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03.30.06 Dream Sequence made up from some older photographs and some new ones.

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 04.11.06 These are more photographs of the Sacred Run from the last entry up till today. From when I last put in an entry we've been through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennesee. Outside New Orleans we stayed with the Houma Indians, saw some of the destruction, and played a game called Fireball. In Clarksville, Arkansas we had a long rest period (5 days) where we met Kyle who runs the only coffeeshop in town. He took me and some other folks (Jamie, Octavia, Feather & Sean) around the wilds of Arkansas and showed us some rivers and mountains. In Oklahoma and Tennesee we had Tornado warnings, and a tornado actually touched down outside Nashville. Me, Cyrille & Yuki had to take shelter in the basement of Fisk College, an all-Black college in Nashville, where we were for the Black Film Festival. Tommorrow we leave a Shinto Peace Pagoda in the Smoky Mountains.
10.15.05 Back down to Santa Cruz for the opening of KOAK & Kevin's new t-shirt company called The Exquisite Corpse. I got there kind of late after spending too much time sitting around the house in Berkeley after class. When I arrived they were pretty busy talking to people and I wasn't feeling like waiting around so I took a walk down to Natural Bridges and stalked the beach. I got there right towards the beginning of sunset so the shadows had just started to crawl over the sand and everything started turning into a cube or a tower. Later on that night I ran into Taliasan and met a couple funny and odd but wonderful 17 & 18 yr olds. We sat on the vampire bridge, drank beer and listened to Sisters of Mercy and Postcoitus. I spent a lot of the time thinking about SR. I stayed at Mandopant's house and thought about the possibility that it could be the last time I went to Santa Cruz. But that's not true. Sign my new guestmap!  02.27.06 These photographs are of the Sacred Run up to this date. It will still be going until April 22nd. It is a run of sensitive folk who absorb the smoggy, lethargic, competitive, deathly ill energy of the world and recycle it into new, redistributed, fresh energy on this trip through the south of the United States. So far we've been through California, Arizona, New Mexico & we just ran into Texas today. Texas is wierd. Big. Wow. Anyway, the photos are of places along the road and some people. We stopped at La Paz in southern CA where we visited and performed a ceremony at Cesar Chavez's grave (Dennis Banks, the run's leader and Co-Founder of the American Indian Movement, used to be friends with Cesar) and we've stayed at many Gyms, Indian Casinos and Campgrounds along the way. I had never been interested in running so much before this. One runner (Charlie, from Tokyo) ran 50 miles in one day.
08.27.05-09.05.05 I set off on a caravan with SR and Laura through Northern California through the Sierras, Reno and the Black Rock Mountains up to the Burning Man festival without taking any photographs, but took some on the way back and of course while I was there. There was a lot of fire there this year, and it reminded me a little more of how it was my first year in 2000 when I had just met Will and decided on a whim to go with him to check it out cause he had a friend who would get us a job at the box office. That year I met a man in a top hat by a fire who had some serious vectors going down in his eyes and looking back I think he was friends with many demons. I met a few demons that year, who aren't all bad, and I even excised a few of my own. This year, was calm, pretty fantastic and mystifying, and I took some photos. On the way back I got a new imaginary friend (SR in a wig) and met this indian cow skull god who walked through the Pauite Reservation lands and Pyramid lake at night. It was weird though because I met him during the day and he had very long legs. I swear I wasn't on drugs. 07.09.05-07.14.05 Leg two of our Thailand expedition to see the rare Op in his homeland. Leg one will post later. At this point we had already stayed with Op's parents Ken and Sunyee for almost a week at their plantation style place in Hua Hin. SR and I conviced Operoo to quit killing geckos and trying to shoot snakes with his bow and arrow (really.) and to come with us down to the eurocentrocity of Ko Samui, a beautiful island off the east coast of Thailand. We went to the butterfly sanctuary on motorscooters (sorry dad!), followed the guidebook and didn't go see muay thai kickboxing even though it was next to the reggae bar. We didn't go to the reggae bar either, but we did spend a lot of time on the beach, and Op fell asleep a couple times for several hours at a bar while SR and I went and saw an awesome Thai Pink Floyd cover band and drank fruity multi-layered drinks. They also played "Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We spent too much money and left early by bus back to Bangkok. Our friend Tum showed us all around the night markets in Bangkok and we bought pirated versions of 2046 and Old Boy.
