JACOB LAMBERT

¡mas adventura!

2012-02-15T08:18:00.005+10:00

Bolivia is amazing and I need say no more but I'm definitely going to, although this spanish keyboard is minorly infuriating to say the least. We finished shooting the music video two days ago (apart for some small cutaways) which was majorly relieving as It had been playing on my mind a bit for this trip as I felt the task of making a non skating video that has a budget quite daunting, pretty happy with how it went and I'm stoked on some of the shots I got and working with the Direction of Rueben is multi-ideal!! To celebrate: Reuben, Will, Myself and two of the guys we've met here, Zoberto (one of the actors, speaks no english and pronounces all 'r's as 'z's) and Norvin and Bolivian/American/full time translator for us went deep into the wild to enjoy the best parts of this country. It was a two hour walk and then even more to the cave that we'd inhabit for the night, we ascended a huge sandstone cliff, about 60 meters, that had a 30 meter spire that perfectly replicated a samurai. We stayed up there for the sunset and then after the sun had gone down, without a moon and almost constant cloud cover, we all set off and descended down a crevass that took us from ontop of a huge sandstone landmass, down about 50 meters to the level of the floodways that tore this rediculously beautiful landscape apart. At times it was a sideways situation as it got as thing as 30cms and the drops were pretty scary, luckily there wasnt much water but enough to drink/splash on my overwhelmed face, soothing my lips that were cracked beyond repair from a combination of the dry air and my uncontrolable smiling from what we we{re seeing. Looking 40 meters up to a tiny sections of starlight cascading down the sandstone will be in my head until I die. My bed wasn't majorly comfy but the spaceship was the most ideal location I could've dreamt of. Tomorrow we head north to La Paz which will effectively end this chapter as Reuben is heading back in a weeks time, Will and I are going to go through Peru and a bit more of Bolivia and Chile.. My flight is on the 14th from BA but I want to come back early so I can get over to Paris asap as, even in times of such glory (right now, not on this computer but this trip,) I'm struggling to bring myself all the way back.

Ive been shooting bulk film in Bolivia which goes for yesterdays ridiculous adventures but I took a few digital ones, the first is part of a timelapse and the others are from when i borrow Reubens 5D, the d90 was struggling without a decent moon so I'm greatful to have gotten anything, 200iso film was not going to do my any favours either...

(this is a novelty sized post, 24 photos I think, lots of unrelating stuff, as theres a good chance that my next post is once again a very long time away)

more team photos, minus myself.. 35mm can't remember which brand etc, developed in Sucre.. The developing is insanely cheap but pretty crap, going to cry that tear back in brisbane where the processing is great and the scans greater

Reuben trying to catch dinner

one of the few moments the moon came from behind the clouds and I squirmed at the beauty of where we were.

the spaceship, inexplicably perfect in every way.

the landmass that we went through

a view from my horse, just north of Tupiza

more horse mounted photos

my buddy! except for when he galloped after wild horses and i found myself wildly out of control, letting the horse dodge the fields of cactii... Bolivian workplace health and safety is highly intriguing but equally ideal

some more photos from the trek

Surce, visit here!! nada fiesta moi tranquillo

photos from the Soul Garden, end of November for my birthday. Fuji Pro-s 160

hopefully some of you know who Anna is so this doesnt appear like just a technically terrible photograph..

this ones not from the soul garden but the same roll of film, i hate the exposure but i like these two characters.

my friend mitch is in the snow (Japan!) and ive been looking through some photos that i had from our most recent trip and found this, i uploaded a similar one ages ago but this one is so much better!! craving the snow pretty badly

Dear Reality,

BMB don't SMA.

