Post Title: The new life.
Excerpt:

The weather has been incredible - magical, the kind of blue skies so blue that resort photographers don't need to retouch their pictures, and often not more than about 30 by day and cool enough for light summer blankets at night.... There is a lot of work here for photographers: hundreds of resorts and real estate agencies, and a massive wedding & events industry, there are not enough photographers to keep up with it all in the high season (which starts in May and runs till about November).


April 12, 2009 12:40 AM | The new life. | Comments (0)

Post Title: Is it really 2 months?
Excerpt: 275/365. April 4. Breakfast with Kat, Jake & Julie at a cool little cafe in Cairns - look at the size of the portions, dude. Insane. And delicious. 276/365. April 5 2009. The weather has been magnificent - this is the view from the top of the hill I climb most mornings. 277/365. April 6. These Blue Ulysses butterflies are everywhere. Today is the 2 month anniversary of my Tokyo sayonara, Has it really been 2 months? 278/365: April 7. You had enough beach photo's yet? I haven't. Sorry, bear with me, it'll work its way out of my...

April 11, 2009 11:52 PM | Is it really 2 months? | Comments (0)

Post Title: Hangin' out.
Excerpt: 268/365. Mar 28. Flowers, flowers everywhere. 269/365. Mar 29. I took some pictures of the manager of Sea Temple Golf Course and the Carnivale Cup as a favour for him, to help promote the Port Douglas Golf Challenge Comp - a part of the Carnivale event I'm working on. 270/365. Mar 30. I cooked dinner for the family at my place. I didn't actually take this picture - my 4 year old god daughter Evie did. That's my brother David holding the wine glass to his eye. Great pic. Evie is a great photographer. 271/365. Mar 31. Sometimes the...

April 11, 2009 11:27 PM | Hangin' out. | Comments (0)

Post Title: Brisbane, Rosebank and back to Four Mile Beach..
Excerpt: 261/365: Mar 21. A 3 hour breakfast at The Alibi Room with Mirko, Seja & Simon - the last time we 4 were together was about 4 years ago when they toured Japan. I love love love these gorgeously ace people. Breakfast was followed by a fabulous 3 hour lunch with Bronny and her kids Tsering and Pemma (sadly Tenzin was on tour down south somewhere), and an all night bender house party at Billy's house. Got to catch up with a bunch of dear old friends, dress up in silly wigs and glasses and take trashy photos of...

April 11, 2009 10:46 PM | Brisbane, Rosebank and back to Four Mile Beach.. | Comments (0)

Post Title: Lots of nature and a trip to Brisbane
Excerpt: 254/365: Mar 14 2009. Curls of new growth and vines everywhere. Words like verdant and lush are almost understatements in this environment, in this season. 255/365: Mar 15. Went to a big pool party with the family. Everyone was part of a married couple, everyone had at least 1 kid but most had 2 or more (have you noticed that 3 is the new 2?). Everyone talked about their kids, or people/events I didn't know, or sports. I was relieved that I couldn't stay long due to some work commitments, and I didn't go back after I finished working....

April 11, 2009 9:54 PM | Lots of nature and a trip to Brisbane | Comments (0)

Post Title: A photo-a-day long overdue catchup.
Excerpt: 247/365: Mar 7 2009. On one of my last days staying at my brother's place, we were treated to a spectacular post-cyclonic sunset (I posted the video a few weeks back). 248/365: Mar 8 2009. Harry and I became great friends on our long walks & runs through the countryside. 249/365: Mar 9 - an iPhone picture of my oldest nephew, Darcy. I've been bad about getting my camera's out since I added the CameraBag application to the iPhone. 250/365: Mar 10. Another iPhone pic, this one of my sister in law, Elissa. This woman is wonderful. This is...

