The 7th Penang Island Jazz Festival

The 7th Penang Island Jazz Festival.

Amazing stuff and I'd have to say it was worth spending RM60 on a ticket. Although it really wasn't worth spending RM80 on 5 bottles of beer.

PelBo....

This band played a cross between jazz and rock and they did it all with a vocalist, a drummer and a TUBA. Yeah get that.

They were awesome.

The vocalist bears some resemblance to Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries. Their sound too.

More next time...

Photographer POSE of the Year

Mag's hard at work

Long OverDue

Back in the day this is what cool was. In fact, it still is.

JUICE 8th Anniversary @MOS, Euphoria

So Juice turned 8 years old last Friday and I was there with my camera just to check out HypeEmBeats representing Pestle & Mortar Clothing on decks!

Got to watch some pretty cool performances too and even one smashing best dressed competition in relation to the theme "Space Invaders". Pestle & Mortar was even represented by Ethan Curzon up on stage for a nominated best-dressed!

Pestle & Mortar Clothing @KLue Urbanscapes

Its been one hell of a week and most definitely one hell of a weekend as we prepared for our first ever sales to the public at the KLue Urbanscapes 2010!!!

We had so many things to get ready we hardly had enough time to sleep! Working day in day out from our temporary office (Hugh's house) just trying to make sure everything is settled before the big day.

This is Bam Bam...the pug we use in most of our shoots. He belongs to Hugh's brother.
Thats us slaving away.....right up until 6am.
We brought in a crew of 2 girls. One fluent in Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin (My girlfriend - Amanda) and the other a financial whiz (Hugh's Girlfriend - Juelle), to help us out with efficiency.
Manda rocking out to our Lorong Haji Taib design.
Thats the CEO of PrimeWorks! Big thanks for the support!
This is what we started out with. Good sales that day turned most of this out. We had little left to take home which was a pretty awesome thing considering how far the hike was to the car.

People came thinking we were selling Pizza at first!
Thats Edmund taking his picture with celebrity blogger Ringo

Learning Curve

The camera was starting to collect dust so I decided to take it out for some fun at Mango's studio in Cheras where David had arranged a shoot just for kicks.

Mostly used Mango's camera, while I used mine for some behind the scenes shots and some candids of the models.

They're always better caught off guard. Its just more natural.

Coming Soon!!!

Pestle & Mortar is coming to you this June!!!

Stay Tuned to find out when!!!

Border Hopping

...continued from Pai Nai Kap?

Having stayed in a temple that was a 15 minute walk away from the border of Myanmar, I naturally crossed over, by foot. Yes. I walked across to Myanmar and hung around the border doing almost nothing.

Found myself a nice little cafe and just sat there watching hoards of tourist pass go through shop after shop of bootlegs.

Pai Nai Kap???

...continued from Sawasdee Kap

Took a day out of the temple travelling through the hills of Chiang Rai and also looking at other temples in the State.

The small community that lives in the hills are ALL Chinese descendants and can mostly speak fluent Mandarin on top of Thai.

The story is that many years ago when General Mao ZeDong became Chairman Mao Zedong and rose to power in communist China, a group of unsuccessful rebels headed by a General loyal to Sun Yet Sen had to flee China.

They migrated southwards and eventually ended up in the hills of Chiang Rai where they stirred up a small squabble for land between themselves and the natives.

The Thai Government eventually stepped in and settled them in an unpopulated area in the hills. They have lived there ever since and for the life of me I cannot remember what the name of that area is called.

Sawasdee Kap

So I was in Chiang Rai for a week living in a temple. A temple by the border of Myanmar/Burma called Waat Thum Pae Jhum.

It was definitely an experience seeing how a monk lives his life. I did it for a day, they do it everyday.

They woke me up at 2.45am and start their days at 3am to do prayers/chanting and then spend a few hours meditating.

The monks then carry a bart each into town walking around collecting offerings from willing devotees.

They then go back after collecting the food and split it equally amongst themselves while the nuns cook for everyone.

to be continued...

We Love Colors - Laws Of Graffiti

District...a nice small corner for graffiti artist and all artist alike to come and hang out. They even exhibit artwork and sell aerosol paint!

I was a lucky winner of a book of Banksy's collection.

David Corio @Zinc Art Gallery, Bangsar

So David Corio was exhibiting his work at Zinc Art over in Bangsar and he gave a little talk about his life as a photographer too.

Why wouldn't I go, it was sponsored by Converse! :)