Beaches, booze, ooze, girls and ghouls.

The paradise island Boracay is being invaded by waves of foreign monsters, eroding the natural beauty until nothing is left but the facade of human spectacle. Boracay is where tourists show up for the week expecting to relax, get sucked into the night life, stay up all night, and end up leaving the island more exhausted than when they came. It’s where death goes to have fun, and people turn him down.

The extremes come out into the open, like day to night. It is a resort where people save up money to spend their vacation, it is also an island where some of the locals don’t have enough money to get off the island. There are only more tourists to come.

Here’s a New York Times article that goes into Boracay a little more in depth: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/travel/11Next.html

Music is “Traffickers” by The Reflecting Skin.

I found a giant in the Philippines, and her name is Tren.

The Karst peaks along the Li river made me realize that the misty mountains depicted in Chinese ink paintings actually look as magical in real life. Located in Yangshuo, Guangxi Province, China. Shot with a Sony HX1.

Music by the Gorillaz “Hong Kong”

When I was in India, especially when purchasing something, I could never tell if I was getting a “yes” or “no” response, because of the way they tilted their head for “yes” instead of nodding. Seconds would go by where I would repeat, yes? And they would respond in the same fashion, and I would repeat…yes?

I noticed similar differences in the Philippines, so I put them all together in this schnazzy little video!

Thanks to Kumar, Krishna, Brinda, Maz, Janis and some randoms on the street for sharing.

Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) gives one of the most surreal performances I have ever seen the last Saturday of every month. If you ever intend on being in Cebu, Philippines, I’d say skip this video and watch it live!

However, if for some reason (like you’re halfway around the world) you can’t make it out to this tropical island, I hope you enjoy my addition to the whole Michael Jackson/Inmates/Dancing/Thriller/Ladyboys/Youtube canon at least a tenth as much as I did seeing it live.

Shot it all with one Sony HX1 Cybershot camera.
Music by Caravan Palace.

Without a doubt one of the standout performances — rocking it out to oldschool Pachelbel’s Canon.

CPDRC and me!