April 11, 2009 9:00 PM | A photo-a-day long overdue catchup. | Comments (0)

Post Title: Wobbly hula dancers, hugs and lots of landscapes.
Excerpt: 241/365: March 1 2009. The Sunday markets. This is Teya, we lived together for about 3 years way back in the early 90's in a gorgeous open plan timber house in the rainforest in Kuranda. A bunch of girls lived there, the house was sometimes called The House Of Wimmin, we always had gentlemen callers and a stupidly long line up on dinner bowls spread across our kitchen bench most evenings. The were crazy, happy times. We sat in the afternoon sun, drinking pre-mixed vodka, talking about the old times and dreaming up our futures. I'm so happy we've...

March 8, 2009 5:30 PM | Wobbly hula dancers, hugs and lots of landscapes. | Comments (0)

Post Title: Settling in...
Excerpt: 234/365: Feb 22. Fairy parties are fill of sugar and spice and everything nice, like fairy bread and ice-cream cake and giggling girls being as silly, loud and energetic as possible. 235/365: Feb 23. The local creek/swimming waterhole - the halfway point of my sporadic morning run. The water here is fresh, cold and utterly exhilarating. 236/365: Feb 24. Happy Harry the Horse, my walking/running buddy. So named because he's the happiest, friendliest and tartiest dog in the valley, and because the kids like to ride on his back. He is also possibly the smelliest dog I have ever...

March 8, 2009 3:43 PM | Settling in... | Comments (0)

Post Title: Sunsets, kids and real estate.
Excerpt: 227/365: Feb 15 2009. We visited some friends who live at Newell Beach, just north of Mossman, for lunch and a stroll on the beach. Evie, my god daughter & niece, got a little tired on the way back. We all got sunburnt. What is summer without some accidental sunburn. My first in about a year. These beaches are so beautiful here - long, empty and full of cool shells, coral pieces and driftwood to check out. Sadly because of the rain and flooding the ocean is all stirred up with mud from the river mouths. Not too pretty....

February 27, 2009 10:39 AM | Sunsets, kids and real estate. | Comments (0)

Post Title: New Beginnings
Excerpt: 220/365: Feb 8 2009. My nephew Darcy celebrated his 13th birthday today. This symbolic day is the reason I chose to fly back this weekend. Lots of silly showing off and excited kids and a big fancy breakfast out on the front verandah with his grandparents and the family. Lovely. 221/365: Feb 9 2009. While over 200 people and many thousands of cute furry animals (don't get me started, I'll start getting weepy) were burned to death in the most horrific natural disaster to hit Australia ever, the region where I am was copping its annual wet season. A...

February 27, 2009 9:44 AM | New Beginnings | Comments (0)

Post Title: The Long Sayonara Part 4
Excerpt: 212/365: Feb 1 2009. Eiko, Taizo, Pancho. My Japanese family / landlords / upstairs neighbours took Greg and I out for a fancy meal at a local restaurant. I swapped the Olympus for a far superior Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX150. This was one of the first pic's from that camera. I was so excited, they all thought I was kinda nuts. I gave them a framed print of one of my own pictures from the Dr Sketchy's exhibition. I hope they like it, I gave them what I thought was one of the tamer prints. 214/365: Feb 2 2009. My...

February 22, 2009 9:45 PM | The Long Sayonara Part 4 | Comments (0)

Post Title: The Long Sayonara Part 3
Excerpt: 205/365: Jan 25 2009. Gertrude found a new home at the UAE Embassy, as the ambassador's daughter's new pet. We spent the day just hanging out and whispering sweet nothings into each others ears. Their driver came to pick her up. As he got back into the car, he told me he had a turtle of his own. When I asked him to please check in on her sometimes, to make sure that she's OK - he smiled reassuringly, like a grade one teacher does to new parents, and then I felt really silly. 206/365: Jan 26. Keiko, Rumiko,...

