About Me

I love creating otherworldly music and night photography, writing about those two subjects, and exploring new places.

Night photography:
I drive long hours in a dusty car listening to weird music, stay out all night creating photos, get dirty, hang out with other creative sleep-deprived weirdos, see the stars drift across the sky, and always find the best taco stands. I also currently have several books of night photography of abandoned locales released, and more that I am working on with a publisher. My images have appeared in National Geographic Books, Omni Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Westways Magazine, and numerous other publications.

Music:
I create trippy otherworldly music as Eleven Shadows and The Mercury Seven. My music has been featured on “Felicity, in various MTV programs, BBC, Radio Moscow, NPR, Costa Rica Independent Radio Network, KCRW, KXLU, XM Radio, and other places. The Eleven Shadows album “Irian Jaya” was nominated in the first round of voting by NARAS for a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. I have also played keyboards for Holy Sisters of the Gaga Dada, Twist of Fate, Pendu Femelle, I Am Love, and Nectarphonic. I’ve also created soundtrack music for The Whale Sharks of Bahia, a DVD by filmmaker Nigel Lizaranzu for the Museo de Naturaleza Y Cultura in Bahia de Los Angeles in Mexico.

Writing:
I have several historical books of creative night photography published through America Through Time. I currently write for Photofocus Magazine and have written for EQ Magazine.

Featured Stories

Premiere of the beautiful new ambient music of Eleven Shadows!

Today is the premiere for my Eleven Shadows album "The Seahorse in the Center of Your Mind", full of beautiful deep ambient music. You may listen to or download the entire thing! This is the first Eleven Shadows since probably about the year 1791, haha! I had eye...

My night photographing an eerie haunted abandoned water park

I had just driven to the front of the post-apocalyptic looking abandoned water park. This was a high-profile abandoned location. After all, you could easily see it while traveling between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Sure enough, there were several cars circling around,...

My strange adventure photographing at night in an abandoned mental hospital

My friends Tim, Mike and I were on a trip, photographing abandoned areas at night. We met up with John, whom we had contacted via Flickr. I had to work my way through some sharp vines to look the outside of these windows at an abandoned mental hospital. Walking in...