From Ross Halfin
RossHalfin.co.uk
Diary
May 29
"Spent the day with Steven Tyler, which is fun but he never stops. Started off with him looking for me at 9am (I was picking up my computer). Gym, pool, then the desert. We drove out on the way to Oman. I thought I'd get 30 minutes out of him, he did photos for two hours with full concentration no messing about. It was so hot I took my sneaker off and the sand burnt my foot. We stayed out there until dark.
We get back to Dubai as Joe Perry and clan arrive, with Rock'n'roll John B already stressing. 'I've got to sort out the set list, the show is in two days time!' Joe says to me 'We're in your neck of the woods.' Where does he think I'm from? I'm of the chosen race, then again so is Danielstein and he's from Iran, just across the water. Joe introduces me to his mother. 'I have to keep your son in order when he's being bad,'I tell her. 'My son is never bad. I brought him up properly.' I can't argue with that...
Steven then wanted to eat, local food. We all (Kazuyo, Kripa, Gordon, Erin, ST and me) ate overlooking the water, outdoors. It was like having dinner in a sauna. Erin took a photo of Steven and me with me refusing to smile. 'Come on, I want a smile your mothers would like.' She got it in the end, I'll put it in the diary when she sends it. Kripa ate local chicken. 'Not bad, but it's not the same as a KFC large bucket.' Tonight here is like Friday night - we go clubbing."
May 28
"Woke up late for me - 11am. Felt I'd lost the day. My Macbook is broken. I find an Apple service centre run by Asians. 'No problem, you can have it tomorrow for $600'. 'It has a three year warranty.' 'Yes sir, but warranty takes two weeks... 'What bollocks! I end up paying.
I cook, that is the right word, by the pool. It is nice if you like hot. Go off and try to shoot some travel type photos. Dubai resembles a building site since I was last here, traffic and high rises everywhere. I shoot the new tallest building in the world and the Emirates Towers with the moon in the middle. Shooting Steven Tyler out in the desert tomorrow - Aerosmith are all arriving in stages...."
Diary
May 29
"Spent the day with Steven Tyler, which is fun but he never stops. Started off with him looking for me at 9am (I was picking up my computer). Gym, pool, then the desert. We drove out on the way to Oman. I thought I'd get 30 minutes out of him, he did photos for two hours with full concentration no messing about. It was so hot I took my sneaker off and the sand burnt my foot. We stayed out there until dark.
We get back to Dubai as Joe Perry and clan arrive, with Rock'n'roll John B already stressing. 'I've got to sort out the set list, the show is in two days time!' Joe says to me 'We're in your neck of the woods.' Where does he think I'm from? I'm of the chosen race, then again so is Danielstein and he's from Iran, just across the water. Joe introduces me to his mother. 'I have to keep your son in order when he's being bad,'I tell her. 'My son is never bad. I brought him up properly.' I can't argue with that...
Steven then wanted to eat, local food. We all (Kazuyo, Kripa, Gordon, Erin, ST and me) ate overlooking the water, outdoors. It was like having dinner in a sauna. Erin took a photo of Steven and me with me refusing to smile. 'Come on, I want a smile your mothers would like.' She got it in the end, I'll put it in the diary when she sends it. Kripa ate local chicken. 'Not bad, but it's not the same as a KFC large bucket.' Tonight here is like Friday night - we go clubbing."
May 28
"Woke up late for me - 11am. Felt I'd lost the day. My Macbook is broken. I find an Apple service centre run by Asians. 'No problem, you can have it tomorrow for $600'. 'It has a three year warranty.' 'Yes sir, but warranty takes two weeks... 'What bollocks! I end up paying.
I cook, that is the right word, by the pool. It is nice if you like hot. Go off and try to shoot some travel type photos. Dubai resembles a building site since I was last here, traffic and high rises everywhere. I shoot the new tallest building in the world and the Emirates Towers with the moon in the middle. Shooting Steven Tyler out in the desert tomorrow - Aerosmith are all arriving in stages...."
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