Ride the War Pony

A group of people take a Winnebago known as the War Pony into the unknown on an Alternative photo shoot, and come out as fierce warriors. And they got to know each other a little better too.

1. What is your artistry?
2. Define Creation.
3. Thoughts/Impressions on a fellow traveler.

Ashley Echo Taylor Haber
1. BMX Racer.
2. The spontaneous combustion of a moment recorded. The collaboration of amazing people. Whatever it was we did was spontaneous, natural, beautiful.
3. On Olga: A very introverted young soul. Yes, that changed.

Casey Lum
1. Wardrobe Stylist.
2. Putting your mind and imagination into reality. Calming the craziness in your head with creativity.
3. On Ben: Him handing me the bottle of whiskey. I just thought, This boy is crazy! It's definitely going to be a great road trip!

Joshua Page Spencer
1. Artist, painter, jewelry designer, photographer.
2. As simple as putting personality on something and making it new.
3. On Melissa: She’s like my long lost sister. She has such a natural approach to photography, a beautiful eye.

Melissa Elizabeth Keller, a.k.a. Dusty
1. Still looking. I like to capture people in moments. I take pictures. I like top open people's minds.
2. Instinctually, I want to say making babies, but artistic creation I try to have in my life every single day.
3. On Joshua: An man of a thousand hats. Still discovering and going for it all the way. And like the annoying brother I never had. But I am thankful to have met this one.

Susannah Rebecca Mills
1. Lover. Sometimes actor. Always poet. Once, a poet. Filmmaker.
2. Creation now means change, unearthing the grit, turning truths right side up in spite of fear.
3. On Pamela: She’s the soul you meet in the forest. Best friend from summer camp style. After 15 minutes on the road we wrote a poem and plotted our claim on the RV bed. We got shot down and ended up sharing her sleeping bag in a tent. We walked in the cold moon and told secrets. She had junk food. I liked her haircut. We have other things in common that I’m not gonna say ‘cause it’s all too good.
On Eric: Quiet force. Gesticulates with his hands. Grins. Ever changing. Not so much complicated as mysterious. His eyes reveal the seeker’s soul.

Susan Robison
1. Artist, actor, designer.
2. Individual perception of inspired reality. “You paused, are you Googling ‘creation?’” I’m Googling it in my head.
3. On Matthew: He called me Pippie! It was his first time in the woods and he didn’t know where to go potty. So I said, Go where there’s woods, man, and pick a tree!

Juliann Juanita Tidwell
1. I explore the artistry of the psyche and the medium I express it in depends on the day.
2. The physical or mental act of growth.
3. On Petecia: She made me feel really comfortable on the shoot and that was awesome, but not just in a “comfortable on the shoot” way, but in a “we are family” way.

Petecia Le Fawnhawk
1. Multimedia designer and creator. Manipulator and illusionist.
2. To find inspiration, to be inspired, to inspire others, and to in turn continue to be inspired.
3. On J.J.: A solid deep-set character and personality. Not a frivolous character you meet in Hollywood. She is the character you would find in a book 300 pages deep.

Olga Nazarova
1. My mind. Photography, paint, fashion. Anything I can possibly create with my hands.
2. A heart and soul combined in a work of art.
3. On Melissa: Swimming in a Malibu house pool naked. Crazy moments none of us will forget.

Pamela Francesca Celiz
1. Writing, painting, film, music.
2. Anything awaken from within by the universe that you manifest into the world. Life, art, emotions etc....all that moves you that you display to others; even tears or smiles are creation.
3. On Susannah: When I first saw Susannah, I noticed her blue hat with the puffy pall at the end and I said to myself, This girl has the face of Betty Page with the style of someone who really has something to say, and truth be told she did. I was shy about the trip and didn't really want to go but she ended up being so approachable and friendly, doing my make up and making me feel so at ease that we ended up hanging out as friends from another life throughout the whole trip. And to this day I still play the "poems" game she taught me that I think is such a creative outlet and a great way to get to know someone through their souls expression.

Eric Watson
1. Defining emotion (and stunt model, scrimp holder).
2. Creation is love.
3. On Melissa: Enthusiastically leaping into the unknown.

Matthew Wesley Pipes
1. I have my spoon in a lot of pots right now.
2. “The absence of destruction.”
3. On Susan: “I saw Robison and she gave me a contact high.

Sonja Oñate
1. Learning.
2. Creation is imagination.
3. On Eric: He looks like my friend Jack.



The galloping curtained machine lopes along curves
we are not tossed about on a dangerous creature
fear abandons in the embraces of unique breeds
words flow untethered, filterless
against the curves of dark blue mountained sky
sheltered in borrowed scarves nothing chokes words
as laughter streams light waves
flashlights of true color
the experiences of who we are
without a judgment between
honesty spills soft ground walks
the last fire leads the retreat to capacity lodging
pink hair curls around a dozen little beginnings
body esses snakes around the cold
we slide several feet down the tented hill
capture the morning deer with clicks and quiet surprises
later the flesh afloat in malibu pools
orange filters a cinematic renaissance across wide eyed faces
we must have met before
moments of contemplative collective silence
his tattered book reads between long fingers,
wrapped in technicolor, brown orange and blond
a pencil thin as a twig passes between new gazes
scratches the gypsy nomad pages
eyes glance the passing sea
the most new you and me
and find rest in the communal alone
storied glances embrace new names
the last smiles for gifts bestowed
are greater than the gifts
after the words scrawl folded pages
and we’ve created in a day
a change the path the way,
the thank you note written neat,
"Thank you for the passenger seat."