The Homies.

#nowplaying – Joe Hisaishi “Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi”

What’s the word yo? I hope everyone’s been chill… over the weekend, I’ve really just been relaxing for the most part, meditating on the things to come, and the people I wanna connect with. For the most part though, I’ve been kicking it with the homies. Speaking of the homies.. few of you have ever met them.. so I spend a day just kickin’ it and photographing. It was pretty dope… I’d like to introduce everyone more thoroughly without making taking away from the photos… so here we go. Introducing Ant, Nice, and Envee (in descending order).

I didn’t really publish ALL of the photos from that day because I definitely wanted to give you more of a individual explanation of each one throughout the week… hopefully I’ll be able to do that. For the most part.. sit tight.

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Can’t Wait To Connect with the West.

#nowplaying – Pete Rock feat Vinia Mojica “Mindblowin”

What’s the word yo! It’s been a long week… I finally have time to sit down and do things the way I want to now. Working with the new 5D MK II and the large raw files (getting used to my computer dealing with the delay), planning shoots while editing older assignments, solidifying travel plans (I’m due west), and canceling the others, hanging with the homie Byn before he left for the Philippines, and also formulating what I want and need to do for the blog.

I’ve always wanted to set a more intimate environment for the blog, with more behind the scenes photos and just random things throughout my week or even day. The sad thing isn’t that I never had time, I just didn’t have the tools I was satisfied with. I’ve been waiting for a full frame digital body for so long now, and honestly shooting with the majority of digital cameras that cut your frame space by 25-30%, it’s not entirely satisfying when you’ve already experienced the full frame on a film camera prior. I’m sorry you guys but the reason why I didn’t publish a lot of work is simply because I wasn’t satisfied with it. Therefore, I wasn’t as inspired prior to an assignment to publish my work after. I always felt like I was compensating editing for the frame space I lost. BUT I will be publishing things from 6 months prior that I’ve only published to the clients or friends and just random frames that you’ve never seen before.

Earlier in the week I shot with my homie Lyuba, breaking my camera in for the first portraiture shoot I’ve done since the new purchase. I was so happy with the shoot (the colors are SO DYNAMIC, and the depth just adds to the shadows and tones), and even though editing it was extremely hard, I made it work. When I say DYNAMIC.. I mean extremely sensitive to minor adjustments. Since then I’ve been making new presets in Lightroom or editing from scratch, primarily.

The colors are so deep and even though the options you have for any camera are infinite, this camera just seems to have the consistent range that I need in my life to bring me back to inspiration.

Hopefully I’ll be able to publish more photos from this session soon, we shall see. I’m more excited of the work to come. I’ll definitely be publishing more photo sets and also a few other things that I’ll be introducing the blog. P.S. be expecting a shoot from @thelexvision and myself very soon; he’ll be leaving for Osaka, Japan soon, and we should have a few photos together alongside a few other comrades of ours, also.

+One Love.

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Reasons Why I Hate to Love.

The truth came out sorta like this… :

Some of you women don’t know how beautiful you are…inside & out…I wish I could show all of you…Some of you women do things for all the wrong reasons…and when the right reason comes along… Haha. The good guys don’t speak loud enough because we feel we don’t need to…we should change that. Some of you guys are missing the point… Don’t worry… If you find out the hard way, take notes… Some of you women know exactly what you want…so much so that you forget what you need…

Some of you guys need to stop rapping and start reading… As a matter of fact, stop listening to music…love doesn’t fit a template… Some of the shit artists say I can’t relate to… And I don’t need to..I’m an individual… Some of you guys are fucking CARBON COPIES of each other (especially you GUYS)…get a life before you get in love…or it’ll ruin you….Some of you women are real BITCHES…yea… You deserve everything you get…you fuck it up for good women.

Some of you women aren’t ready for love… Like a unfinished glass…how do expect to hold anything when you’re not complete… I could go on forever…but I’d rather not…these are just the things that I witness day to day…some people are idiots… Some of you are genius’ and you don’t even know it…but I do…because I’m paying close attention…and that’s all I need to do right now.

The truth has no fear.

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Seba Jun | せば　じゅん

I honestly don’t know what to say. I wish that I would’ve found out sooner. From what I hear, the death of Nujabes (Jun Seba) was announced on M-FLO’s site. His family had a private burial for him shortly after his death.

R.I.P. JUN SEBA (せば　じゅん ) 1974 – 2010

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