What is Project Eklektro?
"Eklektro" turns 10 years old this February, and i'm gonna celebrate it in Thailand! But lately a few new friends wanted to know exactly what it is that i do... or that i'm trying to do. And well wow, its so multi-dimensional, and yet so obvious i'd think (?) hope (?)... at least once you've read through (and visualized) the ecstatic struggle of THIS: (enjoy!)
So i bought my first RV 8 years ago, after having to vacate my awesome Boston studio...
with a solo album of electronica half in the can, and almost ready to perform live... Boston was getting lame, but the warehouse was a sanctuary, and it hurt to leave the place where i was just starting to experience some techno-creative bliss.
But i quickly outfitted the RV with the beginnings of a mobile studio and hit the road west... and I immediately experienced a completely new kinda creative surge.
The surge was amplified further when i stumbled upon Moontribe, and then of course blew my mind when
hit my first Burningman.. with my RV/studio/solar-powered house on wheels... i felt like i stepped into a cyber dream come true.
Or rather ABOUT to come true!
So the next couple years were times of intense brainstorming.
and then i got hooked up to wireless internet... at the beach.. wherever i'd go. for the year 2001, this was amazing.
So 9-11 happened, and strangely 2 weeks later my unique (and ahead of their time) WIFI carrier went bankrupt (!),.... my new inspirational mobile internet life-stream was cut off! so then rather than get depressed about it, i decided to fight back, and so i launched Eklektro.net!
and then i bought the 2nd RV, and did Eklektro Karavan.. cross-country, with TechTV following us...
didn't quite pan out, 'cause TechTV had a downsizing, and we lost our producer!!
Then my 2nd RV blew an engine, and as the icing on the cake after 16,000 miles of RV expenses... i was pretty much bankrupt.
Yeah, Eklektro Karavan was self-funded (didn't want any corporate sponsors) and setting out to be a wireless internet radio station (!)
broadcasting live-played electronica, interviews, adventures... emanating from SoCal, but able to go most anywhere.
yep, this was something that for 2002 was still a bit ahead of its time.
the live-played electronica part of it made it quite a challenge.
i learned the hard way... that although i could run a SOLO mobile studio, and live this way just fine on my own;
the variables of all the other characters were too much for me and the RVs to handle at the time.
but i was still trying, despite being dead-broke. Mark Trance took up a residency in my silver RV, and we started to collaborate... but perhaps even this was too much. 'cause then the universe gave me a major path-correction.. a drunk driver came outa nowhere and totalled my tan RV... and sent me to the chiropractor. 3 days after 10 year Moontribe, the whole magic summer was shot...
So i took it as a blessing in disguise, having to build back from bankrupt, i got a modest insurance settlement, and decided to go to Mexico for an undetermined bit of time, with my one solar RV... to sit on a beach and work on the "story" of what i was trying to build. I'd make a DVD and write an accompanying book!
After 2 months i started making great progress (!), and i posted hours of crazy road video to my website along the way. but then i caught adult chickenpox! and thus began an up and down series of whole seasons where i'd have wildly fluctuating energy... and could often barely keep up. i decided that i needed a break from RVs!
I went to Thailand, backpacking... but still with a mini "studio" worth of laptops and hard drives. i found a better balance, and i'd work on writing and editing... and as my health improved.. i started a video blog.
and of course all along the way there were upstarts and collaborations that ALMOST took off.
but i was still living full-time nomadic (which i thought to be quite an accomplishment, but in retrospect proved a bit of a handicap).
In a quest for terra firma, i tried moving my RVs to a warehouse in SanFran... but missed my friends and the LA weather. i came back and lived at the beach again (in winter)... toughing it out...
and then i found the Silverlake Studio.
and the past year has been one of "setting up shop"... starting to look for a crew....
and making some money, so i can afford materials to transform the RVs in time for next summer...
for Perpetual Apollo
http://eklektro.net/perpetual_apollo/
for CyberEZRyder
http://recreationalvehicle.blogspot.com/
'cause YO! 2007 is off to an amazing start,
and the skies aren't even the limit!
