▸ asset
2023
trail · cinema
DEATH VALLEY
Long-form trip footage. Geological scale, ambient color palette, light at the edges of the day. The deep-desert proving ground.
Field / Lived Experience / Disciplines
AN OPERATOR WHO'S HANDS-ON WITH THE WORLD.
Not a marketer who spent a career behind a screen. The operator reads the world firsthand: years on the trail and the track, search-and-rescue in the desert, and a documented run through rooms on four continents, from a Davos roundtable to a Bogotá dev floor. Different cultures, different problems, different ways of seeing, absorbed in person. That range is where the operating instincts were trained, and it is why the work reads the room instead of guessing at it.
Field record
7 yrs
On the trail
2018-present · documented
5
Regions traveled
CONUS · LATAM · Europe · East Asia · Middle East
3 yrs
SNORR search & rescue
Southern Nevada Off-Road Rescue volunteer
2025
Closed-track credential
Spring Mountain · Corvette Owners School
9K+
Field stills archive
shot, culled, processed, graded, solo
1,700+
4K trail clips
the source footage behind the reel
What makes the operator different
Range isn't a hobby line on a résumé. It's where the operating instincts were trained: read the conditions, weigh the risk, decide, execute, before anyone's there to tell you what to do.
▸ Risk assessment
Reading a flash-flood sky, a washed-out line, a stranded vehicle. Calling it before it goes wrong.
▸ Fast response, fast execution
Search-and-rescue and threshold braking run on the same clock: decide now, act clean, no second take.
▸ Scouting, scoping, planning
Routes, terrain, light, logistics, contingency. The same pre-work that scopes a campaign or a deployment.
▸ Real stakes
Three years of volunteer search-and-rescue where the wrong call has real consequences. It calibrates everything after it.
Lead piece
The operator in the field
▸ field capture
THE OPERATOR, IN THE FIELD
Built rig · open dunes
Mojave · sand sea
Field selects · Canon · Color graded
Not a stock truck
Seven years on the trail, in the rig I built and drive.
The cinematography isn't shot from a chase vehicle by someone else. It's a trained driver in a trail-built rig, in conditions most people would turn around at. Death Valley, Yellowstone, Zion, Toquerville Falls, Soldier Pass, The Bowl, Eldorado, Bitter Springs, Dumont, Lake Mead. Cut as a single film, not a clips reel, color-graded against the same custom LUT library used for the Meta Machina plate work.
Closed-track credential
Feb 2025 · Pahrump NV
▸ field capture
SPRING MOUNTAIN · WEST TRACK
Corvette Owners School
Desert Southwest
Feb 2025 · Spring Mountain official
Control under pressure
The formal credential behind the wheel.
Ron Fellows Performance Driving School at Spring Mountain Motor Resort, the Corvette Owners School: vehicle dynamics, line theory, threshold braking, and high-speed control on the West Track. Decisions at the limit, made in fractions of a second. Track-side stills by Spring Mountain's official photographers; the closed-track companion to seven years of trail cinematography.
The desert ground
The home library, the ground the operator knows best, read in every season and light: deep desert, slot canyon, alpine, cave. Where the instincts were trained before anyone was there to tell you what to do.
▸ motion
2022
canyon · motion
ZION
Slot canyon and high-desert work, shown here in motion. Light direction discipline, early morning and late afternoon, no fill.
▸ asset
2022
backcountry · stills
TOQUERVILLE FALLS
Backcountry waterfall on a technical desert two-track in southern Utah. The reward at the end of a route most rigs can't reach.
▸ asset
2022
overland
YELLOWSTONE
National-park overlanding across multiple visits. Wildlife, geothermal, seasonal extremes, and the wildfire-smoke sun the season is now known for.
▸ asset
2020
desert
ALAMO ROAD · SOLDIER PASS · THE BOWL
The home library. The ground I know best, the reference point everything else is measured against.
▸ asset
archive
archive · selects
OFF-ROAD WORKING LIBRARY
Hundreds of additional culled stills across desert, canyon, alpine, and cave. The volume the curated reel is drawn from.
The global circuit
The other half of the range: rooms across four continents, entered in person. A Davos roundtable, a Bogotá dev floor, a Seoul conference floor, a Dubai side event, a Tokyo backstreet. Perspective you cannot get from a feed, and the groundwork where the relationships behind the global campaigns actually got made.
▸ field
2024
Europe · roundtable
DAVOS, SWITZERLAND
Web3 Hub Davos, alongside the World Economic Forum week. Founding member of the DavosWeb3 roundtable, co-author of the whitepaper "Ushering a New Billion into the Global System," and a Davos Declaration signatory. The room where global policy and frontier technology sit at the same table.
▸ field
2024
Asia · conference
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Korea Blockchain Week, on the ground with Alex Guerra (Pachira). The Asian leg of the circuit, where the Pachira and Supra DeFi relationships moved in person, not over a call.
▸ asset
LATAM · the groundwork
travel · field
MEDELLÍN, COLOMBIA
On the ground in South America, the same region the Ledger Architects LATAM layer runs through. Devcon Bogotá seeded it; the relationships were built in person, not over a call.
▸ asset
2024
urban · interior
TOKYO
A different register from the desert: quiet interiors, filtered light, material restraint. East Asia on the same circuit that ran the global campaigns.
▸ asset
Conference circuit
event · travel
MIAMI
The blockchain conference circuit, downtown at night. One stop on a documented run of 20+ events across the run, where the partner and influencer relationships got made.
▸ asset
2024
urban · stills
DUBAI
Vertical scale, hard light, modern architecture against desert. The Middle East leg of the travel arc and the event circuit.
Documented run · 20+ events across four continents
Dubai · 2022
Binance Blockchain Week, the origin night
Bogotá · 2022
Devcon VII, with Alex + Fernando Paredes
Medellín · 2022
LATAM extension, Devcon week
Austin · 2022
Consensus 2022, booth + party
Austin · 2023
Consensus 2023, Rollux Launch Party
Denver · 2023
ETHDenver, GAM3RS co-presence
Istanbul · 2023
Devconnect IST
Denver · 2024
ETHDenver
Davos · 2024
Web3 Hub Davos
Nashville · 2024
Bitcoin 2024
Seoul · 2024
Korea Blockchain Week, with Alex
Tokyo · 2024
East Asia circuit
Toronto
Conference circuit
Miami
Blockchain conference circuit
Las Vegas · 2025
Bitcoin 2025 X Space
Lagos · 2025
BlockNaija, founder/producer
Davos · 2025
DavosWeb3, founding member