Our Honeymoon!

5000km in 21 days!
Photos coming soon :)

My new book SPRAYPAINT AND BRUSH, MEET WALL. is now available.

Preview and if you like, purchase my new book,

"SPRAYPAINT AND BRUSH, MEET WALL"

here.

Book description:

A portfolio of spray-painted artworks by GARVIES aka Daz Collins in color photography

20 Pages

Size: 

Standard Portrait

7.75 × 9.75 " / 20 × 25 cm

Publish Date: 

May 30, 2017

Rest In Peace Mom

My brother Alex, my Mom Kim & myself at her 50th birthday celebration.

This is a dedication to my mother Kim Collins (Roberts), who passed away on 30 June 2016 at the age of 58. She was born in 1958.

The second time the cancer came knocking, we got her on the cannabis oil & we were overjoyed when it worked. She was so brave, as you may or may not know cannabis is still illegal in South Africa; nonetheless, she went on national television with her story about the Phoenix Tears:

Unfortunately not all the cancer was eradicated & it came back a year later after my beloved Mom had stopped taking the oil. This time it was too late.

I wrote this piece to be read at her memorial service today at the Bluff National Park Golf Club back in my hometown of Durban, South Africa:

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Hello all, greetings from Tofino, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.. the other side of the world. It has been about eight years since I was in South Africa, since I saw my mother, Kim. Not having been able to come back home & be by her side for the last few months has been most painful to say the least, but a mere nothing compared to what she has had to deal with.

Kim is, was & always will be Bat's & my Mother; a more wonderful woman we could not have asked for. I know that all of you sitting here today know how amazing she was so I'm not going to just go on about how freaking amazing she was, as well as crazy beautiful. I'm not going just waft on & on about how random guys would pop out of nowhere with bouquets of flowers & silly grins while she was dragging us kids around town, shopping. I'll also not ramble on about how she kicked ass at everything she tried, like starting at her company as a book-keeper back when I was early days Glenwood High & owning the same company by the time I was out of school; or the time she tried golf, and was Ladies team captain next thing I heard. No, I'll just say that she was the light in our lives, holding everything together. I have absolutely no idea how I'm going to go on without her. I would not have been in such a rush to leave home had I known she would be leaving us so soon. I definitely would have stayed.

Please forgive me for not being there today, I wish things were different & that I could deliver this speech in person, that I could be at home celebrating our Mom's life together today at this memorial. I am sure I would recognize most of you from my childhood on the Bluff, and to you all I would like to give a huge thanks for being such an integral part of her life. She loved her friends & had quite a social life while I was growing up, I'm sure that never changed. She loved her family too & let me tell you, did she know how to make a birthday or Christmas seem like the most magical experience- She loved making those celebrations unforgettable to us kids & I hope to continue that tradition in her honour when its my turn.

Desre told me that my Mom really wanted to see me find the woman I want to marry & start a family with. Just when my Mom was getting sick again there for the last time, I got engaged. I don't know if she heard the news, I hope she did. Next year I'll be marrying the most wonderful woman I've met out here, the daughter of a violin-maker, the bass player in my band, Carina Mach. A beautiful Love. I've finally found a safe & beautiful place to raise a family, so I plan to do just that, and in so doing, to carry the memory of the most beautiful South African Queen, our beloved mother Kim Collins into a new generation on the other side of the world.

A few days after Mom passed, my sweet Carina & I went into the mountains to write a song for her. I've been in the studio recording it since we got back. Carina just laid the bass down this morning, Pacific time. It's called Mother Garvies:



In Loving Memory of our beloved Kim Collins.
We will always remember you Mom.

The Good Life (Mastered)

The Cleanse Continues and The Wheel of Life Turns..

To give you all an update on how that month of purification came & went. My first observation is that I am still here in 3D. I did not disappear, I did not go 4 or 5D; at least not that I can consciously remember. I did learn however that much ground-work besides purification of the body is needed for any of that ;)

Continuing on from the last post, I kept on with the God-food diet, consuming massive amounts of nuts, fruit, leaves & roots through the grinder; at night I'd make a big mix of beans, rice & vegetables sprinkled with a bit of turmeric & curry powder. I was averaging a bottle of oil a week with the broken hip, glued to the couch thing; I consumed many good youtube videos, some gaia tv and a couple epic books, of which I am still devouring.. I  kept my mind busy with the things I love, matters of spirituality, health & wellness, science, the real history of Man & a whole lot of Oneness was brought into my meditation through the avenues of those mentioned as well as the people that came to visit, to help a broken guy out with errands, shopping etc; that community vibration was a key to unlocking some pieces of my heart chakra that were still closed.

