Triple Works - The New Jeans World Tour
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Day 4:
Fun lunch time wave at Lyall Bay.
View of the South Island Mountains on the 2 minute drive home from the beach. Its a three hour ferry ride from Wellington (bottom of the North Island) to Picton (top of the South Island).
I get home and the kids are waiting to walk to the local Movie Cinema.
Nina and Bailey.
3D Glasses for Despicable Me 2.
The Roxy Cinema - This theatre was originally built in 1928 to screen silent films. In 1932 the cinema was converted to screen 'talkies' with the last film being shown in 1964. Then it was turned into a shopping mall before closing down. It re-opened in 2011 with the help of a group of new owners from the film and hospitality industry… You never know who you might bump into here!
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Day 5:
One of my hobbies is rolling around with grown men (and a few brave women) in what I describe as homoerotica.
I took the TW jeans off for a few minutes to get some photos for the HWDC2 - Sports Challenge.
The best way to fade jeans is by rubbing them on other people!
A little move I invented called the "push me, pull me"… beautiful harmony!
I can stay here all day… don't fight it, there is no escape!
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Great stuff Hemi; BJJ in TW jeans! Are the Gracie's fans of heavyweight denim….?
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Day 6:
Some normal photos for Giles!
My good friend Jonny has returned from Auckland for a holiday. He's studying dance and has a knack for destroying jeans. Here we are holding the World Tour jeans next to Jonny's original TW pair.
World Tour jeans and Jonny's original TW jeans.
Jonny's 3Sixteen SL and ST jeans Front.
Jonny's 3Sixteen SL and ST jeans Back.
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Cool pic's of your part of the tour Hemi.
Cheers for the updates.
Peace
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Day 7:
On my way home I stopped by my good friends lowbrow art gallery, Eyeball Kicks.
Eyeball Kicks.
Eyeballs.
Owners and all-round good fullas Calvin and Monique.
They always have cool posters…
… and framed art
"Pania of the Reef" - This Maori legend tells how Pania left the sea people to marry Karitoki, a chieftain whose whare (house) was sited in an area now known as Sturm's Gully on Napier's Bluff Hill.
After Karitoki departed to fight in a long tribal war, Pania's original family called to her at sunset and at dawn. Unable to resist their siren voices, she swam out to meet them. When she tried to return to the shore, she was drawn down to the caverns of the sea. Angered by her divided loyalties, Moana-nui-a-kiwa, lord of the sea, transformed her into a rocky shelf now known as "Pania's Reef" which lies just off the Napier breakwater.
Cuba Street back in the day - The Bucket Fountain, bumper cars and drunks… the fountain and the drunks are still here!
Looking back at the northwest end of the city on my way home… can you believe its the middle of winter?
The Carter Fountain on Oriental Parade. The fountain was a gift to the city from local resident Hugh Carter in 1973. Carter was inspired by a fountain he saw in Geneva in the early 1960s. He slipped and drowned just days after the fountain was officially opened.
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great tour updates hemi.
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Day 8:
Heading out with my little diva and cool guy for a quick bite to eat before the Rugby starts on TV.
Our favourite local Chinese Takeaway.
I always tease people who take photos of their food… so I've lost a little respect for myself today.
Super 15 Game - Canterbury Crusaders v Queensland Reds.
Rugby is a religion in New Zealand… and Dan Carter is God or at the very least Jesus!
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I always tease people who take photos of their food… so I've lost a little respect for myself today.
Agree. When I was last in Singapore, James said to me one evening when everyone was taking photos of their food, "People used to say Grace, now they just take photos"
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Im going to the local Yum Cha today, ummmm Im hungry now. Go the Crusaders alright, what a game.
Peace
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Day 9:
What a day! We've had some small earthquakes during the weekend and the largest (6.5) struck this afternoon. The house felt like it was floating on a river so we're all pretty freaked out and still a little on edge.
On a brighter note, we spent the day walking around the Mt Crawford Prison situated on the Miramar peninsula just above where we live.
The Prison was built in 1927 and closed in 2012… people mostly walk their dogs here now.
My uncle worked at the prison in the 1980's so I use to hang out here in the weekends.
Four convicted murderers were hanged here, the last in 1935.
I don't know why they left the security cameras behind?
Prison mailboxes.
Looking northeast at Somes/Matiu and Mokopuna Islands. There is a very sad story of Kim Lee, a 56 year old Chinese man thought to have leprosy being sent to live in a cave on Mokopuna Island. He died in 1904, three months after arriving. Apparently, the Health Department paid the local lighthouse keeper to supply him with food. On fine days he'd row out with supplies and in rough weather he sent rice, hot soup and fruit on a flying fox.
Looking east at Eastbourne on the other side of Miramar. This is the entrace to the Wellington Harbour so there are old military forts and gun turretts along the coast originally built in the late 1880's in fear of a Russian attack and during WWII to hold off a Japanese invasion.
Looking southeast over Seatoun… that's a rich area!
Looking south over Miramar and Lyall Bay.
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What a day! We've had some small earthquakes during the weekend and the largest (6.5) struck this afternoon. The house felt like it was floating on a river so we're all pretty freaked out and still a little on edge.
Hope everythings calmed down and you're all feeling more settled now! Never experienced anything like this and I can imagine it must be pretty disconcerting.
Thanks for the awesome updates Hemi and all the previous contributors! I've just been through the whole tour with a cup of coffee and have really enjoyed seeing so many different settings, learning some of the history of those places and of course, seeing the ongoing evolution of the new TW jeans!
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Hey d00d,
They say we could get another 9 earthquakes during the week with the biggest shakes most likely to occur in next 24 hours. We've packed our emergency gear and will sleep in our clothes in case we have to leave quickly… unfortunately, we also live in a high Tsunami risk area.
Good work going through the entire thread... even I haven't done that!
