March 2010
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The OG's In The Honda Game
The FF Squad are true OG’s in the Honda game since the early-mid 90’s. Now to see where they are at now is amazing and inspring. These guys keep me motivated on how your suppose to build a Honda and how to race on the track and NOT on the streets. With all this warm weather and having race season around the corner… this video makes me want to wake up the red beast to hear her...
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“Just in… Canada > USA… KTHNXBYE!”
– Me
February 2010
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Nom'n at Dadeos
Mariel and I went to Dadeos on friday night to do some nom’n… First off we ordered some pints of Alley Cat Chili Lager & Full Moon Lager. For our mains Mariel got the classic Po’Boy with calamari & sweet potato fries and I got the shrimp creole with rice & coleslaw… of course both dishes were bang on as usual! The things I love about going to Dadeos is the...
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Know Dilla? Cont.
Stussy just released the Part 3 of their documentry on J Dilla… Get Informed People…
Source: Hypebeast
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Expressions Of Hunger
This weeks Critique is “Expressions Of Hunger”. The only thing that came to mind was a desaturated hand that is all zombie like reaching to an inclosed apple. For some reason an apple to me represents “food” more than anything because of its symbolism to the word “food”… aka Adam & Eve eating the apple. Well here is my submission, tell me what you...
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Haven x 1hundo ...?
Naww just joking everyone! I’m just doing my Photograph Essay on Haven for my Photographic Technology Program at NAIT. I picked Haven due to the atmosphere they give their customers from their structural architecture to their website layout. For the first shoot I just want to show majority of the interior, which all their Edmonton based cliente see every time they walk in the doors. These...
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Addiction
I have found a new ADDICTION of two of my favourite things to consume, which is chocolate and coffee. Mariel got me some chocolate from Soma Chocolatemaker dubbed the name “The Epic Latte Milk Chocolate Bar” that is 45% coco dark chocolate that is infused with coffee beans from 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters when she was in Toronto during reading week…this stuff is wayy too good!...
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Set-ups
Today I finally did some sort of school work during this reading week due to the fact I was working everyday at the shop and I was HELLA lazy this week. I went to Haven, where I am doing my Photo Essay, to do some shots of the interior, product, people shots. After the 3 hour shoot I came out with 5 different concept shots which are still in it’s RAW form. Here are some of the set-ups I did...
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COMMON-ly Imitated But Never Duplicated
This week is a pretty good weekend for The Common. On Thursday they will be hosting along side with Foosh the Gentle Fawn Spring 2010 Fashion Show that will start right at 9pm with DJ $hortee, DJ Sonny Grimezz, & Allout DJ’s spinning the after party. On Friday it’s the Monthly Golden Era Hip-Hop Night that is always PACKED & always FUN with the cool selections from DJ Sonny...
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New Contenders...
Capcom has released MORE characters yesterday for Super Street FIghter 4 that includes oldies and new fighters. The newest fighters they released yesterday are Dudley, Ibuki, & Makoto BUT the other fighters they released before are Guy, Cody, Adon, Dee Jay, T-Hawk, & Juri. In total there are NINE new fighters to get used to and learn…on top of that every fighter has TWO...
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Know Dilla?
It is sad to say that MOST people out there don’t know how his legacy he left before he passed… Stussy wanted to inform people. On doing so they made a documentary about the man himself of his uprising in the music game and separated it into a three part documentry. There are several people in it from Peanut Butter Wolf, DJ Houseshoes, DJ Rhemattic, Grath Trinidad, J.Rocc, B+, Egon,...
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MIXTWAPE VOL.1
Once agian LF and his GREAT ideas…big up homie!
knttwd:
I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND WHILE I DRIVE & CATCH EVERY RED LIGHT SO I CAN BE WITH YOU LONGER by KNTTWD
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Birthday Dinners
For Kyla’s (1/2 of Bamboo Ballroom) birthday we decided to go to Red Lobster because no one ate there for a really really long time… This dine in reminded me why I only go there for specific reasons…NOT for the food! The only really good thing was the lobster and the biscuits… soo yummy! Well HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYLA and I know you enjoyed your crab / lobster / shrimp dinner...
