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I am a very open person. I have nothing to hide and if I would try it wouldn't work. That's one of the reasons why I never became a magician More notes

August 26. 2006 Sunyee Painting My daughter Sunyee is painting an elephant with a butterfly tattoo on his ass.

I explore the realms of the imagination. That's the easy part. The hard part is to come back again and trying to translate what you have seen. More notes

August 25. 2006 It's the journey Today 20 years ago I put on my Bavarian traditional dress, complete with lederhosen, suspenders, hat and stockings and held my thumb out on a Autobahn ramp in Germany. It has been an wild ride ever since (not that it was ever dull before that): From Munich I hitchhiked to Berlin, took the U-bahn to East Berlin got into a train to Beijing. I drank Quas on a stop over in Moscow, swam in 4Á Celsius water in lake Baikal and traded jeans and cigarettes with corrupt Russian train stewards. Not many people in Beijing had seen a white guy in lederhosen which didn't make much of a difference because they hadn't seen any white guy before. That fact let to dozens of bicycle accidents because people looked at me instead of the road. Cars didn't exist yet in China. Try to sketch but I couldn't be cause people would always stand in huge droves around me checking what I was doing. Took the train to Nanking, slept in Confucius' house wandered through the beautiful gardens of Shuzou and fought with hotel stuff in Shanghai. Got stuck in a taifun for 5 days on a cruise ship on the Yangze river on my way to Hong Kong. Met a Scottish guy in traditional gear as well in the Kowloon Sheraton, where I also save a drowning girl from the swimming pool. Enjoyed some luxury at a fancy hotel in Macao after I walked the whole length of the territory. Spent 36 hours standing in a train so packed that you didn't have to hold on to anything on my way to Guilin. Got saved from almost fatal food poisoning in a small village by a German doctor who coincidentally stayed at the same place. Tried in vain for many days in Chengdu to get a bus ticket to Golmud, got pissed off and flew directly to Lhasa instead. Enjoyed chang and helped a friend to carry an accordion through the city. Saw many fascinating monasteries around the country. Illegally hitchhiked into the dessert and almost had to fight the guy who gave me the lift because he wouldn't let me go out days from nowhere. Froze my nose off sleeping in minus 30Á Celsius outside on a 6 days dessert walk to and from Mount Everest. Slept in a tent 6,200 meters high and got altitude sickness. Crossed into Nepal trying to avoid house size bolder flying all around me because of an gigantic landslide and rode on the roof of a bus towards Katmandu. Got high on hashish, feasted on cinnamon rolls and went wild river rafting. Walked from sea level up to 5,600 meters and down again on a three week stroll around Annapurna. Saw wild rhinos from the safety of the back of an elephant. Celebrated Christmas in Katmandu with a real Christmas tree that my father sent me. Crossed over to India and spent New Year on a houseboat on the Ganges and was awed by the Tash Mahal. Raced a tuk tuk around New Dehli and relaxed in a palace of a Maharajahs in Jaipur. Shot a movie with Kirk Douglas in the dessert of Radjastan. Got bitten by millions of bed bucks in Bombay and got high on LSD in Goa riding an old Radjud motorcycle from beach party to beach party. Enjoyed a relaxed ride through the back waters of Keralla and cooled off on some hill station in Tamil Nadu. Tried to flee India's hustlers through Madras but had to fly out from Bombay. Traded T-shirts, liquor and cigarettes in Burma and partied my ass off in Bangkok. Spent a couple of weeks at the beach with my mom in Ko Samui. Was an extra in "Good Morning Vietnam" and had drinks with William Devoe and drew a caricature of Gregory Hince .Went to check out the Philippines for a few days. Saw Boracay in it's pristine virginity and drank gin with head hunters in the Cordilleras. Became a Chippendale dancer and painted with national artists. Modeled in TV commercials in Baguio. Shared a room with peace corps in Manila and slept in shifts because I always partied all night long and they were used to get up early. Traveled to Samar to attend a town fiesta and met my wife there. ....That was just the first year (and I probably forgot half of it)

Don't drink and drive. Make sure you finish your beer before you drive otherwise you can't hold your phone. More notes

August 21. 2006 Tim Yap Watch Launch Click on the pictures to see the series

I am not experimenting I just can't remember how I did it before. More notes

Party people are the best to shoot because they are totally relaxed. With a little luck you get some great colors and shapes and as it so happens you get a person with an emotion stealing the spotlight. The accumulation of luck is talent. More notes

August 21. 2006 Chivas at Kee Club Click on the pictures to see the series Hong Kong. - Chivas at Kee Club

When you ear is very itchy you can get quick relieve by wiggling your pinky really fast inside your ear. You might notice that occasionally your pinky might smell a little funny afterwards. I found out that if you dip it into yellow mustard first, it will mask the unpleasant odor quite effectively and as a bonus it helps to soothe the itching too. It is important that you dont use too much mustard otherwise people might think that you are weird or something. And also don't use French mustard, I hate French mustard. More notes

August 19. 2006 The Reincarnated Swan gets a little weird These pictures are more than two years old. It was an ambarrassing moment for me and maybe that's why I never edited them. Occasionally people do get a little of the rail. That's normal I guess.