Regards,

Jacob

all time intrigue

2012-02-08T12:37:00.003+10:00

The last three days has imposed some pretty serious thinking on my part, trekking three days through the lower reaches of the Bolivian Andes (Maragua and Potolo we stopped in, the rest was just general mountain) I think we covered about 40-50k and the entire time I was in awe, not even the agonising strain on my body could send me away from the visual delicacies on hand. Thankfully the altitude was only 2500m so the air wasn't unreasonably thing but it still played a part, I've never voluntarily hiked like this before (or hiked like this before full stop) but I'm so keen on doing it for the rest of my life. Infact, after this sample of intrigue, Will and I have decided to ascend a 6100m mountain in Northern Bolivia, it snows all year round and theres effectively no chance of a view but I've developed a need to climb this thing and I'm pretty excited. Next time i'll refresh my mp3 player though and preach supreme levels of snacktion!

The trek was so ideal, I've never had so much time to think, obviously i have, but it was different this time around as the thoughts had to be great, as low spirits would have sent me away, so stoke was the order of the days and it allowed me to comprehend my predicament at hand involving a very very lovely lady and our year long geographical disparity. Accompanying this I've been reading a book that the godman Tom Pyle gave me called Prometheus Rising, the combination of the two has allowed me to begin to fully comprehend whats going on in my head, it's fantastic! Logic has never been so logical, as have the things I normally find illogical!

Reuben and I started shooting some stuff for the clip, fillers mostly so timelapses etc... I got some film developed here too which is always enjoyable, once again I should shoot more film but I need cash money and the d90 is doing me well. I've also gotta get over to Peru and skate some real mountains and save as much as I can as I'll need all of it this year as it's gotta be my best one yet, even though the mental odds are stacked against me, but I have faith in my wig and it's ability to concur tears!

I accidentally shot a 2000 photo timelapse yesterday, either it will be glory or I've wasted 30-100 fps... I'm waiting for it to resize so i can resize some piccies from the trek to upload to here but I can't so its either siesta or author more nonsense and I think nonsense is the powerplay, I've just been overwhelmed by stoke! I think the best bit about Maeve being away is that I really notice how stoked i get sometimes, I'm a pretty stoked fellow (as per my over usage of 'stoke' in these sentences) but when I'm down and then realise i'm stoked it's all time enjoyment, involuntary sending for the inevitable bring back!!

I wrote this last night so its a little out of date, such as the timelapse and this one.

These photos go against my desire to keep my posting chronological but i don't really mind, these are the ones i've liked so far in no particular order of the trip or the level of my liking, the photos from the very first morning are probably my favourite but i'm yet to look at them so i hope you enjoy this sample in the meantime.

Team Trek!

Quechuan way of life

i'm never really there

2012-02-02T12:24:00.000+10:00

ola amigos! reality is no longer real, my current levels of intrigue are at an all time high and im battling with myself to keep my mind away from the glory of the past (Maeve) and concentrate on the glory at hand, it's proving quite a chore and a painful one at that but i guess i could be in a worse situation. I'd love to go for a skate though... Luckily for me there are multi-bulk levels of glory at hand on our first day in Bolivia. Again, shooting film so theres nothing to show you yet but thats fine, it's all relative right? I could be posting photos from peats ridge in 2010 and it would all be the same, which is ideal for me, probably for you too. It's our first night in a hostel, after being treated to a week of individual-loft-based-glory and the change from Argentina to Bolivia has been quite shocking.. 1st world to 3rd world it seems... I've only ever travelled the 3rd world prior to this voyage so right now i feel quite at home, aside from the stories of shootings and thefts but It's all part of the experience i suppose. Hostel life is intriguing and the predisposed need to converse with everyone is something I've never experienced but it's quite nice, everyone (well as far as i'm concerned, everyone) enjoyed a poolside bbq and limitless local (tears!) alchohols and i think we're all soon on the move to head out.. I know, it's probably pretty strange to bail on the 'party' to author a blog post but it's a play each moment as it comes situation and right now the tears beverages on hand are forcing me to forget and remember the comfort of my new home and old tunes, im certain that nickleback somehow made it onto the playlist.... i assume i've spent enough time in here to allow for an ideal return to party mode so i'll post some photos i shot in BA on the d90 in no order or care, i hope you enjoy, i certainly did :D

team multi-bulk

portraits with chorizo and an afternoon vista

2012-01-29T10:40:00.000+10:00

The monkey business continues! my bodyclock is finished but at the same time ideal, the late-night liveliness in this city is insanely new to me, families are dining until 1am and the party times till 6..