February 20, 2009 10:49 PM | The Long Sayonara Part 3 | Comments (0)

Post Title: The Long Sayonara part 2
Excerpt: 198/365: Jan 18 2009. The movie Australia was being released around the time of my departure, I felt it quite fitting really. Publicity everywhere.... this one: the back of the front passengers seat of a taxi. 199/365: Jan 19 2009. The fabulous Mz Cherry Typhoon and I met for a photo shoot in Asakusa. So many wonderful photos, you will be seeing more from this one, trust me. 200/365: Jan 20 2009. For the last 4 or so years I've been deeply conflicted about the group of people in this photo. You see, they are one of my English...

February 20, 2009 10:13 PM | The Long Sayonara part 2 | Comments (0)

Post Title: Some photo shoots and the beginning of the long farewell...
Excerpt: 192/365: Jan 12 2009. Today was a public holiday for "coming of age" day - lot's f pretty little 20 years olds tottering around in their gorgeous long sleeved kimono's and white faux furs. My friend/student Keiko and I had an adventure at Odawara Castle, then on to Yumoto in Hakone to visit Tenzan Onsen. Ate some great food, drank amezake and blissed out in the rotenburo. AH, life is good. This photo was taken in the grounds of Odawara Castle, where I got really sad about the poor elephant kept in a tiny cement enclosure there. 193/365: Jan...

January 18, 2009 12:57 PM | Some photo shoots and the beginning of the long farewell... | Comments (0)

Post Title: 2 simultaneous exhibitions, some fine bling and some pretty winter deadness.
Excerpt: 185/365: Jan 5 2009. Everywhere in this city, if you look closely, you will see little signs indicative of the national obsession the Japanese have with cats. There are little shelters constructed for the strays in nooks and crannies everywhere. This one sits atop a mains box next to the Lawson at Nishi-Ogikubo Station. The cat who lives there was heavily pregnant last time I saw here, before Christmas. I'd say she's had them now - I wasn't game to get too close and cause any stress..... 186/365: Jan 6 2009. Today I opened one of the 2 exhibitions...

January 18, 2009 4:46 AM | 2 simultaneous exhibitions, some fine bling and some pretty winter deadness. | Comments (0)

Post Title: New Years Eve and a trip to Chichibu....
Excerpt: 178/365: Dec 29 2008. Look at those leaves, just gorgeous. I love seasons. 179/365: Dec 30 2008. Sigsy and Kei moved into a new apartment in Shin-Nakano and decided on an inpromptu house-warming with some of their new (kinda local) "neighbours" (April & Toshi & the kids, Tracey, Jeannette and me). I love this snap - look as Sasuke (the screaming kid!), he and his bro were so excited that the little one spewed all over the new floor just as I made my departure.... (good timing, I reckon) 180/365: Dec 31 2008. I did a photo shoot for...

January 18, 2009 4:25 AM | New Years Eve and a trip to Chichibu.... | Comments (0)

Post Title: Almost Christmas....
Excerpt: 165/365: Dec 16th. Packing packing packing. Moving across continents is daunting, to put it mildly. I am having a sayonara sale. Also, if you want to rent my house once I'm gone, you should get in touch with Tokyo Housing Bureau. 166/365: Dc 17th. The Dr Sketchy Bonenkai (year end party) was held in Asakusa. It was a hoot. This is our fearless leader, Lady Elle. Isn't she gorgeous! You can see more pic's from that night, and the Presentific party HERE. 167/365: Dec 18th. More packing. I noticed the light falling on my plastic flowers in the genkan...

December 24, 2008 11:59 PM | Almost Christmas.... | Comments (0)

Post Title: A wee surprise party and lot's of pretty autumnness
Excerpt: 157/365: Dec 8 2008: Wandering around the city, you can stumble on some gorgeous, unexpected scenes. This one is in Shinjuku - an old red brick wall with a round portal facing a children's playground. 158/365: Dec 9. Guess who got a new pair of slippers? 159/365: Dec 10. After work, met up with Helen for dinner at La Boheme in Shibuya. Afterwards we wandered around LOFT where I spied these santa's sitting all in a row. Lovely. 160/365: Dec 11: My students Kumi & Sari emailed me before their lessons to ask if I'd be interested in going...

