tagged: adventures

i am standing where they used to tie jet engine to the ground and turn them on. thats where the thrust went.
strange gig, and not entirely in a good way.

diary | 28 jun 2008 | tagged: vj · adventures

nuff said. although again some artistic license, those exact set of photos don’t quite fit the 7x4 format here.

diary | 25 jun 2008 | tagged: adventures

birthday treat, a return to the old manor of victoria park for a radiohead gig. didn’t quite expect the stage to be that big… wow. thanks mark!

diary | 25 jun 2008 | tagged: adventures

and what is a fire without marshmallows?

diary | 23 jun 2008 | tagged: adventures

…and a perfect summer’s evening too; no hassle, good conversation, and a fire to play with.

diary | 23 jun 2008 | tagged: adventures

…although having said that

diary | 14 jun 2008 | tagged: adventures

after max’s 30th mashup in birmingham, straight off the train and to stokefest. superlovely day, england looking stunning, ended up with old friends and akira in a rooftop party, djs blaring. quite the weekend.

diary | 08 jun 2008 | tagged: photo · adventures

…land of easy landmarks. turn left at the castle and pyramid is an easy one to remember.

diary | 26 may 2008 | tagged: adventures

…and look up. check: we’re in berlin.

diary | 23 may 2008 | tagged: vj · adventures

never one to stay still, my travel really has gone overboard this past year. so with environmental guilt, a hatred of airports, and commercial gains, i booked my itinerary to node08 (london - frankfurt), mapping (frankfurt - geneva) and back (geneva - london) entirely on trains. it felt good doing so; the actual travel was a pleasure; yes it cost more, but not actually that much more^[1].

the only complaint? the new german ice may be snazzy and fast (four hours paris-frankfurt), but there’s no such thing as a power plug in second class, so its reading books rather than working on laptops. come on, we’ve even got wifi on the london-newcastle route!

diary | 05 apr 2008 | tagged: vj · adventures

…cliché, but oh so pretty sitting in the gardens of an amazingly formed new museum as the sun went down. hard to make out in the twilight of the photo, but l’tour eiffel was framed by classical parisian apartment blocks flowing into something reminiscent of the huge sand worms of dune, twisting out around and above you.

diary | 24 feb 2008 | tagged: adventures

guess where we were for the weekend…

diary | 23 feb 2008 | tagged: adventures

for the three people who will know what this is, it was worth the wait… mmmm, zip!

diary | 12 dec 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures · sónar

seeing the onset of christmas^[1] in los angeles was just turning from amusingly surreal to plain wrong, so it was nice to get back to a real winter, beautiful sky and all.

diary | 30 nov 2007 | tagged: adventures

and your hot tubs in the garden in balmy november. you can’t quite see it in the photo, but there’s even a stars and stripes with a golden eagle atop the flag pole in the garden beyond. right… cab! LAX, thanks.

diary | 28 nov 2007 | tagged: adventures

…or rather, a lost weekend in la. or rather rather, the lost few days from the show closing to flying back. technically a monday, tuesday and a bit of wednesday, it certainly felt like a weekend after the two weeks straight of 10pm finish motorshow days. and perhaps fittingly, my camera decided to break the minute the crazy few days started their roll and magic itself back to life towards the end. so here we pick up the scent, could we be in a musician’s bedroom?

diary | 28 nov 2007 | tagged: vj · adventures

goodbye to two weeks in the standard, and its rooftop bar. a little los angeles self portrait on the final time down… moderation kills the spirit, especially at the rooftop bar.

diary | 25 nov 2007 | tagged: adventures

into taxi. los angeles continues to not be pretty until the moment of walking into the hotel, when things go from the horrific to the sublime. this is one hell of a hotel, i’ll spare you the image of the shower.
so: my laptop tells me its 4am monday morning, my body has pretty much either been packing and lugging boxes or sitting on planes for the past few days, a proper night’s sleep is something seemingly far in the past and its too early to go to bed over here. there is a friend djing in santa monica in an hour or so though… who can tell whether its a good idea in this state…

diary | 11 nov 2007 | tagged: adventures

15 hours later, arrive LAX. the journey has been constant light, beautiful views. however, descent to los angeles and its not pretty. there’s something about the sprawl i instinctively freak out about, and without the sun to bleach it clean, its not a welcoming sight.

diary | 11 nov 2007 | tagged: adventures

up at 4am tuscan time to start the journey to los angeles. prop plane over the alps to münchen.

diary | 11 nov 2007 | tagged: adventures