vamos a la cama

2012-01-28T05:45:00.002+10:00

I'm now residing in Buenos Aires! It's fantastic, we've hardly left our suburb, San Telmo, and it's already ridiculously enjoyable. It's the beginning of the third day and the menu avenues of glory prove to be indifferently ideal. I'm expecting an exploratory bus voyage to Palermo and obviously general glory. These photos are pretty lame as I've only shot film outside of the house, these are all on my d60 from in our apartment or on it's rooftop. adios.

train of thought

2012-01-21T22:15:00.001+10:00

Pretty excited to be deep in South America! I'm daunted, well and truly but I think that's going to immediately forgotten when I recline. blissfully, in my aeroplane seat. I'm excited by mountain ranges and the cold.

'i can hear the snow'

miss this girl

pretty deep

2012-01-18T00:05:00.000+10:00

everything is happening all the time, things that happened sporadically in the past are all occurring simultaneously and my desire for maximum chill is being thwarted, collectively, by things that never happened in the past. Maeve the most dearest critter ever left for a year in France today, which was send-off for all parties considered. In a weeks time from now I'll be moments away from flying out for a 8 week journey into South America where I plan to action a plan devised that will promote max glory at all times, Reuben and I are shooting a film clip over there which will be great and I've been freshly immunised against everything bar guns, extortion, corruption and general criminal activity. But I figure this is fine.

these are general photos, first two are from Maeve and I's last camping trip, the rest are from Vietnam over a year ago, I hope this is not the case with the future SA album.

I was lucky enough to have my ears graced by the Oh Sees' glory for the second time thanks to some glory from pyle, an all-time show just like last time, except this time it wasn't $5 (aka the best value gig in my life)

next year is this year

2012-01-05T00:33:00.000+10:00

Back in 1980 I had a dream, a dream of being born in 9 years, entering the world with a flurry of local institutions to my name. It's been 32 years since that year began, i'm not sure when i had the dream or when was the best time to leave behind that nonsense i was just dribbling because I've got photos to post and no time to roast. I hope these initial days of 2012 do no impose a trend on the rest of the year as it's been far too furious for me to remain casually intrigued, comfortably. I hope none of this has made sense. I went to a festival on the gold coast called summafieldayze and it's a festival that i assumed i would not enjoy that much and that was true, but i had a sick time! I went with lovely people, met lovely people and managed to powerplay all day. I took a photo and Oh Hello stole it!! Put it on their fb without telling me or giving me credit, shitheads! These are just general images for the day, which was my goal as I wasn't shooting for anyone/anything other than what I wanted to see. Justice's lightshow was the most unreal thing i've seen in a long time.

anna and her new friend

flylos

this is the one they stole :(

jonny drama

jesus walks

teen girls

jesus djs

fury

2011-12-28T15:20:00.002+10:00

My mind is too tired to rant, I went last night for a camp. It was great, I don't have the photos now, for those you'll have to wait. These are a few random shots from mostly the last few days but the others are not... I've been too busy creating non-bloggable things and working to blog about photos and other things that aren't related to working.

this was a present for my boss, both of us work and wig together.

from the above shoot, testing powah

poot poot, more later, hopefully tonight but probably not.. I was woken to a pack of angry cows that seemed content on the destruction of my brand new tent.

