Beneath Hawk Hill—Exploring underground Battery 129, Marin Headlands
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Going Down...: Beneath Hawk Hill—Exploring underground Battery 129, Marin Headlands

Many years ago, around the turn of the millennium, as I was simultaneously just breaking into and away from the San Francisco underground art scene, some folks I used to…
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Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair
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When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic Fingers: Exploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip

NOTE: Some of the activities documented in this photo album, like a lot of what goes on in the Black Rock Desert during the off season (when seven different government…
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Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front
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Vacation Photos: Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front

For a little while I used to run the Billboard Liberation Front's website (INB4: no, don't even bother asking. I have no idea how to reach them anymore. The Old…
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UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration
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Beneath Berkeley: UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration

Back around 2005-2006, as social media took off, I was a member of an urban exploration chat group, memory fails but it was probably something on Tribe or Friendster. Mentioning…
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27 Photos from Burning Man 1997
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Good Day at Black Rock: 27 Photos from Burning Man 1997

Introduction, 2023:Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society and…
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Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration
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Beneath the Bay Area: Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration

somewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in…
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UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole
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Subterranean Serendipity: UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole

9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought…
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A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal
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Back To The Garden: A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal

In August 2018 my mom and I decided to take a road trip from my sister's home in an un-named southern city, where I was crashing for a few months,…
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