Vast sky
The crisp desert air
Filling my lungs up
Curvaceous hills
A horizon of light, shadows, and texture
Delicate beauty surrounds
Music is in the landscape
Formations slowly moving through geological time
An intimate knowledge of the soil, where my feet rest
The Joshua Tree rising its limbs into the heavens
A connection to the Earth and above at once
An eternal resonating moment

I am home here on this piece of Earth
Called the Mojave, stretching from Death Valley to the Col... read more

I realized last night that all my self-appointed prophets all died of unusual, sudden, and/or traumatic deaths that were mentioned in my anatomy of road trip blog. Below is an intro:

10/22/69
Kerouac, the novelist who named the Beat Generation and exuberantly celebrated its rejection of middle-class American conventions, died early yesterday of massive abdominal hemorrhaging in a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital. He was 47 years old.
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who... read more

This blog is about a road trip where I started driving into the sunset headed westbound for L.A. from Vegas on a Friday night and ended driving into the sunrise headed back from L.A. to Vegas on an early Monday morning in the Mojave Desert.

As I was pondering my next moves in life in the midst of this discontentedness, a friend contacts me via tribe on an offer for a road trip. There is a lot driving involved (Vegas to LA. to S.F. to L.A. to Vegas all within 48 hours). The offer was th... read more

A big thank you to Cameron
and the VegasArtists team for providing the venue and opportunity for
us all to express our art and ideas through this community event,
known as Dark Skies. I reconnected and met so many wonderful people
this time. In every interaction, whether it was an MOD shift,
overseeing Gate operations, volunteer coordination, or building an
icon, it was an amazing experience. But, the icon (the tombstone)
building experience was certainly the most transformative for me... read more

Just an update on all the stuff in my head for the Gate at Dark Skies, our Vegas Burning Man Regional, in just over a week. Another big thanks to all those helping on this! Sometimes just by talking, brainstorming, emailing all of you, I keep adding, shaping, and creating new stuff. Much Love to You All!

Icons and Goth in history and at the Gate

An icon will be located at the gate, titled “A Resurrection of Light”. The Darks Skies Team started using the word “icon” in May of ’05, as... read more