Mexico + Summer 2011 + Volume 1
Simply jumped on a plane 6/25/11 and flew one-way to the furthest airport in Mexico from Austin, Texas. From Cancun I wandered about photographing and travel-blogging.
The only plan was going into the unknown and letting the unfamiliar move and inspire me. I wrote about the adventure and…
Austin, Texas based photographer Skip Hunt tours via motorcycle and recommends Cruiserworks boots from http://cruiserworks.com
http://kaleidoscopeofcolor.com
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mages made with an Olympus XZ-1 while traveling in Mexico in the summer of 2011.
Trip blogged HERE
“Vamanos!” ~ Morelia, Mexico (c) 2011 Skip Hunt
“Ay Cabron!, just who do you think you are? You think you’re something special?!”
“No. Nothing special at all. Just using the marginal skills the great spirit gave me & trying to lift myself out of the cauldron of fear the most powerful have brewed for the masses. Trying to refocus away from the dark recesses that keep a soul in prison and point my lens at the utterly amazing details around all of us all the time. And, draw attention to the fact we’re all alive right now this eternal moment and attempt to cast away the black shroud that imprisons us all.”
“Uh, if you say so Cabron. You getting on the bus or not?”
“Transported from Quemado” ~ Huiricuta, Mexico (c) 2011 Skip Hunt
It was going different this particular time. I was more sick in the stomach and the pain lasted nearly two hours.
Near the peace sign I’ve been building out of stone since 2009, about 30 meters away is another primitive design of a five-pointed star that is much older and of unknown origin. It too is in stone and was really bothering and irritating me for some unknown reason. Perhaps because it looked like a pentagram? Or perhaps the peyote sickness was just warping my imagination.
I had been somewhat ill off and on for the previous three weeks or so and just asked Mescalito to heal me during this ceremonial session. Perhaps this healing is why I was feeling extra sick this time. There’s a good reason why the indigenous call this plant “medicine”. Sometimes healing hurts a bit I’ve found.
Another very strange effect this time was very intense yawning. That simply does not happen with this plant, at least for me it hasn’t in the last 17 years I’ve imbibed it. Something was definitely different this time.
Continue reading HERE
Off 2 score sum #CincoDeMayo beverages! Hasta luego!
“El Mariachi” ~ Veracruz, Mexico (c) 2011
Fine art photographer Skip Hunt of Austin, Texas traveled Westward via motorcycle in search of the exotic within the mundane. He found so much more! This issue contains the entire set of chronicles from Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and Arizona. What began as a curious wandering with no particular path or direction, became a powerful life-changing adventure. Sometimes we must become lost before we can truly find our way. This is 112 pages of pure adventure in rich color and text!
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Peace Juggle (via skiphunt)
I met an Argentine juggler in the Huiricuta desert region of Mexico while I was communing with Mescalito and working on a large peace sign outlined in stone… started in 2009.
I asked if he wouldn’t mind juggling inside my peace sign and obliged.
:-) For your pleasure…
I also experimented with seeing what I could do with an iPhone 4 and a handful of apps while I was traveling. I published some “Skip Hunt 20/20” short photomags from the road and a fine art photographer friend or mine who bought one tells me the print quality is impressive. If you’re curious… those issues and more can all be previewed online HERE
After verifying the quality was indeed even more impressive than I’d hoped… I uploaded my favorites to a gallery HERE
A friend asked me about the warped composite, tiled, layered, blurred, etc. effect I got on some of the scenes from this trip, so I wrote a brief Squidoo article explaining what I was after and why. For anyone interested, I included samples, etc. HERE
Skip Hunt Go West Issue 1: finding the exotic within the mundane
Fine art photographer Skip Hunt of Austin, Texas traveled Westward via motorcycle in search of the exotic within the mundane. He found so much more!This issue contains the entire set of chronicles from Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California and Arizona.What began as a curious wand…
Skip Hunt Go West :: Part 6 Issue 6: Skip Hunt Go West :: Part 6
Fine art photographer Skip Hunt of Austin, Texas travels Westward via motorcycle in search of the exotic within the mundane. This sixth and final issue chronicles the journey from Salton Sea to Salvation Mountain and on to Gila Bend and the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument to Tucson, Bisbee, Chir…
Hey, Recently returned from a 2 month road trip on my wee-strom from Austin…. zig-zagging West and back. I was fortunate to get a little support from a company called http://cruiserworks.com and they hooked me up with their “Defender” boots. All I had to do in turn was mention the boots every now and then. I did. Haven’t finished my last long entry with images, but most of it’s here: http://skiphuntgowest.weebly.com
I have the last issue laid out but haven’t written the text yet. Busy making up for not working for 2 months.
I have to say, I REALLY liked these boots! I’m not a hard-core off road type, but I do rough it quite a bit and hike A LOT making images (I’m a photographer by trade) and these boots were just perfect for me. I could hike for hours with almost no foot fatigue at all. No water got in, completely water proof, never got hot, light weight, comfortable, and great support. Actually, even if you don’t ride I think these would make great hiking boots! Anyway, I through a few of my images together with an snap of the boots and their logo.
You can see more images I’ve edited from this trip HERE
Skip Hunt
Austin, Texas
kaleidoscopeofcolor.com + skiphuntphotography.com + skip-hunt.artistwebsites.com
