MarkAllenCam.com This used to be a cam site, hence the url.

Regular Features: My "TOP TEN" - (updated sort of weekly) UPDATED 6/6/06: Carrie III? 5/9/06: Male anorexics: meet Cheyenne 3/27/06 Jim's fashion photography 3/1/06: Kenny G and me  2/20/06: Famous movie locations found on GoogleEarth 2/13/06: The Backs of Women's Heads In Movies 1/30/06: Killer history 1/16/06: "I Wrapped a Giant Condom Over Jesse Helms' House" My "TOP TEN" archives:  38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Selected/collected cam shots from this site (a history of this site's visual past, gallery 17 is the latest)  Listen to me on WFMU: listen: Listen to my radio show - archives and playlists read: Read my posts on WFMU's blog  Read me in The New York Times: Articles by Mark Allen in The New York Times  Listen to me on NPR: Stuff by Mark Allen on NPR All Things Considered

Other essays I have written:  "The Teacher Who Influenced Me the Most in High School" (long text version) "The Cyber Crush/The Cyber Crutch" (read about this article in WIRED,  watch this piece on TechTV) "I Suffered Stendhal Syndrome at Universal Studios Hollywood!" (long text version) "Tonight It's Going To Be All About Not Being All About Me" (a love letter to my readers) "It's Not Gonna Be OK" "I Had Sex With a Kinko's  Copies Crack Head!" (part l of ll) "The Nothing, Nothing, Nothing Cake" (a fable) "Beatrice" "My Ass" "A Night To Remember" (a partially plagiarized response letter) "You Broke My Plastic Japanese Menagerie!" "The Day I Was Protested Against" (it should happen once in every lifetime) "My Wallace Langham Daydream" (in screenplay form, parts I & II of IV) "Bushisms" (an examination of the often mis-understood  conservative southernspeak and it's audial  semiotics)

Photographs I have taken: My 9/11 photos (that day) (downtown NYC, September 11th,  9:30AM - 8PM) My 9/11 photos (that night) (in and around 'ground zero,'  September 11th, 10PM - 1AM) A random gallery of photos I have taken (added 9/28/02) An earlier random gallery of photos I have taken (2001-ish) NYC filming locations from Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (then and now) A bunch of photos I took in the Catskill Mountains My interviews with disabled people: Robert Feinstein (blind) David Cook (deaf) Greg Walloch (cerebral palsy and famous) Kevin (lost his left leg) Victor (too skinny) Derek (lost most of right arm)

Unethical mad scientist experiments: Abu Ghraib... was it torture, or was it art? (you decide!) My "Ultimate Disguise" (see you around town ...SUCKERS!!!) "The Jar" - what would happen if you put  a bunch of gross stuff in a jar?  (we found out) Pedestrian Spy! (a surveillance junkie's wet dream!) Robot love!  (My non-touching, digital "cyber" date  with Bryan of ChaosInAustin.com) Gregory: the boy in the plastic bubble (of GregoryNYC.com) Win a mind-altering, brain washing radio (by proving you don't exist) Send me your drunk driving stories!

Trips I have taken: Unearthing the hidden boxes of  forgotten "webwork" novelist  Harry Stephen Keeler (at Colombia University) Columbine High School (my brief visit) Bragging report and photo journal from my photography exhibit in Paris (May 2002) "My Trip to the Middle of Nowhere" (part 1) (December 1999 - January 2000) "My Trip to the Middle of Nowhere" (part 2) (December 1999 - January 2000) "My Trip to the Edge of Somewhere" (road trip around entire USA,  Nov. 2001 - photo collage only) Build-up to my "Trip To  the Edge of Somewhere" (summer 2001) Central Park at night (who dares? me and Trucker John do)

What do I do for a living? (day job) Book a massage with Mark Allen

My significant other: Jim Krewson - artist!

            Irregular Features:
          oMy dream journal
          oI respond to email from viewers!
 
 

            People Who Have Foolishly Let Me Interview Them:
            oDaniel: "The Maze Guy"
            oNathan Gluck - (mentor to Andy Warhol and chock full o' stories brilliant guy)
 

            People Who Have Foolishly Interviewed Me:
            oMe In Unzipped magazine
            oRob from merry 'ole England grills me - (of RobCamLive.com)
            oJhames grills me - (of Jhames.com)
            oIN Magazine grills me
            oJoel grills me about my dream journal - (Joel is from France)
            oHenry Flesh grills me for The New York Press
 

            Shit I See On the Streets of New York City:
            oPeople and things - ('shit' has lots of meanings)
 

            "It will be art... hard core art!"
            o"Model Kit"
            o"For Jim"
            o"What Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?"
            oMy review of Sonic Youth's "NYC Ghosts & Flowers" - (for the deaf)
            oMonsters
 

            Kiss my ass! (when your nose is brown you can really smell the pity!):
            oBuy me DVDs and get zero in return! Loser!
 

            Uneven, Lopsided, Frustrating, Loose Ends and Leftovers (the reality of life):
            oThings I like! - (this list is very, very, very, old, old, old)
            oHans Fahrmeyer's photos of me
            oMy oft-asked about "Freshmen" porno magazine layout - (enjoy!)
            oMy bedroom wall
             oOld cartoon by George Gozum of golden days gone by...
            oThe visual mazes of Jeff Wietor - "Raincoat TV"
            oThe Parisian blog of Joel
            oGreat, strange, brilliant radio at HearingVoices.org
            oHey! Look at this comic strip...
            oWanna see a bunch of eyeballs?
 

            A Website I Made About a Band I Think Were/Are Great:
            oThe Flying Lizards - (geniuses)