Gregory Crewdson shoots phenomanal photographs.  He creates elaborate sets with spooky lighting and exquisitely detailed mise en scène of seemingly ordinairy suburban locations that are slightly off kilter.  His view on them makes the everyday seem alien.

Ray Ogar introduced me to Crewdson’s work a few years ago, and mentioned that they feel very Spielberg to him–specifically, ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’–and I couldn’t agree more.

Acrylic oil painting by the talented David Degrand from Forth Worth, who also painted the header for this site.  I got the painting below from him at the STAPLE! Independent Media Expo in Austin in 2007–he said the frame had belonged to his grandmother!–