Belly Dancer
| Date: October 28, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
This was taken at the Jeonju Sori festival in Korea where I performed along with ‘The Raghu Dixit Project’. This was at one of the open free stages where a bunch of belly dancers were taking us through their moves!
Continue Reading →The Pensive Skateboarder
| Date: October 14, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
I just love Harajuku in Tokyo because you see the craziest things happen there and right in the middle of all this, I caught this skateboarder sitting and lost in his own thought as he watched the world pass by! I did not squat and focus for this shot because I was sure I would pull him out of his pensive state, so I just aimed and clicked [...]
Continue Reading →Breakfast at Sea
| Date: October 13, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
This was taken just outside our hotel in Vladivostok, Russia. Siva and I ventured out of our hotel to take a look at the ocean. It was bloody cold for a bunch of Indians to be walking around but we saw the Russians walking around in jeans and T-shirts ready to go in for a swim! The platform was way out in the sea, atleast for a platform and [...]
Continue Reading →Airborne!
| Date: October 11, 2008 | Categories: Music | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
The Raghu Dixit Project in the Jeonju Sori festival in Korea. We have been playing with this line up for a while now and this was the last show of the South East Asia tour. The band was fully enjoying itself on stage and this was a perfect capture. Raghu, Vijay and me are airborne in a synchronized jump on stage!! Photo credit goes to our [...]
Continue Reading →Tomo – The Kanji Calligrapher
| Date: October 8, 2008 | Categories: Art, Family, Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Tomo is a Kanji Calligrapher who is originally a soilder who was part of the Vietnam war. Once back from the war, he wanted a drastic change of lifestyle and started his calligraphy. I happened to meet him when walking through Harajuku and stopped and got a nice little framed Japanese writing poster for Shilpa. The words of which read, “The [...]
Continue Reading →Dog Bomb
| Date: October 1, 2008 | Categories: Music, Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
The pavement on the main street in Harajuku is lined up with bands that play their own music, get their own set up, right from the drum kits to the PA to even the audience sometimes! This band we saw was called ‘Dog Bomb‘ and they were highly impressive with influences from RATM, SlipKnot, Limp Bizkit etc… They were hard [...]
Continue Reading →A Japanese Lamp Post
| Date: October 1, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
Walking through a park near Harajuku, we came across this little pathway which led to an amazing forest! well almost .. it was a perfect clearing in the woods and the whole path was lined up with these lovely Japanese lamps.
Continue Reading →Day out in the park
| Date: October 1, 2008 | Categories: Travel | Comments: No Comments | Share: |
I was walking through Harajuku outside Yoyogi park and I saw this boy completely astounded by what was happening around him with the wierdly dressed people and the loud music and craziness! But in his own way he seemed to enjoy the madness!
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