What are your jeans doing today?

[rnrswitch]

To tell you the truth I was a little bit sketchy on going into the mines. You know cave-ins, collapses, etc. and when looking at the entrances of these mines my mind wasn’t settled much. The stories that Mike and his father-in-law didn’t help either. Mike told me not to worry about these mines, but that the mines the Chinese worked in were typically about 4ft tall and many times the workers needed to crawl in and out of them. Russ (mike’s father-in-law) was talking about times when he was wedging through a crawl space and the ceiling would crumble any time something brushed against it… very reassuring.

Some shots of the entrance of the main mine we went into:

The mines that we originally went into were not the mines we had intended on going into so we travelled further up the canyon to find the mines that Mike had in mind. He had scouted the area prior to us going up. After not finding the mines that Mike had seen before, mike’s wife and Russ had a barrage of comments about Mike’s navigational skills. Hahaha. So we headed back down the canyon where we had seen a few other mine entrances.

This is a picture out in front of where another few mines had been dug out. None of the mines led anywhere. It seems that whoever was digging didn’t find what they were looking for, but the result was like a honeycomb effect on the mountainside.

My father-in-law and me:

The trek back down the canyon seemed a lot longer than it did coming up. Some of the scenery.

Back at the site we looked over the loot.

[rnrswitch]

I washed the denim pieces just by running them through some water. The denim still felt like it had some starch in it after it had dried.

The transformation is really easier to see in real life. The pictures don’t do them justice.

Here is another piece I had found. It looks like a brown twill fabric. Almost like a heavy chino or something. It looks like a fly. There also seems to be some rotted tack button or rivet connected. I would think it looks like a rivet as there is no button present. If it is actually a rivet, then that would mean it may be levis. Does anyone know of anything like this that could have been made by levis at the time?

This is the spot where it looks like a rivet was attached at some time.

Here is a pic of the backpack I made for the venture. Made of sanforized CONE selvedge denim. Thrown together in about 4 hours. It worked well, but I plan on making some changes. I didn’t have any buckles so the straps are fixed length right now. I will add some buckles so that they are adjustable.

Overall, I have got to say that this was an amazing adventure and Mike and his family were extremely welcoming. They fed us and would have housed us as well if we didn’t need to get back to our own family. Lovely experience that I will definitely do again.

[zeen]

^wow those pictures are awesome. That MF vest and Roy ducks are so nice. Thanks for sharing with us a piece of history, i'm only looking at the pictures and yet i feel like i'm the one whose discovering them jeans.

Sorry but must spread..

[farmer]

^nice find Indy!

Picked tomatoes...

S0210XJ

Then cooked em'

mVT8SrB7ImY

boiled down to some Cherry Tomato Basil Risotto with pan fried Heirloom Tomatoes and Goat cheese.

[ah_long]

I was in Beijing for 24 hours~

Buzz Rickson & Sugar Cane & ALD Belt

So I ate @ this place for dinner...

And what's Beijing w/o Peking Duck... this particular duck is roasted with fruit wood, it's tasty

The next day I went to this street with all the good street food

[ah_long]

cont'd

Lamb Skewers

[ah_long]

So I manned up and got the scorpions

Then went to this place for duck, ate half a duck myself, they roast it when you order, it's amazing!!

Beer in the morning!

[ah_long]

Ducks waiting..

Duck Roasting

Side Dishes

Duck Soup

[therelativity]

ah_long, you live in Beijing?

[ah_long]

nope, I live in Toronto

in fact, I'm going back to Hong Kong tomorrow for a day and then i'll be back to Toronto until the end of the month where I will go to Shanghai again.

[zeen]

^ah_long I used to keep those scorpions as pets, M. Martensii (chinese golden scorpions and H. Spinfer (asian forest scorpion).

Whats the story behind eating them? (interested to know)

[ah_long]

not much of a story really, just that I feel I need to eat them..

they have them skewered alive, they are actually still kicking when they are on the skewer..

if you had the small fried crabs from asia, they taste exactly like that

[Christmas In A Submarine.]

{two days ago}

xpost from TFH thread

Eating a waffle sandwich, waiting for the rain to stop in NE pdx

latepass, which waffle cart did you go to?

[tg76]

me and my customised uniqlos put on our birks and dyed some blankets to make curtains for the lounge

after ordering all the dye we realised we didnt have a big pot so mr welded up a laundry sink so we could use it and helped set up the best heating set up

then we soaked each blanket and dyed them one by one

we also dyed some margiela gloves cause they were a fugly shade of blue

then we pulled the steaming blankets out and drip dried them

12 shades of blluuuggh

today after cutting my hair me and my apc's sewed the backing fabric, coated drill, we have very tired arms from all that work

poor us

[roy6]

(About two weeks ago)

From the Manago hotel, near Captain Cook on the west side of the Big Island of Hawaii, we went down again to Pahonua o Honaunau, the place of refuge. If you broke any of the ancient Hawaiin laws, even ones which carried a death penalty, if you reached a place of refuge like this one, you couldn't be touched. Like finding sanctuary in a church, only with a beach and turtles.

