yesterday was guruji’s 92nd birthday and about 200 people came to celebrate at the shala. in typical indian fashion, nobody was really sure when then party started. a group of us a the shala had been told to come at 11, others had been told around 11:30 and one friend was even told to come [...]

in the spirit of hot-or-not and other such rate-me sites, the saatchi gallery started a rate-my-artwork site called showdown. each week artists submit work to be rated, and eventually pieces go head-to-head, with the final winner being offered for sale at the saatchi gallery. voting lasts for 7 days, and you can rate any piece [...]

after our boat safari, we had breakfast and packed up to head to vythri resort in kerala state (one state over). the first two hours we drove on a muddy, rutted unpaved road, going no faster than 10 km/hr. the roads were horrible, but we were pretty much the only car on them which meant [...]

i’m back … i was in the jungle for four days, and before that i guess i just had nothing to write about. that’s partly due to the fact that nothing super-new has been happening, but mostly i’ve been busy showing mom and earl around.
ok, so the trip our trip out of town was [...]

finally gk vale sent over the last of my photographs. this time, they apologized over and over, and even sent the photographs and scans to my house with a messenger.
these photographs are from two rolls that i shot at the lake i keep returning to with russell. actually with my food poisioning, picking up [...]

“loose motions” is indian english for diarrhea. it’s also what i was dealing with (along with a pimple on my left butt cheek) during the 10 hours i spent in a car driving to and from bangalore yesterday.
my grand plan of doing lots of sight-seeing was mostly turned into napping on the backseat of my [...]

the saree is a 5-6 meter long piece of fabric that is wrapped and folded around the body to form a full outfit. there is generally a matching shirt and petticoat underneath, and a belly hanging out. after being first in los angeles and then thailand, it’s interesting to see how the indian ideal of [...]

when sherry came, she brought me this $20 pinhole camera that she picked up at the grocery store in bangkok. the camera comes as a kit that you have to assemble, with the lens being nothing more than a piece of foil with a hole punched in it. the instructions said to use a needle [...]

well the drama with gk vale continues … i’ve been promised that film was ready only to have it not ready when i show up, i’ve been promised that film would be delivered to my house, i’ve been told that the film would only be released if i brought the manager sweets … lots of [...]