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The Forever Engine - photography/music

Simultaneously shocked, appalled, and not at all surprised - by Humanity's complete & continuous

About Me


"Me"? Start with FLICKR . Then you can czech out my music and bands & stuff @ my site (although as of late '07, it's still just linking back here...).
FLICKR UPDATE:Cocos/Malpelo, 5/08
be sure to also see:Shark Diver Magazine #17 spread
be sure to also see:Beqa Lagoon, Fiji '07 (prelim edits) posted...
be sure to also see:Maui dive trip '06 (prelim edits) posted...
be sure to also see: Isla Guadalupe '06 (quick edits+) posted...
I've been building a portfolio at FLICKR , so go czech that out; "specializing" (working on it...) in
-sharks,
-underwater,
-(land-)nature,
-live bands,
-spaces (architecture, still-life)
.
(I've been doing some portraiture as well, but it's not my focus, even though I've already been published; I'm not very good at it, but apparently my own estimation counts for little.)
Once I solidify my favorites I'll be offering some for sale through MY SITE (at some point... right now it'll take you back here or to FLICKR ; CDs and info is forthcoming).
As my list of friends and contacts here grows, I don't feel that I will be using this place for personal stuff so much as straight networking; I get add requests from the strangest of places it seems (which is flattering, surely), but I do find myself thinking "huh?" alot.... Be forewarned that I am rather shy in general, and don't speak up much even with people I know well, i.e., you won't be getting tons of attention from me at MySpace; if ego-stroking is your game, I don't play it. I won't add people just to have people on my list. (Does that sound mean? I'm not mean, really, just impatient.)
Hard Core Shark Diver!

My Interests

sharks, diving, nature, history, guitars (they're like porn to me), literature, comics, sci-fi, philosophy, just plain thinking about things, travel, movies, aikido, martial arts movies, cartoons, motorcycles, (real) metal, death metal, gothic aesthetics, music (though sometimes I hate it...), canned soup, food in bar form, women, cuddling and snuggling, sleep....

I'd like to meet:



Aliens. (What do you think of this ridiculous concoction we think passes for a civilization we've managed to get going here? Pretty funny, eh? Now, about those "death-rays"....)

Music:

death metal, baroque, romantic period orchestral, European opera, ethereal, bebop, JS Bach, Devin Townsend, Cocteau Twins, Meshuggah, Krisiun, the Sundays, Opeth, Melt-Banana, Joni Mitchell, Niacin, Nile, Napalm Death, Bjork, Junkie XL, etc.

Movies:

Serenity, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Brazil, All About Eve, Iron Monkey, Aliens, The Life of Brian, Star Wars (ep. 4-6), The Thin Man, Hero (any H.K. Jet Li, like Kung-Fu Cult Master!), Woody Allen, 13th Warrior, Mystery Men, Poltergeist, House of Flying Daggers, Dead Man, Throne of Blood, Perfect Blue, Ghost in the Shell, tons more - I freakin' love movies.

Television:

colbert report, venture brothers!, monty python, young ones, law/order, spaced, fawlty towers, battlestar galactica (best new show on tv PERIOD), firefly (WAS the best show on tv...), star trek, star trek tng, simpsons, futurama, family guy, wild discovery, spongebob, south park, kids in the hall, most nature/historical documentaries (jacques/jean-michel cousteau, shark week, of course)

Books:

catch 22, the death of virgil, i claudius, island, tao te ching, oscar wilde, the italian, downsize this!, snow crash, doomsday book, notes from a small island, the trial, the idiot, gospel, junky, JTHM, the soft machine, ham on rye, red mars, galactic center series, a scanner darkly (any PK Dick), vladimir nabokov, the birth of tragedy, chung kuo, journey to the ants, lots more.....

Heroes:

Jacques Cousteau, Dr. Erich Ritter, my dad, Stanislav Yefgrafovich Petrov, Carol Kaye, Devin Townsend, Frida Kahlo, Joni Mitchell, William S. Burroughs, Sr., Richard Branson, Alexander the Great, 'King of Kings' Cyrus, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr, Dante Alighieri, Jackie Chan, Niccolo Machiavelli, Cyrus Spitama, Gore Vidal, Malcolm X, Julian Augustus; more to come as I think of them....

My Blog

Speaking truth to Greenpeace

from Capt. Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, June 18, 2008:No Peace with Greenpeace it Seems   The response from Greenpeace to my request to work with them in stopping the i...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:06:00 PST

Finally!!!

A mass-media article that DOESN'T play to the fears & myths of human solipsism! Incredible! I suppose there may be hope after all... (ok, it's just one article, let's not fly off the handle......)...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Fri, 16 May 2008 09:19:00 PST

Traveller, circa ’08

 Monterey, Carmel, Oahu, Cabo San Lucas... hmm, where else can I dive in '08? So I'm off to Cocos & Malpelo! (Brought to you by Mastercard....)  Actually, that was the plan all alon...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Tue, 13 May 2008 09:23:00 PST

FUCKING ASSHOLE(s)....

I'm sure many of you have heard about the recent trophy-killing of a gravid tiger shark in the Bahamas. That shark was recently identified as Emma, a well-known and beloved tiger that I never even had...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:19:00 PST

Scorched-Earth Policy in Action - Mar, Apr ’08

I’m referring of course to the incredible music-type band from Oakland, with some killer upcoming shows:Thurs, March 27, doors @ 8pm:M.O.D. (Method of Destruction - featuring Billy Milano & ...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:25:00 PST

Sea Shepherd on Shark Diving....

(originally posted at Sharkdivers.blogspot.com - http://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2008/03/bahamas-shark-attack -sea-shepherd.html)Sea Shepherd Press Release March 4, 2008 - The recent death of a scuba d...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 04:20:00 PST

More Sharks Senselessly Killed.

http://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2008/02/tiger-sharks-aliwal- shoal-thomas.htmlhttp://sharkdivers.blogspot.com/2008/02/tig er-shark-killing-in-south-africa-why.htmlWe really need to eliminate some humans...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:25:00 PST

Easy-Activism for Sharks

My latest blog is a list of armchair activism made easy, for the sake of sharks. I and many others would greatly appreciate everyone's additional efforts. Look, I know that the usual "hippie-tree-...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:48:00 PST

Carson Daly promotes shark killing.

I don't watch the show, but I heard from a good friend that Carson recently hosted a young boy who reveled in the killing of sharks.True? Another reason to not watch this show.Shark killing = very ver...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:32:00 PST

SEP for New Year’s Eve....

Season's Greetings and all that. Hope this holiday season finds you all in good health and good spirits. Now on to stuff about us:SCORCHED-EARTH POLICY would like to invite you to a very special New Y...
Posted by The Forever Engine - photography/music on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:54:00 PST