Archive for the ‘photos’ Category

New Photo from NYC Borders Reading

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

Here’s another photo from last weekend’s Borders reading:

David Barr Kirtley Blake Charlton Laura Anne Gilman Saladin Ahmed Borders Bookstore New York 2010

Saladin Ahmed, Laura Anne Gilman, Blake Charlton, David Barr Kirtley in NYC

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

Tonight’s reading was a blast. Thanks again to Blake for organizing this. Here’s a photo:

Saladin Ahmed, Larua Anne Gilman, Blake Charlton, David Barr Kirtley
Saladin Ahmed, Laura Anne Gilman, Blake Charlton, David Barr Kirtley

New Author Photo - August 2010

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

New author photo:

David Barr Kirtley Author Photo August 2010

Today it occurred to me that I could probably use my Macbook’s built-in camera to record myself performing my stories. I tested it out, then started experimenting with different backdrops (bookshelves, blank wall, etc.). I dragged over my lamp to try out some dramatic lighting for reading a horror story. I accidentally ended up with this lighting here, which I thought looked kind of cool, so I snapped a few pics using Photo Booth, and I liked this one enough to throw it up on my site as my new author photo. Some people were giving me crap recently because my author photo was from way back in 2007, so I hope you’re all happy now.

Dave and Hobbes Lying on the Couch

Sunday, July 11th, 2010

I’m going through some old discs looking for early stories, and I came across this photo of me and Hobbes. I think I’m about twenty here:


So I copied the pic over to my new laptop, where it just happened to end up in a folder near this photo from last year:


Plus ca change…

Doomsday Film Festival 2009 Photos

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Here are some photos from the Doomsday Film Festival. The first shot is me with my co-panelists John Langan (House of Windows), John Joseph Adams (The Living Dead), and David Wellington (Monster Island).

David Barr Kirtley Doomsday Film Festival

David Barr Kirtley Doomsday Film Festival

McNally Jackson Halloween Party 2009 Photos

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Here are some photos from my Halloween night appearance at McNally Jackson bookstore in Manhattan, where I was joined by Kenneth C. Davis (Sigmund Freud below), author of Don’t Know Much About History, who gave a short talk on the origins of Halloween. Other costumes pictured include Humbert Humbert & Lolita and Sylvia Plath & her oven. Thanks to The Desk Set for snapping these pictures.

David Barr Kirtley Halloween McNally Jackson Books  

Kenneth C. Davis Halloween 2009  

Zombie Panel Photo

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

The zombie panel last weekend was a smashing success. Here’s a photo:

Jonathan Maberry, Kim Paffenroth, David Barr Kirtley, John Joseph Adams, Rob Hauschild, Peter Gutierrez

The event was filmed, and will be appearing as a special feature on the Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated DVD.

The Skull-Faced City Reading at Confluence

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Here’s a shot of me reading my zombie short story “The Skull-Faced City” at Confluence. (Since it’s a scary story, I directed that all the lights in the conference room be extinguished, so the only illumination came from the laptop screen off of which I was reading.)

Photo of David Barr Kirtley reading his short story The Skull-Faced City at the Confluence science fiction convention

Alpha Workshop Photos

Saturday, July 18th, 2009

Photo of David Barr Kirtley at Barnes & Noble with Asimov's editor Sheila Williams
Alpha Workshop Reading Series (with Asimov’s editor Sheila Williams)

Photo of David Barr Kirtley with plant
They don’t even suspect I’m here.

Haircut

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Haircut:

Photo of David Barr Kirtley

Photo of David Barr Kirtley