While frolicking in Las Vegas with the Rock the Web crew and semifinalist contestants, we figured it would be negligent on our part to not take pictures of the contestants in the swank mansion we were staying in (and rents for US$10,000 a day at normal rates, which I’m hoping we weren’t paying!). After all, the manager of the mansion told us that it was often rented out for fashion shoots. The only problem is that I hadn’t brought any […]
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Rock the Web Las Vegas Trip
At the end of my last night shooting a rather grueling project for the French Open, which had built a regulation clay tennis court and exhibition in the middle of one of the world’s largest and poshest open-air malls (The Place), I was looking forward to a little R&R. Instead, as I gathered up my equipment and prepared to head home, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. The young girl on the other end asked […]
read moreMongolian Wedding
This was definitely the year to have a wedding. Everyone and their dog got married this year. Which is pretty amazing considering most countries haven’t even legalized dog marriage yet. With my own wedding less than two months away, I had to stand in for my fiancée at her older brother’s wedding in Xinjiang, China. And of course in addition to being the surrogate sibling, I also took on wedding photographer duties. And as usual I was the token foreigner […]
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I met Stephan and Christine while studying at Sichuan University in 2004. And I’d like to say I hung out with them all the time there, but they spent most of their time in and out of the classroom making out with each other and not paying much attention to the rest of us (not really). Fortunately Stephan loved soccer almost as much as Christine (ok, actually not even close, but at least he loved soccer enough to join the […]
read moreStories from Danba
I’ll start from the beginning for those of you who have no idea what I’m up to over here in Bumblefuk, China. I’m here for two months this summer to film a documentary for my Masters thesis. For those of you who didn’t even know I was getting a Masters degree, well… shame on you for not keeping in touch all this time. Actually, all of this starts a year ago, when I came to China for a seven-month stay […]
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This is a travelogue e-mail sent to my family after returning from a head-splitting trip to Litang, the highest town in the world. Or so the locals claim it is. The nasty altitude sickness I had to deal with made their claims much easier to believe. But the horse races I attended there were pretty darn awesome! I took off for a month of travel on July 29. I started off by heading out to a huge Tibetan horse race […]
read moreJay’s Juicy Japan Junk #5
When I returned to Japan after a 5-year hiatus to teach in the JET program in 2002, I tried to revive my old Jay’s Juicy Japan Junk e-mails from my student days years before in Fukuoka. This was the only e-mail I ended up sending that year, but it’s definitely my favorite of the JJJJ e-mails! Hello again old friends, It is time for a rebirth. A renewal of life. A revisualization of dreams. Or if that’s not your thing, […]
read moreManila 2000
This is the weekend report I wrote for the activities of the Taipei Animals soccer team on and off the field at the 2000 Millennium 6-a-Side International Football Tournament in Manila. You can see the full website I created for the event (complete with risqué pictures) here. On Friday, November 17, 2000, a group of very brave men gathered early in the morning at Taipei International Airport, leaving behind girlfriends, wives, and children (for good reason!) and their beloved jobs […]
read moreJay’s Juicy Japan Junk #4
During my first sojourn abroad as a wide eyed 19-year-old studying at Kyushu University in Japan, I sent out a series of e-mails to friends and family back home detailing the various adventures from one of the best years of my life. While my youth and naivety are glaringly apparent, these were my first attempts at writing travelogues and I look back at these silly little e-mails with a good bit of nostalgia and fondness. And it’s interesting to see […]
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During my first sojourn abroad as a wide eyed 19-year-old studying at Kyushu University in Japan, I sent out a series of e-mails to friends and family back home detailing the various adventures from one of the best years of my life. While my youth and naivety are glaringly apparent, these were my first attempts at writing travelogues and I look back at these silly little e-mails with a good bit of nostalgia and fondness. And it’s interesting to see […]
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