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I hate you Thai monkey!

28 December 2006 by dwb

I have a new Sony VX2100 video camera and I had it in my carry on when I left Thailand the last time. It’s on my person, padded, and protected, what can go wrong?

First of all, Suvarnabhumi Airport (the new airport) is beautiful. However, saying that it is 1/2 way between Pattaya and Bangkok is a crock of shit. It shaves off maybe 20 minutes from going to the old airport.

Besides the stories of corruption where millions were swindled by the Thais who were building the place, they went all out on the design and build. However, one issue I have (besides the large signs everywhere inside the airport pointing to the Muslim Prayer Rooms as you depart and go to your plane), is that they allow you to walk through security, get drinks & buy Duty Free items, and then they take them from you before you board the plane. This is Thai idiocy at its best.

Then, after the main security they do another security check right before you get on the plane, and it’s by hand. They look at everything and tear your just re-packed bags apart. Again.

The inconsiderate monkey who dug into my bag tore it to shreds like a starved animal in search of food. Then he piled it all up and literally jumped in the air to put his weight onto my bag to make it all fit. I shit you not. I heard a “crack” and some other noise and screamed at him, pushing him off my bag. In typical Thai idiot fashion, he laughed and said, “no pom-pem.” He then tore into my second bag. I was considering tearing his throat out but figured his meaningless life was not worth wasting mine.

After the bag rape, I didn’t have time to open everything back up and actually check all the items for damage, but I knew something broke. I heard it. I thought it was a piece of carved wood that I was bringing home as a gift.

Guess again.

I just unpacked to find out that cricket eating, uneducated, United Airlines employee actually cracked the mic on the VX2100 and smashed in a button so it is no longer active.

Nothing else in the bag was broke, the “crack” was the camera that cost more than his entire village.

I am so pissed off right now, I would literally burn down his entire village if I knew exactly where it was.

That reminds me…

Thailand’s New Years is called Songkran, and it’s a water festival. I think I blogged about it before.

I was filming Mr. Kincade last year and as we walked past a group of girls I asked them to please not throw water on me because I had my camera. All of them was cool and said OK but was I was passing, this one flea bag whore said, “I don’t care” and dumped an entire bucket of water onto my VX2100 video camera. I don’t recall much after that other than seeing red and wanting to snap her neck. Maybe I did grab her by her neck, I don’t recall now. Have to ask Kincade.

“I don’t care!” She said. What kind of a person do such a thing? Again, this herpes and hepatitis infected whore was probably raised in a shack but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t taught to respect other peoples property. That is the same as me going to her parents thatch roof house and catching it on fire. They would cry and say “please, it’s our only house” and I would say “I don’t care!” and torch it with a smile on my face. Then skin that whore alive and pour rubbing alcohol all over her.

Some of the people in Thailand never ceases to amaze me, and just when you think they can’t out-dumb themselves, they totally go above and beyond the call of duty to prove you wrong. And don’t think it’s just the Thais, because many of the foreigners who visit or live there are just as bad.

Where’s Bird Flu and SARS when ya need it?

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The Gear

21 August 2005 by dwb

I had a few emails asking what gear I brought with me down here. Being that a lot of what we do is a “hit-and-run” style of shooting, we don’t really travel with big light kits or other things that a lot of the “pros” use in Los Angeles or elsewhere in the porno world.

I’m not a big “tech” guy, I just know what works for me, and this is what I have with me on this trip:

* 1 Camera back pack (holds all my cams but small enough to be considered a carry-on on the plane)

* 1 Sony VX2100 video camera

* 1 Nikon D70 photo camera (with several memory cards)

* 1 Nikon Speed Flash

* 1 big ass, heavy HP laptop

* Balls – If you’re afraid of traveling to or making porno in places like this, stay home.

We try to do as much shooting as we can by natural sunlight but if we can’t, we’ll hit the local hardware store and build a portable bootleg light kit. If you find yourself in need of a bootleg light kit, just be sure to get “daylight” bulbs. Look for bulbs that say things like daylight, natural sunlight or sun. Then set your white balance in your camera and you should be good to go for hit-and-run shoots.

Yes, there are probably better ways to do this but this system works for us. We’re not shooting for Playboy and prefer to focus on Amateur girls, so this gets us by just fine.

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