Post Title: Exhibition Party Week
November 29, 2008 8:11 PM | Exhibition Party Week | Comments (0)
Post Title: A smutty scrabble champion and so much more....
November 29, 2008 6:11 PM | A smutty scrabble champion and so much more.... | Comments (1)
Post Title: The week of Yes We Can!
November 29, 2008 5:42 PM | The week of Yes We Can! | Comments (0)
Post Title: A bit of this, a bit of that.
November 29, 2008 5:00 PM | A bit of this, a bit of that. | Comments (2)
Post Title: And we reach 100 days in the 365 project...
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.
November 1, 2008 6:03 PM | Do it for the joy it brings. | Comments (2)
Post Title: Meltdown and recovery...
October 12, 2008 7:17 PM | Meltdown and recovery... | Comments (8)
Post Title: Perambulations is a delightful word, don't you think?
October 5, 2008 1:23 AM | Perambulations is a delightful word, don't you think? | Comments (2)
Post Title: Chasing dragonflies
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
September 22, 2008 2:00 AM | End of summer | Comments (4)
Post Title: 9 days and we're all up to date now.
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.
September 13, 2008 11:52 PM | Warships, rain and wedding. | Comments (1)
Post Title: A week of dreams.
September 13, 2008 11:19 PM | A week of dreams. | Comments (0)
Post Title: Summer fragments
August 20, 2008 1:51 AM | Summer fragments | Comments (2)
Post Title: Some fresh air
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.
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)