Howdy. If you knew this was here, head on through. If you stumbled upon it, well, you've found my speakeasy. Either way, before you step in: what follows is not the professional. It is everything that has brought me non-professional joy: the films, the people, the obsessions, and the work that many may not get to see at first glance. Enjoy a look at what lives behind the curtain.
A scroll through the analog and candid work. Not commercial. Not curated for a client. Just what was worth capturing.
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Sundial Peak · Lake Blanche · Utah
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Sundial Peak · Lake Blanche · Utah
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Big Cottonwood Canyon · Utah
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San Diego Hills · California
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Waterfall · Utah
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U.S. Navy Property · San Diego
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Alpine Lake · Uinta Mountains
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Alpine Lake · Uinta Mountains
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Little Cottonwood Canyon · Utah
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Mountain Highway · Utah
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Pentax 67 · Nikon F2 · Fuji Cardia · More to come.
A Note
Howdy. If you knew this was here, head on through. If you stumbled upon it, you've found my speakeasy, and that says something about you already.
This is the part that has no job to do. No metrics, no objectives, no audience in mind. What follows is everything that has brought me non-professional joy: the films that rewired how I see, the people I study when nobody's watching, the obsessions that don't fit a resume but quietly inform everything on it.
The work on the other side of that door is what I can do. This side is why I do it. Enjoy a look at what many may not get to see from first glance.
— E.J.
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Personal note — update this section in your own voice whenever you feel like it.
Film Reviews
These are honest. Not academic. Not calibrated for agreement.
★★★★★
Good Will Hunting
The greatest film a young man could have the pleasure of experiencing.
Gus Van Sant · 1997
★★★★★
Jackie Brown
The perfect melodramedy. Never has the average conversation between two people been so enthralling. Music, mode of capture, and overall performance near perfection.
Quentin Tarantino · 1997
★★★★★
The Searchers
John Wayne shot by John Ford. What else could you ask for.
John Ford · 1956
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Personal Idols
People, real and fictional, living and gone, whose thinking shaped mine. Not heroes. Idols. There is a difference.
Project Pat
His voice and music operate as a social currency I didn't expect. I can gauge a person's entire wavelength by whether they know him, and the ones who do tend to be people I get along with immediately and handily.
Tobey Maguire
The GOAT: black suit, Spider-Man 3, and the only one who shoots webs naturally. The case is closed and I will not be taking questions.
Stretch, NBA Street Vol. 2
101 consecutive wins, no losses, the counter stopped recording and he stayed in my rotation permanently. One of the few games nobody I knew could beat me at, and I was not humble about it.
Hedy Lamarr
She surfaced in Audio Video Physics and immediately stood out, a contributor to frequency-hopping spread spectrum who was overlooked and underappreciated for decades, and a reminder that the history of science has more gaps than we acknowledge.
Spike Spiegel, Cowboy Bebop
The embodiment of how one should handle life: whatever happens, happens. Oddly, philosophically tied to physics: if you believe in hindsight and accept that everything which will happen is already bound to happen regardless of stress or resistance, Spike had it figured out.
The Table
Punto Banco. Texas Hold'em. Presidents. C-Lo. Four games, one table.