December 24, 2008 11:55 PM | A wee surprise party and lot's of pretty autumnness | Comments (0)

Post Title: Another quiet-ish week.
Excerpt: 150/365: Dec 1 2008. Dave Gutteridge is a comedian at the Tokyo Comedy Club. We met through the Dr Sketchy's nights and I was honoured when he asked me to do his headshots for the book he's writing, and for his regular publicity photographs. He came over and we spent a few hours trying a bunch of different things (I used a snoot for the first time - those Strobist tutorials are finally paying off!) and got some great photographs. A fun shoot with a nice guy. After we finished I made the mad dash into Yurakucho to meet...

December 9, 2008 9:13 PM | Another quiet-ish week. | Comments (1)

Post Title: Mellow yellow
Excerpt: 133/365: Nov 24. You know how your body is. It can take only so much. And then, when you are over that essential hump - that event/project closure/exam... whatever.... bang. It gives up. And you go down with nary a whimper. I'm sick. Stayed in bed all day, watched a lot of TV - The Wire, The Medium, 4400..... Dosed up on mandarins, and ascorbic acid. 134/365: Nov 25 2008. I crawled out of bed to teach a lesson. Sayaka. We've been doing lessons for 4 years now. We've come such a long way.....(this is her back in Oct...

December 2, 2008 3:17 PM | Mellow yellow | Comments (0)

Post Title: Exhibition Party Week
Excerpt: 126/365: Nov 17 2008. Such a gorgeous day! Autumn days here can be startlingly magnificent - clear, crisp blue skies and warm sunshine. Every house has their washing and futons hanging outside. 127/365: Nov 18 2008. Busy teaching day. I usually try to walk into Kichijoji through the park for my morning classes, so I can catch the gorgeous light thrown on the trees by the waters reflections. Magical. 128/365: Nov 19 2008. I met up with Guy Perryman, local radio celeb and all-round nice fella. He did an interview with me for his online radio show, That Guy...

November 29, 2008 8:11 PM | Exhibition Party Week | Comments (2)

Post Title: A smutty scrabble champion and so much more....
Excerpt: 119/365: Nov 10 2008. This was a particularly reflective week. Spend a lot of time wandering around the park, taking photos and being alone (in amongst as little-as-possible event planning, English teaching and photography work). Today I made the trek into Ebisu to visit my "manniaku hair-make" hairdresser, Misaki. Seriously the grey thing is just getting out of hand and I'm running out of the energy required to dye your hair every 5 weeks. One day soon I'm just gonna let it go and bust out the grey in all its glory. 120/365: Nov 11 2008. I LOVE these...

November 29, 2008 6:11 PM | A smutty scrabble champion and so much more.... | Comments (2)

Post Title: The week of Yes We Can!
Excerpt: 112/365: Nov 3 2008. Deanne and Masao, the awesome duo who run Tokyomade, have been putting on a quarterly art market, Fragment for the past year. It's been steadily growing and today's event was held at the far more spacious venue Super Deluxe, in Roppongi. It typically features arts and crafts stalls, live painting and DJ's. Always an inspirational hoot and well worth your support. 113/365: Nov 4 2008. Eizo Biz Nite. Event days are always a stressy scramble and I never remember to pick up my camera till well on my way home. This is the lovely little...

November 29, 2008 5:42 PM | The week of Yes We Can! | Comments (0)

Post Title: A bit of this, a bit of that.
Excerpt: 105/365: Oct 27. I often find myself in the local co-op on Mondays. It's a very Japanese grocery store, they stock truckloads of weird little things I've never seen anywhere else. I will miss their tofu section - look at it would you! 4 shelves of it, with 20 different variations! 106/365: Oct 28. I woke up in the Odawara Fuji-Xerox training centre, in a business hotel-like room. Spent the day pretending to be a foreign Fuji-Xerox staff member on a bunch of international communication exercises. Got paid quite well. Then we got to take the romance car back...

