Leslie Jordan: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet (Trailer)

Just watched this and found it very inspirational.  a celebration of honesty.  I want this quality of glorifying life thru the details to encoupas my new book.

starting a new book. Pictures of hope by a Hong Kong Drifter

In 2008/9 I was stranded in Hong Kong.  Couldn't go back to Shanghai, couldn't afford the price of a plane ticket to Oregon (home).  39 years old, penniless and stranded.  I had lost everything in Shanghai.  I still had a phone with an 8 megapixle camera (a luxury left over from better times) and I occupied myself, found hope for myself in documenting the wonderful city I was stuck in.  This will be the first picture in the book, which will be basically a collection of photos taken at the time.  Me in the tiny hostel room I rented at first in Tsim Sha Tsui in a shirt I had stolen from a vendor, a self given haircut (with really bad scissors borrowed from the front desk and a beard due to saving funds (no money for a razor) and water lifted from a convenience store.  When I look at this knowing how lonely and destitute I truly was, I can't help but see a joyful determination to survive in my face.  I will survive!  I will smile down my dire circumstances and survive. 

The end result were 1000s of amazing pictures of people and places in Hong Kong.  And yes, my survival. 

Up the reed

RMIT Video Class Project

preview of Sand & Sky

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Link to lulu

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Sand & Sky

Ok, here it is, the PDF based version of my first ebook.  I've tested it on ibook and it works great.  download it and open it with ibooks.  not sure yet if it works with nook, but any pdf viewer will work.  Enjoy!