so we are in coratia still and its lovely, though perhaps more cold than one wants at a beach place. our plans are all over the place and it seems we'll be headed back to vienna soon, which is exciting for real. really had a blast there before and our schedule and our current location dont provide for much more. whatever.

i've been on schedule more or less with around 2 rolls a day. lots of poptpop action.

remember i havent given up, im just in friggen albania. im on a friend of garrett's laptops co-oped semi ghetto intetnet while we have a few minutes.

i've only been shooting about 2 to 3 rolls per day, on average, which is a bit below what i planned for..but then you over plan right? rather have too much than too little.

i get back at the end of the month and will resume posting images asap.

still shooting! thats the important part.

BOOYEAH

arbitrary catch up from being out of town.

this is what one of our days was like in croatia. on the rock beach, reading. for once i actually enjoyed it.

shots for today have been mostly train-related. we were on a train from around 5 am through about 830

another night train tomorrow

i suppose this is a placeholder. tomorrow we head to middle of nowhere.

so our access to internet things will likley dry up soon, at least to some degree, so ill try to mention a couple of things here if i can think of anything worthwhile

we are in vienna with garretts brother still and its really been awesome. trevor and boris have been amazing hosts and i feel like we have been high rollin' while here. we went out last night to a local club called the roxy and austrian night life is mind boggling. there were a handful of thugged out dudes who i think really wanted to look Hard. they were smoking pot in the corner with their posse and some girls and would stand next to the dance area and sort of half ass bounce and occassionally throw their arms around. i have video so look out for that when i get home. its not well lit in there but whatever.

but there were like 3 girls in the whole club and they woudl either dance with themselves and be surrounded by a wall of dudes, or alone litterally with no one. and when i think club i think of something classy like bellbottoms or something where people are essencially copulating on the dance floor. austria redefined that for me...NO ONE TOUCHED. it was bizarre.

one 90 foot tall guy was thugged out and had a michael-jackson-thriller-glove not on his hand, but miniaturized and turned into BLING around his neck. amazing.

our trip plans at this point are pointing to prague then krakow then lviv and from there we arent sure. we may skip romania and head straight into serbia en route to the adriatic coast. we shall see. either journey will take over 20 hours on a train. sounds hot right?

so far so good though. alls well and its getting cooler which i like. i guess its the 14th and we get on a plane the 30th so really thats two weeks left. its flying.

anyway...ill move on for now.

stuff ive been shooting has been john and garrett, as one might expect, and then various touristy things. i brought the Hexar and the Lomo and it may be the habit of shooting lomo for 6 years...but i really love it. hexar is cool and i think the results will be more sharp, more predictable, more even..but the lomo shots have a decent chance of having more life to them. its such a hard call on which way to go with it.

more later, though i couldnt say when. i will say this...beeje lent me his ipod touch and its been awesome. i can poke around for wifi spots and sometimes slip online Just enough to feel connected...a sad state of affairs for an addict.

please forgive any typos..this was typed on an austrian keyboard with no spell check.

the images will dry up the 16th as that is all i have pre-posted. just for your fyi

i love how awkward this turned out.

so our bags arrived, much to our joy and surprise, so we move on to vienna tomorrow. things are fine. my feet have blisters. so far i havent taken as many pictures as id have wanted to by now, for a couple of reasons, but the biggest thing is nothing has really struck me in this city that i Have to shoot. first train ride tomorrow. first of many. we still have no idea where were going.

fellow whiskerino'er brad.

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in budapest. sweating. airline lost our bags. alls more or less well though. there is a political conversation happening to my left which i s an american a brit or two and another dude who is from country x at this point.

so glad he's back in my life. too bad its just in time for me to leave for 3 weeks.

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so we leave today! we head to the airport in like 5.5 hours and then there is no looking back. im very excited.

if you need anything photographed in eastern europe, let me know.

i had grand plans to have a good update here before we left but i dont really know what to say.

jason wallis. that scar is more badass every time i see it. they're new studio is too.

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so i dont really leave until tomorrow but i though i'd mention that for the first time on this blogscursion i have pre-edited and pre-posted images and blog posts through the 16th. i may have a chance to update from the road...that is the goal...but we'll be in pretty random places (see map from previous entry) and frankly not exactly concentrating on the internet. rare, i know.

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