Wednesday, October 17, 2012

LA DECOM

This took me a great deal longer to post than I intended, but at long last, here are some shots from the Los Angeles Decompression Party. I feel as though I only photographed just an 1/8th of it. I met so many wonderful people and saw so many beautiful things... 

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Friday, October 12, 2012

Los Angeles Seraphim Project

Earlier this week, I drove downtown to visit the Seraphim that stand in the Los Angeles Historic Park. I was welcomed to decorate the structure with my hopes and dreams. I wound up writing letters to those I was thinking about at the moment - my friends from Burning Man, and my sister. Here are some of the photos I took, below. 

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Meditating


I wanted a photo of my morning attire, and the campsite, at the end of the week, and this is it.

Pictured here is myself, in my red silk bath-robe, my goggles around my neck, my military pants, and my boots. To the left is Nate's fearsome bike, emblazoned with a Tribal-style mask that lit up and shot lasers out of its eyes at night, and behind me is a Tardis that has "crash-landed".

Mornings were my favorite. I found this to be a strange time of day... the city mostly quiet, with only little trickles of music and yawns punctuating the dusty air... with a handful of camps moving sluggishly as they stretched out in the sun or laid strips of bacon on their grill. I found the heat and light to be too unbearable inside my tent and traveled alone in this attire, searching for conversations, new art, and fresh faces. Sometimes I craved solitude and stayed at the camp until my camp-mates woke. But most mornings, I was out and about before everyone else, ready to tackle the day. Which is particularly strange and unusual if you know anything about my typical morning habits (hiding under the covers and bemoaning my alarms).

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Blur


My head was spinning and the things I held in my hands were making less and less sense. The camera I so dearly loved suddenly became an object from the future, and the buttons all blurred together. But still, in my, ahem, "altered" state, I still managed to take a few photos of passing art-cars and lights (I was most keenly interested in lights!). The following morning I laughed quietly to myself as I reviewed my recent art-work.

This was an art-car that I took a photo of  --- an enormous gold-fish on wheels. People inside were bobbing and dancing to music. They may have been handing out alcohol. I can't remember.

Following the Octopus


The sun had set.
The moon had risen.
We shouldered our packs, and started walking.

My comrades stared about them with pupils the size of mars, and we drifted after the Octopus like Pilot fish after a shark. The Octopus had not started his fire show yet, and instead rattled through the streets, metal skin banging and clanging with every jostle and jolt in the road... this eyes and teeth ever gaping and gnashing. We traveled together for some time, in search of the same thing...

The open desert.

Wisdom box


Friday, September 28, 2012

Being a Sir



Bill, exhausted, elated, in the middle of telling a story... basking in the late afternoon sun.