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.

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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

Right Now..

I am peace. I am a slow-motion light explosion. I am us, I am you, you're us, before & after, and we am your bliss, so rare & sought-after. An organic computer operating on all levels from thought to the dance-floor & can find our way back again because we are the super-intelligence of the Universe and are free to be the surging power of the combined light of all the stars there are, here by car or there by Mars, I walk this Earth with the attitude of gratitude for this infinite abundance of astounded marvel because things grow in my footsteps & there's lightning in my fingertips and it just makes me wanna shake my hips, raise my arms in the air & wave them like this: |)(

New Music Video for "Dripping"

Here it is folks, the new music video for "Dripping".. 
Shot & edited in Kitchener & Arva Ontario.

Written by Darin Collins & Phil Hogsten
Featuring John Marks on lead guitar & Vann Le on violin
Song & music video produced by GARVIES
Special thanks to Raven Cox for her invaluable help in this production, I'd also like to thank that kick-ass electric storm that swept Ontario on August 25, 2011 :)

I hope you love it!
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Today

Goodbye identity, hello timeless wild sizzling life-force. I see through the illusion of separation (divided & conquered we are weak) & choose to re-connect with reality (one massive family of light-beings). As I move from square to square observing the sleep-walkers, I find power in a burning desire to have our dignity restored. I'll live for that, I'll dance for that, I'll fucking scream for that!

Remember who we are; we are all remembering now.. We are waking up together, pools of consciousness are gathering..

Being the change, today is the day.

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Coming Up For Air

I feel something coming on,
like a hot wind from Avalon.
She greets me with a smile
and we walk the green mile.
Destined to be true, said she was testing me blue..
Destined to be in love with you.

Like the underwater wish-wash, tumbled up and down,
I look around in and out, for my up or down.
Sailed across the seas, just to smash my teeth
on a jagged reef oh no, not again please..

It's so damn dark down here, I've had enough.
Time's running out, I'm coming up..

I'm coming up for air, do you hear me up there?
I'm coming up for air, I said do you hear me up there?

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