Tom Atwood

photography, films, music, lectures

The Relentless Horizon

Wildfires burned large parts of the western United States in 2021, sending smoke and ash across the country. In Illinois, the summer sun was red.

Keep Looking for Jesus

Clearly, evidence of a messiah complex.

I used to think I was Jesus
Come again to save the world
I used to think I was Jesus
Come again to save the world
Not a broken bone in my body
I could be the chosen one.

Did you ever think nothing is real
Except in your mind?
No people around you, no world,
No stars when you close your eyes
Did you think were Jesus
Come again to save the world?
It could be true
It could be true.

Keep looking for Jesus
Everywhere that you go
He could be a man on the street
He could be the Man in the Moon
Keep looking for Jesus
He may come back soon
If it’s true
If it’s true

I mean no disrespect
Singing this song
I know I might be right
Then again I might be wrong
I’m just looking for Jesus
Don’t you want to come along?

Come along we'll look for Jesus
Everywhere that we go
He could be a man we meet on the street
He could be the Man in the Moon
Keep looking for Jesus
He may come back soon
If it’s true
If it’s true
If it's true
If it's true
It could be me
It could be you

©1997 Tom Atwood
All Rights Reserved

Back in the USSR

A snowy overlook in Moscow during the winter of 1977. Photograph by Tom Atwood.

Influences of Sound on Meaning

Influences of Sound on Meaning_website.mp4 from Kaleidoscope on Vimeo.

The characteristics of sound and how sound can influence meaning. A lecture for MC 301, an advanced audio production course at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Spring 2021.

Photography

Birds on a wire at sunrise near Hamel, Illinois. Summer 2021.

Bohm Woods Nature Preserve. Edwardsville Illinois. Summer 2021.

Prometheus Moth. Bohm Woods Nature Preserve. Edwardsville, Illinois. Spring 2021.

Sunset on St. James Road near Holiday Shores, Illinois. Summer 2021.

Great Blue Heron fishing at the Watershed Nature Center in Edwardsville, Illinois.

A long exposure on Weber Road near Marine, Illinois

Holy Temple

We are nothing. We are free.

Holy temple

rescue me
Save me from

the world I see
Holy temple

rescue me

Sweet tradition

carry me
Blind my eyes

to what I see
Sweet tradition

set me free

I am nothing

I am free
I am you

you are me
We are nothing

we are free
We are nothing

we are free

Holy temple

rescue me
Save me from

from the world I see
Ho-ho-holy temple

won't you rescue me?

Sweet tradition

carry me
Blind my eyes

to the world I see
Sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet tradition
set me, won't you set me free?

I may be nothing

but I am free
I am you woo, whoa, yeah

you are me
Together baby we are nothing

Arch shadows on low clouds. Light pollution in St. Louis, Missouri.

Ft. Russell Township. Madison County, Illinois. Summer 2021.

Grand Traverse Bay near Northport, Michigan.

An airshow on the 4th of July. St.Louis, Missouri.