Friday, 21 October 2011
Monsters
"I hear that you're quite a monster," were my first words to a highly respected member of the Sydney Symphony, who then led us to the Opera Bar and began a marathon 12-hour drinking session that ended with the Brunette's collapse during a lull in...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Occupy
So there's a dozen anti-suits parked in Martin Place framed by a pile of sleeping bags, protest signs and placards, and a stall serving food. Oh, and the Reserve Bank of Australia and some financial skyscraper. The anti-suits are complaining, but...
Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Yeti
Observing that an entire queue of people trying to queue-jump is permitted - merging - where one or two people would be maced and run out of town, I'm getting on the Sydney flight, hauling my bag and guitar into the locker and look back to see...
Monday, 17 October 2011
Fear and Loathing on the Campervan Trail, '11
Years before I'd ever met a single Australian, I wondered why the hell anybody would travel all that damn way just to see another bunch of Caucasian Westerners with funny accents, and then I started making friends with Australians in London and...
Monday, 26 September 2011
Pink Floyd Re-release? Pigs Might Fly
And seen over Battersea Power Station for much of the day. Couldn't sleep (not because of excitement, mind, just insomnia) so grabbed my tripod and walked up the road and set up to await a decent moment.
Sunday, 25 September 2011
Mike Mullen pulling some BMX moves
Spent a day with an old mate and his gang out in the far reaches of London, as they gave a bunch of kids a rare treat and taught them some BMX skills on a mobile skate park - that dismantles into a trailer - including some quarter-pipes. Here's...
Saturday, 24 September 2011
Moving Planet - Human Bicycle
Up a crane for the best part of a day, mapping out a perspective-corrected bicycle and then herding a few hundred people into place.
Sunday, 22 August 2010
Portland!
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Bye byee Hawai'i
Sitting at Kona airport, hoping we'll get on the next flight to San Francisco. Love Hawai'i, but we're running out of cash and there's cars to be sold, people to see and lives to return to.
Saturday, 31 July 2010
Stranded! (in Maui)