Mark N photography

05/01/2026

Residential recycling in Joplin made easy. Use curbside carts or our convenient drop-off center to help keep our city clean and moving forward.

03/14/2026

12/01/2025

07/01/2025

11/23/2024

Coffee bar and pottery studio The Clay Cup is Neosho, Missouri’s best-kept secret.

09/04/2024

If you haven’t heard- Cold Brewed, the coffee-themed, noir photonovel written by Lance Schaubert and photographed by yours truly- is available for purchase. It only took us 12 years… 😉

It’s currently climbing the ranks in a couple categories on Amazon- the more folks who purchase and share NOW and in the next couple days, the higher it goes and the longer is stays!

-10 more copies sold and it hits #1 in “coffee”
-30 more copies and it hits #1 in “mystery graphic novels”

Find out more about the project from Lance’s landing page here:

12 Years ago, Mark 9 and I started a journey with 9 actors to reinvent the graphic novel using still shots. It started as a weekly blog, moved into a digital iBook, and now — finally, especially for the oldest fans here — is live wherever fine books are sold as a gorgeous print graphic novel.

09/03/2024

SURPRISE!

Today is an exciting day for something old to become new again.

One of my oldest, largest, & most beloved projects to date is the noir photonovel “Cold Brewed”, created with my dear friend Lance Schaubert. We conceived it years ago as a way to merge my photos w/ his writing, and released it as an “i-book.” This was a digital format that unfortunately never gained much traction. That was ok with us. We made something we were proud of, had a blast doing it, and never regretted the time we put in. But we still hoped that maybe someday…. it could present to the world as a physical book.

It took us 10+ years, but HERE WE ARE: it is, as of today, available in paperback! Thanks to Lance for doing the hard work of re-formatting for print. I’ve seen it and it’s beautiful. And I’m still so proud of this project.

The link is below. I know, $25 seems high for a paperback. But we’re publishing this thing independently, and I promise you- this thing is THICK, very visual, and a very unique story for your shelf or coffee table. Profits- which we’d be seeing for the first time- will be split between Lance, myself, and our cast, that ensemble of baristas who so kindly donated their time for our insane story, donning trench coats and fedoras in the midst of unfiltered cigarette smoke (bc 1940s ci******es don’t have filters) and ungodly temperatures.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1949547078/ref=x_gr_bb_amazon?ie=UTF8&tag=x_gr_bb_amazon-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1949547078&SubscriptionId=1MGPYB6YW3HWK55XCGG2

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SYNOPSIS:

​​Cold Brewed takes place in a classic prohibition-era world where coffee is currency. The story uses silent film and film noir techniques, but favors classy black and white photographs over pencil sketches--a grittier grandson of the narrative form developed in Selznick's books "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and "Wonderstruck." Shot and produced in and around Joplin, Missouri, Cold Brewed testifies to the art revival happening in our formerly tornado-devastated town.

Cold Brewed: Jett Cropper and the Chicory Dose

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