Zephyrhills, Florida

drifted down from New Orleans on the day before Thanksgiving, to the lush green of Zephyrhills, Florida


my micro tent has just enough for me to sleep next to my guitar and the suitcase


any given moment the sky is full of colorful canopies, above the landing area so big that you can hardly land off


2 Japanese girls Kayoko and Yukari practice their 34 way

'we didn't make it!' laughs Yukari


November 24th, I'm a proudly A-licensed skydiver. Now the sky is the limit!


(L-R) Chris gets ready for loading as Marius talks through the dive flow with a new AFF student Steve


And below are some freefall photos by Martin Stull, a jumper from Toledo, WA
3-way exit with Chris and Brian, hang on tight!


shoot I lost them, let's catch up!


okay, time to pull...


the last tent standing! after everyone left to go back to their post-thanksgiving American life


a flock swoops above the pond


flying lead and sinking paper... I manage to fly in the same fall rate with Rob, a dense jumper from Pennsilvania. thank you for all the coaching and fun jumps


Chuck Blue, the world's top class wing suit flyer has become such a sincere and generous big brother to me, at last in the night before I am to leave Zephyrhills


the last night at Z-hills goes wild and late. Chuck and Melanie invite me to their pimped up RV

life in Baton Rouge, Slidell and New Orleans, LA

Matt teaches me how to pack a parachute in Skydive N'awlins, Slidell, LA


Anita, the packer girl sits on Daddy Santa's laps


Santa loads onto Cessna 182


Toshiro finishes his jump #19


Stephen drives our rock-star Altima across the Mississippi, by mistake.


dinner night!


music for dessert



chilling out on the acoustic set in living room


look how this guy leans so far out to feed the alligators


and the turtles older than we all could ever know


gwarrrr!!




cruising the bayou through setting sun


'another one gets hooked.' I introduce Betsy to skydiving, an exciting and expensive sport


Toshiro gets training


Let's go, jump #21


Thank you Matt, for coaching with me, flying with me and showing me how to pack


busted down on Bourbon street


while my comic book princess Betsy lies sound asleep in the passenger seat, Toshiro pulls up on the side of a country road to take a pee. pitch dark night in the bayou land somewhere between New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Toshiro makes one step too far off the shoulder and dives knee deep into an alligator populated muddy swamp

busted flat in Baton Rouge

'Do you wanna come to Louisiana and help me shoot this movie?' my west coast friend Kevin asks


straight down the Mississippi from Davenport, Iowa, almost to the Gulf of Mexico


where there's music there can always be new friends


Stephen, my coleague/kamera geek from New York, originally from Bay Area


Cuba Gooding Jr. prepares firing guns in a scene


mixed-coast kamera kats (L-R August, Stephen, Toshiro and Dave) prepare for the fight scene


'You're like a kicker, or relief pitcher.' says Kevin. B-camera pride!


War machine is coming


you got spunk, kid. ....LINE!!?


Kevin Sarnoff, Stephen Buckingham, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Kozlowski (out of focus) and myself at the wrap of 'Way of War'