¡TUBERCUL0SIS!

I hate it when I leave my journal open.

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India has legit toilets.

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From Harsh Barge. Nepali skateboarders bombing a hill on their handmade skateboard. See previous post for backstory. 

As seen in my zine Harsh Barge. You may be thinking two things right now. Let me address those things. 

• yes, I am still posting photos from the Harsh Barge
• yes, I still have copies of the zine left

Moving on, this photo is from Nepal, when we were cruising down a mountain and came across these kids barging down the mountain too. But they weren’t on motorcycles like us—they were riding handmade skateboards! So sick! 

Their skateboards were made from 2x4’s, pieces of wood, nails, bearings (not actual wheels). One of them even had a pink sandal nailed to the top to sit on while bombing the hill. They weren’t going down standing up, but sitting on the board, even two people to a board. We had to stop and say what’s up. They were cool enough to pose for a photo. 

It’s sick knowing that there are other skateboarders all over the world, wherever you go. 

From my zine Harsh Barge. These are the naked Nepali boys I mentioned in an earlier post. Well, not all of them were naked, just two. One of the naked ones was missing half an arm. They were stoked to have their photo taken. I wish I could show it to them. 

From Harsh Barge.

In Nepal, we ran at the sight of police because we refused to pay the road tax for our bikes (because we are rebels with/out a cause), and after fleeing a small roadside town we stopped next to a gorge filled with herds of goats and cows feasting on the bright green grass. Next to the water were four or five young boys—at least two of them were completely naked. They came running when they saw us. I felt weird pulling out my camera in the presence of naked boys, but I’m professional about my work and….hahaha I can’t go any farther with that.

This kid was all attitude. He wasn’t naked. I took his photo. 

From Harsh Barge. Somewhere in Nepal. A fitting message—like getting an interesting “fortune” in a fortune cookie at your favorite Asian restaurant and trying to make it relate to anything in your life so that you’ll believe it’s true. 

From Harsh Barge. Schoolyard in Nepal. 

When my good friend Hunter got an iPhone 5 and a new carrier he brought his old iPhone over to my place and loaded all his photos onto my computer because he thought he wouldn’t be able to transfer them to his new phone. So now I have years worths of his photos on my comp just chillin, but luckily we are such good friends that he’s not embarrassed of any of the shit that’s on there and doesn’t care that I can see all of them. 

Here’s one of me that I found in there, from when I had the worst bloody nose of my life. 

Protest in Kolkata, India.

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We stayed with a guy named Deep in Kolkata. This is his brother. He kind of looked like Mario. He shirt said “I was born intelligent but education ruined me.” I wanted to get a photo of him without him noticing. This was the best I got. 

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Mechanic in Kolkata, India.

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