my travelogue

Oct 5, 2010

Fade to Black

That's some random polaroids I took with a film called "Fade to Black". It's pretty cool since you can decide when the white balance is right. The photo get's darker and darker till it fades all black which means you have to stop the process at some point by ripping the sealing of the photo. The liquid inside smells awful and it's a bit of a mess. After you have to wash it off with water, let it dry and scan it. Takes a while but hey, it's artsy!

Bene

Hitsch, Gabe, Maurer, Dom and Fabsi

Stefano & Maggi

Danny

Maggi & Thaler

TZ-Artistic Film

This is the classic way to shoot polaroids.

Björn

Thaler & KONE

Mt.Baker Snowboardshop

Kari

Justin

day dreamin..

Almost forgot about this one. I usually don't post stuff like this but this one is awesome!

Watch and enjoy!

The drive home sucked!

So, the drive back home started of with a fine for speeding (40km/h too fast), then I was two times in a traffic jam, one in France because of an accident and another one in Switzerland because they just can't drive cars. To finish off my streak I put 65 liters of GAS in my DIESEL car so I had to get my car towed by the automobile club and get my fuel tank drained before I could move on! 21 hours later I was at home...

the fine

the accident

the swiss

the move of the day

some more random shots

The San Sebastian Film Festival was as well last week and my friend Doro was working there for MK2 (french TV). She managed to hook me up with a ticket for "Exit Through The Gift Shop". It's a documentary about my favourite streetartist Banksy or actually the guy who filmed it. Definitely worth watching it. After the movie we checked out the awards for best South American Film.

Grumpy Gabe was pissed at us that day cause we couldn't make up our minds if we wanted to go surf or not...

Keller and his homies joined us for some Tapas that day.

Another beautiful sun set.

Oct 4, 2010

Crepes and Parfume!

After I returned from Switzerland I met up with Maurer, Hitsch, Gabe, Dom and Fabsi for another week in french land. We rented a pretty sweet house for super cheap. The crew drove all night from Zurich so everybody was super tired. Nevertheless we straight went surfing and for crepes right afterwards before they all just passed out. It was super fun hanging out with them. Since the americans haven't been there before we did a bit of a tourist week.

Americans and canadiens like Crepes a lot!

Gabriel

My friend Lene was organizing the EDEN-ETTE GARDENPARTY this year. I was there for the one last year and it was super fun! This year Crista was presenting her photos and had a exhibition. This one was not as intense as last year but anyways fun!

Crista, Sally, Lene, no idea who the guy is and Carmela

Lene and the artist

EDEN-ETTE GARDENPARTY.2

Gabe, Dom & Fabsi having dinner at Le Surfing. (obviously it was delicious)

Alien and Basa sure enjoyed our company..haha

Lovebirds.2

party people

Florent hates people who smoke!

Quick trip to Zurich

I had to fly down to Zurich for two days. The Freestyle.ch was on and Burton had a party bus/booth set up at the venue. We were supossed to have a signing session and team meetings but due to the bad weather that got canceled so I pretty much just went there to hang out, see people I haven't seen for a while, have a couple beers, get soaking wet and in the end I fell asleep so I missed the pirate premier..

I snaked this shot.

I was stoked to see Cyril since he left for his around the world trip the next day.

And it was of course great to see Jona and his parents!

The party bus!

Jake & Thomaz

Drei Tschuschn ausser Rand und Band!

I've been at the french coast for the last couple of weeks. The first two weeks I was hanging with my two buddies Flo and Maggi. I usually have a place to stay down there but since they were camping in a van I just joined them for most of the time and slept in my car as well. Pretty gipsy but I actually don't mind at all. We surfed for most of the time in France. We did some trips to spain too, which is only 20 min away, for some pinchos and party times! Maggi really enjoyed looking at the spanish ladies. He fell in love a couple times every day. I like hanging out in spain, the people is a little bit more relaxed than the french. Though I was super bummed when I returned from the beach one day and my car wasn't at the spot I parked it anymore! 160€ later I got it back...mega lame! We drove around a bunch and checked out various skatespots and beaches. For most of the time we were rocking the gipsy lifestyle which means just making food/ sandwiches ourselfes and spending the money for beers and fines.. It was so fun!