November 29, 2008 5:00 PM | A bit of this, a bit of that. | Comments (3)

Post Title: And we reach 100 days in the 365 project...
Excerpt: 99/365: Oct 21. Today was an event day: Hawaiian Flavor Biz Nite. With 0% Hawaiian content. Damn. Cho hazakashi dayo! But it was a nice night with 150 people. This old fella came along as part of a Mah Jong display group, he's also a photographer and when I showed him this picture after I snapped it, he let out a loud laugh and thumped me on the arm real hard. I'm not sure why. He was very cool. 100/365: Oct 22. As a special 100th-day-of-the-365 project marker, I'm going to show 2 pics from today because it was...

November 1, 2008 6:17 PM | And we reach 100 days in the 365 project... | Comments (1)

Post Title: Do it for the joy it brings.
Excerpt: 92/265: Oct 13. Spent the day with Christian and Yuiko, walking at Takao Mountain. Christian made us take the chairlift which I had always studiously avoided in years gone by, but I'm happy to say it was nowhere near as scary as I had heard or imagined. Yuiko and I caught the lift up together and we giggled and wailed in fear when it started getting really high but after a bit we started taking pictures of our feet hanging over the trees and enjoying the views. Once we got up the top we wandered around with the masses...

November 1, 2008 6:03 PM | Do it for the joy it brings. | Comments (2)

Post Title: Meltdown and recovery...
Excerpt: 84/365: Oct 5. Spent the day in the office in Shibuya working on the Japan-i Project that Tiger is working on. We were in the final planning stages of a new free monthly Japan-travel English newspaper for tourists, with the deadline Monday 6th. Incredibly stressful work that I got talked into against my better judgement. Took this picture as I left the office that evening, stressed, uptight and exhausted. Had not much more than 5 hours of sleep a night for a few days now, and almost no chance to exercise either. Working way too hard. 85/365: Oct 6....

October 12, 2008 7:17 PM | Meltdown and recovery... | Comments (8)

Post Title: Perambulations is a delightful word, don't you think?
Excerpt: 78/365: Sept 29. This is where my office is. Well, actually, it's kinda around the corner. Love Hotel Hill, Dogenzaka. 79/365: Sept 30. A pretty cool day. I had been working for weeks on an event close to my heart: Photo Nite. It was all pretty frenetic, the day full of the usual stress and running around involved when you have an event on. It was a great night, around 170 people turned out despite pouring rain and everyone seemed to have a fun time. Earlier in the day I successfully jammed my hand in the train doors of...

October 5, 2008 1:23 AM | Perambulations is a delightful word, don't you think? | Comments (2)

Post Title: Chasing dragonflies
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His J-family really wanted a real wedding ceremony here in Tokyo so they went all out and Jane got all dolled up in a traditional kimono and wig and head scarfy thing and we all took taxi's out to a shrine where their union was blessed by the Buddhist priests.... Anyway, I've been stupidly busy so haven't actually gotten around to editing them yet (just this little rush job here for the 365 project) - that's the next task this evening, hope to be finished them in a few days - will share some results on my photography blog...


October 5, 2008 12:29 AM | Chasing dragonflies | Comments (1)

Post Title: End of summer
Excerpt: My week in pictures.

September 22, 2008 2:00 AM | End of summer | Comments (4)

Post Title: 9 days and we're all up to date now.
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Had high hopes that some famous photo agency rep would sweep me off my feet and offer me a lucrative photo job that night but alas, I was sorely disappointed and ended up wading in the fountain with Tracey, Helen and Kirsten.... They stand waiting at the station, run on with their stools and bags of posters and race down the train carriage swapping the train ad posters then jump off at the next station and do it again on the next train....


