Chris and Nisha's Indian Wedding
26 August 2000 | ||
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| The second wedding of the day... Chris and Nisha had a fantastic Indian ceremony in the night... It made me want to date an Indian Girl... So life-reaffirming.... | ||
Sachiko at Magic Mountain
1 September 2000 | ||
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| It was a bit of a coldish day... when we took a trip to the Rollercoaster park at Sixflags Magic Mountain.... | ||
Mental Memo: Next time no Whitewater Rafting Ride
1 September 2000 | ||
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| The Whitewater rafting ride was a bad idea.... Someone please fire the ride's designer.... | ||
Goliath
1 September 2000 | ||
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| The Goliath Rollercoaster... My eyes were pushed up my skull.... I had a headache for the next hour.... | ||
Warmed up and dried again....
1 September 2000 | ||
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| Nice picture of Sachiko, Kirsteen and Alastair at Sixflags Magic Mountain almost dry again.... | ||
Long Beach Harbor
4 November 2000 | ||
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| Long Beach Harbour as seen from the house with 100 and something beers that Sachiko took us to..... | ||
Meet Chick Korea
22 February 2001 | ||
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| Our lawyer Cassius at the Grammys after-show party in front of a band with Frank Gambale and later joined by Chick Korea.... | ||
And the Oscar goes to....
22 February 2001 | ||
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| Well, not quite... But at least it is me in a Tuxedo at the Grammys..... | ||
Waiting for Prince Charming
22 February 2001 | ||
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| Or rather for someone from N'Sync to join the party.... | ||
And the Camera skews it all....
23 February 2001 | ||
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| From time to time my camera produces strange colours.... And makes it all look psychedelic.... | ||
St.Paddy's Day
18 March 2001 | ||
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| Janice, Joe and Matt on St.Paddys in the Sports bar, where we also were on Halloween.... | ||
Catching Flies
18 March 2001 | ||
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| Somehow as soon as it is dark and I turn my projector on everyone falls asleep... At least I tried to make a group photo with my fellow St.Paddy Day celebrators... Matt is sleeping on the other side of the sofa.... | ||
Our first (and last) private party in Hollywood!
7 April 2001 | ||
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| After a night out dancing we were invited to a birthday party by a friend of Joe's. While Joe and Janice freed the fridge of all its beer, I asked that girl if she was the host's sister - 'No I am his fiancee' she answered. Guess we won't be invited again that quickly.... | ||
Heat without the guns
15 April 2001 | ||
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| Joe showing his rented convertible off to Inga, speeding through downtown, trying to meet more California Highway Officers | ||
New Camera!
10 June 2001 | ||
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| Janice and Joe with me at a Scottish restaurant - this is the first photo in the diary taken with my new Canon Elph | ||
Caught a fish that long....
21 July 2001 | ||
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| That day we arrived early morning, took the Superman Coaster which shot us up in the sky, but then an hour later the queues were filling up, until people were queuing up for two hours and we left for home.... | ||
New view....
3 November 2001 | ||
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| So, after I moved into a different apartment, I really wondered why I hadn't done that earlier... The view onto the sunset was fantastic... In my old place there was no sunshine after 11am.... | ||
Asphalt Jungle
8 December 2001 | ||
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| Streets of LA.... | ||
Gordian Knot
8 December 2001 | ||
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| Just a small intersection..... | ||
View the Void
8 December 2001 | ||
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| Downtown LA in the jetstream..... | ||
Thousand Dishes
5 May 2002 | ||
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| Korean food in downtown LA.... | ||
Renoir's faces
19 May 2002 | ||
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| I just love the way how he painted faces.... So beautiful.... | ||
Monet's lilies
19 May 2002 | ||
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| Poor monet... at the end of his life, eyesight fading... he painted his Water Lilies day in, day out.... | ||
LACMA
19 May 2002 | ||
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| Inside hall at the Los Angeles County Museum of Modern Art.... | ||
Kandinsky's Compositions
19 May 2002 | ||
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| Close-up of a Kandinsky composition at the LACMA.... | ||
Magritte
19 May 2002 | ||
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| Next to this painting was his famous 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe'.... But I felt that was overexposed... I was never too impressed with Magritte, mainly because I prefered Dali's imaginations.... | ||
Miro
19 May 2002 | ||
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| As we had one of his paintings - the carnival of the cats - in our living room his paintings were one of the first I'd seen.... | ||
Los Angeles Hills
19 May 2002 | ||
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| The Hollywood Hills as seen from the LACMA, where I went to fill the void after my friends had left.... | ||
Sums E3 all up
23 May 2002 | ||
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| THe E3 expo in LA summed up in one picture.... Two guys staring at the whipping polygon boobs of their all-girl team that they control in a Beach-volleyball game.... | ||
The Valley
18 July 2002 | ||
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| The Valley from the sky.... | ||
Moloch
24 July 2002 | ||
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| Grey mass spread over the desert.... | ||
Shake a hand of monopoly houses....
24 July 2002 | ||
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| ...and throw it over a flat basin and you get LA... Notice how just a stone-throw away from the skyscrapers of financial downtown the sprawl starts again... The No-Go areas start here... | ||
Four Oh Five
24 July 2002 | ||
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| Many, many lines.... The 405... | ||
East Los Angeles
8 September 2002 | ||
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| As seen from the sky and distorted with perspective to show how geometric each block is.... | ||
Home again.....
17 September 2002 | ||
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| With yet another photo of Los Angeles, spreading over Southern California.... | ||
'Family' Reunion
11 December 2002 | ||
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| The Outs, very old family friends were visiting LA and I met up with them in LA, munching on oysters and fish at McCormick and Schmick... When I was younger, my mum and Inge would swap the rebellious kids over the weekend to get peace of mind.... | ||
Urban Sprawl
11 July 2004 | ||
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| Looks more like an Anomaly than a city scape.... | ||
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