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2007-03-19T21:43:00.000+12:00

double exposure of palm trees and a roller coaster.
sri lanka and nz.

mosque.

2007-03-19T21:30:00.000+12:00

wellawatte, colombo.
fuji velvia 100 cross-processed.

balloons

2006-10-09T17:23:00.000+13:00

merivale, christchurch.
lomo lc-a with fuji sensia 200 film (cross-processed).

over the southern alps

2006-10-09T17:13:00.000+13:00

taken on a flight from auckland to christchurch.
lomo lc-a with fuji sensia 400 (cross-processed).

hawaiian costume

2006-09-27T23:18:00.000+12:00

on a very very drunk girl in town one saturday night.

i ♥ spring

2006-09-06T22:46:00.000+12:00

if only for all the cherry blossoms & sunshine.

actionsampler camera with fuji sensia 200 cross-processed.

lomo lc-a, with flash

double exposure,lomo lc-a, with flash

lomo lc-a, & flash (with red filter over it)

playboy bunny & gay cowboy.

2006-08-22T23:35:00.000+12:00

again from the undie, these were 2 photos, which overlapped because i didn't wind the film enough.

what was embarrasing about this picture was that the photo lab didn't print the err.. buttock part, and i had to ask them specifically to do so.

in hindsight, what was probably even more embarrasing was me and al following one of his friends around to try and get a pic of him bending over while on rubish detail (even though he was wearing bike shorts under his thong, it's still soooo wrong).

holga CFN with fiji NP?800 film

birdie (from mcdonalds fame)

2006-08-22T23:23:00.000+12:00

birdie was also at the undie 500, representing the 'daughter" pounder with chees [sic]' team.

i also spotted the hamburgler, but he did not wish to be photographed at that period of time.
holga cfn with fuji npz800 film (or something like that), with slight overlapping of the frames.

sphinx.

2006-08-21T00:39:00.000+12:00

on friday was the undie 500, an annual event where people dress up, buy a vehicle & decorate it, then do a pub crawl/convoy thing from christchurch to dunedin. they also throw a lot of eggs around, which is quite a waste really. this was one of the cars.

taken with a holga CFN, kodak portra 800. i think i put the camera on the wrong setting as all the pics were overlapped, hence a little bit of double exposure here.

(untitled).

2006-06-18T14:22:00.000+12:00

double exposure.
taken with a pentax asahi. kodak gold 400asa film,
please give me a heading if you think of one.

(untitled)

2006-06-18T14:19:00.000+12:00

double exposure.
taken with a pentax asahi. kodak gold film 400asa.
please give me a heading if you think of one.

crayfish

2006-06-08T00:11:00.000+12:00

someone's probably eaten him by now.
i always felt especially sorry for fish in restaurant tanks and animals outside abattoirs. i don't know about fish, but apparently cows and sheep know that they are going to die, and sometimes cry.

girls at tsunami refugee camp

2006-06-08T00:10:00.000+12:00

moratuwa, sri lanka

minus 5

2006-06-08T00:07:00.000+12:00

auckland, new zealand

stickers

2006-05-27T22:20:00.000+12:00

these are some stickers i made for a friend. once upon a time, i made a half-arsed attempt at dabbling in street art. i used to make stickers and stencils and put them up around where i live. they weren't really that good, but if i had stuck to it, it probably would have gotten a lot better.

kite, Galle Face.

2006-05-17T17:50:00.000+12:00

Taken with a lomo lc-a.

5 albums I really really like at the moment.

2006-05-15T02:01:00.000+12:00

in no particular order...

The life aquatic with Steve Zissou - OST
I loved this movie, I thought is was charming and quaint, beautifully shot, great characters, really witty humour, and the music, oh the music. Anyone who loves David Bowie should love the music in this film (which is filled with acoustic French renditions of some of his classic songs). It’s got heaps of other great tracks in it too, such as ones by Iggy Pop, Devo, and Joan Baez. The techno songs work really well with their scenes in the movie, but I don’t listen to them that much by themselves

The arctic monkeys - whatever people say i am
So hyped up I’m sick of hearing about them. But their album sounds good. It’s the type that’s ok the first time you listen to it, but then, as you keep listening, it grows on you little by little until… I don’t know, I’ve only listened to it four times so far.

