Operation MySpace / Kuwait
I went to Kuwait with MySpace. They financed a documentary I made on a concert they did for the troops there called Operation MySpace. The thing that was most compelling about the trip was, of course, the soldiers. They were young, mostly. They were there for the opportunity and paycheck, mostly. They weren’t what I’d [...]
2009 IMAGES
These are some of my favorite images from 2009. Most all of these photos were captured by me though there are a couple that I rediscovered in the same time frame. The locations include; France, Belgium, the Grenadine Islands, West Indies, Kuwait, Peru, L.A. and New York mostly… Some are published in magazines or newspapers, all of them are [...]
Welcome to the Jungle
“Welcome to the Jungle” is a cover story I did for L A Yoga Magazine about Amanozinan Shamanism… more specifically about the Shipibo Master Plant healing tradition called Vegitalismo.
The video is a combination of footage I shot at Espiritu de Anaconda in Iquitos, Peru along with filmmaker Ryan Wylie’s footage.
Ayahuasca, Shamanism And The Diets [...]
L A WEEKLY SKID ROW COVER SERIES
This is a series of L A Weekly cover stories I did on Skid Row in Los Angeles. It became a doc series (below)
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DYING TO GET OFF SKID ROW
Downtown can be a last chance… or the last stop
SAM SLOVICK
INSIDE THE BOX WITH THE SUPER DOPE COPS
Hustlers, gangsters, addicts and narcos are [...]
Sympathy for the Devil photos / LA WEEKLY
Previously unpublished photos that take us inside L.A. gang neighborhoods for Sam Slovick’s “Sympathy for the Devil: Crime Stats Say L.A.’s Streets Are Safer Than Ever, So Why Are Gang Hoods Still So Bloody?”
Jan Kounen
Jan Kounen’s Ayahuasca documentary Other Worlds is an epic document. It features Shipibo Shaman Guillermo Arévalo Valera aka Kestenbesta, a Shipibo curandero descended from a long generation of healers of the Shipibo Conibo indigenous Amazonian people.
In the realm of shamanic documentaries, there isn’t one that is better for several reasons. Jan Kounen is an amazing [...]
Rare DJ Squeak footage (Morocco 1966)
Rare D.J. Squeak footage & pics.
RARE!!!! VINTAGE!! UNCUT! UNRELEASED!!!
(Morocco 1966)
D J Squeak
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Valley of Dawn
I was at Valley of the Dawn in Brazil a few years ago. It’s hard to describe Vale do Amanhecer (Valley of Dawn). You kind of have to see it with your own eyes.
It’s a community of mediums about 50 kilometers from Brasília. This is the kind of stuff you only see in Brazil. The [...]
OWLS
I found an owl feather in Peru a couple of years ago. It was a really nice one. The day before, Jorge told me my totem animal was an owl. A few months later, back in L.A. I found an owl feather outside my door… that’s when I tuned into owls. On a [...]
Bhagavad-gita Museum
This is one of my favorite places in L.A. It’s the Bhagavad-gita
Museum at New Dwaraka, the Hare Krishna Temple
in Culver City.
It has robotics in little windows that take you on a journey through the Vedas.
It’s right next door to my favorite restaurant in LA:
3764 Watseka Avenue Los Angeles, California 90034 • [...]