Promos!!!

I realized that I am one step closer to graduating when I opened my box of promos today. I know I've been preparing for this since the moment I got here. All the work I put in this term is to graduate ready to work, but just looking a these postcards made me think. It's big boy time now suckas! Anyways it gives me a good feeling to know that all that work is paying off.

Ink Shots

I am having a show on Sat. March 28, 2009 of work from two series ( Tattoo Artist & Transparent Ink ). It's 8pm to 12am at the American Electric Tattoo Company.

I have been working really hard to become comfortable with digital photography. I use to be someone lunch every Friday to get tutored on Photoshop. I research and bought books on working with digital media. I spend hours one file, doing 10 different versions of it to see what would work best. Finally I got to the point where felt like I knew enough to create work that I would be proud of. Then I began using my digital camera in the same way I had use my film one. So began buying medium format and 35mm cameras, and started to shoot film. I scan my negatives of course, but film has become my passion with in my other passion. Instead of taking a digi point and shot, I began to take my rangefinders everywhere ( Fuji 120 and 35mm Voigtlander). I have a need to take pictures every day. The more I shoot film, the more I remembered why I started doing this in the first place.

On The Road

This weekend I went to the Bay Area to do a family portrait.  Its been very crazy this term, and really need to get away.  I had some issues with the project, I don't think me work say " hey I am family friendly".  Once I figured that I didn't have to do anything unlike me, things where much more clear in my head.  I decide not to stress and took the trip not as a job, but a time to reflect ( I know that sound so new age whiny bull). Once where on the road I found myself just staring out onto the road.  There some thing so relaxing about looking at green hills, mountains and clear skies.  There were certain time during the drive that I want to stop and just walk out into those field.  I even got emotional about feeling the air hit my face.  I am graduating, I should be enjoying this, not killing myself to place someone who might stand in front of my images for a few seconds.  The night before I practiced my set ups, so the next day the shoot was so easy it took 3 hours to shoot 6 people in 2 sets.  On the way back I caught myself stair out the window and feel happy.  No thinking, no taking, no stressing, just letting everything go...

Nothing Can Stop Advertising

    This outdoor ads for a local strip joint the other is a european ad for Puma. It goes to show you that anything and everything can be use to advertise.

European Ads

What is this about?... It's a cool and you understand it til the end. It's actually clever, yet while your watching you may be thinking "what the hell".

Covers On My Wall

My wall are covers with tons of stuff that inspire me. Art work, masks, rosaries and photos that keep me thinking. I also have three album cover which have been my favorite since I was a kid. I loved this images even before I knew anything about photography. Through out the year I have collected them and frame them, to remind my of where my music taste comes from. So here they are: first the Ramones, second is The Beatles and finally N.W.A. The Ramones, mainly because it was the first band I had ever known the lyrics to as a 9yr old kid. My mother was a big fan of The Beatles, and the Abbey Road images had so much impact for me. One of the first record I ever bought was N.W.A., and of course because it was the first time a group from my neighborhood had a record deal.