COLLECTION: Ask And Ye Shall Receive (Ebay link at bottom)

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately asking me just how this whole blog thing came about. The simple answer is that I started it as a way of bringing photo editors back to my online portfolio. That was it really… of course I had no idea how much fun the thing would be and it took on a life of its own from there.

But then I started thinking, maybe there’s more to it. Maybe it started further back. Like way further back. Like therapy further back…

Case in point, check out these old pictures I came across while cleaning my room. They’re from a trip I took around the world when I was 19-or-so (actually, my first, and only to-date, feature in Maxim came out while I was on this trip).

I apologize in advance—these are poor scans, done from stupid Advantix film (you remember Advantix, the prints came in three sizes) after they sat in a box several years—and no one likes looking at other people’s vacation pictures anyway. But, well, it’s my show.



Anyway, if memory serves, this one is dusk over Vietnam.



Some “Junks” in Hong Kong.



More Vietnam.



My friend Chris after we hitchhiked (or tried to anyway) across Turkey.



An artsy-shot of who-knows-what. Whatever, you get the idea.




The funny thing is, I got the film processed as I was traveling and I couldn’t bear to part with any of the prints above. Nor was I willing to give-up a picture of me “pushing up a boulder” in India. The one of me and my friends in Italy was too good to let go too. As was the shot I took of a cemetery in Hong Kong (the place is so hilly they burry people on stairs), me renting a tiny motorcycle in Japan, floating in the Dead Sea, tree-climbing goats in Morocco, and dude carrying boxes in Turkey.





















But I had to send my parents something right?

So was it me in a sleeping-pod at the Kobe spa? No.



Kicking it at a traditional Ryokan (an old-school hotel)? Not that one.



Playing with a cop’s gun in Turkey? (Really, we made friends with some cops who took us on boat tour of Istanbul and let us shoot at an abandon van when we thought they were going to arrest us for skating) Nope.



This Elvis impersonator we met on the tram in Hong Kong? Hell no.





In fact, I only sent dear old mom and dad one picture from the whole trip—this little gem I took outside the Taj Mahal.



See what I mean… I think this thing may have started long ago.


Anyway there is one other question I’ve been getting a lot of lately and if you’re actually still reading this at this point, well, I guess you deserve an answer. Here goes nothing: I’LL BE PUTTING THE THING ON EBAY SOMETIME AROUND LUNCH. COME BACK AND I’LL HAVE THE LINK UP. CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT Enjoy.