Joe and his new best friend Jason
1 November 2000 | ||
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| At this bar for some reason everyone wanted to have their photos taken.... | ||
I don't know anyone of these....
1 November 2000 | ||
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| Everyone just wanted to be on the photos... I don't know anyone of these, though I would have loved to get to know Catwoman better ;-) | ||
Crazy Taxi
1 November 2000 | ||
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| So the door of my taxi opened and Brent and Courtney of the Dandy Warhols jumped in with a cute groupie. | ||
Only in California
1 November 2000 | ||
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| So after I took the first picture, she wanted her breasts taken, too. Too bad she was going out with a rockstar, so I was no competition, but tried the 'pity me' routine and failed miserably ;-) | ||
More Dandys
1 November 2000 | ||
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| So after three taxi rides, we arrived at their hotel and planned to loot their mini-bars on EMI's expenses. Ask me what happened then in person (harmless, really, just a long story). | ||
Celtic After Party
10 June 2001 | ||
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| More Fun without alcohol.... | ||
Celtic Fans in West Hollywood
10 June 2001 | ||
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| Joe and his mates at the concert of some of their Scottish friends, Mogwai who toured the States.... The guys all had to dress up and show their colours.... | ||
Afterparty
11 June 2001 | ||
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| Janice and Joanna at the Mogwai 'after-party' | ||
Beauty Rooms
29 July 2001 | ||
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| This place in Hollywood is quite cheezy, with its hairdresser decor, but the music is good and also despite the name the people aren't the typical pretentious Hollywood crowd.... | ||
Bring on the bulls....
29 July 2001 | ||
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| Seemed like a good idea at the time..... | ||
Sunset Rooms
11 August 2001 | ||
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| Apparently this place used to be filled with famous celebrities.... Nowadays you have to be a freak to be allowed in.... | ||
Skewed Perspective
11 August 2001 | ||
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| So we gave this drunk girl our camera and lined up, standing up, all grinning wide with a big cheeze-face.... but then she took a botched photo and only got the camera to focus on Tony...... | ||
Tony goes in for the kill
11 August 2001 | ||
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| Here Tony is communicating with the girl who tried to take the botched photo earlier.... We may never know what he was saying to her, but judging from her bewildered look Scottish charm may have failed this time.... | ||
Tony's last night out
2 September 2001 | ||
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| Joe's mate Tony and the rest of us on his last night out in the beauty rooms.... | ||
Lips, Inc
7 October 2001 | ||
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| By accident I slammed my ellbow into some girl's face. Or how I got this I don't remember... All I got was this imprint... Obviously on the wrong place.... Should have been on my face.... | ||
Ceilidh in Los Angeles
7 October 2001 | ||
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| Janice and her friend Susi. The girls were dancing on as the night progressed.... | ||
Man's favourite dessert...
20 October 2001 | ||
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| The picture and Joe's grin speak for themselves.... | ||
Another night out on Halloween
1 November 2001 | ||
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| Again in Barney's Beanery like the year before.... where many people hang out after the parade.... | ||
Kid in a candy store
1 November 2001 | ||
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| Joe's look on this photo is really funny.... | ||
Trendy place... NOT!
10 November 2001 | ||
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| So we walked into this place which was supposed to be frequented by the famous and rich. It turned out a recruiting place for an MTV singles show and containing a foam party, too.... We ran outside as quick as we could.... Found a nicer bar after that.... | ||
Dani
28 March 2002 | ||
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| My brother's friend Dani visited LA and I hung out with her and some friends of her one evening.... | ||
Memento
7 April 2002 | ||
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| So we met Holger and Clodaugh at the Deux Cafes and then headed on to one club in H'wood that served booze beyond 2am.... Just before sunrise, we went to Holger's house.... Good thing we had these photos, otherwise I would not have remembered that place.... | ||
Before Sunrise
7 April 2002 | ||
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| At Holgers place... The girls passed out, the guys going strong.... | ||
Give that man a few drinks....
