Analog Spectre is exploring the present through the eyes of the past.

Hope (A Photograph)

Analog Spectre is exploring the present through the eyes of the past. There's something beautiful about imperfection and uncertainty in an age of 8K resolution and pixel-perfection. Sensors become more expansive, editing software becomes evolves, and the ever looming shadow of AI barrels forward into our collective spaces,

Searching

"Searching" [August 2025] Featuring @lilim.cos (IG) Shot via Mamiya Auto XTL Shot on Ilford HP5 Shot in Saskatchewan "A voice is the night. Just a whisper, carried through vibration on the thin edges of leaves. A question. A request. An invitation. Do I yearn? Do I

La Fonte [Music Video Reflection]

There are few things I enjoy more than getting to tell a story with intense, visceral emotion at it's core. When Nicolas Miquelon of the doom metal band Norilsk approached me about shooting a music video for "La Fonte", a track on their upcoming album '

The Sun (a short story)

It started on my forearms. A soft, slow warmth as I lay in place, still as the grass beneath me. An ember of soft radiance from high above, making it's presence known as a quiet journey across my skin. As I rest my head upon my lightweight backpack,

The Owl That Became A Machine

"A humble old man, stands by a window He holds his hand out, to bring me into A time I won't like, and there's nothing I can do" - "Owldman" by Celestial Machine (https://celestialmachine.bandcamp.com/album/stagmata) This is about

D'ombre et de glace (l'asphyxie)

To paraphrase, he simply said "This is the idea of the song, I trust you to do what you do with it" and the bonfire was lit again. I've had a lot of opportunities in my career in music and film-making to create visual narrative content.

The Intent

Stop Collecting, Start Learning. Motion vs Action. You've Consumed Enough. It's Time to Start. 10 Habits To Get Your Life Together. How I'm Gamifying my 2025. How Deleting Social Media Changes My Life. The One Concept 99% of Photographers Get Wrong. [comfort food] [Delicious,

The Sea

The infinite sea. A space where emptiness and entirety meet. A space where one can float. Float away... Float away. This is a post about music. More specifically, this is a post about the experience of doom/noise/drone music. Instrumental music. Ambient music. Music that lets us float away.

Repose.

Finding purpose can be hard. Finding focus too. When one finds themselves disenchanted from the rat race, it doesn't just leave a hole for your focus, it leaves a buzzing vibration. It leaves directionless energy The horrible buzzing of a thousand restless motivations. Just because it doesn'

Bleak.

Things are bleak. and not the "self-aggrandizing, young heavy music artist catharsis of personal drama and relational woes" kind of bleak that has provided countless folks with valuable, but all said, considerably personal catharsis. Real bleak. Between the environment, political systems, and worker rights collapsing in their own

The Spectre

I've had the urge to tell a story for as long as I can remember. Borrowing my grandfathers video camera when I was a child to film monster battles on cardboard sets I taped together, using two VCR's to record wrestling match highlights set to music