Pete Halupka is 32 and neapolitan ice cream.
MOSSLESS: How was that recent holiday in Chicago with flickr friends?
PETE HALUPKA: That weekend was filled with 150-200 beers or something, nudity, and too many cameras. To be honest those people transcended flickr friendship a long time ago. For example, I’ve known Ben Lepley or Will Govus for years now. It’s a special thing, man. We just ate burritos and drank high life camo cans. We had 16 people on our floor.
Good story: Albie Ish, Ben Lepley, and someone else forcefully undressed me and dragged me into the living room where everyone was drinking and they just swung me around while I yelled “These are my best friends?!” Months later Albie and I wondered if there had been any pictures of it all seeing as there were almost 15 kids with cameras there. (90% being stylus epics) Funnily enough, there was only a 100x200 cell phone picture or some shit.
ML: What do you do to stay productive?
PH: I have a hefty school schedule this semester so pretty much I school and work Monday through Friday from 9am til 7 am. That has been keeping me busy. On weekends I’ve been traveling, making new work, riding my bike a lot, and playing a ton of Modern Warfare II.
ML: What are your favourite kind of photos?
PH: Ones that aren’t overtly erotic but still reek of it if you give it a second.
ML: What’s Wettbutt?
PH: Wetbutt is a dialogue between Erin Jane Nelson and I. As intellectual fuck buddies we needed a forum where we could get it on.