Riding a rickshaw with opened doors and extended arms: complexity of different interpretations of religions and laws. Click here.

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A journey throughout Afghanistan, connections were made in small towns through music. Click here.

Observing the people in one of the unique isolated countries. Click here.

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An article about proper care of forests and mountains and the fact that it can allow us to live in balance. Click here. From Variations of Connections.

Exploring the power of reiki in a mutual envirinment after colliding in another continent. Article here and more info on Frank Coppieres here. From Variations of Connections.

Recolection of a spiritual event. From Variations of Connections. Click here.

Backpacking in the Cascades. From Variations of Connections. Click here.

It was in these moments that the other lives who would not convene in the normal world became intertwined and connected. Remembering the subtle in-between events rather than dreaming of an enormous stage and crowd. From Variations of Connections. Click here.

Rediscovering traditional places in an urban landscape that are frozen in time while most area evolve during the period of gentrifcation. Click here. From the issue Variations of Connections.

An American’s artist residency program in France. Click here. From the issue Variations of Connections.

Different Times - Videos from the Past

A deranged mix of videos from the band DEN from around the country. This experience was one of the inspirations of the issue Variations of Connections. Click here.

The discovery of a local artist who was bringing joy to all people during the pandemic. Article here.

Reiki is a form of natural energy healing re-discovered in the late 1800’s. Click here to read this article.

A video from San Francisco, Ventid was playing shows of dischordy math jamz 2009-2012. Experiences such as these were influential in an article in Variations of Connections. Click here.

Travelling across America, the band il gato recorded a video with BAMM.tv of the hit song “On Fathers & Arrows (on Burnt Pine)” in the outskirts of Fort Stockton, Texas. Experiences such as these were influential in an article in Variations of Connections. Click here to watch video.

Travelling around studying ethnomusicology, Wheeler Sparks spent a good potion of 2013 in Afghanistan where he got to interact with many people while learning about music in their culture. This page contains photographs that were taken during the same trip as the featured story in Variations of Connections and the article The Admirable Silence. Click here.

An extension of a photo gallery in the issue Variations of Connections featuring more photos of a backpacking trip in Washington State. Click here.

Growing up in a quiet small town surrounded by beautiful nature, John runs a museum of beach accumulations for 40+ years. Click here for story. And click here for more information about the museum.

A series of photographs taken from 2019-2021 in Northeast Portland. Oregon. Click here.

Tribute to a unique person who forged his own path and knew a shitload of stuff about music. Click here.

These images were shot from 2013 - 2017 around San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, California. Click here.

A story and breakdown of the nine different types of personality through aspects of the human mind, consciousness and unconsciousness. Click here.

Reflection after growing up in the less dreamy spot on the central coast of California. Article here.

Big, Lost Symmetry
By: Andrew Thomas

Haiku. Click here.

A backpacking route through remote cow pastures and scattered oak trees, terrain far less dramatic than the mountains of California. Click here.

Observing people in the ultimate dreamy tourist destination. Click here.

Example of the evolving coffee industry. Article here.

Jesus supposedly had flow. Leonard Knight definitely did. Article here.

Yolla Bolly: a phrase from the Native American Wintun language of the region's Wintun peoples, Yo-la meant snow-covered, and Bo-li meant high peak. A little known wilderness in California. Click here.

Jefferson is a proposed 51st state, and, some would say, the last frontier on the west coast. Click here.

Reset unplug turn off be present. Article here.

A series of photographs from a recording engineer and band front man based in Oakland, California. Click here.

Recently, at least, the black gold rush of Los Angeles County has been overshadowed by the Hollywood scene. That wasn’t always the case. Article here.

Sample from magazine NOMAD: Issue 2. Article here.

Tourist Club—the San Francisco chapter of the Naturefriends (Die Naturfreunde) originally founded in Vienna, Austria in 1895—was first established in 1912 outside of Mill Valley in Marin County. It’s in a beautiful setting, currently surrounded by Mt. Tamalpais State Park. Article here. Website here.

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A love ballad from the blurred times of youth and music.. Lyrics here. Listen on Spotify.

A journal entry by explorers of altered conscious experiences in nature.

Carrizo Plains: Sitting between the Temblor Range on the North East and the Caliente Range on the southwest, the plain is home to the largest single native grassland remaining in California and is scarred by the oldest section of the San Andreas fault.

A story of growing up around photography and photographs of Los Angeles. Click here.

As the craft beer phase in America has evolved, Old Kan has pinpointed key, unique styles of brewing and it is produced in the archaic industrial feel at the Port of Oakland. Article here. Website of Old Kan here.

A music video from a song by an indie baroque folk group known as il gato, formerly based in San Francisco. Watch video or listen on Spotify.

How many people these days actually dream? How many people, rather, just space out and get lost in thought? Link here.

Reflecting on one of the secluded parks in San Francisco. Link here.

Boontling is a dialect that formed in the late 1800’s in this isolated town Boonville In Anderson Valley In Mendocino County, California. Click here.

A hidden artist community and sanctuary alongside the Oakland estuary that has thriving since the 1970’s but is threatened by urban gentrification all around the area. Link here.

The story of Bob Schultz: one of the main underground influencers in the Oakland, California art scene and still producing auto art in his 80’s. Link here.

A fading image of small-town America. Link here.

Poetry about life in California. Link here.

The story of a pioneer farmer who has always experimented with different techniques for creating an environment that can continue to evolve. Click here for the story or click here to visit the website.

Being remote and off many tourist’s radars, the Trinity Alps Wilderness is one of the greatest destinations for backpacking in California. Click here for images.

Observation of the “mystics” of various religions who live life in constant prayer, meditation and devotion to an extreme where they are often rejected by mainstream religions. Read here and visit Tony’s site here.

The story behind the world music duo based in San Francisco. Read here. Listen on Spotify.

Article on Urban Ore in Berkeley, California that intercepts items on the way to the waste dump, cleans, salvages and resells everything. Read here. Urban Ore site.

An essay of living in Los Angeles and trying to dig and hide from the assumed LA stereotypes. Includes photographs from 2017-2019. Read here.