modern furniture and retro looking art pieces representing the Big Boy himself. One particular piece caught my attention. It was a typography of the letters B, I, G, B, O, Y photographed separately, but put together to form the word "BIG BOY". I was struck with how awesome that concept was of piecing those letters together, that I wanted start a typography project myself, and try to photograph the alphabet. A year goes by and nothing happens. I forget about this crazy idea that was once embedded in my head... until one night I drove past that building near my old job. The one that has 2099 lit up on the side of it. I swear I got that light bulb that they have in movies (you know the one that appears over your head... pops on when you get an idea - and I had this dumbfounded look on my face). It hits me that my little project should be of numbers instead of letters. That one piece of art is what got me on this crazy game (as I like to think of it). It's my own little treasure hunt - minus a map with any direction, instruction or destination. Just armed with an idea and a camera. Taking me through crazy experiences and stories.

This is a documentation of my progress and recollection of interesting stories of how these pictures are accumulated/attained.

I decided to try to go to 1,000.