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• What does Africa and Twilight the movie have in common?
  
  
  
  
  
  Well, they both happen at once. (Above... Yellow fever / Typhoid / Polio shot in one sitting.)
  
  I am about to hop on a 21 hour flight over to Ethiopia... I've been waiting for this trip for too long. I'll be gone for almost 2 months and come back home just before Christmas. During my visit I'll be renting a jeep and traveling thru the Lower Omo Valley, where tribal populations that still live nomadic lifestyles are so diverse that this region is considered the true "cradle of humanity."
  
  Body scarification, enormous lip piercings, and red mud from the earth adorn the bodies of the Mursi, Surma, Karo, and other tribes. The root of the tribes beauty, however, lies within their connection to the land... A connection to nature which I believe is quickly being lost in the Western world, and I fear they may only survive in the future as distant fables in photographs.
  
  After one month of camping in the Omo with no internet connection and absolutely no Mcdonald's, I will travel north to catch the Festival of Mary Zion in Ethiopia's holiest city- Aksum. I'll photograph the sea of pilgrims receiving the blessings of Orthodox monks guarding the believed Ark of the Covenant. The next leg of the journey will bring me to the lowest point on Earth below sea level, the Danakil Depression... An arid desert vaguely described as resembling the planet Venus. The last arc of the journey is in Lalibela, another holy city full of ancient churches cut into rock caves and mountainsides.
  
  You can follow along on the new GPS menu feature on joeyL.com or just look for updates here...
  
  Of course being gone so long I'll have to wait on the release of Twilight back home. Twilight is coming to theatres Nov 21st and I'll miss seeing a lot of my advertisements everywhere. I did all of the stills for the movie posters and promo material. (For those asking about the post-processing... it was done by the Cimarron Group out of LA. They art directed all the promo material for Twilight, including the website and upcoming DVD). Some of the main stuff is out in public but of course there's a lot more material waiting to be released!
  
  Too bad I'll be in one of the most remote regions on the planet and miss it, right?
  
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  Pfffft. I remain more than content!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  While shopping for stuff for my trip to Africa like bug nets, shower-in-a-bag, extra undies, and a compass, I came across the Twilight stuff everywhere... If anyone runs into some big billboards on the streets hook me up with some snapshots!
  
  
  Send to- joey@joeyL.com
  You know I will appreciate it!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Oh, and count how many times I can say "like" on MTV in less than 2 minutes.
  
  
  
  
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• Forbes Cover -Metalico
  Check out this month's cover of Forbes by yours truly.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  And here's an unedited one that didn't make the magazine-