Jeremy Haines

In my photographs of the city’s reflections, I capture the constant movement of New York City as a single frame of time in the long and ever-changing life of the city. The photos show an image reflected off various windows in the five boroughs, while also giving the viewer a glimpse of what lies behind that window. Each photograph represents a specific time and place in the city’s history, one that will never be repeated again as the contents behind the window are renewed, the buildings transform, and the seasons change.

In addition to the flux, New York is also a city of layers, from the depths of the subways to the tops of its tallest buildings. These photographs honor the many layers of New York as represented in the reflective surface of the windows. The images in the photographs overlap – sometimes harmoniously, sometimes discordantly - with each other, creating a unified image from the many represented. This new image literally reflects the city’s many layers and constant movement. The window represented becomes a mirror for all of New York City to look both at and within itself.

The Third Eye in popular culture is referred to as “a mystical and esoteric concept of a speculative invisible eye which provides perception beyond ordinary sight.” This project explores the idea of repetition, created and real memories, questions of scale, and the concept of the multi-verse. The figures exist in an environment that is either completely fabricated or based on memories of real places. Each figure exists with multiple faces with three or more eyes attached to a seemingly normal body creating a confusing narrative which at first glance looks relatively normal.

Sometimes you have to go backwards to move forward. In the case of the “Puddles” series, you have to look down to look up.

New York City has always been a place where people rarely look up. Hurriedly moving from place to place, there is no time to look up and see the cavernous beauty of the city. However, after it rains, the sidewalks and gutters of New York are transformed into moving mirrors that both reflect the city’s immense beauty and expose its deep faults. Puddles formed from the decaying city streets reflect the city’s buildings and skyscrapers while the photographs record both the dirtiest part of the city with it’s most majestic. This duality is a reflection of New York City itself, a melting pot of old and new, rich and poor, disgusting and immaculate, concrete and illusion, that is constantly evolving. The image represented in the photographs is really an inverse of the cityscape; an alternate reality created from simply turning upside down. Since the puddles themselves will eventually evaporate, the street will collect debris, the buildings will be replaced with more buildings, the photographs can never be recreated or exactly reproduced.

This project started while I was working as a server and bartender at the Cafe Loup in Manhattan. The project itself lasted from 2009 until 2015 and was a collaboration between myself and Tim Farnham, as well as other contributors. While we were working at this busy downtown cafe, we would draw these pictures in our down time to distract ourselves from annoying co-workers or just to pass the time.

The drawings were all drawn on what was called a “triple dupe pad,” which was a book of paper in triplicate that we used to take orders and send to the kitchen. Because of this, the dupe pads were in constant use by the staff and would accumulate stains or pen marks that could be incorporated into the drawings. Sometimes, if the paper ran out, they would be thrown out and many drawings were lost in this fashion. Other times, co-workers and even guests would add to the drawings, and over time, the project became a true collaboration between the restaurant and me.

As the years went by, the drawings started taking on a life of their own so I started taking them out of the restaurant to add color to them digitally, thus creating what you see here.

Tim and Jeremy’s Mind on Loup blog

Always interested in the accidental and chaos, the Holga 135 camera is the perfect tool to create surreal photographs. The random nature of both the camera and working with film, the Holga 135 camera almost guarantees that you can never be sure what you will end up with once you develop the film.

I try to use this unplanned and indiscriminate nature to create photography that is both eerie and playful. The quality of the film renders the image difficult to place within time and place, leaving the viewer to decide when and what they are looking at.

MyTee Art makes original art out of your old tee shirts!

All of these pieces are for sale at my Etsy shop and at my Handmade shop.

Do you have a favorite shirt that you can no longer wear? 
T-shirts are great reminders of great memories. Maybe it's from a concert you went to years ago, maybe it's the shirt you were wearing when you got engaged. You wore it so much that it got holes in it, or maybe you just grew out of it.

Now you can keep that shirt forever as a piece of art!

I make art out of old tee shirts! I didn't want to throw out all of my favorite tee shirts that I can no longer wear. So, instead of keeping them in boxes where I would only see them every once and a while, I turned them into art that I could hang on my wall and enjoy all the time.

Send me your favorite shirts that you can't wear anymore (it's ok if they are full of holes or faded but please make sure they are clean). I will turn them into a one-of-a-kind piece of art! 

(When it comes to sizing, I will do my best to incorporate all of the important parts, unless you specify otherwise. See the pre-made ones for examples.)

Let me make you a personal piece of art that will last forever!

Dreidel is an illustrated children’s book made exclusively for the app Mibblio. Illustrated by Jeremy Haines for the song “Dreidel” sung by Erran Baron Cohen.

Jenny Balloons is a children’s book written and illustrated by Jeremy Haines for the app, Mibblio.

“Jenny has been crafting things out of balloons all her life. She twists and ties till she has animals, dresses, even a car! Wait until you see what her biggest creation is in this colorful story.” -Mibblio

You can download it here at Mibblio.

Exclamation Nation! is a children’s book written and illustrated by Jeremy Haines for the app, Mibblio.

“The mayor thinks up a plan to make his town the happiest around—by writing everything with exclamation points! But the town soon realizes that there is more than one way to use an exclamation point…” -Mibblio

You can dowload it here from Mibblio.

Wibblesmacks is a children’s book written and illustrated by Jeremy Haines for the app Mibblio.

“The wibblesmacks are bored of eating liver for dinner! They go to find something else to eat. And there starts the wibblesmacks' silly adventure to find some frizzlefish with the help of a wobblecat and a purple whale.”

You can download it at the Mibblio App.

“Don’t Eat the Worms!” is a children’s book written by Deborah Haines and illustrated by Jeremy Haines.

When a near-sighted fish knocks the frog off of her lilly pad, she decides to help the fish find a pair of glasses.

These videos were made for the live performances of Project Jenny, Project Jan. They were projected behind the band to create a moving light show that enhanced the concert-going experience. Most of them are created from original content, while others employ found footage to create surreal dreamscapes. All songs can can be found here on iTunes

All albums and songs available here on iTunes.

Made up of programmer/keyboardist Sammy Rubin and vocalist Jeremy Haines, Project Jenny, Project Jan spans a surprising musical range, from the sinister beats of “320” to the feel good “HJIH”; from the singalong swing of “Brooklyn” to the expansive Bollywood feel of “The Dialogue.” One thing remains constant, however: Their kinetic energy, which inspired Billboard to call Project Jenny, Project Jan’s live show a “shockingly dynamic, danceable, and hilarious affair.” Vanity Fair called the band “awesome” and enthusiastically recommended its show “to anyone with functional knee and elbow joints.” Meanwhile, Gothamist solemnly observed, “This is a band that should be taken seriously.” The duo’s originality impressed Ear Farm enough to name Project Jenny, Project Jan one of its top ten bands to watch out for in 2008. Sure enough, that year Project Jenny, Project Jan was featured in the film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, performing their rowdy crowd-pleaser “Negative.”

Singing, dancing, and hamming.

Selected sketches, posters, flyers, and general nonsense.