Wow I am pretty late in getting this latest adventure up for the world to see, but as you may have guessed from a previous post, I was camera/arm-less (and more recently server-space-less) and therefore unable to take satisfying pictures, for which words do not do justice. Nevertheless, between the four of us who went (Evi, Sanyi, E and myself) there were two point-and-shoots and a MiniDV, raising the possibility of getting a semi-decent shot from nil to about 1% (based on the highly-unscientific law of photographic averages that states that only about 2-4 pictures of every 100 or so taken will turn out any good, and further compounded by a factor of -50% due to the lack of control and features of point-and-shoots). And yeah yeah I know that whole “it’s not the camera, it’s the photographer” maxim inside and out, but you just can’t compare these tools. Anyway, I’ll stop whining and get to the trip.

The “gallery” can be found here.

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It’s finally here - a never-before-seen photographic documentation of the strange world of the Japanese sex industry: The Pink Box.

This would be an awesome Christmas present, if I didn’t have to show it to my grandmother . . .

Just spent the evening at the Hungarian National Breakdance Championships. Teams from all over the country came and battled it out at the Nagycirkusz, or “big circus” to some hot beats (although the star wars break was conspicuously absent). There was also a lot of assorted entertainment, from a guy dressed up as a robot doing, you guessed it, the robot, to a exhibition by the first Hungarian b-boys ever to a head-spinning competition. The winner did 65 rotations. That’s about a full minute of spinning on your head. Even the judges performed, the best of whom was an Italian named Cico who had a scary mullet, but he rocked. Check this video for a taste of mullet power!

Overall, these guys (and one girl) were dope. It’s too bad I didn’t have my camera and a press pass.

Peep the website for the event here. (In Hungarian, but click around to find pictures and stuff)