RMSP Downtown Missoula

RMSP workshop - downtown missoula


our assignment today was to go around downtown missoula and take a portrait of a stranger that showed emotion while telling a story.


i found dennis. dennis came to missoula when jerry garcia died. before that he travelled around on tour with jerry and the rest of the grateful dead, right up until the last days just before jerry commit suicide. they say he had a heart attack but dennis says he just gave up and let himself die. jerry struggled with heroin addiction most of his life and was admitted to rehab several times and the last time he went in and refused treatment and sat in the corner all night until he died. i know because dennis told me.


dennis also doesn't have an actual physical address, i dont think. but he'd got mad biking skills. you should see some of the stunt shots we got! (... ill post more on flickr when i have more time)




then there was jerrod. even though i had my story and was on my way back to the hotel, jerrod caught my eye and he was so intriguing i couldnt pass by without talking to him and finding out more about his undoubtedly interesting life.


ohhhmg you guys i just bit into the centre of this jawbreaker ive been sucking on for the past like 3 days and its soo amazing. it was totally worth the wait and i just had to mention it because it literally the best thing ive tasted in 2-3 months. and im continuing to enjoy its fruity chewy centre... wow. just, wow.


ok so moving along, jerrod works part time in missoula while he plays with his band fagrag. and if you live in montana and like music and want to feel young and hip by hanging out at an urban art museum littered with hipsters carrying their macbooks, clad in skinny jeans and black horn rimmed glasses, then check em out at total fest this thursday at the missoula art museum.


jerrod has a huge collection of sci-fi novels and he's read each one of them three times or more. i wasnt really sure what to say to that, so i said "wow, thats really impressive to some poeple out there, probably"! and i think that offended him a little so i turned and left. but jerrod and his crazy book collection will always hold a special place in my heart.











aand yet another city i've fallen in love with and would move to in a heartbeat.