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I've relocated years ago....

2010-05-25T14:24:00.001-07:00

you can go HERE.

istanbul part2.

2008-07-31T09:08:00.000-07:00

derya and his mother a the archilogical museum.

meow.

meow take me home meow.

this church turned mosque turned museum that was first built in 527 bc.

the blue mosque.

the harems from the old palace.

sar-dar.

istanbul day 1-3

2008-07-27T08:20:00.000-07:00

3am. some smoking rave music club.

today we went to a private beach club on the black sea.

the water nicely blue and not so salt. however to many jelly fish.

this is dedicated for those who miss him back in vancouver.

handsome serdar.

some collective group art show with a very long boring noise band from the uk.

typical.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

deryas back yard.
derya's front yard.

yesterday we went to the last ottoman palace built before the turks took over.

instanbul: the city of.. eur... cats!

2008-07-27T08:11:00.000-07:00

derya did not tell me this before, but apparently istanbul is notorious for its stray cats. here are some we made friends with last night. (i was in heaven)

2008-07-26T00:48:00.000-07:00

i'm no longer in africa. i arrived yesterday afternoon to the open arms of my friend derya and sardar at the instanbul airport. it's beautiful and hot here. derya's parents live in a "cozy" three level villa right on the sea in the out skirts of the city. i awoke this morning at 6am to the chanting of the mosque right behind us. this happens 5 times a day and done through very very vwery large and lourd speakers.

i didn't get much of chance to use the internet while i was in africa so i've uploaded a bunch of photos from the last two weeks.

only in the corporate cola industry would

someone manage to get away with such

delightful absurdity.

afri'cat'

leah!

back seat driver.

hostel in windhoek on our first day together.

roar.

we stayed at some wonderful places. this here,

below, had no vanancy so the owner offered us

cots in his confereance room. then something became available..

malaria!

everywhere we went we stuck out like a soar

thumb. a lot of the kids in the tiny villages

had never really seen white people,

not to mnetion that we got offers to buy our car \

on a daily basis.

castello!

vic falls. livingstone zambia.

smooch.

leah and i did a day asafari in botswana. it was unreal.

\vic falls again.

cape town (day 1-3)

2008-07-14T01:25:00.000-07:00

it's currently 9:42 am in windoek. i arrived here at the hostel two hours ago after a 22 hr long bus ride from cape town.

here are a few photos from cape town.

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water front at sunset with table mountain in the back ground.

an olympic size pool two blocks from where i was staying.

this is another photo from that pool. it was about 14 degrees out yet this gourp of boys still managed to find themselve in the pool.

in 2010 cape town is hosting the FIFA wolrd cup. reminded me a little too much like vancouver.

i relocated.

2007-10-10T16:19:00.000-07:00

you can go here. or here. or even here if you want....

the trip home.

2007-05-07T13:01:00.001-07:00

here are the last of the photos from our trip. it's good to be home. it was warmer today in vancouver then anywhere else on our trip.

this was our home for 9 days....

taco trucks have become a specialty for tony and i.

cinco de mayo in klamth falls, OR. hooray! for burritos and jarritos.

this is our camp site.

it went to almost 0 degrees this night.

wood river, view from our camp site.

oregon landscape.

tony and rachie in crater lake. 7000ft up with about 12 feet of snow under them.

crater lake.

diamond lake oregon. some side of the road gas station.

20 mins of driving down from crater lake we were in 20 degree weather at watson falls.

tony. (my favourite photo of the whole trip.)

toketee falls, oregon.

people don't really know this about rachie, but in high school she was the class clown.

californiaaaaaaaaaa.

2007-05-07T12:27:00.000-07:00

some of these are from julie's camera. we spent 4 days and 3 nights in LA. the first night we stayed a cheap motel on sunset blvd. the four of us got 'buck wild' and met up with some friends at sarfari sam's. they had pints of PBR for 3.25$ tony and i went wild.. the next few days were spent at my mom's friends house in glendora. on my birthday we went to six flags for the day and managed to do 16 rides in 5 hours...later that night jaime took all us out for a birthday dinner to Sergio's (one of my favourite mexican restaurants) the weather never got very warm and by the time we got to venice beach on friday we were in pants and sweaters... tony finally got to use his surf board for the first time, however there wasn't much swell...

californian coast.