That community vibe morphed into another heart-expanding passage in time when I was blessed with my first skype call with my Mom. I found out though the blissfully sweet interaction that he cancer had returned with a vengeance. This was shocking of course, but the beauty of a video call sometimes is... Nonetheless, this news really pulled a number on me & I found myself doing some kind of online shamanic healing session through my friends & my facebook.. I felt things in that meditation that I'd never felt before in terms of connectedness & unity. I could really feel us all holding hands & sending Love to our Loved Ones..

I began the three day liquids only diet on about the 23rd of May, and that is where shit got real. I would grind up some kind of fruit or vegetable & strain the contents with some water & honey. One of those every two or three hours with a coffee enema every day (which got easier & easier).

The day I broke the fast was the day my Queen came home from overseas after a month & boy was it good to see her! I imagine it must have been quite shocking for her as I'd lost a ton of weight.. But am happy to report I made it all the way through the entire month without eating any bread or meat, pasta or dairy (obviously, and that will continue as I'm completely lactose intolerant now).. I did not drink any beer or wine or smoke any tobacco. I slept in my golden ratio pyramid aligned to the magnetic points and drank water that had spent the night in there with me. I have a splash of ormus every morning & a few drops of mms before bed. I've added colloidal silver, vitamin c, iodine & trace minerals to my daily supplemental intake of vitamin d, k1 & k2, magnesium & calcium & omega oils..

I did not heal my hip in time to surf the Rip Curl Pro which came & went while I was still on the crutches, which was the whole point of this if I look at it honestly lol, But I did happen to reset my immune system and show myself just exactly what all those things I love so much (getting drunk & blazed & playing songs in pubs & clubs) are doing to my immune system. That's where its all at, keep the immune system humming & your good to go for miles..

So I did break the fast, but not the diet. I will continue to eat the God-food only, but will enjoy a bit of meat here & there as I feel my body wants it. I will make sure I eat as many leafy greens as possible every day to keep my body more alkaline. I will continue to blaze my joints :) but they will remain clean & I'll be leaving the tobacco in the past. My beloved Mother, as I've just found out is on her way out of this world, there on the other side of the world, and I can't do shit about it. She said in our one & only skype call ever that it was the ciggarettes & her acidic lifestyle that has stopped the oil from working the third time round. I totally regret not seeing her in the last 7 years Oh my God. Thank you Mom, for raising me so well, to feel compassion for others as I do & to always believe in myself, I wish you'd taught me how to make $ like you do but :/
So much love Mom.
Always, so much love.
Your Daz.

May Purification Sessions

Wow, it's the 15th.. This means I'm halfway through my intended cleanse. I'm going to document it here in case there is at least one person that is interested in cleansing themselves for more of that vital power to break through their illusions.

 So, the cleanse, I've stuck to it like glue, even though I've been on the crutches (ooooh power-pun) since the 4th. It started off with my first jam-night with no alcohol or smoking in like a million years, followed up by a gig the next night, the first ever without beer & smoking... It felt so strange but I pushed through. The ultimate challenge was getting through the broken hip experience without resorting to my usual numbing the senses with the usual beer & smoking.. Had to graze some painkillers for the first week of hip injury but besides those little items its been mostly God-food in my mouth for 2 weeks now. The only processed foodstuffs I've been grazing are the almond milk, the vitamins D, D3, K1, K2, omega oils & calcium & magnesium and a couple drops of the sacred oil here & there.. (Actually I've been going to town on it, don't tell anyone lol) Fruit & nut laden smoothies for breakfast, salads for lunch (not so lekker in smoothie yuk) & beans rice & salad for dinner. No meat, no salt & pepper, no sugar, no coffee, nothing that can't be plucked from a tree, bush or a bee-hive.. Lots of water... Every second night I drink a few drops of activated chlorine dioxide & every third morning I hit a coffee enema. Yep I've reversed the coffee situation & am loving the glutathione intake.. but the nausea is crazy for the 30 mins but after that is when your eyes start glowing ;) I've taken the same approach to what goes into my mind & heart, filtering out all the useless judgement ego garbage & keeping only what resonates as Oneness, and filling my mind up with amazing reads, listens, keeping myself occupied with all the sacred texts I can find. Have been on the hunt for the real history of man, which I can say has led me to the next level, the possibility of 4D.. Whoaaa :) I built an 8ft pyramid out of masking tape & string upstairs (just before the wipe-out) to honour the ascended masters (Thoth, Ra and Araragat) & am creating a sacred meditation space up there which I might have to take outside when my Queen gets back lol.. 15 more days to go & I'm feeling good! Will probably do a 3 day fast in the next week or so, just strained fruit-juice, honey & water... But the sacred space has to be ready for that!

