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p h o t o s : caracas

[ 00:54 friday 18 june - haggerston road ]

i’ve uploaded 26 photos from caracas taken on the last day of 2009 and the first day of 2010. as well as being venezuela’s capital city, caracas is also reputed to have the highest homicide rate per capita of any city in the world, predominantly gun related. it’s not a beautiful city. actually it’s about the ugliest city i’ve encountered anywhere in south america. all spanish colonial structures from the seventeenth and eighteenth century have been destroyed. even nineteenth century buildings are rare. most of the architecture is from the sixties and seventies. not much of it is any good.

clicking any of the four photos below will open a slideshow of the whole set. if you’re interested i wrote more about my experiences in caracas here.

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p h o t o s : simmonds yat

[ 22:39 wednesday 2 june - haggerston road ]

on christmas day i went walking with mum and dad in the forest of dean. here’s what i wrote at the time:

this afternoon we went out walking in the forest of dean. everything was crusted in snow. a deep, timeless silence hung amongst the trees disturbed only by the crunch of our feet on the icy ground. the river wye was in full flood, winding around the limestone cliffs of symonds yat and churning tirelessly over the shallows. the sun hung low above the horizon and sent fingers of gold piercing the mist between the boughs. we got lost and ended up walking rather further than we intended. it was breathtakingly beautiful. i took photographs with a sense of wide-eyed wonder.

now, five months later, i’ve uploaded eleven of the photos. you can see them all here.

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p h o t o s : washington, trapani, stromboli, palermo

[ 23:22 tuesday 16 february - haggerston road ]

here’s a crop of fifty-eight photos from last september:

- washington dc (ix 2009) : 14 pictures : in washington dc to represent one click orgs at harvard’s summit on next-generation governance, hiking the entire length of rock creek park, exploring the back streets.
- trapani (ix 2009) : 20 pictures : out and about in trapani in turbulent weather. abandoned marble factory, ruined tonnara, swimming off the rocks.
- stromboli (ix 2009) : 11 pictures : a stormy week with my friends on stromboli.
- palermo (ix 2009) : 13 pictures : the festa della madonna delle mercede in palermo.

one picture from each set posted below.

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p h o t o s : may to november 2009

[ 00:55 monday 8 february - haggerston road ]

in the last nine months i’ve accumulated an intimidating backlog of slides waiting to be scanned and uploaded. in an effort to catch up here are four sets comprising seventy-six pictures:

- volker’s barge, clapton to limehouse (v 2009) : 15 pictures
- last visit to granny’s house (v 2009) : 14 pictures
- fundacja techsoup, warsaw (v & xi 2009) : 9 pictures
- london (v-xi 2009) : 38 pictures

one picture from each set posted below.
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p h o t o s : sardegna & asinara v 2009

[ 18:28 saturday 24 october - haggerston road ]

i finally got round to uploading two sets of photos from my trip in may to sardegna and the abandoned prison island of asinara which i wrote about at the time. there are thirteen photos from alghero and the stintino peninsular, then eighty-four pictures from asinara exploring the crumbling prison buildings, the abandoned village at cala d’oliva and the breathtakingly wild coastline where it feels like no human foot treads for months at a time.

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f o t o s : london ii – iii 2009

[ 17:00 saturday 23 may - haggerston road, london ]
i’ve uploaded a set of twenty-three photos from london taken during february and march. the aerial views were on a return flight from california when the flight path, time of day and weather conditions conspired to give me perfect views of the whole city from east to west.

the snow came at the beginning of february and lasted almost a week, by far the best snowfall i’ve experienced in london. the shots at columbia road market were taken over an hour and show the changing light as the weather changed and the snow started to fall.

sergio, pradeep and i spent several glorious hours on london fields constructing an enormous snow totem which was taller than us.

meanwhile my roof terrace was transformed.

view the rest of the photos here.

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f o t o s : i – ii 2009

[ 01:38 tuesday 28 april - haggerston road, london ]

another five sets containing one hundred and twenty four pictures. this brings me up to date with everything i’ve  got scanned. needless to say another shelf of exposed films has accumulated meanwhile, begging to be sent to the lab.

