Tuesday, February 28, 2006

and make it past your color tv

(January, 2006. Homantin, Hong Kong.)

Aside from my Rufus-Pretty Things broadcast: Last night, even though it was pouring rain, Andrea and I went to see my fairy girl sweetheart Noel (illustrator and musician) play a gig in West Hollywood. It was the sweetest happy-sad pretty music I've heard in a while. (Go check it out, I esp. recommend Fool and Love Boat. Go on. I've been playing those songs all morning.)

Major trauma afterwards when I realized, 2 hours after we'd left, that I'd left a roll of shot film in the club. I thank Miss Offermann for being supportive and understanding in our search and rescue efforts, esp. when 411 kept giving us the number to that cat shelter... I don't recall ever having lost film before, but last night, just the possibility freaked me out to no end. Your mind is focused on the shot, and you *do* lose sight of other things when you start shooting. Which is one of the reasons why photographers have assistants, and when it works, the arrangement frees them up and allows them to concentrate on shooting...


(February, 2006. West Hollywood, California.)

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Monday, February 27, 2006

be a star and fall down somewhere next to me

(January, 2006. Hunghom, Hong Kong.)

Help me out people, I've just revamped my website. If you've got a moment, please head over there and let me know if the images are taking too long to load, if any of the links don't work, if there are any other problems. Thanks!

http://www.mimikophotography.com/

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Sunday, February 26, 2006

from where you are to where i am now is its own galaxy

(December, 2005. Homantin, Hong Kong.)

I keep going back to Rufus Wainwright these few months, specifically Want One and Want Two. I really like his lyrics. I wonder if I can stick with blogging to the rest of this song this week?

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

malibu pineapple

(November, 2005. Los Angeles, California.)

That was the last cocktail/alcoholic beverage I've had that I actually enjoyed. This week, on two separate occasions, Kitty and Pepe asked me if I drank (was at a comedy show with Kitty and had dinner with Pepe and 7 other people). I do drink, not too often, mostly cos I don't really like the taste of alcohol. When someone offers me wine, I ask them just to give me a sip so I'm participating but not wasting the stuff. It's fruity girly drinks all the way for me. Oh, and Belgium fruit beers. Had some blackcurrant beer with Kat and Pijus so long ago when we went to have Belgium food in the Meat Packing District in New York, and that was really nice. (The apricot one was bad though.)

On another note, did I tell you that Yevgeny Plushenko is the Prince of my Winter Olympics? Well, he is. (His performance last night at the gala exhibition was just... he owned the place!)

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Friday, February 24, 2006

i'll never know what you've shown to other eyes

(December, 2005. Pasadena, California.)

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Thursday, February 23, 2006

free admissions thursday

(February, 2006. Los Angeles, California.)

Kitty and I went to MOCA for half of the Masters of American Comics exhibition last week, and went running around finding our way and shooting our way through Downtown LA. (She shot wedding stores, I shot her shooting wedding stores...) We're going to see the other half of the exhibition at the Hammer today + lunch at Sasabune~

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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

they sell the best dried mango pieces in town

(January, 2006. Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.)

Lights outside of Yiu Fung. Would have liked to shoot the store itself and show people all the rows of jars and stuff, but I didn't quite dare to point a camera directly into the store, with customers and store people. Am I being too polite? I would do it if they wouldn't notice me, or if I wouldn't be in their way, but sadly, no. (This is why I'm not a photojournalist...?? :P)

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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

possibly my favourite set of stairs

(May, 2005. Exeter, New Hampshire.)
... down to the places where the marble has worn down from all of us treading on it through the years.

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Monday, February 20, 2006

me 'n a tree

(February, 2006. Pasadena, California.)

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Sunday, February 19, 2006

if snow white went through the woods on a moped

(February, 2005. Pasadena, California.)

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Friday, February 17, 2006

25 cent joy

(February, 2005. Los Angeles, California.)

The last time we were at Fred 62, Andrea got us all fabulous plastic rings. (What do you call these machines? I can't think of the english word for them. :P)

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

just drive all night

(December, 2005. Homantin, Hong Kong.)

(November, 2005. Glendale, California.)
Sometimes, sometimes, I just want to keep driving. Just drive and drive and drive till I get to I-don't-know-where. There's something about having a car in America, this feeling of possibility.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2006

no, seriously: happy valentine's day

(February, 2006. Pasadena, California.)

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happy valentine's day, everybody

(April, 2005. Pasadena, California.)

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Monday, February 13, 2006

evie and denise

(January, 2006. Happy Valley, Hong Kong.)

(August, 2005. New York, New York.)

Shout out and love to my sisters... It sucks that you're 7000 miles away, but then I have people I can call in the middle of the night when I'm lonely. (Use those mobile phones, girls!)

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Sunday, February 12, 2006

miss claire h.


(February, 2006. Los Feliz, California.)

I like Claire's place. I hope my next apartment will have as many windows and as much light.

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happy new blog

(February, 2006. Pasadena, California.)

The light in Los Angeles can still take me by surprise. I don't know if it was the smog, or a forest fire somewhere, but the light was pink and orange at 2pm one day last week. You know those t-shirts, purple and orange and pink sunsets with California written across? Sometimes I feel like I'm living in one.

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