JPG Magazine: Stories by Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch).

No Mind of the Tao and the Tao of No Mind

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:55:01 PST

As photographers, we're not expressing No Mind of the Tao or anything else particularly through our work.

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

An American Bar

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:39:12 PST

The New Order of the World Wide Web

Democracy as we've known it is obsolete.

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

Spirit

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:34:28 PST

These images are two years old, discarded because I couldnt see them. Last night found them on a disk stored...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

Sex

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:04:33 PST

She dressed like a man with a white face smooth and hard. Hair slick as black shoe polish. Eyes dead, tear stains on the bed....

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

Pursuit

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:50:37 PST

William S. Burroughs once wrote, "There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

Windows

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:16:18 PST

SEE MORE WINDOW'S SLIDE SHOW

I started taking photos of windows in san francisco in 2002. Started finding my way around a camera, first...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

this is what death must be like

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:28:22 PST

this is what death must be like..... standing in front of endless doors, waiting to come back in another body just because you...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

the sad blue light

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:23:54 PST

it was 6am. i'd been working all night.

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

please dont tell me how the story ends

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:06:54 PST

when i was in school i'd read a paragraph in english lit and repeat it back in my own words.

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

Fragile

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:12:45 PST

I lived upstairs above a laundromat. I worked in a small office.

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

CROPPING PHOTOS: Going thru life with a square head. (Or, being a square peg in a world of round holes.)

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:39:57 PST

First time I knew I was different from other boys and girls was when crazy Virgo menopausal psycho bitch from hell tried to get me...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

Junky

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:39:10 PST

junky's connection lived in a trailer park, but junky lived in long beach. so, what's the difference?

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

women of las vegas.....

Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:52:00 PST

worked all night with exotic dancers in jazz ghettos. picked up trumpets off the street pregnant by every horn in the city. tried to get...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

walking so slow i fell over

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:32:32 PST

drunk at Whumper's Old Man which used to be on grant street, north beach. head on the bar near an ashtray.

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)

side effects include temporary insanity

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:36:55 PST

"how bad can it get?" i asked the doc before i swallowed the pills. fifteen pills. all different colors and sizes. took me two glasses...

By Rhio9 (Rhio Hirsch)