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately I keep on forgetting to buy film. More notes

August 14. 2006 IFC 2 I am fascinated by this building. I saw it growing up. Heck, a few years ago I used to take a ferry from the spot where the building is located. I shot it from many different angles and different light conditions. This morning it had the light coming from an angle that made it look like it had hair. Unfortunately I was too lazy to get my ass up and take the picture. But this ain't so bad either, this one is more of late afternoon shot. It does look like a giant dick, doesn't it? Here is a picture when it still was a baby.

Now that I got myself established as the party photographer... Well, not really established but I do have a few columns in different magazines and the occasional job is coming in as well. ...since about one months it has become almost physical pain for me to attend any party. What do I do now? I became as disillusioned as a white guy living in Bangkok who is allergic to spicy food. More notes

Partially I became an artist because I don't enjoy to do things where I have to compromise. Off course it could also be regarded as some kind of Diva ambition. I like to think it's more about fighting for your thing. But I am not fighting for my thing (whatever that is) I am just evading those "not my things". More notes

August 9. 2006 Unfortunate Choices of Masturbation Hiding Places A cigar manufacturing company More unfortunate choices of masturbation hiding places

August 9. 2006 The Stick Insect Hunter Weblog The Stick Insect Hunter Weblog is like any other artwork a piece of self discovery. I have yet to discover what stick insects have to do with it all. All I know is that it seemed to be a good theme for it at the time and that I have re-occurring dreams of finding trees teaming with different species of stick insects in all shapes and sizes. The odd part is that those dreams are not the same one over and over again. They are very different dreams with different people in various locations. It just so happens that there is always some kind of stick insect tree and I always seem to be very happy to find it. The problem with having a fondness of stick insects is it seems that some people might think that you are weird. Well to those people I like to point out that I personally discovered 4 yet un-described species of stick insects, two of them smack in the middle of Hong Kong island. Take that Mr. Calling-me-weird. Since I haven't been stick insect hunting for a few years now (I had a small relapse in Cambodia last November, see below) and I never really knew why I called my website "The Aggressively Shy Stick Insect Hunter" I am contemplating on renaming it. Maybe something shorter and snappier. How about : "The Aggressively Shy Re-incarnated Swan" A yound stick insect couple making out in the jungle This ain't no stick at all. This is actually a praying mantis, closer related to the cockroach than to stick insects.

If it is true that the Big Bang was just one giant orgasm Then I hate to think that we are just sperm. More notes

August 8. 2006 The Theory Here is a theory of mine that could explain how Evolution and Creationism could exist side by side and in harmony. I threw in some Scientology as well for good measure. You never know maybe we turn this into a movie one day and it could come handy recruiting big shot actors. A few thousand years ago a spaceship landed on earth. It was filled with highly intelligent, although slightly geeky and totally goofy alien scientists. Those guys had a ball researching our prehistoric world. The most fascinating thing they found was some kind of an upright walking ape which displayed very rudimentary forms of intelligence like the ability of hitting one stone with another. Those alien dudes wanted to bring a sample of one of those beasts with them but unfortunately under section 48973546-B of the alien scientist ethnic code they weren't allowed to remove any life forms from their respective planets. But, those were good alien scientists and they had figured out how to clone life forms in a rather efficient way. Not only that, they would be able to enhance those basic signs of intelligence as well. They plugged a particularly promising hair from the head of one of those apes and got to work. And they were successful, well kind of. Unfortunately the clone looked extremely weird. It was much taller than the originals and also had no hair. But worst of all it didn't display any signs of that intelligence that let them choose those apes in the first place. It seemed their intelligent design has back-fired. Those guys were good, the best in their fields and they weren't used to failure. They were very embarrassed. If their buddy aliens at home would find out about their screw up they would be the laughing stock of their whole planetary system or whatever equivalent to that they have over there. So they plotted to keep this little incident between themselves and in a particularly dark earth night dumped their failed experiment into the grasslands and got out of here. Just before leaving our solar system the alien scientists decided to whip up some mathematical equation that would hide this embarrassment from other aliens and that is why we never had any contact since. The failure soon began to interbreed with those apes again which gave them back some of the original features like hair. It never fully recovered. It was only able to grow some patches of hair at a few weird spots and any proof of intelligence remained elusive.

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