04.22/23.05 These are photographs from when my sister Ashley, my Mom & I went out because my sister got her driver's license. We stopped by my favorite weird business in Berkeley, Book Zoo on Telegraph Ave. They always have really interesting and strange novels comics and magazines arranged in no particular order. I found this old artsy film magazine from 1974 and a dirty joke book, but usually anything you pick up there is intriguing in a warm, worn and titillating way. Then Deth was in town from LA at Funland, and the next morning Harley & Rebecca joined Sarah-Rose and I for breakfast at Travelin' Joe's Home Café where they serve a really good waffle, egg and sausage dish with a free latté on saturdays. 05.05.05 Postcoitus & 123Picnic played together with a couple other bands at the Starry Plough in Berkeley. I forgot to bring a flash for the camera, so I just ended up using a slow shutter speed with a wide open aperture for most shots although there is one with a 60th sec shutter open to 2.8. Guess which one? There are also some photographs integrated of the sky at sunset that evening from Sarah-Rose's neighborhood. I was walking down the street taking pictures and these guys were working on their car, and I looked at their car, and they looked at my camera.
04.30.05 Op's show went over better than I think any of us had expected. Of course most of our friends were there, but a lot of people from all over the bay area came early and through the night to check out, appreciate and purchase some of his pieces. It was a beautiful evening outside as well with a full moon (or close to it) beaming down through the occasional hulkingly massive cloud. Op got rid of 13 of 16 paintings and left for Thailand two days later. He's in touch by email at opinoir@gmail.com.
 04.27.05 Lately Chris, Austin and I have been working on our video projects together, these are some photographs from our first shoot (a music video for the song "Automation" by Postcoitus). We were shooting cut-aways of the sun and landscapes in the Marin Headlands just northwest of the Golden Gate bridge. We hiked in with Austin's friend Lisa and made up games throwing rocks at things while waiting for the time lapse shooting to finish. Mixed in with this set are some photographs of flowers on my usual route to and from work everyday.
04.03.05 Op is having a show of his paintings on Saturday, April 23rd.  His paintings are a lush and living interior landscape from the heart of a very talented, dedicated and beautiful person. Here are some slides of his paintings.
 04.08.05 These are some photographs of a recent walk around the city. They have a vague narrative to them, but I wouldn't put too much on it. Afterwards are some photos from S-R's move out of the cement factory in West Oakland. I accidentally had it on Time/Date stamp mode, which hurts the depth a little bit (crushing!) in the photos.
03.11.05 I had a fifteen hour layover in Hong Kong on my way to Delhi, so I took the underground train into HK from the airport through Kowloon. I spent most of the day with the idea that whatever happened would be what happened so I stepped from bus to bus and went all the way around the island, also all the way up to Victoria Peak (pictured above) and back down to the bay. The last time I was in HK was 1999 when I got to check out the Chung King Mansions where a lot of Wong Kar Wei's Chung King Express was shot. There's a beach called "Repulse Bay" that had a sign that said "Beware of Dengue Fever" and a sign that instructed you on how not to get eaten by sharks. It basically said don't swim at dawn, dusk, nighttime, or during the day. I sat for an hour staring at the bay from the well manicured beach. It was relaxing.
03.12.05 I met Drea in Hong Kong that evening, where I found him asleep on the floor in the airport curled up next to his laptop. We hustled some ideas back and forth about the doc we're working on with Dave and Starfinder about monks and the Dalai Lama. We flew into Delhi, met up with D and * (now christened Karma Niyet {sp?} which is the literal Tibetan translation of his name) and drove through Northern India to Dharamsala, passing hundreds of pooping Indians on the side of the road at dawn. We stayed at the Dharamsala Monastery for two weeks, filming the Dalai Lama, interviewing monks, dealing with Australians, eating mostly vegetarian, having bad gas, buying rugs, hangin' with Dunyo, Sonam, Marina, Lopsang and others, running cable, jockeying for pole position, opening our heads and hearts to a more spiritual rather than materialistic society, checking out the raptors (Starfinder is veterinarian with a lot of info about anatomy and species interaction), learning about the good old days with the Grateful Dead (dbDave used to record them and tune their stage set-ups, and both * and Marina were Grateful Dead kids), and letting it flow as you learn to accept that your either going to live or die on the highways of India. Photographs of the Dalai Lama to come later.
11.24.04 These are pictures that I took on a trip to Mexico with my mom and my sister, they are all landscapes near a blowhole outside of Ensenada, which is otherwise mainly a place full of beer, dudes and canneries.
02.01.05 These tree photos are from one day when I took a camera home from work to get the sunset. I missed the sunset, but found out that trees look really spooky in the winter and under the flood of a flash.
10.25.04 These photos are mainly from my 25th birthday party. The theme was "Corporate Glam" to celebrate my decision to improvise an idea of what my professional life would become as it changed out of my student life. The idea was to take things seriously enough to do them them well, but creative enough to have fun and let them bloom. There are some photos here from Halloween also.
01.01.05 These are various recent photos from when my dad came to town and when me, my mom and my sister went to Mexico. Also from when we met up with my brother-in-law and my niece at Bob'g Big Boy in Studio City.