ghost town 3-30-08

me and mike decided, since our previous plans got rescheduled, to take the metro as far south as we could to Jinzhou. the metro ran above ground so we could see more of the country side. it goes from industrial to country pretty fast. most of the scenery resembled the central valley in california, which tyler and briana know so well. we arrived at our final stop and walked a good mile and a half to reach the downtown area. on a whim walked up a sidestreet and came across this abandoned housing complex. it was huge about 5 or 6 8 story apartment buildings and many smaller condos. they were all about half done, mostly just the walls and some had bathrooms. they looked like they had been abandoned for quite some time. it made good wandering for a few hours.


























and for dinner we went to pizza with mikes friend Marshall (as in Marshall Mathers, he really like eminem). anywho, pizza hut in china is like a really nice sit down restaurant with gourmet pizzas kinda like cpk. it kinda tripped me out.

and i will leave you with my favorite quote in recent times which was at a photo exhibit at the guangdon museum on sunday:

"photography is a magic thing! A magic thing with all sorts of mysterious smells, a bit strange and frightening, but something you learn to love very quickly" -J.H. Lartigue

random post

this is going to be a somewhat random post as i havent updated in awhile, blogger/internet has been testy sorry. so anywho here are a bunch of photos courtesy of Mike Nguyen. i thought it might be nice to see me on the otherside of the lens.

it was necessary
mike has a talent for catching me with this face
resting away from the rain at dinghu

climbing the crag (i never got to be on global guts so i took my chance)

yay calligraphy!
camouflage

mike once again capturing "the face"

breakfast!!
so someone stole my bike, no more kobe bryant show stopper 007. im still contemplating another bike.....

i got a skateboard! dwindle hooked it up and shipped me a complete from their factory in shenzhen. i met some other kids who skate on campus who have sessions a few times a week in the front of the campus. im stoked to be skating again. my legs hurt from how long its been, but its a good feeling.

divah get your uncle to send you to china!

me and mike are currently trying to plan out two week break as the rest of the school goes out traveling for 6 weeks as we stay behind cause we're foreigners. we were going to go Yunnan, but decided that this would be a better time to go and see beijing before all of the Olympics stuff gets too crazy. should be fun we're probably gonna go up to inner Mongolia and back.

time to find the days adventure. thanks for reading!

zhaoqing weekend!

so this wonderful weekend began at Dinghu San(mountian). we got off the bus and grabbed some dinner which include frog which wasnt half bad .

the family eating next to usfrog hunting party on the way to the mountain
our view in the morning as it was raining
midnight wanderings. this was shot in near complete darkness. i love high iso capabilities
the ran didnt stop us from adventuring!

Li Xiongcai's calligraphy, the person whose paintings i copy in class



cliche long exposure waterfall shot. i really wonder who was the first to do this kind of shot?


gotta have an epic pose in front of that waterfall
all of the trash cans had smurfs on them, kinda creepy

something got lost in the translation.

temple at the top!
buddhist temple/tourist trap what a combo
tea at Li Jai's home. the background is a huge painting his father did!
zhaoqing at night
back street wandering through old zhaoqing


Mo Li Jai written in light
more tea!
yay seven star crag!
dim sum breakfast


these bows sucked but it was still way fun
what my hassy sees =)

this yellow tree was definetly the most beautiful part of the entire park/weekend in my opinion.

can u tell i like this tree?







climbing the (agro) crag!

those trees are so green its kinda rediculous, it looks fake in person


disorienting much?

these guys wanted to take a photo with me, i guess not too many americans make it here





this whole thing is in the center of the city

weekend adventure posse


Li Jai's and his cute 3 year old cousin



im sorry but these photos dont really do justice to the places i was at, but thats what i get for a shitty bandwith. anywho amazing weekend, breathtaking views, and good people.