: karnak :

25 photos wandering round the overwhelming temple complex during the afternoon into the twilight when all the tourists were gone.

: valley of the kings :

15 photos biking out from the west bank with ahmed to the collossi of memnon and up and through the edges of the western desert to the valley of the kings. climbing up to the ridge above the valley to be rewarded with amazing views over luxor and the desert.

: california :

36 photos in san diego to collect an award for trampoline, with shemoel and his friends in san francisco, walking with vajra above muir beach and musical experiments at point reyes .

: bil conference :

33 photos of the bil conference in long beach with quinn, asheesh and friends.

: noisebridge :

15 photos at the noisebridge hacker space in san francisco with quinn and shemoel.

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f o t o s : berlin / aswan / luxor

[ 01:16 thursday 9 april - haggerston road, london ]

jonathan taps away at his laptop beside the table whilst i patter away on mine atop the piano. in the kitchen one of the strange ayurvedic teas sergio brought back from sri lanka is boiling away. this one consists of tiny curled pieces of peppery-smelling dark brown bark which must be boiled until the liquid reduces to a fifth of its volume. already it’s a thick stinky black soup. previously i inflicted a different one made from stewed wood chippings on adam and tree. their verdicts on the flavour: “basement” and “sauna” respectively.

at the weekend i started transferring all my wanderer despatches going back to 1999 onto a new platform. i’m having to copy and paste each post manually, set the correct date and time and remove blojsom’s maddening markup. i’m up to 2007 so it should soon be ready to unveil.

meanwhile here are eighty-four more pictures from the beginning of this year.

: berlin (xii 2008 – i 2009) :
23 photos from the chaos communications congress and new year with timur and his friends

: luxor (i 2009) :
49 photos of backstreets, village life, the nile and ruins

: aswan (i 2009) :
12 photos of aswan and the enchanting island of abu

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f o t o s : vii – xi 2008

[ 00:17 tuesday 17 march - haggerston road, london ]

a package containing six hundred and twelve slides arrived on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago. gradually i’ve been cataloguing and scanning them. here’s the first batch of seventy-four images.

: england (vii-x 2008) :
13 photos of henley royal regatta, mum and dad’s garden and recording with bbc radio 3 in newcastle.

: cornwall (x 2008) :
18 photos walking the coast in a gale.

: maryland coast (x 2008) :
21 photos of fauna, flora, landscape and light around the beaches and salt marshes.

: paris (xi 2008) :
22 photos of claire’s art show, underground parties and the metro.

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f o t o s : miami, stromboli, blue ridge mountains

[ 01:51 tuesday 18 november - haggerston road, london ]

today i was finally well enough to return to the trampery, still coughing and sniffling a bit but basically myself. over the weekend i was still quite weak but succeeded in enjoying myself judiciously. on saturday evening i went to the cinema in bethnal green with sergio and pradeep. during the last quarter of the film the projectionist got confused (or drunk) and messed up switching reels. the screen went dark, the house lights came up, people started to look round uncertainly. sergio, shameless as ever, pulled out his phone and dialed the number of the box office: “the film has stopped, what the fuck is happening?”. the reply “there is a technical problem” was immediately relayed by sergio to the rest of the audience. he then told everyone they should demand their money back. after several minutes the film started again, made it to the end and people started filing out. sure enough a crowd formed around the box office and the manager gave everyone free tickets for another performance. i doubt people would have demanded recompense without sergio’s prompting, it’s not the english way at all. i love the way sergio stirs things up.

herewith eighty-one more photos.

: miami (vii 2008) :
17 photos of miami in a tropical storm, illicit drum circles on the beach and recording with shemoel.

: stromboli (viii 2008) :
41 photos on stromboli and ginsotra with friends.

: blue ridge mountains (ix 2008) :
23 photos trekking in virginia’s blue ridge mountains with butterflies, snakes and incredible weather; plus forays to the maryland coast and washington dc.

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