the weaker soldier

KRUGER

2007-10-18T08:16:00.000+02:00

ROOM WITH A VIEW

2007-10-09T02:36:00.000+02:00

Dave, Carol and myself left Maputo for Inhambane. It was less than 500 clicks but due to the roads being the most damaged of the trip it took close to 7 hours to get there. I think Dave and myself felt a weird guilt leaving Maputo for what was pretty much a vacation destination. We wanted to swim with the whale sharks so we suffered through the beach paradise for a day.

Dude was sleeping at 100km an hour...

The Hut Depot

Almost there

Fernando was one of my favorites. At 11 years old the kid was a briliant hustler and spoke amazing english that he picked up from tourists. The next day he was waiting at our car to give him a ride to school.

The view from my room

We didn't have a waterproof camera so I stole this photo from google. We swam with 5 different sharks the biggest being about 25 feet which is small according to the scientist that was with us. (yes we were with a creepy whale shark scientist, even had the shark tattoo) I don't usually get that impressed with touristy type shit that involves searching for whales but literally being 2 feet away from the biggest thing I have ever seen in the water was amazing.

PACKED FAIRYS

2007-10-06T01:39:00.000+02:00

We took the ferry from Maputo into Catembe. Its only 6 clicks from the city but it felt like we were in the middle of nowhere.

I had no idea how many cars you could actually fit on a ferry until i came here...

Sadly aids was not cured by the GAP yet

We drove down this road for an hour and all we found was this

when we decided to go back to Maputo the tide was too low for the ferry so we had wait 2 hours

MAPUTO

2007-10-06T01:06:00.000+02:00

The view from my hotel the night we got into town

This is Kester on the balcony of my hotel. He came to drop of the chair I bought from him. (see next photo) He is best known for his work that is made out of old weapons from the Mozambique civil war.

Here is the chair that I hope makes it through customs... Not until after I got the chair did it hit me how much blood may be on it.

THE ROAD TO MAPUTO

2007-10-05T23:13:00.000+02:00

Picked up Dave

The corolla maxed out

A bus stop somewhere between Jo'burg and the Mozambique border

The hippoless hippo river

Almost to the border

The coyotes that got us past the border without getting raped by the cops. Dave was a little concerned when I gave them our passports and they took off. I bet on them needing cash over 2 white dudes passports... Luckily I was right.

FACE THE FLAG

2007-09-26T01:56:00.000+02:00

Tonight I bid my farewell to Upington along with the GK shoot. Its amazing how quickly my time here has passed. Tomorrow I'll fly into Jo'burg pick up Dave and head out on our third world road trip into Mozambique. Originally my plan was to spend the entirety of this trip with the production... 2 weeks of night shoots, the middle of nowhere in northern South Africa, a baboon being the most exotic animal I've seen, its time to see what else Africa has to throw at me. The rough plan is to drive up the coast into Mozambique as far north as time permits then head west into Kruger and back into SA. The Mozambique Flag... Should be interesting.

BRAVO 2-1 ALPHA

2007-09-26T01:06:00.000+02:00

Colbert & Person

Hasser

Tromley

Person

POPADELO

2007-09-25T01:27:00.000+02:00

WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU

2007-09-23T14:52:00.000+02:00

I have seen the sun for about 8 hours total over the last 8 days... I have today off so hopefully I will get a few photos that aren't from set and night.

ARE MY EYES BLEEDING

2007-09-23T14:15:00.000+02:00

NIGHT TIME IS THE RIGHT TIME

2007-09-20T17:30:00.000+02:00

AT THE DARK END OF THE STREET

2007-09-18T17:06:00.001+02:00

6 days of nights shoots and 1 day off... The nightlife in Upington consists of the bar in the lobby, some drunk marines, some drunk actors playing marines and a sober PJ getting accustomed to what life might be like for him in prison. T.I.A.

GENERATION KILL

2007-09-15T08:56:00.000+02:00

So I came here to shadow Simon the director of GK and end up becoming a Marine... I play Cpl Simon who in Iraq was actually in Eric's Humvee. The real Eric Kocher drove me to set and then the actor playing him sat next to me in a humvee till 7 in the morning.

TOWNSHIP

2007-09-15T08:53:00.000+02:00

In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (principally black Africans and Coloureds, but also working class Indians. Townships were usually built on the periphery of towns and cities.

During the Apartheid Era blacks were evicted from properties that were in areas designated as "white only" and forced to move into townships. Legislation that enabled the Apartheid government to do this included the Group Areas Act. Forced removal from city centres to townships has continued in post-apartheid South Africa. The difference is that under apartheid all black people faced forced removals to townships while now it is only the poor living in shack settlements that face eviction to townships on the peripheries of cities. In Cape Town and Durban this has given rise to mass resistance.[1]

TOWNSHIP 2

2007-09-15T08:48:00.000+02:00

CPL. SIMON

2007-09-13T20:37:00.000+02:00

METAMORPHOSIS

2007-09-13T20:31:00.001+02:00

Say hello to CPL Simon...

WHAT HAVE YOU BECOME

2007-09-13T20:24:00.000+02:00

IRAQ IN AFRICA

2007-09-13T19:15:00.000+02:00

BACK ON SET

2007-09-13T17:22:00.000+02:00

CAPE TOWN

2007-09-13T17:20:00.000+02:00

WTF?

CAPE POINT

2007-09-13T16:38:00.000+02:00

Cape Town from my hotel room

ON THE ROAD TO CAPE TOWN

2007-09-13T16:27:00.000+02:00

Last weekend Eric, Ian, PJ and myself made the 9 hour drive from Upington to Cape Town for the last 2 days in a row that we have off for 2 weeks.

Got to get in the water in Scarsbrough...

WEEK ONE

2007-09-11T15:00:00.001+02:00

This is Dan the security guard. He grew up down the street from the house where Nelson Mandela was born. He was also shot in the face when he was 21 years old.

Eric is one of the Marines that Generation Kill is based on. I spend most of my time here on and off set with him. Spending the last ten years of his life either being trained to kill or in situations that were unimaginable to me prior to this trip, I'm amazed at how well we get along and in some weird way how much we have in common. I will be writing a lot more about Eric on here soon.

travel

2007-09-01T23:00:00.000+02:00

there was a cruise ship in the airport in philly

paris