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Paris – Bushido Impact 9

James — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:39:54 +0000

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Bonjour

Welcome to Paris.

SFII Sagat stage

Femi on the hunt.

Crepes

We stayed up until around 7am every day playing Street Fighter IV & Pro Evo, so people closed their eyes every chance they got.

Lawrence

Homeless guy.

Tournament time

Bushido Impact 9. We came to Paris mainly to enter the Street Fighter IV tournament. Most of us made it out of our groups into the main tournament bracket.

Here are some of my group fights. I play Zangief.

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Zero2000 (Wes, right) vs Yamazaki (Olivier). Yamazaki is is the best Ryu in France.

Yamazaki vs Dawgtanian. Dawgtanian is very popular in France, known from his online matches. There was always a crowd when he was playing.

Jesus is a pad player

The King Sagat.

Logan Sama. Logan and I stayed up all night Friday and played 200-300 games vs each other, Zangief vs Akuma. That is my tournament stick next to him, with a custom Zangief faceplate.

Close up of my stick. My gamer handle is ‘WorstGiefEVER’. I play SFIV on PC, my gamertag there is JBARDOLPH if anyone wants to add me. I am improving all the time, so one day I will probably change from ‘WorstGiefEVER’ to ‘Maybe not the Worst Gief EVER, but still pretty bad’.

Zero2000 (Wes) in battle.

Dawgtanian vs StarNab. StarNab is an awesome Fei Long player. He is SG rank on XBOX (top league). This match had HUGE hype, and Femi got it on camcorder and commentated. Probably the most hype match of the day. Video below.

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Bushido Impact 9 was a fantastic event. They are planning to run an event every month; it is a one-day event, so from the UK you could get the Eurostar there and back on the same day for £50. I will certainly be doing this again. The people we met were great and very hospitable (thank you Bushido), and we all look forward to seeing them again.

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Geeky stuff: Leica M6, Leica 35mm 1.4 Summilux, Kodak Tri-X, Ilford Delta 400

The WSOPE 2008 Main event

James — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:59:30 +0000

A brief blog with some faces from the World Series Of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event.

The Hendon Mob’s Joe Beevers

Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson

Phil Ivey Hollywooding it on the TV table

Andy Black in traditional wear

Phil Hellmuth getting a massage

Sizing an opponent up

Being part of a documentary

Eli Elezra

Victoria Coren

Nik Persaud. Put those cigs in the bin.

Fan favourite Jennifer Tilly

A short stacked gus Hansen on another TV table

Living legend Doyle Brunson.

During a break Doyle tripped and fell on a camera dolly, cutting his arm in three places. Hopefully he’s made a full recovery now.

Let’s not forget the gorgeous dealers. Here are only two of many.

Anyone know the guy on the right? He asked me to email this to him but put down an incorrect email address.

I also made some B&W shots. I must apologise as I have not cleaned the negatives yet; I’ve been lazy!

The Phil Hellmuth show

Layne Flack

Erica Shoenberg

Freddy Deeb

Hellmuth / Elezra

Daniel Negreanu

Geeky stuff: Canon EOS 20D, 24-70 f2.8L lens; Canon EOS 3, 24-70 and Kodak Tri-x 400 +2 (or 3, can’t remember)

The fish tank

James — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:52:36 +0000

There’s a restaurant in Chinatown with fish tanks in the window; one has fish in, one contains Lobster. The Lobsters are quite lifeless and boring – the fish are not.

The filthy streets of London.

Guess who

Covent Garden street performer

There was a weird woman on the bus one day. She was acting peculiar so I took a photo of her while pretending to take a photo of myself & Tanya. Anyway as she went to get off the bus she rolled off a Jesus speech to me and gave me a leaflet. Tanya asked her a question – she completely (and very deliberately) ignored her and left the bus. Very strange.