September 14, 2008 3:25 PM | 9 days and we're all up to date now. | Comments (5)

Post Title: Warships, rain and wedding.
Excerpt: 48/365: Aug 27 2008. Tiger Music partnered the UK Embassy on a big social cocktail party on the UK Warship HMS Kent. Today we had to attend a planning meeting on ship, the day before the event, to finalise the logistics with the ships crew. Surreal doesn't begin to explain it. Sailors in uniforms of all sorts walking around with semi-automatic machine guns hanging from their shoulders. Well, not all of them had guns. But there were enough there to make me feel mighty ew. 49/365: Aug 28 2008. After we finished packing up the event (it poured torrentially...

September 13, 2008 11:52 PM | Warships, rain and wedding. | Comments (1)

Post Title: A week of dreams.
Excerpt: 41/365: Aug 20 2008. Work started on the house behind us today. DEM0-LITION baby. Horrid sounds. Stay tuned for the shot of the vacant land. 42/365: Aug 21 2008. I like this corner of my neighbourhood. A vacant block of land is overgrown with lovely thick grass and sunflowers. 43/365: Aug 22 2008. I met Christian near Yoyogi Koen to partake in some outdoor kombeni beers since I had about 3 coins to rub together and couldn't afford anything more than 210 yen beers. We drank our beers, reassured ourselves that that was definitely an earthquake then got so...

September 13, 2008 11:19 PM | A week of dreams. | Comments (0)

Post Title: Summer fragments
Excerpt: We had 10 presentations including a magic show by David John, a fabulously fun hoop display from the delightful Deanne, as well as some serious presentations from greats like advertising legend Graham Thomas and film maker David Chester, and a great presentation from the Peace Boat to name but half.......

August 20, 2008 1:51 AM | Summer fragments | Comments (2)

Post Title: Some fresh air
Excerpt: 34/365: Aug 8, 2008. While the rest of the rest of the world geared up for the Olympics (or so I'm told), I spent a quiet day working. This picture was taken in a lane near the Tiger Office, in Shibuya's fabulously tacky and exciting Love Hotel Hill district. These girls put their pic's up with phone number and meet up with their clients in a local bar or coffee shop for a date before heading off to ..well, you know. Prostitution is rampant, and even school girls routinely suck/wank cocks so they can buy the latest [insert current...

August 13, 2008 7:32 PM | Some fresh air | Comments (2)

Post Title: It's 35 degrees and I just ate a frozen mango over the kitchen sink.
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Last time she came, she brought her violin down to the park and played wild gypsy songs at midnight for Kat, Darin, Tyler and me as we drank beer and let out souls soar as it should when listening to live wild gypsy songs in a park at midnight.... As part of a concerted mental health push, I spent the day chilling round the local 'hood in Kichijoji with Kat and Jake - lunching, drinking coffee, shopping and hanging out in the park.


August 8, 2008 4:58 PM | It's 35 degrees and I just ate a frozen mango over the kitchen sink. | Comments (5)

Post Title: The past week in pics...
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After dinner, we moseyed on down to the 300 yen bar and met with Dr Dave, Frederik (moving to Singapore to live the same day as Sandi & Jeff leave) and Nordine (who had tried to straight perm his hair that day with disastrous consequences and was forced to wear a black kit cap, turning him into a dodgy stevedore) and pretended we were in a seedy underground Parisienne basement bar rather than a seedy Tokyo bar, as the Frenchmen at our table bantered in French, English and Japanese.... I was left by myself on the platform at Yokohama to head far far north after the final final final last night sayonara dinner for Sandi, Jeff, Max and Dexter in Yokohama .


August 2, 2008 12:35 AM | The past week in pics... | Comments (2)

Post Title: 22/365: July 27 2008
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But it is nice to have a kind of regular journal thing going, so I'm going to make a serious effort to keep up with it. I'm looking forward to day 365 and being able to look back on the year that passed.


