Joins
the design team at MTV.com
. Exhibitions of work in Washington D.C. and Hoboken,
NJ. The Washington Post describes work as "...an impressive
exploration of the white middle-class male psyche." Jay
finds himself. Buys a fully manual Nikon FM2 from
E-Bay and realizes what he doesn't know about photography.
Photographs of Paris in the fall... Experiments
w/ interactive photography using a fisheye lens.
2001
Creates print edition of Picture Pairs. Begins
photographing vans in NYC almost exclusively. Photographs
and assembles immersive, 360 degree images for MTV of
TRL Studios and Real World houses in NYC and Chicago.
Trips to New Orleans, Boston, Las Vegas, and the
Grand Canyon. Narrowly avoids high-speed collision with a deer on pitch-black Arizona highway. Witnesses
collapse of World Trade Center from across the Hudson
River on September 11 Sinks deeper and deeper in
debt. Drinks more.
2002
Exhibits
Picture Pairs at the Jersey City Museum. Trip to New Orleans
to photograph screaming teens and eat fried food. Trip to Cancun
to photograph bikinied
ladies and drink tequila. Off to England to photograph grass
Searches for a new home. Lays it all down for one floor of a
19th century brownstone in Hoboken, NJ.
New Macintosh G4
2003
Elopement
with Desiree in Scotland on Valentines day. Trip to Paris to
photograph the Real World. Dislocates shoulder snowboarding
in the Alps. Mends in Munich, Germany Promotion to Senior Design
position in charge of cross-site design standards for mtv.com
Disillusionment over the state of the nation and anxieties in NYC.
Gets 2 Cats.
2004
Birth
of Claire
Goldfinger, March 25. Trip to the south of France. Swimming
in the Mediterranean. Perfuming in Grasse • Purchase of 24"
BMX bike to ride Hoboken skatepark. Source of fun and injuries •
Creates new site for MTV2 •
Buys used Fuji 6x7 camera. Lots of photos of Claire,
not much of anything else.
2005
Playing
with Claire
and her Mom MTV2.com
launches •
Expecting a new daughter in June