Marfa, TX

A few months ago I did a road trip with my beautiful Jen to Marfa, TX. We went to see the Railroad Revival Tour: Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, and Old Crowe Medicine Show. It was a spiritual journey. Seven hours of driving just to hear music in the desert night. We stayed in a tiny bungalow in Alpine, near the tracks... waiting for a train to come. I cannot do justice to the experience we had listening to the music cascade...

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607 pages

607 pages. That's the first two volumes of my book. I look back on this blog and remember when I first mentioned that I had begun my work. And here I am, all this time later, and there are 607 pages done in my first draft. It's bittersweet, being a writer. So much of me went into those pages... so much emotion and story to tell that I am close to the words. A bit too close, I think. Because now that I am on the edge of posting it for the Kindle and...

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Utah

In November, I traveled to the Midland (a haunted hotel in Green River, Utah) to stay with my brother and take tons of photographs of Arches and the surrounding desert. It was very, very cold, but I didn't mind at all. I had lots of places I wanted to see and at every turn, there was a wonderful image to be photographed. Take a look in my Photography gallery on my main site The Dark Art.com to see many of the images I captured. They haven't been...

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Paths

I like paths. They lead places. They can lead to somewhere far away and wonderful, mysterious and remote. Who knows where they will lead you... what vista or enchanted place maybe just around the next corner? Sometimes, they can lead to a simple place, like this one; a path in a park, near an office far too crowded with cubicles and the mundane. It proves that paths don't need to be far away afterall. They can be so near that most people can't even...

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The Magic Places of the World

My homepage is Bing. Why Bing and not Google? Because Bing takes me places as soon as I open the web. The photographs they highlight each day are amazing and I am constantly in awe of their beauty. Sometimes they do miss, but sometimes I get to see the magic places of the world. I get to experience images from all over the world and I am amazed many of those places even exist. Often, they are far away... places I will most likely never see in person....

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Back to the Art

It has been a few since I have had the chance to take some more photos, and that has saddened me. So I dug this one up because it reminds me of my crazy brother. He is very crazy: crazy cool about things like Indian art and folklore. If you read one of my earlier blog posts, it speaks about his photographic skill and artistry I seriously lack. But I do plan on working more on my photography once the weather clears and warms up a bit. I want to learn...

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Missing in Action

I realize how I have let my blog slip recently. But then again, it's not like anyone is missing it:). I blog because it helps me focus on what I value, and what I am. To this effect, I have not been blogging simply because I am working hard on my book. Yes, I have begun to write it and am very excited by the prospect. I am not writing with any hope of ever being published ... I do not have such luck. But I will complete the novel anyway, so that I can say that I did. It has been a goal of mine since high school, and therefore, it is time to achieve...

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