Whoa, sorry, out of it for a bit.

I've got plenty of pics from my recent Berlin and Barcelona trip to share with y'all. Just be patient with me... if anyone still reads.

Meanwhile. follow LordStebbo's twitter! Yes I fly from one thing to another without a care in the world.

After School

I visited a neat Hip-hop boutique called Dusty this morning, staffed with nice people, but let's be honest, I couldn't care less about hip-hop clothing.

The COOLEST place in Hong Kong is AFTER SCHOOL.
After School is a coffee shop, BUT WAIT - it's actually a design studio owned by this neat guy.
Poon Pokit, photographer/designer/coffeeman. I'm not exagerrating when I say the iced coffee he made was the best I've ever had.
Yeeeessssss.

Some more images to round out the wackiness of the place.

1960's school desks.

Nailed to the windowsill...
Doors everywhere.

Dude took a picture of me, taking pictures of him, whoa.

I just met Jackie Chan's son.

Yes I did. I went to Dragon I, the club which everything seems to revolve around here in HK, and Danny, who I met through an IntheMO connection, who is basically HK's goodwill ambassador, introduced us. Crazy.

Yay Miyazaki

They've turned music from Miyazaki's films into muzak over here. Insane I know. The first thing I heard was in the Mado Lounge in Tokyo, a high rise, fine dining-type place with an amazing view. A lounge, synth-heavy piano tune came on and I looked over at Hiro, our interpreter, and said, "Is that... Naussicaa?" Damned if he knew, but it was.

Now in Hong Kong, the main theme from My Neighbor Totoro is being played in cute little bells at the breakfast buffet.

This stuff actually works way better and taking Beatles and Billy Joel and turning them into Kenny G songs.

Typhoon!

The rain today is brutal, in an umbrella-destroying kind of way. I'm told this happens for days at a time. It's wet.

Getting Caught Up

Well I figured if I didn't start a blog for this, I'd probably never get around to making one. Right now I'm smack dab in the middle of my Grand Pan-Asian Tour, shooting, hip nightclubs, fancy restaurants and cool people for inthemo.com.

I'll get you all caught up over the next couple of posts, filling in the trip so far. Right now, suffice it to say, things is crazy. My producing partner, Maria Speranza, the organized one, has just left for the States because of a family emergency, which leaves me to finish shooting Hong Kong by myself.

Also, I'm going to backdate the entries so they appear as if posted on the day they happened. Hope this doesn't confuse anyone.

A preview of things to come:
Japan and giant green sheep
Tokyo AM/PMs
The best restaurants in Tokyo
Egoga wakadimasen!
How there are more airconditioners in Hong Kong than can possibly be a good thing.

Ah Hong Kong. This city is damn hot, and, justifiably I suppose, is the air conditioning capital of the world.

Check it out. Every building is like this.
EVERY building.

Okay, not EVERY building.

So yeah, hot. That said, it's a nice heat, even with the humidity, I gradually settled into it. It was like being in a sauna the whole time. Why is that good? I don't know. Maybe because I was in Hong Kong.