OK, leaving soon for Thailand... stay tuned!
E>K>G
So i bought my first RV 8 years ago, after having to vacate my awesome Boston studio...
with a solo album of electronica half in the can, and almost ready to perform live... Boston was getting lame, but the warehouse was a sanctuary, and it hurt to leave the place where i was just starting to experience some techno-creative bliss.
But i quickly outfitted the RV with the beginnings of a mobile studio and hit the road west... and I immediately experienced a completely new kinda creative surge.
The surge was amplified further when i stumbled upon Moontribe, and then of course blew my mind when
hit my first Burningman.. with my RV/studio/solar-powered house on wheels... i felt like i stepped into a cyber dream come true.
Or rather ABOUT to come true!
So the next couple years were times of intense brainstorming.
and then i got hooked up to wireless internet... at the beach.. wherever i'd go. for the year 2001, this was amazing.
So 9-11 happened, and strangely 2 weeks later my unique (and ahead of their time) WIFI carrier went bankrupt (!),.... my new inspirational mobile internet life-stream was cut off! so then rather than get depressed about it, i decided to fight back, and so i launched Eklektro.net!
and then i bought the 2nd RV, and did Eklektro Karavan.. cross-country, with TechTV following us...
didn't quite pan out, 'cause TechTV had a downsizing, and we lost our producer!!
Then my 2nd RV blew an engine, and as the icing on the cake after 16,000 miles of RV expenses... i was pretty much bankrupt.
Yeah, Eklektro Karavan was self-funded (didn't want any corporate sponsors) and setting out to be a wireless internet radio station (!)
broadcasting live-played electronica, interviews, adventures... emanating from SoCal, but able to go most anywhere.
yep, this was something that for 2002 was still a bit ahead of its time.
the live-played electronica part of it made it quite a challenge.
i learned the hard way... that although i could run a SOLO mobile studio, and live this way just fine on my own;
the variables of all the other characters were too much for me and the RVs to handle at the time.
but i was still trying, despite being dead-broke. Mark Trance took up a residency in my silver RV, and we started to collaborate... but perhaps even this was too much. 'cause then the universe gave me a major path-correction.. a drunk driver came outa nowhere and totalled my tan RV... and sent me to the chiropractor. 3 days after 10 year Moontribe, the whole magic summer was shot...
So i took it as a blessing in disguise, having to build back from bankrupt, i got a modest insurance settlement, and decided to go to Mexico for an undetermined bit of time, with my one solar RV... to sit on a beach and work on the "story" of what i was trying to build. I'd make a DVD and write an accompanying book!
After 2 months i started making great progress (!), and i posted hours of crazy road video to my website along the way. but then i caught adult chickenpox! and thus began an up and down series of whole seasons where i'd have wildly fluctuating energy... and could often barely keep up. i decided that i needed a break from RVs!
I went to Thailand, backpacking... but still with a mini "studio" worth of laptops and hard drives. i found a better balance, and i'd work on writing and editing... and as my health improved.. i started a video blog.
and of course all along the way there were upstarts and collaborations that ALMOST took off.
but i was still living full-time nomadic (which i thought to be quite an accomplishment, but in retrospect proved a bit of a handicap).
In a quest for terra firma, i tried moving my RVs to a warehouse in SanFran... but missed my friends and the LA weather. i came back and lived at the beach again (in winter)... toughing it out...
and then i found the Silverlake Studio.
and the past year has been one of "setting up shop"... starting to look for a crew....
and making some money, so i can afford materials to transform the RVs in time for next summer...
for Perpetual Apollo
http://eklektro.net/perpetual_apollo/
for CyberEZRyder
http://recreationalvehicle.blogspot.com/
'cause YO! 2007 is off to an amazing start,
and the skies aren't even the limit!
OK, leaving soon for Thailand... stay tuned!
E>K>G
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