Mar

01

2013

St. Paul’s Bay – Panasonic GH3

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St. Paul's Bay

I was on assignment for a project taking place on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean, about 50 miles south of Sicily. I had just managed to pick up a Panasonic GH3 right before my flight and this was my first chance to play around with the camera. I had some free time and trekked down to St. Paul’s Bay (one of the locations where Paul (yes, THAT Paul) was rumored to have been shipwrecked) and immediately saw how easily it would be to become shipwrecked here. The weather was incredibly volatile, but I managed to catch a stunning sunset. 5 minutes after I stopped filming it began hailing in sheets. Unreal.

Camera: Panasonic GH3

Lenses (used w/ Kipon EOS-m4/3 Canon EOS to Micro Four Thirds Lens Adapter w/ Aperture Control):

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Feb

27

2013

A Pep Talk

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Two roads diverged in the woods and I took the road less traveled…. AND IT HURT MAN! Really bad. – Kid President (oh, and that Robert Frost guy)

Gotta be honest kids. I’m having one of those weeks. A huge project I was banking on fell through, I lost out on a couple of other gigs because I was out of the country, and I’m reasonably poor. Being a freelancer is the best worst thing. I’m so thankful for the freedom I have to work with amazing organizations that are making a deep impact on this planet, and I get to travel to some of the craziest places and experience cultures that I never even knew existed.

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Feb

19

2013

International Traveling Truths

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I’ve decided to start compiling a list of my international traveling truths. This will probably be an ever-expanding list, that I will update from time to time. Here is the first batch, in no particular order:

1. Chinese grandmas will crowd a gate and it doesn’t matter if you’re Boarding Group 1 and they’re Boarding Group 9… you’re gonna have to throw a bow in her face to get her to move.

2. “Buckle your seatbelt due to turbulence” means “everybody get up and crowd the bathroom” in Asia.

3. Airplane food will never look like what they describe it to be, and it will taste twice as bad as your lowest expectation.

4. Consolidating your air miles to one airline on one alliance is beneficial to your long-term travel health on about eleventy billion levels.

5. Every single person that ever flies through Tokyo on a United flight has status and will be in the lounge. I have no idea how this is a thing, but it is a thing.

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Feb

18

2013

WIEHRN?: The Skunk Story

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Every now and again I’m going to pull out one of my bizarre, what is even happening right now? (WIEHRN?) life stories. Let’s get this party started with one of my more famous tales. Also, this is completely true. Nothing has been fabricated or exaggerated. As far as we both know.

This story takes place circa 2004.

Living in Los Angeles was one of the most (bi)polarizing times of my life.  I’ve never had such a severe love/hate relationship with a place… or a person… or an idea… or a, well, you get it… in my life. My first real LA apartment was just off of Hollywood Blvd. & Western, tucked right in-between Little Armenia & Thai Town. Sounds kine of exotic, right? Yeah. No. Not so much.  To this day I swear the Armenian mafia lived in the building next to me. I’ll have another post on another day as to why my beliefs came to fruition, but for now, trust me.

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Feb

16

2013

Thoughts at 30,000

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I have already flown nearly 30,000 miles this year. Which is kind of a lot for the first 6 weeks of a year. What have I learned in these 30,000 miles?

1. There are a lot of amazing people who are doing incredible things all over this planet, that I never would have known existed. I’m sworn to secrecy due to the sensitivity of most of their stories, but my mind has been blown and my heart has burst many, many times. People that are risking their lives on a daily basis for their faith and their convictions. People that love so deeply and so desperately that you cannot help but look inward at your own ideas of what it means to love. People that changed my life.

2. I missed Aaron, Jenny & Sadie Karr a lot. They are wonderful people with beautiful souls that are loving and serving the people of Vietnam. You can follow along with their adventures here. (P.S. Their site is currently down, but hopefully it’ll be back up by the time you click the link!)

3. My body has developed this innate ability to know when an obscenely long flight is coming up and preemptively goes into hibernation mode. I keep thinking that I’m going to get SO MUCH DONE on these flights and I usually end up being the equivalent of a lump on a log (In my own defense, I am writing this very post on my flight from Bangkok to Tokyo. Be proud.).  

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