aggressively intrigued

2011-12-15T23:04:00.002+10:00

Skateboarding has effectively become the activity I enjoy in life the most, enjoyment in this sense referring to getting frazzled by voluntary involvement in danger and in return receiving the reward of stoke, the greatest reward there is. It's not just the stoke, or the adrenaline, it's everything about it. I work with longboards, in retail and in photos. My friends all skate, long, short and wig boards alike.. often in the same session and it's ideal... We're all here to sample the flavours available so any ideas of craft exclusivity were thrown out the window when we were thrown outta the womb. Above all of this the crew I've met have all been fantastic people!! With longboarding I've been pretty darn lucky.... Through involvement with Heelside mag (5 of my shots were ran in the Dec issue, 3 in the yearly calendar and I shot an entire feature: not trying to give myself a digital blowjob but i'm frothing still....furiously) and I'm stoked, I received my copy a few days and the fire is still partying in my belly. I got very lucky, once again, through a video that I made with my good pal and all-time shredsman Chad, in that both He and I were picked up by Early to shoot/video/skate into the future. The sport is new but so am I and Ideally I'll be lucky enough to grow as a photog/skater/fellow alongside the crew that are pushing this sport in the right direction as all of the ones I have met so far have been glory men!!!

Some of the Early team.

my friends and I have started construction on our own indoor skatepark, we've got more (free) wood than we can handle a 50m2 fridge to fill with glory hahaha, what is real. Luckily between us we've an engineer, a tradesmen and a whole lot of stoke and keenness.

9mins well spent

replace the word space with drink and forget it

2011-12-07T22:28:00.001+10:00

Long term pal turn short term enemy of mine, the rain, has been qualming me into oblivion. The enveloping nature of my skateboarding habit has begun to have unforeseen control over my levels of qualm but I've managed to sweep that out from my stoke-starved peripherals thanks to the acquisition of the family home for a period of time which will most likely lead to more home-time and therefore more creation. Nevertheless, times will be ideal so long as the rain sends itself away in order to bring myself back. I'm still getting abused by this Nicolas Jaar album, it's insanely good, I've listened to nothing else since monday morning. I've shown it to a few people but have decided that is silly as it's music to be consumed wholly, appreciated for it's entirety and enjoyed for it's complete duration.

apart from the film shot and the mirror wig these are all very olddd, older then march 2010, pre BCH

i know that posting a single track is contradictory so here is the entire album but you should buy it from here

this is what i'm working on right now

listen to the song

2011-12-07T03:01:00.000+10:00

I've had this album on repeat for the last 24 hours without tiring from its gracious beats and tantalisingly tasty everything elses. My tiredness and the time have combined their forces in order to disallow ranting at this stage, when ready you will be notified on this blog, by a post probably

this is normal for crackafee

the unreasonable wig

wholesale dubspress

2011-12-01T20:02:00.000+10:00

I've been grounded tonight, not because of a parentally enforced embargo between me and the front door, but because I feel the need, the need to get things done. Misc things, anything, who knows really?! I don't.. It seems I've done nothing, except my room is clean which was not really worth it from where I sit now.

I've long enjoyed dubspress, for many reason, obviously flavour being the greatest reason and price being the leastest reason but today my dreams came true upon gaining a wholesale supplier of it, oh yes, wholesale. I also acquired my dream board after a few months of being patient and thankfully my patience paid off. Although no amount of patience could dull the frustation that came after walking out the door and taking maybe 2 steps before it started raining, I tried to outrun it, enough for a single run but got teared! I went to a carpark, it sucked. But it's fine, I'll find a way to glory myself.

In opposition to the act of not doing things, my friend and I ventured out of Brisbane in search of nice locations and skatehills.. We found neither really but had a fun time anyway.

we found a skatepark!

inferior tutelage

2011-11-30T21:03:00.001+10:00

this has been the spare time drain over the last few days, I think it's worth it.. It's my fourth beginning to end attempt at a video and this time I learnt so much and I'm pretty stoked with the result.. Managed to land Chad and I some intriguing future prospects too, stoke alll rouuuunndd yeeeoooww

a state of fury and intrigue

2011-11-26T12:07:00.000+10:00

'I'm building a video at the moment and i don't know if this goes for everyone (the one person i've spoken to about it agreed) is a strange process.. It's all consuming, one can not deny the presence of the a half edited video on their desktop, causing great bereavement due to overwhelming amounts of definition and conversions therefore forcibly qualming the editor's hard drive space, a subject I find particularly qualmful. Infact twice as I've written this I've been forcibly remembering the edit. I wanna get this done so I can then start on the Cunnumulla film and then work through photos relating to a single journey, they're the funnest to post about. I think I'll have this video up tomorrow evening or not long after.

more misc film!