July 27, 2008 9:15 PM | 22/365: July 27 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 21/365: July 26 2008
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Awesome band, Golden, playing at Club Lizard in Motomachi Chukagai (Yokohama Chinatown) for Sandi & Jeff's official sayonara party (organised by Mackey Ramone and the Buzz Buzz gang).... I crawled into Jeff & Sandi's bed to pass out in peace at about 3 am (the house party went all night) and woke up the next morning to find Sandi on one side and a little Japanese girl I'd never seen before curled up next to my feet - I had to do a triple take to make sure it wasn't Jeff wearing a dress...


July 27, 2008 9:15 PM | 21/365: July 26 2008 | Comments (1)

Post Title: 20/365: July 25 2008
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Yet another stupid drunk shot of me and Christian.... This night we had some lively company who kept the beers coming at a steady pace but their photos are a little trashy so I shan't share them here.


July 27, 2008 8:57 PM | 20/365: July 25 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 19/365: July 24 2008
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This little matsuri (festival) is a very small, local affair, with a small stage for the taiko drums and dancers to do their thang. Some of the more popular dances saw spontaneous rings of people dancing in a circle around the outside of the stage.


July 27, 2008 8:50 PM | 19/365: July 24 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 18/365: July 23 2008
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Burlesque dance star Cherry Typhoon plays up for the audience at the July Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School life-drawing party.... She performs regularly around town, do yourself a favour and check out one of her shows: she's a doll with a great sense of humour and a fabulous dance style - she shimmies like nobody's business!


July 24, 2008 2:43 PM | 18/365: July 23 2008 | Comments (2)

Post Title: 17/365: July 22 2008
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It's summer holidays and there are kids everywhere. I took this while walking in to to Kichijoji to teach a class.


July 24, 2008 2:31 PM | 17/365: July 22 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 16/365: July 21 2008
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Jeff drove us from the park to the Blue Corn so we could continue the party, dropped us off then took the kids home.... In this pic (taken by the german, Kevin, in the car en route to Blue Corn) clockwise from top left: Max, Sandi, Helen, Cynthia, me, Felicity.


July 24, 2008 2:31 PM | 16/365: July 21 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 15/36: July 20 2008
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Felicity and I went into softbank in Shibuya to check out the iphone - this is what it looks like when it has cool websites displaying....


July 24, 2008 2:23 PM | 15/36: July 20 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 14/365: July 19 2008
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Anyway, Felicity's parents were among my parents oldest and best friends - and the night her parents got engaged, wayyyy back in - oh, I'd guess around 1966 or so, they came back to my parents apartment in Brisbane (where they had been staying) and jumped around excitedly on their bed as mum & dad cracked open the bottle of champagne they had readied earlier....... I haven't seen Felicity since we were kids - there are cute photos of her and her 2 brothers and me and my brother all squished into a bath as littlie's.


July 24, 2008 2:22 PM | 14/365: July 19 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 13/365: July 18 2008
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Kazuki & DJ James working at the Tiger office in Shibuya.


July 24, 2008 2:10 PM | 13/365: July 18 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 12/365: July 17 2008
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this photo was taken as Jeff was chanting "I will make this happen" after being unable to get the desk functioning properly during Mikio's set. I shot through the first set then had to leave for a meeting in Shibuya - as I left things got decidedly worse for poor Jeff when he realised the hard disk was full of someone else's music.... Andrea & Beck leave tomorrow and an old family friend, Felicity Jenkins is coming to stay for the weekend - we haven't see each other since we were kids but our parents were best friends right up till the end, and they attended both their funerals as well as Decembers ashes ceremony.


July 18, 2008 12:38 PM | 12/365: July 17 2008 | Comments (1)

Post Title: 11/365: July 16 2008
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She has been studying the art of the tea ceremony for decades, and regularly participates in major tea ceremony events in Kamakura, Asakusa and Takadanababa wearing a pretty kimono. She finds each summer harder and harder with age and I suspect she may be forced to take a break form our lessons over August.