Thanks to you splendid creatures that have helped me out so much while I've been injured by going shopping for me & running my errands etc, I love you guys & girls muchly!

All is One, All is Well!
Bless!
<3

A Forgiveness Ceremony!

Inspiration has struck.
A Forgiveness Ceremony!
Endless oceans of wealth, free!
Polarity is so strange, how can it be? Does this strangeness come from the way we were trained to think, perhaps that out-dated social conditioning we found ourselves wrapped in - with all respect to the Ancestors, I strip myself of it. Those twelve years of programming! Oh my hat, I want my childhood back, you wasted all my time, made me jump through your hoops, put me up to your tricks because I was so allowing, so trusting that all those grown-ups know better because they paved the way but I bet they were just praying, trying to get through another day but your tricks were fine-cut through the ages, sharp as a diamond. Sign up, pay up & keep shopping, we'll take care of everything sit back & do your taxes. You confused us for life & tried to turn us against each other & our hearts to stone but aye these stones are Crystal Skulls Remembering & I remember. Beyond your gates of confusion, your Elite Illusion, I remember now, just how to be & remain, in wonder & insane, shining like the sun so I can claim, my chariot of geometric flame to burn away that old pain, that sorrow, so I forgive and bless You, not tomorrow, You who is I, in my glowing eyes but Today, maybe still sleeping or just in the dark but right here, right now I forgive You, for Life is for Giving so here I am right now My God, in service of The Light, The Highest Good of All, Once & for All, for All is One & All Is Well! So be it, so it is & so we came to be..
Free.
<3

Our show @ Crab Apple Floral on 12th September 2015

We played as a 3-piece at Crab Apple Floral in Tofino on 12 September 2015 with myself on an acoustic steel-string guitar & vocals, Carina on bass & Nick on drums.. & Boy was that rhythm section on fire! The crowd was beautifully warmed up by Bousada & Butterflywingtip before us & we had the pleasure of giving them what they wanted, something to get on down to!

This is the audio from the stage during the first 6 tracks of Saturday night's set, our fourth show as a band..  I do wish we'd recorded the second half of the set, we also did Starling, Out of my Mind (just myself on bass & Nick on drums), The Good Life, Walk A While (which had the crowd moshing, to my amazement) and when the cops shut us down at midnight we got to do one last number which was We Are Growing, our cover of the intro-theme to the eighties South African miniseries Shaka Zulu.

This was by far, our skankiest show so far!

I'm so looking forward to the next show which will be on Friday the 16th October - we're opening for Brave New Waves at the ANAF Hall in Ucluelet.

1<3Daz..

The Good Life is now on iTunes

GARVIES debut album,
"The Good Life" is now for sale!
Click here to view it on iTunes

GARVIES is LIVE & DIRECT!

GARVIES plays Ocean Week Benefit at The Shore in Tofino 10 July 2015

This is the band working on "Crows Cry" at home on the inlet & then performing it live at the show.

And this is the band working on "Suck My Kiss" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers as the chosen cover song for the evening & then performing it as the finalé..

GARVIES Goes Live & Direct!

