Bomb and Cradle

This is the result of me falling into a creative black hole of time. In this case, it all started with my two very good friends Michael Loncar and Erik Carlson. Loncar is an amazing poet, teacher, musician, filmmaker and man about town. Erik Carlson is an amazing musician, architect, photographer and all around artistic handyman. Loncar is currently living and teaching in Taiwan. A year and a half ago Erik and I made our way there, on what I refer to as “Sideways, without the premarital affair and wine.” Our trip to Taiwan was amazing in so many ways, but I will always remember it as a photographic safari. Fast forward to last week. Erik asked Mike and I if we had any video footage from the journey to donate to the making of a video for his song Trick With A Knife. Loncar rose to the challenge and locked himself in his apartment for a weekend and made a great video. When I watched the video, I realized that the last two and a half minutes of the song would be a perfect soundtrack for images I had recently taken at The War Museum in Ho Chi Minh City. I watched Mike’s video in the morning and then proceeded to have a productive day of photographic office work. Mid afternoon, as a reward to myself for hard paper pushing work, I decided to just “start working on the slideshow.” Five hours later the rough draft was completed.