I’m leaving California for Pakistan on a one-way flight.

But Mike’s not done yet- we’ve got our ritual drive up and down Skyline Drive ahead of us- despite me being dead tired. 5.40 am, he shows up, yanks me out of bed while the other overqualified movers sleep away. My flight leaves at noon. This is enough time to drive down Skyline in Mike’s Nissan 350Z. The video starts at a Shell gas station on El Camino, from which the route is traced in Google Maps from, to Alice’s restaurant in Woodside, then back to 1717 Woodland Ave in East Palo Alto.

I’ve put the video’s work on pause right now because I intended to mix video and stop motion. My DV camera has stopped exporting to the laptop, so this is as far as I got with the stop motion alone. The track is what was almost on repeat the whole time- LCD Soundsystem’s “Get Innocuous” remixed by Soulwax.

Where? Pt. 1

Where? Pt. 2

My buddy Michael Scott attempts to be Guy Ritchie’s Turkish character from Snatch, although the surroundings are rather different.