I haven't felt ready to play shows in a long time. Tried out the solo with backing thing for a while back in Kitchener '12 but found it way too time-consuming doing everything myself & then still managing it all myself too. I pretty much had a break-up then a break-down & so took a break from it all & threw myself into the jungle for a few years.. Eventually I found myself living at the edge of my world in a beautiful home with my honey & the most spectacular view one could possibly wake up to, learning basslines in a rock & roll cover band with the rippingest guitarist & drummer combo in the form of the local party band, Balistic Pig. We hosted the local weekly open-mic nights all year long - and this is where I really got to rehearse the GARVIES songs with all sorts of line-ups etc; And thanks to this I can now say that we are finally STAGE-READY and are in-fact accepting bookings to play venues in & around the city of Victoria, BC CA as of now :)

I am proud to introduce the new band:

On drums, Nick Hill

On bass, Carina Mach

On guitar, Geoff Johnson

We're looking forward to bringing it to you this summer!

One to write home about..

Photo by Marcus Paladino, a surf
& lifestyle photographer / filmer
based out of Tofino, BC, Canada
http://www.marcuspaladino.com/

I've been living on Vancouver Island for a couple years now, and have been fortunate enough to travel around a bit & sample some of the breaks that are at least accessible by 4x4 &/ boat. On a recent such trip to a spot at the end of some crazy logging roads with puddles that would sink most cars, we found some gems at the end of the hike, super glassy 3-4ft & sunny with rainbows everywhere.. So Marcus took this photo that afternoon & sent me the pic. I am so stoked as it is a great reminder of the good feeling I was blessed with that day. There's nothing quite like perfect surf when you finally get it.

Merry Christmas!
☮/<3|)(

The Dance of Life

Distant drums capture us, I prick my inner ear. The leather thudding pulls on me & I feel like I want to get near. I lean into its rhythm & perceive a certain something, this current running through me, this electricity in my bones. The past is loud these days. Eventually enough though, we pool like mercury & like birds of a feather, we rock together just to chase ourselves as deep into these moments as we can so we can get closer to that pulse rippling out from the sun, beating on the Earth, warming up my heart & setting my brain ablaze & sending that fire on down to the end of my spine on down to the end of the line that follows the lines I read, the lines I write, the lines I sing, the lines I draw, nearer to it all.

Let it out, let it in
Kick it up & lock it down
Dream it up & breathe it back out..

Starling..

This here, a demo production of GARVIES latest track "Starling".
Written by Daz Collins & featuring on bass & vocals.
Produced by Johnny Marks & featuring on guitars.
Recorded in Tofino BC 2014/04/20 (in A=432Hz)
This is the latest mix from Johnny as at 2014/06/16.

Serenade the dawn with your tongue.
Give it all you've got.
All the way down to those warbling notes.
Ride back up to the heights.
Use the length of your throat,
and sing like you're falling.
Lets row that boat
deep into the morning,
Starling.

Folding my wings around your tenderness;
licking your talk while you've been sucking my sentences;
flicking your locks while you've been chuckling, my little Empress.

Salute the sunset with yourself held high.
Reach through the sky and embrace the night.
Feel the stars, they're tingling.
Spectrum swim up my spine,
right through my mind & like roots from the core,
we unfurl & explore.
Starling, have we met before?

Starling....

Folding my wings around your tenderness;
licking your talk while you've been sucking my sentences;
flicking your locks while you've been chuckling, my little Empress.
Spreading your wings around my gentleness;
licking your talk while you've been sucking my sentences;
picking your locks while we've been loving it, endlessly.

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A CD Cover Design..

I was recently commissioned to design an album cover for Canadian grunge-rock band Broken Caliber.

Here are some photos from the process from pencil to shelf!

Sepia Crows in Spray-paint on Sixteen Canvasses

The Rookery in Kitchener/Waterloo, Ontario.

Peace & Equality Meditation

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Join with the Peaceful Frequency that permeates the Global Atmosphere deep in it's Silence to bring a peaceful new world into being by focusing the Power of our Collective Thoughts of a Peaceful World combined with our Feelings of Love and Gratitude; Creating a Powerful Global Magnetic Field to pull Our Envisionings into Physical Reality. This is Peaceful Evolution. We envision the future as we choose it, as it would be in the present, with love & gratitude. Positive thought/imagination begins the process, love & gratitude are the emotions that fuel the fire of creation.

Print or write the following down on a piece of paper:

"I am grateful that we have all united as one in our intention to created a conscious global society that now meets the needs of every individual. I am grateful that the love of power has now been overcome by the power of love & that the wealth of our beautiful planet is now equally distributed & enjoyed by everyone. I am grateful that we now emanate love, compassion, peace and harmony. I am overjoyed to have been a part of this peaceful change, as it was for the highest good of all."

