This past few days, Caleb and I spent time in Utah at my high school friend, Ayae's place.
She is newly married to an awesome man, David.
Caleb and I worked together to make a multimedia work on Ayae.
It was very first time for me to work this way of more photojournalism. I didn't know what I was doing but thanks a lot for Ayae and her family for the corporation.
I've already learned a lot.

I'm looking forward to finish it when we get back to NY.

Shimpei

catching up with more people and places...

Arches National Park, Moab UT.

From the leather bars of San Fran, Shimpei and I hopped a greyhound bus. 16hrs later, at 6.30am, we hit Salt Lake City. From the Station we headed directly to Temple Square, where we met up with Ayae, David and Christian to watch the Pioneer Day parade. Around 2pm we headed to her house, had some food and hit the sack. At midnight we woke
up and hit the trail up Mt. Timpanogos. More on the grueling 6hr hike later.
Again, we were provided amazing/comfortable accomodation. Thanks to Ayae, David, Christian and Denise.

During our all-to-brief visit to San Fran, we stayed with Jeff's big(as you can see here though, somewhat smaller) sis, Kiera. We had some three philosophers brew, an unbelieveably comfortable/carpeted floor to crash on AND and a beautiful view from her deck. It was great to finally meet you Kiera. Thank you!
ps I think i left my lucky gray towel on your deck...? :/

Mark Hester sits veiled in the darkness of a San Francisco eve. We had drinks at Hotel Utah before hitting the psuedo-leather bar, Hole in the Wall. I wish we had more time, Markus. In Marks words, "Yes mon ami--twas not a dream but an all too hasty reality". Thanks for showing us a lil somethin. See you next time, friend.

Sorry for the terrible quality on this picture. We asked a passer-by for assistance....apparently she was a little shaky. Anyway, this is Lisa. She owns and operates Sweet Pea, a vegan cafe/bakery in Portland, Oregon. We were "those guys", who come in at closing time, order an iced tea and use wifi as long as possible. With a big smile, Lisa went above and beyond. Not only did she offer us a place to sit and access the web(long after closing time), she sent us packing with 5 delicious!! sandwiches. If you are in or around Portland don't miss out. Also check out her blog: http://sweetpeabaking.com/
Thanks again, Lisa!

Need I say more?

In Seattle we were schooled in the art of beekeeping. Here, Bruce(we are terrible with names, apologies if wrong)from Ballard Bees shows us the inner workings of hive-life. We were also able to sample honey directly from the source. Totally awesome. Thanks Bruce(?)! AND of course, thanks to our hosts, David and Mike for a great tour of Seattle.

-Caleb

In Seattle, David and Mike took us to see a great view of Seattle at night from park. It was very nice.

I wish we could spend more time in Seattle.











In Portland, Oregon.
At Mark Woolley Gallery, we met an awesome artist Eric and his cool friends. Thank you for telling me about this gallery, Sun!!

In the gallery, Jeff took his piece out in front of Eric's work and photographed. There were a lot of nice people in Portland.

After that we stopped by at Doug Fur.
It was happy hour and all the great food were $3.
I wanna live in Portland now.

Shimpei

Buffalo Jeff...

Wall, South Dakota

Post something

Hey everybody.
I've been really bad at doing the posting thing... Shimpei and Caleb have the computers on the trip and my cell phone just recently died . Right now, we're in Portland hanging out and we're gonna be gunning down the coast to San Fran tomorrow. We all have many more pics/videos that we want to post but it will take some time. Meanwhile, just know we are all being well fed from the epik buffet....

Jeff

Jeff, still working, photographs his first victim. The very cool, Stefanie Warmouth.

In Seattle, outside Dicks, Shimpei decides he wants to fight.

We went floating on the Snoqualmie river. Jeff, who got the little innertube(
not pictured), was told he looked like a teletubby.

David and Mike were excellent hosts in Seattle. We had a great time seeing the sights but even more fun playing with the chickens.

Jeff continues to work hard at Mt. Rushmore. We missed the Greenpeacers by a week, but next time Jeff is planning something on this scale.