I am usually behind the lens, rarely ever in front of it.

I am a prolific photographer, but a lazy filmmaker.
I am still working on the transition from photography into cinematography.

I played bass in a band called cease upon the capitol and we toured europe this past summer (2007).

I take a lot of pictures, and make short films or video projects from time to time.

Activities:

living life.

photography.
filmmaking.
sound and video art.
music (listening and creating)
skateboarding.
bicycling as transportation.
writing short stories and scripts.
caving.
traveling to visit friends, especially ones that are far far away.crossing the sea to get some culture.
being half the world away. seeing the world while i still can. living out of a suitcase.

my bands:
greenhill (drums)
velo (drums)
cease upon the capitol (bass)
hands (bass)
dolcim, (bass, vocals)
bandara (bass, vocals)
kafka on the shore (my solo project)

Interests:   

photography, the art of good film, reading. traveling. foreign cultures. planes. skateboarding alone while listening to music. foreign films. french. exposure to new things, opportunities. making short films. vegetarianism. san francisco. flagstaff. observing people. thinking, all the time. seeing how bad life can get sometimes. going to bed late and waking up early. personal goals that have no significance to anyone else.

UK, england, london, coventry, wood green, cornwall, the underground, camden. jaffa cakes, weetabix. trains. trafalgar square. national portrait gallery. leicester square.
europe: germany, france, belgium, netherlands, denmark, and sweden
scriptwriting.
chasing my own shadows.
living in 7 hour time differences:
versmold, germany
malmö, sweden
bayern, germany

Favorite Music:   

d plan, mogwai, pinback, toe, downy, juno, tristeza, the album leaf, elliott smith, air, hotel lights, old modest mouse, minus the bear, fugazi, explosions in the sky, lostage, mono, envy, quruli, up and coming, nine days wonder, no knife, faraquet, number girl, radiohead, oasis, ben folds (five), sean lennon, 3cm tour, bgkf, blonde redhead, boards of canada, clinic, dominic, gastr del sol, logh, mew, sebadoh, tortoise, yo la tengo, wilco, stereolab, nano machine, built to spill, beastie boys, grandaddy, maserati, seafood, wes anderson soundtracks, kanashibari,

post europe: a lily, pg. lost, the sea and cake, headlights, film school,
9mm parabellum bullet, lite, dinosaur jr., karate, te,

my friend's bands:

europe: june paik, neil on impression, time to burn, brume retina, grave, shovel...let's go!, hiro, third memory,

states: sanctions, singaia, mans, men as trees

TV Shows:     

Kids in the Hall, the adventures of pete and pete, rocko's modern life, tmnt, fresh prince of bel air, the office (the original british version), home movies, L O S T, Spaced,
arrested development, strangers with candy, robot chicken, paranoia agent,

Films:  

American: wes anderson, spike jonze, sofia coppola, soderbergh, kubrick, woody allen, roman polanski, hitchcock, robert altman, gus van sant, noah baumbach, peter weir, don hertzfeldt, kevin smith, steven spielberg
UK: danny boyle, edgar wright, edward muybridge, stephen daldry
French: Michel Gondry, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Gela Babluani, George Melies, Lumiere Brothers, Michael Hanecke
Japanese: Toshiaki Toyoda, Takashi Miike, Hideo Nakata, Shinobu Yaguchi, Jun Ichikawa, Junichi Mori, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shunji Iwai, Shinya Tsukamoto
Korean: Sang-soo Hong, Jun-hwan Jeong, Il-seon Eo, Jae-eun Jeong, Beat Takeshi
Chinese: Kar Wai Wong, Xiaoshuai Wang
Polish: Krzysztof Kieslowski
German: Wolfgang Becker, Fritz Lang, Werner Herzog, Wim Wender
Italian: Federico Fellini
Russian: Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Zvyagintsev
Icelandic: Baltasar Kormákur
Spanish:Walter Salles, Alejandro González Iñárritu,
Brazillian: Fernando Meirelles
Danish: Lars Von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg
Palestinian/Arabic: Hany Abu-Assad
Iranian: Marzieh Meshkini

authors:
haruki murakami, j.d. salinger, ryu murakami, kevin bales, ed templeton, albert camus, kurt vonnegut, william t. vollmann, kobe abe, yusuke kishi, minetaro mochizuki, natsuo kirino, salvador plascencia, thomas m. disch

Quotes:  

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-Albert Camus

down here there are no seasons, not even time exists.
-twbc

When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
-Michel Gondry

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine

the only thing worse than bad memories is no memories at all.
-travis morrison

If memories could be canned, would they also have expiry dates? If so, I hope they last for centuries.
-chungking express

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
-Henry David Thoreau

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
-Mark Twain

If they can make machines to save us labor,
Someday they’ll do our hearts the very same favor.
-d plan

stuck inside a dream so long it wears you down, it grows you old....well that's a fact. cold light comes to clear the fog away from time to time....but it'll be back soon. I used to think that justice had to rule for happy lives, but now I'm not so sure at all.
-travis morrisson

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
-woody allen

When I was your age, television was called books.

I have found it.
What?
Eternity, the fusion of sun and sea.
-ryu murakami

you chase the promise of her glow.
-eternal sunshine

time's not poison, but once you drink it all, you'll die.

42 demos... I have no legs.
-rick howard

Everything seemed so far away, as if we were looking through the wrong end of a telescope.
-tev

Remembering things is just as important as forgetting them-wim wenders

The mouse, I've been sure for years, limps home from the site of the burning ferris wheel with a brand-new airtight plan for killing the cat.
-salinger, nine stories

The house kept its own time, like the old-fashioned grandfather clock in the living room. People who happened by raised the weights, and as long as the weights were wound, the clock continued ticking away. But with people gone and the weights unattended, whole chunks of time were left to collect in deposits of faded life on the floor.
-awsc