Then we drove across the mountains on the saddle road., which runs between the two major dormant volcanoes shown on this scale model:

The terrain up there was not terribly different from inland California- dry, rounded, and brown with dried grasses under brilliant blue skies:

Dotted with small farms:

There is a heavy military presence in inland Hawaii. We passed a large base and several convoys of large trucks and Hummers. The real kind of Hummers, not driven by rich ladies with blond pony-tails pulled through the backs of their Northface baseball caps talking on cell phones:

[roy6]

It was unusually dry on the Big Island, and we got detoured around a large wildfire:

Some mounds of earth along the detour, left over from mining:

[ranonranonarat]

sorry if it looks like the "what are you eating today" thread, but its not.

headed out today. havent gotten used to the cold weather yet but had a lot of hot food so it was great. some flyer for a banksy screening. pretty cool stuff that the guy does, might decide to go but who knows.. looks kinda shady but i love that guy though.

had lunch at this place with my girlfriend and her friend. this place is called nandos and they serve chicken and burgers and fries (lots of it) with peri-peri sauce. i love this shit, its so good. we have an outlet in singapore as well but i havent been since the queue is always too long but the chicken is real good and the fries are always done so well. love it.

no pictures but caught the scott pilgrim movie after lunch. possibly the second worst movie i ever watched in my life, after "ultraviolet". it made no sense at all and seemed pretty lame to me. mabbe it wasnt meant for people my age but i still expected more. headed out to oxford street after that where the gf wanted to check out a sale. tons of ann d, DVN, marni and ninja goth kinda shizz but nothing for me. check out the shirt that i wear too often for my own good.

walked around for a bit since the weather started turning slightly warmer and more perfect. right round the corner was this chocolate store which had a lot of tempting chocolates. they came in all shapes and sizes and colours and flavours and shit was so tempting i had to try some.

chocolates

and more

made the gf pose for me to re-enact my award ceremony of me winning the eternal contest at the end of two years.

oh look, BiG is awarding us chocolates instead!

i love nuts (no pun intended)

you know what this is? this is the fucking legendary magic mushroom. the top was a nice wafer like thing coated with champagne mixed chocolate and when you bit into the head (no pun intended again) you got a nice surprise.

this caramel shit just squirts into your face (i swear no gay). it really did squirt onto my face. this caramelised shit is fucking good i dont know how these people make shit like that. we bought champagne truffles and macadamia nuts with chocolate and tons of shit like that. my throat hurts fuck.

[ranonranonarat]

walked around more to work off some fats and get to dinner. i love oxford street, it is the shit although i dont have much to buy, the place is just really laid back to walk around with tons of bookstores and stuff. check this out, they have cool shops like these where you can trade your F.O.B factory/samurai/eternal/mister freedoms...

for "7 for all mankind" jeans. i bet you guys almost came in your pants.

walked a fuckload and turned round and round corners since im such a noob but managed to get to this japanese restaurant. place was smoky as fuck but it was 49AUD a pop for japanese buffet. i would do this all over again. catch was that you had to finish eating within 1.5 hours and the last order would come at the end of the first hour. im all smokin' and raring to go.

air vent thing to suck the smoke up but didn't work shit because i ended up smelling the same as the pot to hold the charcoal. i smelled like a coal miner.

bbq-ed meat like cow tongue, pork, beef shabu shabu, sausages, squid, etc etc, wouldn't you like that in cold weather?

oh yes im not gonna fuck around with the clock cos im hungry as hell.

all you can eat sashimi. who wouldn't? i love this shit.

ordered eel rice as well.

weird i know but had to have a salad to balance all that oily shit out. fucking good dinner it was.

ended the night with english breakfast tea to clean it all up, at some cafe. lovely stuff just sitting and drinking tea.

can't wait for tomorrow's breakfast already. stay safe sufu fam.

[Baeyer-Drewson]

^Where did you just move from ran? Are you in Sydney now?

[ranonranonarat]

Hey baeyer-drewson, yes i'm on holiday now in sydney and will be here for three weeks! I'm from singapore originally,

[triiiangle]

ah_long: Your photos are amazing!

[k4727]

spent a few days in doha, qatar

HOT AS HELL but without a doubt the most stunning hypermodern city i have ever seen (dubai's got nothing on it)

[morse9443]

world recession=end of wild oil riches=end of "hypermodernization"

what a run the world had..

[k4727]

nah man, doha and abhu dhabi just quietly stored away money for the last ten years rather than spending ridiculously like dubai, its unbelievable what they still have in their bank accounts

[wgmds]

Denim and immaturity goes bowling.

[Ammit]

Today I went to an Air Show at a local reserve base with my friends from my Air Force ROTC detachment. Pictures aren't the best cause my point and shoot can't do ultra zoom.

Inside a C-130:

Nose Art:

The Spirit of Freedom, one of the planes used during the Berlin Airlift:

The few decent pictures I got of an F-18 passing overhead:

[Ammit]

I managed to get this one picture of a B-2 flying over as I was heading back to the recruiting table we had set up:

Then the finale, the Thunderbirds. Unfortunately my battery died during their routine and we also started to leave early to avoid traffic.

This one was going so fast I barely got it in the picture:

Upside Down:

And a WAYWT pic in front of the C-130:

[ThinFinn]

me and my jeans went fishing yesterday:

[ranonranonarat]

ThinFinn you been working out or smth? dude just got a lot bigger.

[zeen]

^nice trout..