The Go! Team - thunder, lightning, strike

I can’t really describe why I like this album, so I’ll let E. A Solinas [via Amazon] say:

“Their unique sound is made up of sunshine funk, big beats, peculiar samples, adrenaline-pumping rock, TV theme songs and the occasional cheerleader… Those sounds run through the entire album, alternating between hyperkinetic rock'n'roll and colourful electronic big beats. It's all jammed with harmonica, horn, what sounds like a sitar, and hip-hop flourishes. And whatever style it is, it's danceable from beginning to end, densely packed with fun beats and wild rhythms. In fact, it's hard to find a part of "Thunder Lightning Strike" that isn't packed with at least two kinds of sound at once. In fact, it sounds like they gathered every single instrument they could get their hands on, dosed them with Red Bull and planted them in front of a bunch of 1970s TV shows.”

It’s very good, and reminds me of the avalanches (since I left you – amazing, simply amazing album), or the propellerheads + sunshine.

Ben Harper – Fight for your mind.
In my opinion, his best album. Really mellow, laidback tracks, with soulful, thoughtful lyrics. Songs like “excuse me mr.” and “burn one down” have been some of my favourites since I first heard them. It took a long time to get over my annoyance at him for things like “steal my kisses” and “diamonds on the inside”, this album really helped with my healing process. I also really like his live from mars CD; it has a good cover of a verve song.

Damian Marley – Welcome to Jamrock.
I love dancehall. Unfortunately in NZ, we don’t really had that wid a range of dancehall options. Pretty much nothing except for Sean Paul really. Ah, Sean Paul, he’s one of my guilty pleasures. I do like his music, but I wouldn’t admit it to just anyone. One day at work at the record store, me and another girl (K) were talking about embarrassing things we have gotten caught listening to. Hers was “the little choo-choo train” by a customer, and mine was Sean Paul by the manager (who didn’t say anything at the time, but I could tell from the awkward silence that followed that she was judging me on the inside). K openly laughed at me, and said “Sean Paul. That’s sooo bad!”, leaving me to pick up the scraps of my dignity by saying “yeah I… I know, but… I sometimes feel like dancehall music and…”

Sean Paul also reminds me of a trip to Sri Lanka and staying with a cousin who was obsessed with him. She’s go around saying bimbo-y things like, “you know, in one of Sean Paul’s songs, he says “I don’t mean to brag, but everyday I get a shag!” Isn’t that sooo cute!” I really should know better than to listen to Sean Paul.

Anyway, Damian Marley. It’s good. It’s dancehall, but not so commercial. I can play it without my cool record store co-workers judging me.

elephants. big elephants.

2006-05-14T18:38:00.000+12:00

taken at pinnewella orphange with a polaroid supershooter (669 film).

chicken

2006-05-14T18:33:00.000+12:00

taken with an action sampler.

tree @ sunset

2006-05-14T18:12:00.000+12:00

taken down the road from my house.
3 exposures on one frame, with a holga CFN camera.

Stencil: girl in a bottle

2006-05-13T04:31:00.000+12:00

Took me hours, possibly days, to cut this out, and broke apart after one use. :(

Bangles from a bangle cart

2006-05-13T04:30:00.000+12:00

Jodpur, India.

Children @ orphanage, Kilinochchi

2006-05-13T04:29:00.000+12:00

Kurukulam (in the infants section)
After much coaxing the photo lab in Colombo let me cross-process this film. This is the only picture that I was happy with from that roll, which was annoying as I had pictures from Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu on it which I probably will never have the chance to take again.

lesson learnt: don’t take chances experimenting with irreplaceable images.

top of cart

2006-05-03T00:20:00.000+12:00

taken during a hindu festival, havelocktown, colombo

giant squid

2006-05-03T00:18:00.000+12:00

i think it's at omega inn.. wellawatte, colombo.