Primordial Creative

Samantha

I met a fellow artist DTLA named Samantha who makes these mixed media vintage pieces! A simple no-concept set made on the street when she got off of work.

Mars - Minimal

I wish Mars was a recurring model but she quit and wiped most of her socials maybe a month after we shot. Enjoy these rare images!

Jagged Baptist Club Thanksgiving

Shots of LA’s finest JBC on Thanksgiving Eve at the Morrocan Lounge!

Ariah street fashion

Ariah and I shot these yesterday for a local dress/ jewelry maker named Telly Bowie. Originally it was gonna be in San Diego w another model on Friday, but when that didn’t work out, Ariah pinch-hit on an early Saturday morning DTLA.

Sylvie in Joshua Tree- unreleased and remixed

Newer Lightroom functions of AI masks have really changed how I am able to batch edit things and more easily edit foreground subjects and backgrounds, so I’m able to reevaluate old classic shoots like this first one w Sylvie at Joshua Tree National Park. Some prints of this are available in the Etsy shop!

Punk Disposables At The Sardine

35mm disposable film shots from shows at The Sardine- Subhumans and TV Smith/ The Adverts respectively. Old school punk shot old school, at the club just down the street from my home. It could not be more heavenly.

Update and 60% off Etsy store coupon!

Hello patrons, I hope the end of 2023 is finding you well! I haven't updated in a while and truthfully it's been a steady doggish slog doing occasional music videos and creative projects with Bradley and a few others around LA. Sometimes I get to have blips of excitement, like meeting Blink 182 for 20 seconds and shooting some legendary punk rockers like The Adverts and Subhumans, posts coming this month.  

Bradley and I are going to Utah next week to create epic stuff in my favori...

Bradley on Golden Pond

Taken during our visit to Bradley’s Michigan hometown.

Alina - Crawl 2 U stills

Taken from the actual video and BTS footage, shot 2019

Crawl 2 U featuring Alina Lee

A music video Alina and I made for one of our songs, none of which ever came out.

Subhumans

Last night at ky local punk club, The Sardine. Incredible show w the legendary UK punk band going 40 years strong.

Cascine Showcase w Pearly Drops and NOIA

Recent images taken at a show that featured 2 great acts, Pearly Drops from Finland and NOIA, both on the record label Cascine.

Jennie - Motel Blues (35MM Disposable Cam Version)

Jennie in Motel Blues (digital)

My sole Long Beach cocreator is an ex-Marine named Jennie, who had the desire to shoot in a horrible nasty motel room. The real fun was w the disposable camera stuff, posted for $20+ patrons in full, but enjoy these digital images I edited this morning!

Kailee 2019 Remixed 2023

Some of my 1st 2 shoots w Kailee redone using Lightroom’s current set of editing tools

Brittany: Interview w a Vampire

The Primordial Creative Podcast

This one I've been wanting to do for ages!  A podcast, not necessarily of new material, but of the relevant creative advice I've done in my YouTube content which YouTube now conveniently funnels into their podcast app.  Model interviews, INFP stuff, survival tips as an indie creative and more!

I'm also organizing my sets into collections to make rifling through years of work much easier- peep the Alin...

Camille - Red + Blue

Another sunset shoot this week w actress Camille Montgomery, at an art park in Los Feliz.

Camille at Sunset

From the time I met actress Camille Montgomery at the Korean Bell in San Pedro. A Dark Camille set is today’s $20+ set!

Physical Zines in! Rewards update

It's been over a year since I printed any physical zines of my "Primordial Creative Selects" series, so it's quite a thrill to get ones in!  The June issue is "Maria in San Pedro" (seen above in my kitchen) and it'll be sent out sometime this week to the $40+ patrons along with 3 instant film prints and a sticker.  Instant film prints will of course vary, the 3 above were just my sample ones I grabbed.

Speaking of stickers, I recently printed a bunch of new ones and am adding ...

Update - ALIVE Again

Friends, my high school teaching job has ended with this school year. The upshot of this is, I'm back to being a full-time artist and photographer and that means I have time to do this Patreon (and Etsy and YouTube) right again.

That means,

$40+ patrons will be receiving physical zines again, along with 3 instant film prints, each month, if they give their addresses.

$20 patrons will be getting instant film prints in the mail, again presuming I have their addresses.

I ...

Update - Korea w Bradley and The Case of The Missing Camera

Update!  It's nearing Spring, when shoots and such seem to usually really take off- getting past the 3 headed dragon of Valentine's Day, the Super Bowl and the Oscars usually makes me fully engaged in whatever year it's actually supposed to be.

Bradley (above) and I have a trip to Korea for pure adventure and art making in a few weeks.  Leading up to that has been a lot of strange eve...

XMas w Bradley

Borrowing Bradley’s caption from Instagram- Happy Honda Days from your favorite creative duo!

Hail Freya Pt. 1

One of my main collaborators Freya came to California for 4 days of artmaking this week, and this SheDevil look created by Chelsea Sinks was part of our last day.

Riley at the Shag Chateau

Works w Riley from June’s 1970s Playboy palace shoot

Joan at Sunken City

Works w LA actress Joan/ Emma shot shortly before Halloween in my area of San Pedro.

Meghan Disposables

Shot over the summer w LA actress Meghan in a spontaneous midnight ride around West Hollywood

Bradley at The Goldfish

My best LA buddy Bradley is also a photographer, and we went concert hopping to shoot together yesterday. The venue had sick lighting splashed everywhere so I had to get a few shots of her inbetween sets and a failed attempt at karaoke 😅

LA Bands

I started going to shows around LA a couple weeks ago and (depending on the venue) have been shooting work I think is in line with anything I’ve been doing w art models. I actually have second shoots w 2 of the bands I did earlier this week, with the round one images being icebreakers for shooting stuff offstage w these megatalents. The few things I have to get over in band photography- not being able to communicate w the subjects, at the mercy of venue lighting and soace- are made up by ...

Primordial Creative AI Vol. 1

The best AI-generated art site, Dall-E, led me to think of the kinds of photosets that involve dangerous things, models I’ll never meet in times or locations that are impossible.