I thought of something

2011-11-24T13:16:00.001+10:00

really funny to write about but forgot it when I was logging into blogger, minor qualm. I've been having too good a time lately and I think it's the reason for the sickness I feel right now, which can only be as a result of too much stoke and maybe the diet and sleepless night involved with the 36hr skate adventure some pals and I embarked upon a few days ago. Also, it's my birthday tomorrow and on the weekend I went away to the most tranquil place ever, The Soul Garden. It was unreal, I assume all involved were reaching irreverently high levels of relaxation and enjoyment of the times at hand. I took a few shots, which if I recall correctly, were all on film so I don't have anything to show (theres some digital stuff but i'm yet to take it off the camera and this spontaneous rant allows for no extra time spent, all of these photos have been forgotten about but found right now as I wanted to post but didn't have time to look at fresh ones (or check grammar))

cheap x misc flm

this was shot in a Vietnamese photographer's backyard who is most definitely living the life.. He gets to shoot fantastic scenery full of typically SEAsian imagery, heads home to a ridiculously cool house complete with an aviary, sun room where he edits his pics and sells them, unmounted, to wealthy travellers. IDEAL!

efke100

these guys congregated outside my window one afternoon pretty sure one of them has been there since it was a wee little boidy and used to come into my house, without knocking.

back to back backs

2011-11-18T15:20:00.002+10:00

"I've got heaps of stuff to do tonight but my uncontrollable levels of stoke have forced me away from important work at this point in time and nothing can be done about it but rant myself into a stupidly content grin of stoke and joy. 2 pals and myself made the trek down south to a ridiculous skate hill, this hill is so good it would win the award for 'the best hill' and rightly so, it's so ridiculous that about 2/3 of the way through I'd be giggling in my helmet, frothing at the mouth and squealing at my shred-partner (consequently defining myself due to my full face helmet (of glory)) I shot some video and some stills but mostly skated as nothing could pull me away from that run for any extended period of time... We camped with the most ridiculous views infront of a house owned by an obvious preachman who spends his days enjoying lungfulls of mountain-to-the-sea vistas but I think I just hit the wall!! I didn't sleep much, probably skated for longer than I slept and came straight back to werk to do important werk stuff (which I didn't do and decided to do it tonight but I'm currently not doing it and must now do it)"

I wrote this and then fell asleep when I tried to get work done, upon waking up I had forgotten it's existence and rediscovered just now so I'm finalising it's existence by releasing it upon the world. These photos are from above trip

its a party

2011-11-14T02:28:00.000+10:00

so i think this week coming will be what I can expect the next year of my life to be (if I play my cards consistently right) and I'm pretty happy with that. I earnt bulk cash last week but wasted my days off, this week there will be no wasting, only indulging in glory therefore glorying and indulging in a state of backness. I, had a lovely time last night, explored the mountains with a dear pal and shot some stuff, mostly time-lapse for an animation collab aforementioned pal and I are doing but also some still, these below are some stills. Shot some film stills last night too, on a b+w film I can't recall the name off, pretty intrigued by the potential...

capital wig

2011-11-11T22:11:00.000+10:00

Can't decide on anything. I need a decision maker, maybe. I also need to take more photos. I was sifting through my laptop today and felt underwhelmed by the number of good photos I could find and I got a little bummed but then I realised that the situation when I've taken good photos in the past was no different to the one I'm in now (not this instant, but a collective of instants that surround this one) because I've got a camera and there's always plenty of stuff out there to shoot this rant sucks so it's now ending. 'forget yourself!' he preached.

this is a glorious album

glove cats

2011-11-09T13:30:00.002+10:00

I need to develop better self discipline as I've progressively entered a dangerous level of casualness towards all things in life. I only want a little bit of discipline though as DLC > self discipline in my opinion... I'm supposed to be doing something right now so In a step forward against my elusiveness to responsibility I'll end this rant right here.

two more misc film, top one is efke1600 and the people are on sensia 100

my new pal Gabe and I filmed this race in Adelaide a couple of weeks back, he edited it and did a mighty fine job in my opinion

also, listen to this track

what the wig!!!

