because I still love you all... man.
these are things. Photos of things.
because I love you all.. man.
these are people. Photos of folks
These are some photos from the Gorilla trip..
photos from the Gorilla Habituation project: Karagua Photos from the jungle
people I work with I never really took pictures of people before, but I'm enjoying it here...
some strange pictures a few odds and ends that I though might interest everyone.
Portraits from Kungulou A few photos from the Jungle... the real, deep, bad-ass jungle..
Portraits from Church Here are a few portrait images of people from the consecration.
Consecration photos Here are a few select images from the Consecration... tomorrow: more to come.
View imageJust in case you thought I was dying.. I am not. This was a rejected (by me) photo for my office portrait.
View imageSomeone gave me this perfect Gorilla Skull. It is larger than my skull. It is amazing. Now I have to figure out how to get it home.
View imageI am uploading this image from the classroom as I am delivering a speech on the power of communications technology. Pretty wild, if I do say so myself.
Last ones.. and my second favorite. Again worked a little more.
This is my favorite. I worked it for less colors, and black n white... just to see how it would look.
This one is a little different. Very rough..but the idea is there.
When I showed my pencil drawings. The African style logos got the best response. I chose to work on that direction.
these are my rough first pass at logos for GECEC.
see, this doesn't count as a wall picture because of the wires. Hah.
This is the window that I look at the world from. This may explain much.
Alex taking the video of the Messok opening.
This is the space ship that abducted me. I did not ask for the anal probe. I did not ask... oh, wait, this is just another picture of the water tower. Never mind.
This is another wall picture. That is it for now..but there are a lot more where these came from.
yes, I know, more wall. How boring. I like them though.
Another wall detail, texture, color thing.
another texture, color, detail thing. I really like the walls here.
from my space age bachelor pad baby. Yeah. Groovy.
Does a picture of a van count as a picture of a truck? This is the kind of van we travel around in. This is when we had to get out and walk a bit.. before it cought fire.
except for the other ones that I have.
A picture of a palm tree that I messed around with.
Here they are coming out of the mist.
the giant water towers across from the place I am staying in Yaounde. In the morning. Very cool looking. I'm not sure how they translate to static image format though.
This is a picture of the skit about the store opening, and AIDS. The women are wearing thier Tontine's fabric. Very pretty.
This is a picture of my foot. I have no idea why I am uploading it.
This is a truck with trees on it. I'm not even sure how many of these leave town every day. My next time lapse video might shed some light on the subject, but I think I keep missing many of them. Sigh.
another texture thingee. This time: thatch. There is a lot of it around. It is being replaced by corrugated tin roofs. That makes the rain sound really REALLY loud. I like thatch, but my computer doesn't.
this is my desk.. as stipulated in paragraph 8 of the VSO standard equipment requirements. With my desk, I will change the world. I will fix everything. It will be glorious. I will serve snacks afterwards.
This is a woman in the store that I videotaped the opening of. Still dangling, still mangling.
this is a picture of the store that I video taped the opening of. Is that a dangling participle? Wow, my language skills are diminishing.
for some reason my kitty likes it when I hold her neck..as if I am going to strangle her. It looks like I'm going to kill her. She is wierd.
some woman from the ROLD meetings. She was a trip. Very opinionated.
a page out of my sketchbook. I have three. This is the little one. I have been drawing some, but not a whole lot. Being here hasn't really changed my drawing style.. yet. We'll see if something changes.
Flip flops at the market. These are ubiquitous in Lomie.
last one.. this is the girl that was selling the goods. Goods. Sounds clinical.
This is the first of another series that I just couldn't edit well. A shack with kids in it, making and selling things.
another texture, detail thing. Sometimes I think being here is wasted on me.. I mostly enjoy the little details of life that I can see pretty much anywhere. I think I might be missing the really obvious stuff. Or maybe not.
So, every group meal involves the protocol of who eats when. Here, Paul, the SNV facilitator eats with the women... meaning first.
another pattern, color, texture thing. This time the bamboo poles in my house.
this shot was taken in Messok at the GECEC branch opening. Alex was to the right taking the group video. It didn't come out that well. He tried to treat it like a photo...but I like this shot.
another texture,color detail picture. The mud was moved there by ants. They seem to be pretty good earth movers.
another wall painting. I want to find out who did these.
A wall painting. Very cool. Something about the terminator in there as well.
trucks are a part of my life now. Big ones. Relentless ones. Vroom Vroom.
I'm a really bad editor... I should just have one of these up to creat a little mystique... oh well.
Same store, same town, same photographer.
this is a store near me.. at around 7:30 pm.
its pretty...and it is prettier when you can't hear the music that wails from blown speakers pretty much all the time.