4 May 2002 | ||
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| ...and he wields a camera around like a madman... | ||
After the Ledge....
4 May 2002 | ||
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| After we had went againt with Holger to one of the infamous LA clubs that serves booze beyond 2am we headed home.... Only to wake up the next morning with a headache the size of a blue whale. Joe sent me a religious email the next morning with the subject 'Jesus' and the text 'Oh my God!'. | ||
Waiting until it is 4:30am
30 June 2002 | ||
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| So we can see the World Cup finale... Brazil vs Germany..... | ||
Just a few more hours
30 June 2002 | ||
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| In Holger's apartment.... the cute girl on the left is some girl that Holger asked in the bar to come along to watch the world cup. She came with her Dudley Moore style wasted English boyfriend, who repeated the same story about having met Klaus Kinski two-hundred times and had some interesting thoughts on how to solve the Palestine conflict by shipping just everyone to Arizona and declaring the land there holy. | ||
NEW CAMERA!!!
9 August 2002 | ||
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| All pics from now on are taken with a Nikon 4500.... I first had to try its performance at night.... As you can see it turned out nicely.... | ||
Heineken
10 August 2002 | ||
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| More pics with my 4500.... | ||
Stitched Panorama
10 August 2002 | ||
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| Hollywood Sign... the original photo was 4 separate ones stitched together.... Oh... and it is flipped, so you can read the letters.... | ||
Cheap and Tacky.....
10 August 2002 | ||
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| The construction of the signs is basically as underwhelming as the fake facades in Universal Studios.... | ||
Vive la revolution!!!
10 August 2002 | ||
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| No comments required.... | ||
World's biggest Ho
10 August 2002 | ||
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| How symbolic.... | ||
Taxi overload
24 August 2002 | ||
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| Going out with Holger and his friends again.... This time we try to fit six people into a taxi.... | ||
The Ledge
25 August 2002 | ||
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| At about 4am.... | ||
Joe
31 August 2002 | ||
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| Joe looks happy.... on the left is Pat from Spain, Joe's mate's Dave's girlfriend. | ||
California Tan
31 August 2002 | ||
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| Guess who lived the whole year in California and who in the UK... | ||
Favourite hobbies in LA, Number 1
31 August 2002 | ||
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| Taxi Group Photos | ||
Private party after the Rainbow
22 September 2002 | ||
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| This old guy at the Rainbow invites people over to his home after the club. Here we are outside after a particularly bad party with some strangers, waiting for a taxi. No idea who the guy on the left was, but his look at the camera is a classic.... | ||
One day.....
19 October 2002 | ||
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| ...someone here will sell a map that includes my home... I am sure that's what this kid is thinking.... | ||
Visitors from Scotland
31 October 2002 | ||
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| Lindsay and Vicki from Owl came over for meetings and ended up staying the night for Halloween.... | ||
Venus Flytrap
31 October 2002 | ||
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| Pretty amazing costume.... Quite freaky as well.... | ||
Cheap boob-job
31 October 2002 | ||
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| ...kinda looks scary... fitting for Halloween.... | ||
Political Costume No. 1
1 November 2002 | ||
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| No idea what this means, though.... | ||
The first in a long line of....
1 November 2002 | ||
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| ...men dressing up as Anna Nicole Smith... There must have been a dozen around of them.... | ||
Scary looking people
1 November 2002 | ||
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| ...is this a costume or do they always look that psycho? | ||
Girls who dig girls, dress like boys....
1 November 2002 | ||
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| Neat moustache. Fits nicely with the breasts.... The dude on the left is impressed.... | ||
Dr. Death checks his pager
1 November 2002 | ||
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| ...maybe some emergency.... | ||
Political Costume No. 2
1 November 2002 | ||
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| The Axes of Evil! Get it? Hahahaha! | ||
Motorbikes
1 November 2002 | ||
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| Actually, guys dressing like girls dressing like motorbikes.... Very impressive design... So much work.... | ||
Celebrity Sighting on Sunset
1 November 2002 | ||
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| We passed Barfly and the Playboy Stretched Limo came by, out came the seven girlfriends and then slowly behind followed Hugh Hefner, their financier. Kinda pathetic, really. None of the girls waited for him. So much love behind all this. | ||
Best way to attract Chicks in LA
1 November 2002 | ||
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| Hire a stretched Limo, put on an Afro so big you can't see anything and get drunk... | ||
If I had a wish....
