AS SERIOUS AS YOUR LIFE

I've been dabbling more into the video world these days. My buddy Matthew Caron called me up and asked if I could assist him on a music video shoot for this hip hop group called Children of The Night which was neat because the legendary Large Professor made a cameo appearance.  It was exciting watching Matt in action and learning techniques on shooting video.

(You can check out some of the behind the scenes images I took while on set on my photo blog: http://www.clanofmonkeys.blogspot.com)

The next day after that shoot I took on my own music video shoot.  I shot a music video called "Bitch I'm Posh" for my friend Destiny who goes by the name Wavy Spice.  The theme was drag queen esque.  This is a sneak peek of our day on location shooting:

I was beat by the end of the shoot but had to rush home to get ready for the photo exhibit I was showing in.  It was already 7pm and the show had already begun I decided to grab a bite to eat before I headed to the Mishka store.  While I was eating I gotta phone call from Royce (the curator) and 20 minutes into the show I had already sold one of my photos so that was exciting.  I was also surprised a bunch of friends I hadn't seen since high school showed up.  I was definitely honored to be in the same show as Don art director of The Source Magazine since I was his photo intern freshmen year of college.  Both of my images in the exhibit had sentimental value so sharing the stories behind my images had to be my favorite part about interacting with people who came to see the show. As my first photo exhibit in New York City it will be one to remember.  

Royce & I 

I'm full of accomplishments and my creativity is heavily being energized through collaborations with other creatively inclined people whether it be friends or family.  I'm gonna keep pushin'....

KICKING IT LIVE STRAIGHT FROM THE EAST VILLAGE

This past week has been beautiful.  I'm truly blessed to be around family and close friends.  Being back in New York has given me so much energy to keep going whether it be taking photos making videos drawing writing whatever it may be I'm seeing what I need to see to continue my path to helping humanity.

I'm in a group photo exhibit this week at the Mishka Store called Stolen Souls.  Believe me preparing for a exhibition is stressful.  I was having so many issues with printing and freaking out about how much everything was gonna cost from the prints to the mounting to the framing.  Thing worked out as they usually do but I need to learn how to relax.  While having dinner with my aunt and her boyfriend I was telling her about my problems getting my prints made and her boyfriend brought up a friend of his who prints all his work from home.  I'm telling you having this conversation led me to getting my prints made by a amazing photographer thank you Dane Shitagi you made my life a whole lot easier and less frustrating.

Check out his photo work called The Ballerina Project the photographs are breath taking: http://ballerinaproject.com/

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The Flyer to Mishka's Stolen Souls Photo Exhibit:

In other news last thursday my buddy Matthew Caron who goes by the name YOUR FRIEND MATTHEW videographer/dj at East Village Radio invited me to dj for an hour so me and Doper Jones took over East Village Radio.  He also wrote a really nice bio about me on there website along with Doper Jones hooking up the artwork for our dj set called Professionally Unprofessional.

You can listen to our set here: http://www.eastvillageradio.com/content/content.php?id=3776&fb_source=message

Photos from East Village Radio GOOD TIMES!

DEE JAYING IN OUR PEE JAYS!

COME ATCHA LIVE FROM THE LOWER EAST SIDE

YOUR FRIEND MATTHEW & DOPER JONES 

ZOOTED NATION IN THE BUILDING

MIMOSAS FOR BREAKFAST

REFLECTING

Been keeping myself busy lately.  This past week has been craze assisted my aunty on a cook book photo shoot that turned out to be a 17 hour shoot, it was intense but learned a thing or two about lighting food. Definitely don't wanna specialize in food photography.

I also randomly got a phone call from the Sunshine Theater which I totally forgot I had applied too so that was a nice surprise.  Went on a interview yesterday gotta good feeling about it so hopefully that follows through, free movies and popcorn I"M WITH IT!

I haven't been in the mood to take photos but today I went for my morning walk with my dog pritz and saw these giant puddles of buildings and had the urge to finally pick up my camera and start snapping away.

& this is what I captured: