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Lycidas

Then, an unexplained kiss from a lethal angel/And we will sail away on oceans . . . forever

About Me

"THE OTHER SIDE "
[May 2008] (click image for 1024 x 683 size) :

"EVOCISM"
[photography December 2007; final work January 2008] :

"Fig. 1: FOSSILIZED CAMBRIAN BUSINESSMAN"
[photography 2005; final work December 2007] :

"SORROW"
[photography April 2007; final work November 2007] :

"HYPERION FAREWELL "
[photography September 2007; final work November 2007] (click image for 908 x 690 size) :

"SHE IS NO LONGER THERE "
[photography 2005, 2007; final work October 2007] (click image for 1009 x 768 size) :

"MUSCAE VOLITANTES II"
[photography September 2007; final work September 2007] :

"UNWELL"
[photography March 2007; final work August 2007] :

"SAMOAN GIRL IN GREEN"
[photography 2004; final work August 2007] (click image for 1024 x 643 size) :

"FIGURE ON WATER "
[photography May 2007, July 2007; final work July 2007] (click image for 1024 x 635 size) :

"NU'UTELE ISLAND AGLOW "
[photography May 2006; final work July 2007] (click image for 1024 x 485 size) :

"OUTCASTS OF THE FIRMAMENT "
[July 2007] (click image for 1024 x 768 size) :

"GHOST OF A PARTY"
[June 2007] (click image for 1024 x 768 size) :

"GALA DREAM OF THE SHADOW-CHRIST (BUÑUEL WITH BIRDS) "
[March 2007] (click image for 1024 x 665 size) :

"DALI CONTEMPLE DU MILLET PRÈS D'UN CANAL D'HERBE "
[March & September 2007] (click image for 935 x 700 size) :

"THE NOSTALGIA OF FAREWELL "
[February 2007] (click image for 927 x 690 size) :

"THE CHILDHOOD HILLS OF LOCUST SUMMER "
[December 2006] (click image for 1024 x 683 size) :

"THEY ARE LEAVING (UA TAGI LE FATU MA LE ‘ELE’ELE)"
[October 2006] :

"DALI OBSERVERING A SURREAL LANDSCAPE
WITH THE FRAGMENTED MAN HANGING IN A COLLAPSING ROOM
CONTAINING A DECAYING VERMEER"
[October 2006, April 2007] :

"SELF PORTRAIT: THE FRAGMENTED MAN"
[July-August 2006] :

"SELF PORTRAIT FROM A DREAM OF MY
BEDROOM DOOR LEADING TO OFU ISLAND"
[2004-2006] (click image for uncensored) :

"THE ICON TREE"
[July 2006] :

My Interests

Samoa, travel, Polynesia, photography, art, writing/producing/experimenting with music and sound, Rocky Horror, SCUBA diving, absinthe, red wine, writing

I'd like to meet:

Someone who understands.

Music:

Yes, Sigur Ros, Porcupine Tree, Te Vaka, Bass Communion, Blackfield, Steven Wilson, Harold Budd, no-man, Lisa Gerrard, William Basinski, David Sylvian, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Brian Eno, John Foxx, Gavin Briars, Ennio Morricone

Movies:

“The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly”, “Heat”, "Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain", "The Thin Red Line", "Days Of Heaven", "El Espíritu de la colmena", "Sin City", "Whale Rider", "Citizen Kane", and "Goodfellas" are equally perfect films. Sergio Leone = genius

Television:

Mad Men, Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, Adult Swim (Venture Bros, ATHF, Squidbillies, Metalocalypse), Mythbusters, Lost, Monty Python's Flying Circus, House, Survivor, and anything with Dylan Moran

Books:

Biographies of the creative, and most anything by Douglas Adams, Ray Bradbury, Thor Heyerdahl, Albert Wendt

Heroes:

Frank Sinatra, Howard Stern, Ray Bradbury, Orson Welles, Salvador Dali, Carl Sagan, Harold Budd, James Randi

My Blog

The Fog Structures

The Fog Structures - Nos. 1-6Photographed the morning of Tuesday March 18, 2008      "Fog Structures" title borrowed from John Foxx...
Posted by Lycidas on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:51:00 PST

"Evocism" album release

My new ambient/experimental album "Evocism" is now available as a free download here:HEREFeedback, as always, is appreciated!--Terry...
Posted by Lycidas on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:41:00 PST

A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets :: part seven

There was no sun any longer, there was only the cold and the pale, dead, shadowless light of a fading day.The stillness was all-consuming. The cold wrapped around me like the clothes of a dead man. ...
Posted by Lycidas on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:20:00 PST

A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets :: part six

The hills were hollow all around. October had ended and history slept in flooded graves everywhere, crowned with stone dissolved by time.All those philosophies, all of those theories, all of those ric...
Posted by Lycidas on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:34:00 PST

A Symphony For The Dying

Last night I slept alone, as usual.The night was different, filled with the cool applause of leaves getting ready to tumble from the oak that lives outside my window. William Basinski's "The River" w...
Posted by Lycidas on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:13:00 PST

A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets :: part five

Beaches and sunsets are resplendent with their romantic cliché, of smiles and lovers.  But I sat alone, brooding over my absinthe and "The Illustrated Man", dreaming of rocket ships, the old dust...
Posted by Lycidas on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:00:00 PST

A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets :: part four

The machineries of darkness, the expanse of shadow thrown in an alchemy of golden light. Coming up from the soles of my feet and to my inner ear I can feel the gears of the solar system turn on bearin...
Posted by Lycidas on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:15:00 PST

Design Work: Prenzie Players Henry V [prints now available]

In April I did some graphic design work for Prenzie Players' upcoming production of Henry V.  After cleaning and editing their promotional pictures I decided to work the images into posters ...
Posted by Lycidas on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:22:00 PST

A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets :: part three

"I say nothing but I hear everythingIn my building" The upstairs neighbors' bed growns in mid-fuckA firetruck streams past in the street belowThe tree loses its burden of snow and pulls leaves from ea...
Posted by Lycidas on Sun, 13 May 2007 11:30:00 PST

A Chronicle Of Lost Sunsets :: part two

A fusion-fired power station 93 million miles away slips behind a coal-fired power station five miles away.  I can hear the droning generators from the fields, but the sun says little. A mosquito...
Posted by Lycidas on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:39:00 PST