FROM BOMBAY TO LA

Love LIVES here.

LA stylin' 

I heart Venice Beach!

Land of low riders

 I love creeping through Venice Beach boulevard, a stretch of markets, trinkets, coconut charm bracelets, love beads, crop tops, muscle men, low riders, roller bladers, hippies, rustas, readers, healers, hot pants. To name a few. 

Nothing quite like the merging of freaks and chics of Venice Beach. I had my aura read, married a mexican, (almost) had kisses stolen and transformed into Cali chic dripping in trinkets, leather and slashed tees all in a few hours. 

Met a super talented artisian from Mexico, Ramiro Perez. A bowerbird by nature he creates jewellery from metal, rings, keys, wood, leather and gemstones, turning something ordinary into the EXTRAORDINARY. Not just an artist but a poet and prophet, Ramiro represents his Mexican roots and fuses LA flair seamlessly to create his one off  pieces. Peep his work here The Way of The Hand

LOUD in India (Kasol) - May 26th 2011

The Greenhouse, a 24/7 orchestra of creative installations, artists, dj's, trance music, endless turkish coffee and Camel cigarettes. Sound, colours, art, inspiration fuse together seamlessly to create a mind bending, transcendental powerhouse experience...

Pre party flavors. Shot of rum anyone?

...Ladykillers creeping through dusky streets...

LOUD festival @ kasol... a fusion of forest fairies, earthmen, pois princesses, dusky roads, river flows, deep hypnotic beats, psychedelic colours, mind & body trance dance penetrating into the night inducing a circus freakshow delight

Catch the action here !!

LOVE TO THE MOTHER LAND.. INDIA !!!

Back in the beloved streets of Bombay

 Sunsets at Breach Candy. The only way to spend your day in the scoulding heat of Bombay..

Blue Lagoon

Yoga Island

Something about this Security guy doesn't quite look so 'Honest'

Drive by coconuts at our local wallah in Lisa's pimp new ride. (ex) Driver Ravi is now merely a watchman. Chickwagons rule!!

Shout out to Angela Jonsson, Grazia covergirl and local Stunner!

Big X to you lady! 

Yoga moves, organic breakfast, pomengranate and rose water juices, pro biotic frozen ice cream, cruising streets of Bombay, The xx, manicures, parsu's excellent byriani... what an epic grand finale in Bombay. India my home, my love, my life! I've been touched by Mother India, blown open never to be closed again! 

Kickin' back Bombay stylee

20 Indian memories etched into my psyche

1. Namaste!

2. Everything in india is possible or NOT possible.

3. Same same but different. General saying used for everything.

3. Never getting an order right, mainly because Indians avoid writing down orders. The real joy begins when they start to run through your order, obviously getting it wrong asking you to recite the entire menu again. JUST WRITE IT DOWN.

4. Better yet when they leave a pencil and paper for YOU to write it down.

5. Ordering a meal or drink and having a completely different experience depending what mood the chefs in.

6. Ordering a meal to be told an hour later there is no pasta.

7. Why like this? An expression used for any question or query, commonly overused eg. customer becoming frustrated at lack of efficiency to which is responded 'why like this?'

8. The sweet, sweet chai. 

9. Never having change for 100 rupees. Not possible.

10. The trains. Non a/c. Say no more.

11. Occupational health and safety risks EVERYWHERE. eg. minor electrocution plugging into power socket, cracked roads held together with boulders, surviving bus rides (note to self wear padding and helmut), rickshaw rides into oncoming traffic/cows/children/objects

12. Having a completely different experience in every place you visit.

13. The children, wise beyond their years.

14. Trains that go forward.... then back again. 

15. Lack of personal space and public grooming.

16. Spitting

17. Cow dump and being head butted by cows

18. Parasites and bed bugs

19. Smoking chillums with bubbas

20. The lack of system, it's a wonder this country even functions. India is a MIRACLE.

INDIA, I LOVE YOU !!!!

CHAI. CHILLUMS. CHAPATI

Chai, chocolate, people watching. Best seat in the house.

What more do you want?

 

Watchin' the world go by, kasol stylee

 Hot tubs on steaming hot days. Somehow it makes sense.

Chillums! chillums! chillums! Infusing, working, cleaning, smoking, feeling, floating.