Chopping logs in half "ad-nauseam" reveals an interesting perspective regarding the duality of "living" and "dying". 

I recently took a gap year from college to work on producing and creating songs. These are just some of the singles and instrumentals that I made during that time. Gap Year, a playlist by Erik King on Spotify A playlist featuring Erik King open.spotify.com I also created a journal reflecting on my journey towards my music dreams, and about life in general. I made it so...

We're all talking about 2020 as being a year of growth and a year where we all have had time to think. I've always been an extroverted person and have always escaped my thoughts through going out and surrounding myself with friends and their energies. So when lockdown happened, I found myself getting more frequent panic attacks and looking for a new way to cope with anxiety and depression. Th...

if your life isn't motivation enough, what will be? fully embody the question and know that your answer comes with equal reverence for your time. the room for play unveils your fangs. can you feel the music and art you are? you are not far from home. you are the home that reveals more of its understanding. it is meant to be enjoyable. you’ve had fun with less. you might not have any business be...

*This article was featured in Smple Magazine 05/2021https://www.smple.world/magazine/2021/5/9/5-rules-for-tutoring-a-russian-millionaireRule 1: Fake it till you make it Dimitri ushered me into a large office with walnut walls. I glanced up – it had a walnut ceiling too. Dazed, I focused on the man standing at the head of a long conference table. Anton was thickly built and dressed in black, his...

In 2011 for my final year at uni, where I studied fine art photography, I decided to document a sex swingers site for my final project.I paid and joined a site, I had upfront in my bio my reasons for being there. Purely educational purposes where I wanted to document sexuality and gender on the site, and build a journal with portraiture pieces to go along side it. I was pretty naive, had had a ...

There’s a scene in Going Clear, the 2015 documentary, that stuck to my brain last week. It’s the remembered pettiness of one David Miscavige, the most famous Scientologist without a movie deal, who, in the 90s, heard that his best pal liked wildflowers. That would be Tom Cruise, then newlywed to Nicole Kidman. They were due to touch down in California and – Miscavige envisioned – should be able...

The internet is a haunted place. People linger long after they’d rather leave, locked in social feeds, CV banks, the time-stamped tag of a comment thread in the digital backwoods, our ghosts dried and hung on the branches. Unless we request it, most of us will die before our Facebook profiles are removed. And who does? Isn’t it easier to sit and imagine what people are thinking about us from t...

(Pre-Pandemic//2019)Took a lil day-trip (literally) w my partner in 2019 for my birthday to Los Angeles; it was really fun but weird being there on my own accord as I had usually gone up there w my family to visit other family lolEven though we didn't do everything we planned I had so much fun, it was a beautiful day, & I hold it in my heart dearly.I visited Amoeba for the first time, you m...

0: The Fool... The first card in the Major Arcana of tarot, he represents all of us; the core of our being as curious humans. Embarking on a journey out of spontaneity & through the lens of optimism & faith.I started a new sketchbook/journal on this passed January Full Moon (1/06/2023) Meditating on all the cards each day:Beginning this new revolution around the Sun, I'm determined to ...