Mystik Dan

I’m in a band again, joining forces with Natalie, Mel, and Reese, after making four full length albums on my own since 2020. We’re called Mystik Dan, and the beginning of this band had to do with the end of another group, Easy Bruiser. A conversation with Natalie at Kachka earlier this year led to me jamming with Nat and Mel, on guitar no less! I have wanted make a list of all the bands I’ve been in, but until then I will just say that is easily over 15…18? You have to be crazy to do anything in this world and not just sit at home by yourself staring at a phone. GO JAM MAN!

Our first show is at The Snug in Portland on Sunday, August 16th.



2020 Wrap

I’ve been thinking about 2020, how my old life ended that year and I was set on a path to the west coast and the future I am currently living. I feel nostalgic for pre-2020…My social life revolved around photography and thinking about art, always asking myself where the next great photo I could take was. I was mining, excavating…it was all there somewhere just waiting to be found. This past does not exist for me in Portland. Which is ok…the photo adventure, the asking a stranger if I could take pictures of them, seems like a tarnished relic and not how my world operates anymore. But things are good and change needed to come. I will miss all the people I met and photographed and hope to see you all again one day!