2007-05-01T20:12:00.000-07:00

it's been a long 4 days. it feels like forever since we left vancouver. we've arrived in hollywood just an hour ago. we are spending the night at some sleezy sunset blvd hotel. i love california. here is what the last few days have looked like...

day one through two.

2007-04-30T11:19:00.000-07:00

tony, rachel, julie and i decided to stuffe ourselves into a four door sedan for 10 days. this is what day 1 and 2 look like. (photos are in reversed order.)

ONE NATION UNDER GOD.

2007-04-03T23:30:00.001-07:00

i don't even know where to begin. liberalism is not dead. and foundamentalist are not just. i'm not sure what else to say about this topic, however after watching the film Jesus Camp i can say that america is heading in a very scary scarey place. i can only pray that come fall 2008 the democratic party will take over office.

THIS JUST IN... (ed banger tour in vancouver)

2007-03-26T16:32:00.001-07:00

ed banger was great.

the baker's disease and norwegian football.

2007-03-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

white lung played last night at the lamp lighter. along with some other bands. beer was expensive there so sarah and i only stead for them and walked to the unicorn right after. beer is 1$ cheaper there. and better. it was dance mix night. reminiscing from my child hood memories of dance class and middle school dances. the first cassett i ever bought was an ace of base and c&c music factory when i was 9 years. i feel old these days. we met some sandanavians who are here working on sustainability for the olympics. which i found off because vancouver boasted how the olympics would increase local employment yet they are hireing people from another conitinent let alone the same country. i won't hold it against them though. they were nice. we walked to no where in the middle of the night with them and lita and i chased a standard issued prison shoe down carrall street. derya accidentally switched it it to manuel focus while taken photos. i kinda like how they look anyways. these are my favourite kind of nights. once it gets warmer it will be even better.

skeleton apartment.

2007-03-13T17:31:00.000-07:00

robert frank is a revisionist. critiqueing the struggle to find true american identity with out being plagued by the american flag that shadowed the nation, the pre-beat artist withdrew from the 'american dream' culture and attempted to document a series that would rebute ideal "family man". he is pretty great.

also. jean baudrillard past away one week ago today. he wa another great one.

these are a few months old. but some of my faovurite..

2007-03-09T13:53:00.000-08:00

this is what happens when it snow in the middle of a sunday night in vancouver...
(november 27 2006)

summer!

2007-03-07T14:59:00.000-08:00

hurry up please. i don't know if i can't wait anymore.

gambier island.

sentimental vomit.

2007-03-06T23:47:00.000-08:00

it never rains there. or at least not when i'm around. the sun seems to shine always, even at night. the smell hasn't changed either. i'm not sure what it is exactly, maybe its the mixture of smog and the sent of palm trees that the wind seems to carry everywhere it goes. Rilo Kiley has a song about Glendora. "it's new years eve in glendora, i'm the only living person in glendora.." i could be the only living person there and still be the happiest i'll be. almost 20 years later and nothing seems to have changed. jaime's voice is still the same. her house still smells the same. she had the palm tree in the front yard removed during the renovations and the blood orange tree in the back yard is taller than concrete wall now. my mother is so happy there. the happiest i've seen her since the last time we were there. home is where the heart is. we spent two days in the desert. we drove by where we use to live. it looks the same too. i can't imagine what life would like if i had stayed there. if that is where i grew up. probably married and had two kids or something... who knows. penny lives in lake los angeles. a lake that was constructed in the 1960's as an incentive for people to move out to the suburbs only to let it go dry 10 years later. now it mostly consists of dirt and old weather worn home. my aunt keeps three goats, a turtle, and two dogs in her back yard. she's thinking about rescuing the pinto from her neighbours yard too.

joshua tree (found only in the mojave
desert) only grows about 10cm in a on
year period.

venice beach.

hollywood.

jaimes back yard in glendora.

tehachapie.

beverly hills.

i wouldn't want to be anywhere else.

tehachapie.

mr nicolas likes to snore like an old man.

this is what's left of my mother's father. i never knew him.