New ideas, a new mix, a day of truancy

i'm working on a new blog, or hosting site, or whatever to try and put up photos and some videos more regularly. 2009 caused a back up of photos that need to get thru the system and be shown. It isn't by any means my favorite work to date, but there are a few beautiful things i found this past year... and hopefully if i come up with a good system, i'll start putting all of this expensive machinery to use. Maybe i can actually get my photos up for sale before the end of this year... well see...

In other news, a while back a room mate and myself had a conversation about our musical up bringing of sorts, and just how we have traveled fairly different paths to bring us to the musical place we both are at now. we agreed to make each other mixes, and i decided to go back in the vault and find the music that really inspired me at the most pivitol times, and still proves to be some of my favorite records. It's a 2 disc set (43 songs) of music made specifically thru 1996 - 2003, and runs the gauntlet from folky billy bragg, to moderately embarassing pop punk, to hard core, to the beginnings of indie and when emo was still a genre.

you can download it here... http://www.sendspace.com/file/96cg86

Let me know what you think... and hopefully i'll get those photos up one day.

2010: a space odyssey

so this is the year of the space odyssey.... thankfully the year didn't begin with apes killing each other... well.. mine didn't atleast..

finally getting at my photos from the trip. i stand by my belief that things look better when it's cold. unfortunately, things look better when you know how to stand still and hold a camera... which didn't happen much this last month...

either way, i love this photo, so take it with you until i figure out the best way to show the rest of these to the world..

blizzards brats and beer

Back from europe. cab at 4 am (or 5 am) from Utrecht to amsterdam. fly amsterdam to warsaw. fly the craziest flight of my life from warsaw to toronto. arrive 2 hours late. get excited about a delayed flight for the first time ever. until that delayed flight turn into a 3 hour delay. try to eat tim hortons. end up wanting to puke. fly toronto to chicago. get in a disgruntled cab home.

yesterday will likely go down in the books as the most ridiculous travel day of my life.

europe was cold. paris was on strike (the whole city. i'm serious) munich was full and delicious. andechs kloster beer is the best beer in europe. some of the best in the world actually. learned about nazis. sa an old man balance on a wine bottle. there was a blizzard. europe shut down. saw an amazing mondrian/picasso/cezzane exhibit in den haag, walked around in the snow alot. drank lots of "coffee" (which.. is a universal term for lots of different coffee based beverages). ate more bread then usual (which.. is alot). thought i had parisites. had a great time.

now it's time for christmas, and getting melissa settled in, and editing photos and videos, and trying to enjoy the rest of my vacation on what little money is left from europe. strikes and blizzards cause for alot of unexpected expenses.

merry christmas folks.

beaches and volcanos and rain forests

Since My website is going under a serious facelift and tummy tuck (actually.. it's getting bigger, so thats a bad analogy) I am posting some pieces and photos from costa rica for now...

here goes...

it's been awhile....

made it back from foreign and domestic travels abroad. Time to get to serious work...

look here for some pictures and potentially hilarious anticdotes about costa rica.

Look at www.thegreatestescapist.com for a new website soon with alot more content, a much more attractive design, and maybe even a site navgation system that isn't a giant piece of shit. we can only hope...


check ya later