1 November 2002 | ||
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| ...it probably would have something to do with twins dressed up as bunnies... | ||
At the Red Rock
1 November 2002 | ||
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| Girl on the left saw me playing with my camera and took me by the hand and said 'I'll show you something to take a photo of'.... I ended up being all nervous like a 13 year old... But it was just her and her friends.... | ||
Hollywood under Booze
1 November 2002 | ||
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| This guy kept running and jumping into the grass and then stayed lying there for 30 seconds, then got up again and repeated the whole trick.... | ||
Daddy's Lounge
9 November 2002 | ||
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| Joe and myself went to Daddy's Lounge... After these two we hung out with some Scottish people and then we made the mistake to head out to Club Ledge. Says Joe 'Now that I found a place where I can drink after 2am, I really regret finding a place where I can drink after 2am'... | ||
Holger's Farewell Party
8 December 2002 | ||
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| At the halfway house... The whole place was packed... and so many people were speaking Austrian or German.... Holger is leaving to Madrid after living in Hollywood for eight years.... | ||
New Best Friends
8 December 2002 | ||
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| Janice and her new best friend.... | ||
I think....
8 December 2002 | ||
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| ...this picture sums it all up... But no worries, we are not as frat boyish as it looks here.... | ||
Hollywood Lake
8 February 2003 | ||
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| In the middle of Hollywood lies this lake... With the Hollywood sign behind it on this clear day.... | ||
This is supposed to be symbolic
8 February 2003 | ||
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| I just don't know what it means.... | ||
America on High Alert!
8 February 2003 | ||
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| When I took a photo of this one a jogger ran up to me and inquired what I was taking photos of... He probably thought I was some terrorist scout taking photos of rusty faucets one day after the new alarm threat level was set.... | ||
Rust and Shadows
8 February 2003 | ||
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| Nice mix.... 100mm Macro lens... | ||
Fence
8 February 2003 | ||
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| Fence... | ||
Rainbow
16 February 2003 | ||
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| Joe enjoys the music at the Rainbow... Not! But Silvia and myself were at least able to sing along with all the NIN songs.... | ||
Odyssey
2 March 2003 | ||
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| Our last attempt to get to the Club Ledge.... Ended up with a rabid taxi driver... who got lost three times, then who almost kidnapped us. He told us he'd drive us to the police and ended up driving in a circle until we called the taxi cab company from inside his taxi. | ||
Cassius Looking for a parking spot
30 March 2003 | ||
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| 3200 ASA on the 10D... when Joe, Cassius and myself went out for a few drinks in Hollywood. | ||
Parking Artiste
30 March 2003 | ||
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| Cassius parked his BMW into this gap..... | ||
Lampshades
30 March 2003 | ||
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| In a dark bar in Hollywood.... | ||
Hollywood Bars
30 March 2003 | ||
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| Typical LA bar.... Dark as hell and red lights... Won't miss you that much.... Shot this with 3200 ASA and then was asked not to use the camera.... | ||
Linda and Holger
13 October 2004 | ||
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| One of Holger's old friends got us into the Spiderclub in Hollywood.... Pretty weird party... | ||
Strange crowd
14 October 2004 | ||
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| When we were at the club, there was some Playboy shoot related event going on... This grey-haired guy was hanging out with these two girls who he got to snog around with each other. No suprise what industry they may want to work in.... | ||
I'm a big fan!
14 October 2004 | ||
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| Holger and some girls.... | ||
Jazz Band at a patio bar
15 October 2004 | ||
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| One of Holger's friends was playing bass.... | ||
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