This chopper shop saw some of my work on Flickr and asked me to come by to shoot some of their custom bikes. It was right by this place that Bobby has been making me go ride bikes with him so I stopped by to grab some pictures. There were all cool guys in there and one of them talked his “friend” girl into climbing on board for a few pics as well… those will be coming up in a bit.
We had a pretty big storm hit last week. Here is a shot of some of the clouds from the hills by my house. The large version on Flickr is recommended for this one.
Here are a few more rides from randomly captured from around Austin.
The crew over at an art magazine called Animal New York interviewed me because it must have been a very slow art news day; no art suicides or lawsuits involving the ACLU were reported. Animal is affiliated with Gawker, which runs a series of some interesting web destinations.
Anyway, he chose to title the article “Trey Ratcliff Hates Andy Warhol“, which is a pretty funny title although not entirely true… I also would not list that as the number one bullet point about me, but oh well… There was a question in there that asks what artist I “hate”, so I had to pick the closest artist on my spectrum. There was another question about which Museum I don’t like, and I chose the Museum of Tolerance, thinking about the one from South Park (see the video here).
The interview can be found here on Animal.
In the picture below, you will probably notice a naked woman in a subway… That is not my photograph, but it certainly is a naked woman in a subway.
I think this statue is pretty awesome. From certain angles it looks like a naked-man-pile up while they are signaling for Nazi solidarity, but from other angles it looks much cooler, like this one:
And here are a few pictures that somehow escaped my mad labyrinth of software processes known as my HDR gauntlet. The first is from Rome and the second is from San Antonio. If I had not indicated which was first and second, you would have never figured it out.
I found this statue in a garden near a yacht club on Lake Travis here in Austin. It was just kinda there in the middle of nowhere and it had been corroded to form some interesting patterns.
If it wasn’t 100 degrees, muggy, and Texas, I would have hung around the ROT Rally in Austin for longer to get more shots. There were so many cool bikes that it was kind of overwhelming; but not as overwhelming as the bearded men and women that were wearing more layers of leather than my Level 8 Diablo character.
People really tend to like these Harley pictures on Flickr. The metal and deep colors really are great subjects for HDR compositions…
This is a barn I found a few miles from my house just before a big storm was about to hit. The cool thing about Texas is you can always see when the big ones are coming.
Here is one of my favorite statues from Rome. It is at the Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II; often called the “Wedding Cake” or “Typewriter” because it stands out so much against the other more drab ruins at the nearby Ancient Roman Forum.
