Yesterday I was in Danang, today I’m in Hanoi, tomorrow I’ll be in Hong Kong and by Monday I’ll be in Seattle. It’s time to hang with Chase Jarvis & Friends.

My youngest sister Lia married Daragh in Vietnam at the Hanoi International Church with a reception at Puku. It was a lovely (humid) day, after a stormy night. I was pulling double duty playing trumpet and taking a few photographs. All the siblings have been married off and I’m the only one that remains. It’s not quite time to lasso down this free spirit, but for Lia and Daragh the time has come and I wish them the very best in their nascent union.

Love, bro.

This is a tune I’ve been jamming to recently and performed tonight as a medley (just the chorus) at Puku Cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam. It’s just a reminder to pursue your passions and if in doubt, get off your butt and go create, rhyme, converse, paint, draw, photograph, beatbox, scratch – basically feel alive and awake.

fstoppers from michalgarcia on Vimeo.

Feeling lazy got me up and awake to take this short series of photographs. It wasn’t originally for the fstoppers contest, but then I realized I could kill two birds with one stone. The video is just for fun, and I was most pleased with the actual images from the camera.

Model / saxophonist: Oscar Azahar
Also, big thanks to Anthony Miller

Shot in Hong Kong for a contest put on by fstoppers.com

Intro with flashing stills inspired by Hasselblad video Chase Jarvis created

Check out the images for yourself:

The second set is semi-saturated.

We apologize in advance to John Coltrane, who is rolling over in his grave at the sound of my beatboxing

Jing Jiang awaits inside the dark alley. Chengdu, China.

Chengdu, China has killer pandas. Well, it used to anyway – dynasties ago. Today, they’re endangered and most of them are relatively domesticated. If you went into the area where they’re kept in Chengdu, they’d probably ignore you and keep eating Bamboo. They like Bamboo. Very much.