After the man made wonders of Petra we headed a little further south to the spectacular natural splendor that is Wadi Rum.
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أنا من القمر – Jordan Pt 7 – Amman to Petra on The Desert Highway
أنا من القمر – Jordan Pt 5 – Amman – The Canary Hotel
In my travels there are certain hotels, not the opulent and comfortable but ultimately faceless ones, but the cheaper more full of character ones, that have left an indelible impression on my memory, stories can be told (some not in polite company) about them and occasionally years later I wake up from a particularly vivid dream upset to find that I’m not in the hotel room I was dreaming of.
The “Navrang” in Delhi, The “Hotel California” in Khatmandu, “Thai Thai” guesthouse in Bangkok, The “Regale Internet Inn” in Lahore and The “Z hotel” in Puri to name just a few. The scenes of some of the greatest experiences and the best friendships of my life have begun in these places and many of them will remain with me till I make it to a rocking chair on a porch somewhere to reminisce.
Well now I have a new one to add to my list of places of which I sometimes dream.
I’m speaking of “The Canary Hotel” in Al Weibdeh, Amman, Jordan.
أنا من القمر – Jordan Pt 4 – Amman – “Innocence Of Muslims” film U.S. Embassy Protest Sep 14th 2012
Not content with nearly dying at The Australia vs. Jordan football game a few days before, when protests at the American made idiotic, offensive and inflamatory “Innocence Of Muslims” YouTube film erupted across the Muslim world, I thought…………
“Hey!, I’m in a Muslim country, why don’t I go down to the U.S. Embassy?”……..
أنا من القمر – Jordan Pt 3 – Amman – Australia vs. Jordan World Cup Qualifying Football Match – 12th Sept 2012
The day my wife left Amman was quite an emotional one, on the one hand I was sad to see her go (a few minutes sat on the steps of the hotel fighting back the tears, even though I’d see her again after only 2 weeks) and on the other hand that exhilerating sense of being alone in an unknown foreign country where all that there was was possibility.
Of course the possibility part is great but, it’s the alone part that doesn’t always suit (I’m a pretty social guy) so I wasted no time in inviting myself to sit with the table of westerners enjoying the warm evening in the front garden of The Canary Hotel later that day.
That one small act of pushy friendliness led to friendships that lasted the rest of my time in Jordan (and hopefully for long to come) and to some pretty crazy situations.
The first of which was the Australia vs. Jordan World Cup qualifying match attended by 16,000 people at the King Abdullah International Stadium in Al Qwaismeh, Amman.
Cycling In Tokyo – Irresponsibility + Incompetence
Four and a half hours in twenty three seconds – A tattoo timelapse
Fluterscooter & Friends – “The Fast and the Fluterious, Tokyo drift”
Fluterscooter & Friends – “The Fast and the Fluterious, Tokyo drift” – Live at the Apple store Ginza, Tokyo, April 17th 2012
I Love You But…..
Total Lunar Eclipse 10th December 2011
Charlie “Two Cute Dogs” Kirk – A Documentary
Charlie “Two Cute Dogs” Kirk is a 37 year old oxbridge educated Englishman who has been living in Japan for the last 9 years. He has been taking photographs for about 2 years and has been reasonably happy with some of his pictures for about the last year. He recently quit his job as an obscenely well paid lawyer to take a shortish sabbatical in order to scare more people with his flash.
A few months ago I had just finished a fiction short film project and was talking to a friend about what I wanted to do next. Film making had been a logical progression from my photography work and I had decided I wanted to make a short documentary film, but about what?
“Two Cute Dogs” – Charlie Kirk – A documentary – The Trailer
In Praise Of Young Men
I Long To Be Invisible Again
1 in 13 million – The only native Japanese Imam in Tokyo (UPDATED)
Dead Man Walking
Music:-
‘Seaside’ by Decipher (a previous nom de plume of mine)
Shinjuku To Harajuku On The Yamanote Line
Reversible
A Dark Wind Blows
I Need Someone Much More Serious
Nairobi – Part 4 – Dancing Queen?
As a follow-up to the last post about the free party in Kibera, it’s another video post, also shot at the same free party.
This time it’s those pesky kids again.
Enjoy.
Nairobi – Part 1 – Some of them are drinking wine
“Lavosti and Oren, Impromtu jam, Nairobi April 2010”
Rath Yatra
Located on the east coast of India, sixty kilometers from the Orissan capital of Bhubaneswar, lies Puri, one of the great pilgrimage sites dating back to ancient India.
A Symphony
A duet from Brian Scott Peterson and Jim O’connell.
Performed live and without the aid of additional amplification.
Truely an aural delight ;-)