July 16, 2008 11:33 PM | 11/365: July 16 2008 | Comments (3)

Post Title: 10/365: July 15 2008
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Andrea, Beck, Arare (erm, the doll holding hands with Andrea and Beck above) and I strolled in to Kichijoji for a coffee before they headed out to Chiba for a few days with some old friends of Andrea's.... I took the whole day off today - watched a lot of cool TV like The Wire, and Jekyll and drank white russians with my roomie and tried really hard to stay away from my computer, which was kinda hard because today was the day my new photobook got launched at its online shop.


July 16, 2008 11:33 PM | 10/365: July 15 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 9/365: July 14 2008
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The 7/14 French Flavour BiZ NITE went pretty well considering it was the first night at a new venue: the fabulous Daikanyama Tableaux (gawd, what a lovely place!), and my first night as the organiser.... But alas, so busy I didn't get a chance to get my camera out of my bag till we were on our way home, and well- technically it was kinda the next day since it was after midnight.


July 16, 2008 11:27 PM | 9/365: July 14 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 8/365: July 13 2008
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Slumber party! 4 am Sunday morning.


July 16, 2008 11:19 PM | 8/365: July 13 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 7/365: July 12 2008
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Had an awesome photo shoot with the fabulous Akiko Otao (Tokyo based soprano) today, in collaboration with my lovely friends (and students) Misaki and Nana from Mint Salon.... Then went back to Kichijoji for a night of rabble rousing with Christian, Sandi, Andrea, Beck, Dr Dave and Darin drinking park beers, eating Thai dinner, karaoke-ing for a couple hours then an hilarious stopover at Mikorins before heading home for a slumber party.....


July 16, 2008 11:16 PM | 7/365: July 12 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 6/365: July 11 2008
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Actually, I cheated on this one - I actually took this on July 12th because I worked all day at Tiger and by the time I got home my newly arrived houseguests had collapsed with exhaustion after their flight from NY.... Champion illustrators (and my old dear friend) Andrea Innocent and (her buddy) Beck Wheeler, on their way back from ICON5, the New York Illustration Conference.


July 16, 2008 11:09 PM | 6/365: July 11 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 5/365: July 10 2008
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My old room mate Haruna introduced us back in 2004.... She dropped out for a while because her schedule was so busy she kept cancelling lessons at the last minute, but she found me again through a mutual friend, and we're back in weekly classes again.


July 16, 2008 11:05 PM | 5/365: July 10 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 4/365: July 9 2008
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Can you believe this woman is 60?... She was introduced to me by Sarah Arkell - an old friend now living in Melbourne, completing her acupuncture course.


July 16, 2008 10:59 PM | 4/365: July 9 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 3/365: July 8 2008
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Yummy homecooked dinner of garlic and butter fried asparagus with fresh tofu and a delicious salad. Tofu in Japan is far superior to any tofu anywhere else in the world.


July 16, 2008 10:56 PM | 3/365: July 8 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 2/365: July 7 2008
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The building is in love hotel hill, Shibuya, and it's always fun to walk around and see the local colourful characters in this red light district . I took this picture of Jon in the hallway as we headed out for some cheap, nasty pasta dinner and a beer in the middle of an incredibly long day at the office, a week before the 7/14 BiZ NITE event.


July 16, 2008 10:52 PM | 2/365: July 7 2008 | Comments (0)

Post Title: 1/365: the beginning of the photo a day project
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Anyway, this particular day has already been mentioned briefly below: I took Sandi, Jeff and their kids to Differ Ariake for the Muay Thai championships on Sunday July 6th.... In this shot, he had just punched the guy to the ground - I got a shot of the poor fella flying through the air but I preferred the look on blondie's face in this one.


July 16, 2008 7:44 PM | 1/365: the beginning of the photo a day project | Comments (2)