One in a series of night shots of Lomie
another shot right before the storm.
I really like all the signs here. Hand painted...and very cool. The Barber Shop signs are cool enough and varied enough for a full on book. Anyone want to help me write a proposal to do one?
I know that the large postierior is quite the aesthetic here, but this is a bit much...
This is my mug shot of Thomas. He is the operations guy at the GECEC? I'm starting to think all guys named Thomas (or Tomas as it is pronounced) are great.
This is Bertrand. I work with him. He is the collection agent for GECEC.
this looks like what it feels like before a storm.
she is cute. I hope she is not dead when I get back to Lomie.
this is what I feel like on mondays and tuesdays after I take my meflaquine.
these cows are cool. Two get slaughtered a week for the town.
cows moving right near my place. On the way to some grass patch to eat before being eaten.
This is in Yaounde actually. Taken from the apartment where I am staying, early in the morning... with some more cool light.
This is Lomie, downtown, at night. I like these abstract pictures...or sort of abstract.
Patrice and Charlie after having been elected to thier new positions.
This is the market in town. This is the center of market in town. This is pretty much all of the market in town. That isn't really true.. there is a little more around back.. but it is not very big.
There is a variant of the baton which I want to try, called the Blinde... I guess after the armored vehicles. You mix in peanut butter, or dried fish, or meat into the magnok while it is still mushy. It hardens in place, and you get a tasty little snack.. that apparently is good for up to two weeks. Yummy. Who wants some?
Most people eat this as a side with meat, or vegitables (when there are some) and fish. I am strange. I eat it with peanut butter as a snack. It is very filling.
The cassava, a tuber like a potato, is pounded into a mush, and then wrapped while still mooshy. It hardens in its wrapper. It is the consistency of... of...well, its chewy. It has almost no real taste on its own except for a vague starchy flavor.
This is the magnok being unwrapped. It is always well wrapped. Each baton costs 25CFA... which is about... um... 5 cents.
This is a baton de magnok. This is what I eat alot. It comes wrapped in a leaf.
this was also not taken by me... of Lomie's main street.
I didn't take this picture. I like it,and it gives a pretty good idea of what the main road in Lomie looks like. This is pretty much downtown as well.
This is the pretty forest after it has been cut and loaded. This was taken from my house looking at a 'Grumier'. Even in death,they are magnificient.
it looks like aliens are trying to get in my house. I will fight them. I will not become a pod person.
just another in an ongoing series of photos that are of texture, color and detail with no real context.
...well, its my kitchen. What else can I say.
another shot of people watching the skit on commerce and AIDS. The tires are toys. Like the hoops you see kids playing with in Bruegel paintings, the kids use a stick to wheel them along.
the jungle is even more impressive when there is dense fog.
it just never ends... or at least it seems that way.
This is what you all came here for, isn't it? The jungle is bad ass.
I have no idea why I have this picture.
these goat pretty much live on my deck, and eat the grass in front of my house.
sorry for all the pictures of me staring at the camera. I think this is after I had my meflaquine for the week. At least I look a little more human.
I look like a mental patient... maybe I am.
I look pretty scary... oh yes I do...
This is a picture of the crack under my door. I really like it.
This dog had bloody ears, and was sitting in front of the store that was celebrating its opening later in the day. The flies kept landing on the open sores... but from far away, what a cute doggie, you know?
they are amazing, and I like taking pictures of them.
This is the church where the Pastor does his work. Hopefully, with a new robe soon.
Charlie looking like a little boy, while planning to take over the world.
um, this is just something that I liked. No real significance.
here is Alex taking pictures at the store opening. I fear I am a bad influence... he seems to have picked up my habit of making faces when photographed.
this is a friend of mine. We share the bathroom.. well, with him, and a few dozen of his friends.
this brochure was entirely lettered and drawn by hand. Awesome.
this is a nice simple shot of my bedroom. Spartan? A bit.
this is a still shot from my day as the videographer of the store opening. They were watching a short skit about the store opening, and of course, AIDS.
the sky here is amazing. This captures the color and the feel of light.
I can't resist a bad joke. I am so 12 years old.
this should be a picture of Alex, just sitting there...
a photo from my first or second day...
this is a quick view from my office. Welcome to downtown Lomie.
I know this isn't cameroon, but before it gets lost in my mind, I wanted to show that Slough really exists. For those who have seen "the office", Slough really does exist.. which is hard to believe. It is near Heathrow, and the passengers on the bus looked like they should work at "the office".
this is an interior of a well off cameroonians house. Charlie is my boss. that is his picture on the table.