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Workspace
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EG6 Durifto
EG6 with a F20 swap & RWD swap…amazing! Check the rear wheels if you think it’s not RWD… pure power out drifting!
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Bungie REACHing Out
I was very disappointed in a lot of the newer Halo games, BUT Bungie is going back to the roots of telling a story and getting the player more involved in it for Halo: Reach. After watching this video, I fell back in love with the Halo series… can not wait for it!
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Nom's & Me
Check out the full write up on the lovely Mariel’s blog by clicking HERE!
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R.I.P. Nathan
you will be missed homie…
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Critique. Artistic or Commercial?
This is just a small rant for the Critique class in my program… Critique is basically a weekly topic based class that we shoot for and hand in every Thursday. This week we got Critiqued on “Light” and it just seemed that everyone got bashed for being different or TOO simple which we were taught. The critiquer was an outside source in the Photography Market in Edmonton. This...
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A Day of Art & Food
Tonight Mariel (Mariel Nom’s) and myself went to the Alberta Art Gallery to check out the awesome exhibits, BUT my favourites was obviously Karsh: Image Maker and the incredible sounds from The Murder of Crows by Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Karsh ability to create feeling into each portrait he did of many famous people in our time is incredible as well with his talent of lighting...
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Self-Portrait
This weeks Critic is “Self-Portrait” soo I wanted to make a semi fashion shot with my own style. Kinda serious photograph than my other funny ones… This is just a rough edit for now until I see it on a calibrated monitor at school. Tell me what you think!
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Meals
For my big meals of the day, I decieded to take some photos of them to share will you guys. First was brunch and I had some Filippino Lagonisa, fried rice with the resedue sauce in the pan, and some tomato slices to clense the palette. For supper my dad wanted to cook some steak which he did PERFECTLY and had a salad on the side with yogurt/dill salad dressing…soo good! Love Lazy...
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Happy Bday Dilla
Today is Jay Dee a.k.a. J Dilla a.k.a. James Dewitt Yancey Birthday and I wanted to pay my repspects to one of the DOPEST producers of our time that has left this Earth wayy to early for his time… Happy Birthday Dilla, you will always be in the hearts of those who loved what you do… R.I.P.!
Here is one of my Favourite albums from the man himself
J Dilla - Donuts
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Noms At Sugarbowl
Last night at Sugarbowl, Mariel (Mariel Noms) & I ate and drank some new beers. It was along time since I ate at Sugarbowl, soo I was excited to see whats new in their menu since last time. We ordered Steamed Soy Beans with Sea Salt, Baked Brie/Basil in Phyllo, and Smoked Paprika/Lime Popcorn. For beverages Mariel got the DDC Rosée d’Hibiscus Wheat Beer and I got the Brooklyn Black...
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And The Winner Is...
In first semester for one of my Critic’s we shot for Bridgestone’s yearly contest. If you guys forgot what I shot, just click HERE to see my rendition for the contest. I found out yesterday that I got 3rd overall in NAIT Photographic Technology and now I’m on their website AND I got $500 to my name…super stoked! Check out the winners of 2009 HERE.
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Swapping Bodies
Soo one of my MANY assignments this week was pretty fun to do. We had to take a photography of 4 people and change their faces/body on the orignal background with a better version. I chose to do my family and do a fun portraiture with some Rockband…soo wicked! Here my results…
Original Unhappy Faces
Used this photo for my Mom
Used this to replace my brother, my dad, & myself
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Harris LOVES Drama
This is by far one of the funnest skits I’ve heard in a while…
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“Curves, Levels, & Hue/Saturation… The Big 3 for post editing!”
– Randall Raiche, NAIT Instructor