2011-11-05T13:55:00.001+10:00

i feel like this is my first day off in a very very long time, i'm sure that i've had days off but this one feels different in my brain. super relaxed mode and i'm keen to create (and skate) so I'm about to do both of things in reverse order as soon as I'm done here, which is as soon as my mp3 has completed its transfer of glorious new tunes thanks to a glorious bearded man black and white considered... I dabbled in some more time lapse night, got some cool stills but had a camera wig on the frame i liked the most but we'll see how they come out. Gotta go to dinner (after glory) which is implicated with a long drive which i plan to use creating aforementioned timelapse.

this was shot while i was waiting for my plane back from adelaide, I would've had the best time shooting this had i not been confined to an airport building, the foreground is a cloud front coming over the adelaide hills.

another millions shot, i think the clip is due pretty soon, it's all done and is awaiting something i dont understand

sweet drum solos, the first one in particular...

Shit Kids Galore

introspective detective

2011-11-03T22:35:00.001+10:00

I dont really think the title holds much weight apart from it sounding sweet and that I've got a great deal of love for self reflection, not necessarily in the post-mod sense (which i do thoroughly enjoy) but in the general wig sense. There's a lot to my cognitive choo-choo that I don't get and it's nice because there are always things to discover that are good, bad or just generally intriguing. I think this is why I love doing things by myself, especially photographing. I love taking photos with myself because I can analyse my thoughts unboundedly and without interruption (not like a crazy person, well maybe a crazy person but either way it's fine) I get to consider why I photograph something the way I do, not why but why do I think I think thats why I do. My great friend, upside down close-up black and white face man, has a book that I must get, or get him to get for me for my birthday as I want to be intriguing the 8th circuit on demand, that's right Tom, buy me this book for my birthday, it's in 22 days.

these are some portraits, some new, some that I'd left in strange folders and subsequently forgotten to post..

there he is!

if i recall correctly she was watching softcore porn

I'll let the cute puppy distract you from the poor framing

shot this on slide film (sensia 100 +81a) a while ago, its lovely film and there are another two that i like but can't find, when i do they'll be here for you to hopefully enjoy

maj. busy

2011-11-02T15:38:00.003+10:00

Last month was the least I've posted on this blog since I started taking pictures two and a bit years ago. Last year was a fury, I posted almost every day (not because I was shooting more, but I was living the ultimate lifestyle for relaxing). Living out of home at a glorious residence in New Farm, not going to uni, working a sweet job very casually, I'd just gotten into riding big skateboards and lucky enough to be surrounded by great friends... Comparatively chilled to last month, I was furying at uni, being overly social and skateboarding heaps but mainly shooting. I was shooting in Cunnumulla for a week, Adelaide for almost a week and generally shooting lots of different things, mostly all good things. But now that I'm in November I'm back to where i was last year, apart from living at home and with an extra year of life... Although I'm sure I'll remain busy, mainly with work as I need to save bulk amounts of cash but also because of backlogs of photos and videos and many ideas in mind for future creation.

Pretty burnt out so ranting must be forgotten and replaced by photos that have as little meaning to each other (apart from serving as a to-do list) as the words in the paragraph above.... so to sum up a whole bunch of nothing into something: I'm back, well and truly, with very little sending.

Reuben and Joey driving to Cunnumulla for the scout, dos and hanley in the lead car.. The real shoot was fun, got an entire set of photos to look through as well as a BTS video, shit..

adelaide/falls/melbourne adventure from last holidays (and easter for that matter!), falls creek on cheap 35mm

Went to the Collingrove cup thats held in the Barossa Valley in SA over the weekend, had a ridiculous day.. Chilled out and created with an absolute legend of a video guy, I'll post what he creates when it's done.

Melbourne Cup was pretty intriguing and this dude was a nice fellow.

Millions photos, tearing me to tears, 35mm.

general skate

this performance is sick