2007 Image Archive

Sapa after the murderous lunch rush (success has its price).
George and Phuong keep things running smoothly during the lunch rush.
Edwin's shit list. The left is a proclamation that Dr. Helmut Zilk's honorary citizenship in Kugelmugel is revoked due to treason etc. The text is too rambling to warrant translation, and should be experienced in its native German anyway for maximum effect. The right lists more of Zilk's sins against the Republic of Kugelmugel.
Attachment of the house to the ground. The house is built around the cylinder that here can be seen anchoring it.
Despite his struggle against in his mind oppressive authorities, and despite placing the republic at "1 Anti Fascist Place", in a sublimely ironic way, the flag of the Rpublic Kugelmugel looks like nothing as much as the old Nazi flag, with the swastika replaced with a picture of the round Republic's sole inhabitant.
Street sign placing the spherical republic in the 2nd distict of Vienna, 1 Anti-Fascist Place. The explanatory sign below reads: "Dieser Platz ist dem grossen demokratischen Revolutionsführer EDWIN LIPBURGER der hier begonnen hat, die ganze alte moral abzuschaffen und alle Korruptions - Formen unter jeder Maske zu bekämpfen und auszumerzen, gewidmet." Or, in English: "This place is dedicated to the great democratic revolutionary leader EDWIN LIPBURGER, who here began to abolish the entire old moral and to fight and eliminate all forms of corruption whatever masks they may be behind."
Right above the top left window is a faded quote from Dipl.-Ing W. Zach: "Was sind Zweiecke?" / "What are diangles?"
Looking up the canyon.
Neighbor's back yard.
Saving Scott's house.
Hill in back.
The fire once it has started coming down the canyon.
Smoke from the fire before it crests the ridge. Compare to next picture.
Main room.
Another type of valve called a DIN-valve. It can use higher pressures than the K-valve used in the previous picture.
The first-stage of the regulator attached to the tank valve. This part takes 200 bar tank air and turns it into 7-10bar medium-pressure air. The medium pressure air is then delivered at ambient pressure through the mouthpiece by the second stage demand valve.
Buoyancy Control Device (BCD, the vest-like thing) with air tank and regulator + pressure gauge. The BCD is an inflatable vest. Together with the weight belt, the wetsuit and your natural buoyancy, you use it to control your ascending and descending. Mostly, though, you use your lungs as a control device and use the BCD for neutral trim.
Wetsuits and equipment at the lower deck.
Diver entering the water by menas of the "Giant Stride" (basically, hold on to your mask and regulator and take a big step into the water).
Rhianedd Jones, my diving instructor. Quick pronunciation guide: The first name is pronounced Rhianeth (called Rhi which is pronunced "Ree"), which is an old Welsh word meaning maiden or princess.
You don't see them in the streets much either - occasionally, a veiled one can be seen, almost always accompanied by a man. (This picture was taken at El Mercato.)
The Painted Desert in the northernmost part of the Petrified Forest National Park.
The Blue Mesa Badlands in the Petrified Forest National Park.
Grand Canyon, Arizona.
Sedona, Arizona.
Orbaden.
Tensta and Kista, seen from Granholmstoppen.
Vienna seen from the Leopoldsberg.
Sunset at Point Sur, while going south down the Pacific Coast Highway.
Leaving Yosemite National Park.
Pyramid Lake, CA.
Slivo - love it or leave.
St. Mark's Church, the parish church of old Zagreb.
This tower stands on the southern edge of the hill where old Zagreb is situated. Every day at noon a cannon is fired out of the topmost window as a memorial to the many battles with mongols and turks that have been fought here.
Statue of St. George just outside the Stone Gate.
City street near Ban Jelačić Square.
Birds near Tomislav's statue.
Statue of the first Croatian king, Tomislav, at Tomislav Square.
Zagreb cityscape at night.
Zagreb Cathedral at night.
Zagreb wellspring.
View of Kaptol Centar.
Renovated street 4
Renovated street 3
Renovated street 2
Renovated street 1
Stone gate 4 - goldsmith's gold.
Stone gate 3
Stone gate 2
Stone gate 01.
Street outside the coffe shop. This area has been heavily renovated recently.
The horizontally mounted ceiling fans at Bulldog XL.
Stipe.
My host, Leon, at the coffe shop Bulldog XL with Daria.
After ski at Tango.
The whole gang.
My and Annica.
My and Johannes.
Annica.
Myself, attempted self-portrait.
Camilla and Johan.
Johannes at after ski.
Good to know somebody died here.
Johan again.
Annica.
My.
Johan.
My.
Johannes.
My, Johannes and Johan on the edge.
The place for skiing. Just a bit below the 3 Marches peak.
This is what the transciever / off-piste equipment looks like. It is a backpack with a shovel, an avalanche probe (a 4m collapsible stick) and the transciever itself. The transciever is worn under your ski clothes.
Village in the evening.
Practicing the use of a transciever. (The kind you wear when going off-pist skiing.)
For some reason, you can buy a whole lot of Norway shirts at Ski Set at Place de Caron.
Val Thorens high street.
John's international cuisine, location 2.
John's international cuisine, location 1.
After ski.
After ski.
After ski.
Snowed in car.
Val Thorens, seen from a bit down the valley.
At the picnic.
The ski went from the little hill in the top right, across the ski slope, and down the big hole to the left. (You can see the track it made.)
My, obviously leading the search for Annica's lost ski equipment.
Annica, having retrieved her ski and binding.
The Cote Brune lift. This is the last lift you need to take if you're going back to Val Thorens from the other valleys - miss it, and you are officially Stuck In Menuires. I have raced to it so many times that I think it deserves a mention and a picture.
View of the runway from the side.
Courchevel airport. Note the sloping runway.
Suisses, my favorite slope in all of the three valleys. It is in Courchevel.
Mont Blanc, as seen from the top of the 3V2 lift.
Johan and Annica at the end of the 3 Valleys 2 lift.
Obviously a Texan, right? Nope - this is Stuart from London, with a ski suit that really stands out in the crowd. His buddy looks like Samuel Jackson. I was close to asking for a picture of the two of them together, but realized that annoying Samuel fucking Jackson with such a request could prove fatal.
After ski.
Penguinin' up and reading the map.
View of Val Thorens village.
Counterweights to the Caron lift.
Figuring out where to go next.
The gang.
Ice slab at Col.
Untouched snow at Col.
Johan followed by Annica down the "Christine" slope.
Camilla, waiting for the rest of the team at Chanrossa.
View down the valley.
Hotel near Prameruel.
View down toward Courchevel from below Vizelle.
View down Meribel / Mottaret valley from Mont Vallon.
My, me and Johan at after ski at Tango.
Sunday stats.
My with her DSLR.
Johannes and Johan.
Camilla, My and Annica.
The village, as seen from Cime de Caron.
Unfinished portrait of Mozart.
Original ticket to a Mozart concert.
The room Mozart was born in. The birds symbolize his music being spread all over the world.
Painting inside the Mozart family's apartment.
Outside of the house where Mozart was born. Everyone from Salzburg is required to pray facing this.

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