Some of mine I like

Here's a bunch of photos of people; some who I know, some who I don't, but all who make for a great picture. Homo-sapiens everywhere, rejoice!

On the balcony of the Kobe maritime museum overlooking Kobe harbour on a beautiful autumn afternoon.

Back to Ako for a one-night-only opportunity to cram my face with the most delicious okonomiyaki this side of Osaka.

From Takayama up to Tazawa-ko, a loop through some of the prefectures I didn't get to the first time around.

Across the bight in '08

As is so often the case with trips where planning is essential, ours was horribly lacking. The sheer logistics of packing food and equipment for four people to live off for twenty days in a single night was something that I hadn’t planned on. At four o’clock in the morning as I was busy trying to work out which of Nick’s seven mosquito nets not to bring, it dawned on me that perhaps I should have started planning this a little earlier. Oh well, looks like noodles and baked beans it is.

Cookies are delicious delicacies.

Tokyo with Jenn

Acting Parisian in Inglewood

A day at the WACA in searing 51 degree weather.

Heading south over the New Year 2006.

Road trip southwards with Nate and the bluemobile.

Soldiers in the war against aging

The 2007 Jet Alumni Association regional conference in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Adam Freeland, M.I.A., The Sounds, Justice, Stereo MC's, MSTRKRFT, Digitalism, Lyrics Born, Goose, Yelle, Busy P, GreensKeepers, Riot In Belgium, The Herd, Scratch Perverts, FreQ Nasty, Muscles, Shapeshifter, DJ Delicious, derrick carter, Ajax, Craze, Kid Kenobi, K.I.M.

Avoid going mental: drive to the coast.

I've been living in Japan for a few years now and have been snapping away since the day I arrived. Whether it's secluded temples or high-rise concrete, Japan has it in spades. Here's some of my favourite photos I've taken whilst in the land of the rising insanity.

The long drive down to Karri country with Nate

Some photos of the beautiful pieces of art created for the 2007 Sculpture by the Sea festival at Cottesloe beach.

The big city, Tokyo, over a rushed few days. From fish and mystery shots in Shibuya, to hugging giant beer cans and listening to station songs in Ebisu and the artificial wonderland of Odaiba, we packed a lot in.

Screw the trees and the beaches, we brought Varadero to Perth for an evening of smooth sounds, strong drinks and a whole lot of Cuban style.

The Movember Gala Parte in Perth at The Cott.

Pop quiz: what do you do when you're stuck on a slow moving boat for two days with a bunch of Japanese university students, travelling businessmen and a few Europeans. The answer, the only answer, is that you get stonkingly, terrifically, terrifyingly drunk for the entire duration. Just like _everyone_ else on the boat.

We run riot on Kobe, for a big finale.

At Naeba, Japan

Skimmer clocks The Dali The Japanese girls A long way from home In tats and pokeys Waiting for a green man banging the pole "Oh my god!" she says, I feel weightless.

"Yeah," he said, "sleep." Sleep wouldn't come. When it did, it brought dreams that were like neatly edited segments of memory. -Gibson

Found in vending machines across Japan are some absolutely bizarre drinks in cans. I've taken to photographing the ones that catch my eye.

Wandering around two of the Five Grand Palaces built by the Joseon Dynasty in Seoul.

I rocked into Seoul without a great deal of planning, or indeed any real plans at all, only to find that the annual Lotus Lantern festival, featuring more than 10,000 lanterns, would be trucking down a street near where I was staying. After thousands of people had marched past my vantage point on a subway control box, and the crowd below me had screamed themselves hoarse, the crowd bunched in a huge circle around an outdoor stage and they shot millions of pieces of tiny pink paper into the air as we danced underneath.

The 38th parallel north, was the original boundary between the U.S.-controlled and Soviet-controlled areas of Korea at the end of World War II. Upon the creation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea in 1948, it became an official international border.

The most famous cherry blossom viewing spot in Japan, with over 30,000 cherry trees stretched up an entire mountain.

Probably the best bar in the world.

Hyogo's famous onsen town is situated way up north in a region called Tajima. There are 7 famous bathhouses here and staying at a local inn gets you into all of them to soak your face clean off.

The Yak, a pentagon shaped island a couple of hundred kilometres off the coast of Kyushu is home to some of the most pristine forest in Japan. It's also where Jomon-Sugi, the oldest tree in the world lives.

Four prefectures in four days and utilising a hell of lot more than four slow trains: The Chubu Challenge. Dare you accept it?

We caught an overnight train up, sweltering in its oh-so-hot confines for the evening, before cutting sick on Tokyo and Yokohama for five days. These are the results.

A three day trip to the cultural capital with Nick & Nathan for a shotgun tour of the best temples, the best karaoke and the best drinking games.

Kii-Katsuura, on the southern coast of Wakayama prefecture, is home to a fleet of ships that venture daily into the Pacific Ocean and return with huge loads of tuna that are auctioned off in the morning. It's the largest tuna catch in Japan.

Koyasan (高野山) is the center of Shingon Buddhism, a Buddhist sect which was introduced to Japan in 805. It's home to hundreds of temples housing thousands of religious artifacts and we stayed in one of the temples for a night in December. There was a tonne of snow around and it made for some great photos.

Floats used in the annual Karatsu Kunichi festival in Kyushu are cleaned in front of the exhibition hall the morning after the festival.

The Osaka Loop-line party, where hundreds of pissed up foreigners (and a load of Japanese people too) in costumes jump onto one of the loop trains around Osaka, run screaming between carriages and generally freak the shit out of locals before going off somewhere else to get furtherly sozzled.

A long weekend hop from Japan to Taipei to poke around and clear my head.

Kyoto, Nara, Kurashika & Hiroshima

The other big festival in Japan, Summer Sonic is two days of bands, beer and extended train journeys. Highlights this year: Bloc Party, TV on the Radio, Death Cab for Cutie, The Arcade Fire and Q-Tip

Saboteur's final gig. Spooky's in Ako.

The final night out with the original second crew saw a tour of all our favourite Kobe haunts. Curry at Sapna, two hours of Karaoke, cocktails at Becak and then off to Terras for Doom drinks. We wrote a big stack of embarassing tasks and the each drew two. Here's the results.

The Peron Festival is a yearly event in Aioi (Western Japan) with the two big events being fireworks on Saturday night and dragon boat racing on Sunday.

Travel in early January, 2005

China! Enormous red walls, flying people with swords, Chairman Mao, skewered seahorse served with chilli sauce and enough stereotypes to fill a book. A nine day hop across four cities in China in 2004.

The long haul from Perth to Coral Bay, via Monkey Mia in May '04