A Week In America

Finally my external hard drive is all fixed, and luckily our really really nice South African next door neighbours let me borrow their computer and Internet for a week while their on holiday in Wales.

America was such a great time, only got a week there, staying on Venice beach, LA. Was such an interesting place, with great architecture, really weird and wonderful people and everything is so much cheaper. I Had A sick time.

From the start of the holiday, I could tell this was going to be an good one. At the airport my family was stopped before we got on the plane. This kinda worried me until we found out we had been upgraded to Premium Economy. Then after my entertainment system wasn't working, I was upgraded to Business Class. Was an awesome trip and i slept well.


*Watched Wolverine

*View From the Top

* L.A in all it's glory

On the way from the airport to the flat, saw some strange and interesting sites sites:




*Patriotism*(Chemist...)


Went shopping straightaway for supplies.

*ahh the sugary goodness


* Stuff Tastes Shit

Ended up eating so much shit while in America, two staples where:

*Breakfast

*3 Times a day

* View from roof of our apartment

Where we stayed literally was on the Venice Beach Board Walk, Was so good,



all along the beach front they had skate and bike 'freeways' which got you around pretty easily. So me and my brother Eddie:
* Miami Vice Stylin

spent the week often exploring. And went to some cool places and met some cool people:










*Exaggerated.




I thing I couldn't quite use to was how acceptable Weed was here, and how many dispensaries they had, like this:
And this
Which means there were also lots of these

which had a lot of these, strange alien bongs:

I was also surprised about how many tattoo parlours there were along the board walk:

They were all so friendly, but I spent most of my time at this particular parlour:


House Of Ink, They were really cool people working there, and I got to shoot some promotional stuff for some of the artists:

*Andrea Reverent


Felix

Also jus did some shots of Steve doing some work on some customers:

The skate park was jus down the road from where we stayed, so was really good to go down there and get back into some of my skating and also take some pix. Was a really good location, heaps good to go to in the arvos.



* Skater Dawg, He was so good to watch, all over the park.



* My brother took this, hence me watching him with my camera.

Also went to check out another local spot thats been featured in lots of skate movies, there was some young kids doing some sick stuff.


Later in the week we went to Universal Studios. Was very expensive, but worth it, the rides had such high production value, and had amazing effects.





* The Simpsons ride was a crazy simulator, So good, Such good graphics.
* It took three of these to get to one half of the park to the other

*Raging Hulk, and Eddie

*O.G, Blues Bros Car

The Jurrasic Park Ride was by far the best, I love the movie, and the ride was so good. Just a little short.


*Starts of Peaceful*Then goes to shit

* Then it ends like this:

* It was such a hot day, these things saved us, and some posing mexican kids too by the looks of it;* Surposedly Crash Bandicoot is a Universal Studios Character...

* Wall-E
* Surposed Marilyn Monroe look alike

* An another one, Made of Jelly Beans

*More Healthy food

The final day in America I was able to make a quick visit to the local freak show which was closed most of the time I was there, some strange stuff, like ;

*Conjoined Turtles
* Sword swollowing,( this guy was in the guinniess world record for youngest sword swollower and most sword swollows in a year which was 3,500 or something.)

* And A 5 legged dog amongst many other strange things.
I had an amazing time in America and having an amazing time still in England, Seen some great bands, seeing Trash Talk tomorrow, will get all the pics up soon.