Feel free to add anything! Make sure it is in the positive ie. refrain from the use of words such as "don't", "won't", "can't", "should" etc, as well as the names of anything you do not wish to manifest in Our New World. Focus only on the positive aspects. Put this piece of paper up somewhere you'll frequently see it, & meditate on it as much as possible throughout the week, visualizing a peaceful, beautiful, enlightened, integrated society & holding the frequency of gratitude in your heart as you do.

We are the Change, with Love.

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Archaeopteryx Summer - 2012 Tipping Point

Turning on the invisible taps to let it flow. Flicking the switch just to let it grow. In the light my heart shows me the way to go. Unfocused we wither, unless the beating art splashes brain-paint up on the inner walls of your skull, your bedroom, your territory. Look into the morning sun, open your curtain-eyes & dive into the stream of all that is. The wind will tell you where on Earth to shine your indigo torch. Where to dig your well to water your organic crops to sustain yourself & your tribe. Trees & rocks make homes, creativity makes money with all the time in the world.

It is the beginning of the second half of the most auspicious year I've known and I'm feeling strange, as usual. It seems people are finally becoming aware enough to recognize the death-twitches of the old world system; it's last few grabbing gasps, begging for believers. There are still but a few spiral-eyed followers, still swallowing the false news on the mainstream; still wallowing in separation. As for us out here unwrapping the new present, unfolding into terminals of love & light rainbows, connecting dimensions, mixing holograms with footprints; we are dusting off our carbon & cliff-diving into 5D. Its that freedom I've always felt approaching, like the chattering hoot of the Transcontinental; it's rumble grows. I am human, and that is my ticket.

We are free sentient beings born unto the Earth. She is my mother & the Sun is my father. The people are my brothers & sisters, all people of all cultures. In the real world view there is no separation. Open transparent truth is our tongue. Uplift yourself by uplifting those around you. Change everything for the highest good of the All, with the deconstruction of all non-serving entities operating on profit over people principles, the redistribution of the Earth's bounty in accordance with the needs of each territory & it's beings. All countries become territories & borders & military endeavors are shut down forevermore. Sustainable organic farming spreads as fast as the real history of mankind is released through the redesigned media industry now based on truth & the upliftment of all. All life now thrives & everyone, no matter who they are, can go wherever they want on the Earth & know that every being they meet along in their journey will help them along in their way & care for whatever need that may arise in their desire to live their highest truth.

No more feeding the system, feeding the corporations & governing parties that seek to keep you paying to live. Thats poison on the shelves, time-bombs that you can't point fingers at. It is merely left-overs holding up the smoldering hologram anyway, change is unavoidable and totally embraceable.

Bob Marley sketch in pencil, coloured digitally.

Let the river flow, let the dreads grow.

|)(

Out of my Mind w/ John Marks Video

Written by Darin Collins & Phil Hogsten in Cape Town, South Africa in 2006. This version recorded & co-produced by Darin Collins & John W. Marks in Kitchener, Canada in Nov 2011.

Vocals, Bass & Beats - Darin Collins
Guitar - John Marks

'Imagine' by John Lennon / Yoko Ono Lyrically Revisited in New World English..

I've got a theory on the go that stems from an understanding that all things including words & thought carry a vibrational signature that ripples out into the universe thus manifesting & calling into creation that which is being described. So, upon thinking that the most lyrically powerful song in the world was 'Imagine' by John Lennon / Yoko Ono - I suddenly realized that it was full of as much negatively charged ideas as positive. I thus endeavored to remove all the negative & replace with positive in a creatively responsible way:


Imagine there is no heaven
It's easy if you try
Just Earth below us
Up above us only sky
Imagine all the people, living for today..

Imagine there is only one country
It is rather easy to do
Something to be alive for
It could be so cool
Imagine all the people, living life in peace..

You may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one..

Imagine pure intentions
I wonder if you can
Go feed your neighbor
A siblinghood of man
Imagine all the people, sharing all the world..

You might've thought I was once a dreamer
Well I wasn't the only one
I knew someday we would join hands
And the world now lives as one.

<3 |)( 3/3/12