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Diarybut these photos have been misrepresentative: for the temples are full! of! life! – especially on an auspicious day to be wed
but these photos have been misrepresentative: for the temples are full! of! life! – especially on an auspicious day to be wed
diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
and most wonderfully, occasionally acid trumpet
diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
these temples err towards being mini-cities themselves, complete with street signs.
diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
cue crazy temple gateways, so over the top you don’t even notice the gaudy neon signs so often now part of them.
diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india
to india for adventures. cue the temple elephant!
diary | 14 feb 2013 | tagged: adventures · south india · photo
after sun, rain, double rainbow, and much pastel reflections, time came to swap east beach cafe for the west: just underneath where the sun is setting is a fish and chip shack positioned perfectly to see these fireworks being laid out on the beach.
diary | 27 oct 2012 | tagged: adventures
day trip to the sea for food, architecture and fireworks. when a local heard a burger shack was going to be built on the beach in front of her house, hubris and quite some wonder ended up with her buying up the site and commissioning the awe-inspiring heatherwick studio to build something entirely more interesting. the cafe by day and restaurant by night is a resounding success - architectural marvel, was packed out for lunch and yep, twas tasty.
…just didn’t expect to find it embattled by fairground. its there, somewhere in the picture, honest!
diary | 27 oct 2012 | tagged: adventures
the hay bale toss got really quite high: here’s the jamie of jamie’s farm giving it quite the oomph
to wilderness festival, to help cock and bull do their thing. raising money and awareness for jamies farm, tis a good cause and host of the most excellent farmer olympics. hay bales turn out to be surprisingly big and heavy, eggs explode all the better for being thrown further than you’d think, swill buckets can blindfold ‘sheep’, and most of all the punnage just didn’t stop coming.
is quite a number of years, crossed doing what – and with – he loves.
diary | 28 jul 2012 | tagged: adventures
you never quite know whats going to take flight at a festival, and suffice to say nobody had heard of million way but they blew the festival apart. not sure it would work at home, but live nobody could resist their groove.
diary | 21 jul 2012 | tagged: photo · adventures · sheep music
back to the wilds of radnorshire for sheep music, the home festival of friend louis. thankfully, this time it almost didn’t get washed away, and its charm shone. one field, with one of everything that a festival needs; everything done to a standard, probably by your village neighbour.
and where else could the backstage you have access to be that of the tea tent, complete with a fridge suitable for storing a car boot load of prosecco to share amongst friends.
diary | 21 jul 2012 | tagged: adventures · sheep music
quite the weekend: friday night at the ill-fated bloc festival in east london; saturday night at a wedding party masquerading as a mini-festival out in the countryside. after two nights-as-days-themselves, riding my beloved mountain bike with vj kit, tent and allsuch on my back, the sun came out just as a picture postcard scene of hardy’s wessex emerged out of the grind of a life-sapping uphill. suffice to say, i lay there for quite some time, oh-so happy and quite unable to get back up.
diary | 08 jul 2012 | tagged: adventures
austin is quite the city, turns out texan brash is a miraculous tweak to san-franciscan anything goes. that you could take a few minutes walk from the convention centre and be washing down amazing trailer tacos with craft beer in the loose back yards of a street of run-down wooden shacks sealed the deal for me, after my years working the motor shows. that, and this bar. far from the beery sixth street, this was a place where the hours drifted by, the beers were happily supped, the two-step danced.
diary | 12 may 2012 | tagged: adventures
to austin on the academic tip. which austin? breakfast made it explicit, eating waffles shaped like that in a sports bar.
diary | 12 may 2012 | tagged: adventures
away to the wilds of wales for a birthday weekend, car laden with soundsystem and booze. aaah.
diary | 25 feb 2012 | tagged: adventures
winged an extra night in lancaster and took the clockwork orange out for a ride across the moors. was all going swimmingly – route suggestions from friendly local walkers, no less – until the only route out of the moor was blocked by a bull, multiple mothers and their calfs. mmm… thats not something to open the gate into.
diary | 15 jul 2011 | tagged: adventures
to los angeles in d-fuse mode: what wasn’t prep for three shows, a workshop and a seminar was filming for the ongoing endless cities shot bank.
here we are outside LA nearing palm springs, wind turbines and freeway, and rail track just out of this shot seeming to also be transporting mile-long trains of new cars. the turbines, somewhat ironically, power las vegas. might be a cut too far for endless cities, but couldn’t help linking seeing pensioners acting out their retirement program, trundling around on golf carts in courses terraformed out of the desert with thoughts of america’s by-gone obsession with space… infinite expansion and resources on the new, intergalactic frontier.
diary | 20 apr 2011 | tagged: dfuse · vj · adventures
my university research has directed me to the interaction, media and communication group at queen mary. a side benefit of which is being amongst the kind of people who find cheap group break where booze is a priority. and so: brno in january. featuring proper pubs with intriguing jars of pickled… stuff.
diary | 27 jan 2011 | tagged: adventures
