September 15, 2010

Eric Dressen on Warp Magazine "Life Sucks"

Eric Dressen on Warp Magazine "Life Sucks" Interview by Kana Yoshioka 

We visited Eric to the Tattoo Studio "Yer Cheat N' heart tattoo shop" in last July. It was another memorable great photo shoot for me. 
  "Life Sucks" page by Kana Yoshioka is really interesting interview page. Wish it were bilingual article.  Not only who She features(ed), cultural Icons/legendary people, but also interview them about their life path, very Biography based which is lots of time very inspirational.  This coming month is also featuring  person from Los Angeles. Stay Tune! 

One Night in Costa Mesa














Vestal Presents WarPaint @ mesa "Camm Tuesday"

August 28, 2010

DISH

Dish (Vicious Lick's Drummer) 

Quick short photo session with Ravel@village Studio

Musician Ravel at Village Studio. I took these when I was scouting location.
 Everybody at Village Studio has super great vibe!  Huge Thanx to Village Studio!

"Ozuma Kaname & Horiyoshi 3rd"@ Known Gallery





Runs to September 18th. 
It is super rare to see lots of amazing japanese artists pieces... Possible I won't be able to have this opportunity if i would have lived in Japan... 

August 21, 2010

Surprise and mystery of Succelent plants

I am not really big fan of flowers, but I do like green.. like plants. however, I haven't really having "green" till I became charge of little spot in the backyard. I found it's called Succulent in English, that I like them not only it's look but also "easy to take care of" since it has water contain in themselves... ...
 Then, after researching, I found there's famous spots for these type of plants near my house, called, California Nursery Specialist.  I got 24 pieces of little succulents that I'd never ever seen before in my life,  dig holes and lined them. Looked really really cute.  They gave instruction that not giving too much water but it's Valley weather, don't dry them out..   Balance of those is still tuff for me, unfortunately after 3months, I killed few of them.. well, Valley heat is killer. Anyway, one day, i started seeing weird things growing from nowhere on one of them. Nobody told me.. It's like skinny asparagus-ish. maybe flower will be coming?   Then.. this guy on this photo, these guys started growing, again, no where but between those tight spaces between each guys.. now it has weird face on the top.. a bit looks gross.. (you can see 1 in the middle of group on this photo).  I wasn't happy about it that I liked their smooth faces.


then.. 3 days later, boom! this huge flowers bloomed..  How you can hide this much size flower inside of those skinny ass?  


it's totally surprise and mystery. I know i just need to learn about them but i started enjoying these special plants more than before because of this surprise.  I won't learn about what kind of flower they will have and so on on purpose to make it surprise and mystery. that's one of their charm for me..

August 16, 2010

FLJ Magazine "Risk" out on 7.30

FLJ Magazine got 2nd anniversary issues out on 30th July, And...
Graffiti Legend, Risk's feature article is in it! It's 6 pages with great interview. I had photo documented him couple of times around last March... Time Flies.
It was amazing experiences. Huge Thanx to Risk, Marisa, Chris, Casey-T7L!
More photos coming!

"When Superstars Ruled The World" JJ Burridge @Lazarides




Photographed Premier Private Open night of their last art show "When Superstars Ruled The World"-by UK artist, Jay Jay Burridge for Lazarides Gallery. Dino everywhere that I used to be so into Dino when i was kids. Fun Pieces.

13th August ~ 26th, 12-8pm @ Lazarides Gallery : 320 N Beverly Dr, Beverly Hills, 90210

Recep of Half Cross Country Trip part-1

(@Burbank Airport)
(@Phoenix Airpot for transit)
(New Mexico)
We Left Burbank Airport, flied to New Mexico.
Heartz Rent Car at Albuquerque, New Mexico Native, Joe really helped us out with great deal.
Our Rent-car was almost-brown-red-Kia, became our moving "room" since then till NY...
1st spot we stopped by was this Maria statues on the way to Acoma Pueblo.
Somehow, we felt sky are so close.. Our Roadtrip had begun!

June 28, 2010

Currently...

Half cross country trip to NY with my old,best GF Kana from Tokyo,
started from New Mexico. Texas, dig small village called Canton, then LA, Alexandria. New Orleans..

Photo will be coming soon. Stay in touch!!

June 17, 2010

Frank 151 -- 7th Letter Crew Chapter !



Current Chapter of FRANK 151 is 7th letter Crew. It's really cool. You can Check/download PDF on their Website. AND... My photos are in it at Retna's article!

June 15, 2010

Another Super Fun Photo shoot with Marlena!!

I met Marlena through Retna for his last solo show's piece.
We've been texting about the next shoot/collaboration for last few months, I finally made it happen with quite sexy'n steamy concept that I really can't show everything in here!*0*
As always, she is just beautiful and amazing model with down-to-earth fun personality !
Then later on, another surprise subject! Dante Spencer came by and joined our shoot!
I'll upload those later. Make Up by Hanako, Hair by Miki. Huge Thank you for Marlena, Dante Spencer and Rob for renting space!!

June 14, 2010

another photo up for SUBWARE

SUBWARE Blog

I photographed this photo few years back at AWR Motor yard. It was one night after artists finished on that day's installing for artshow, we decided to visit this historical yard. I heard about this yard from Eklips and wanted to go there someday. Super dark for camera that barely being able to focus. I really liked this person's shadow in it that was one of artist's shadow obviously. This photo was published on Dune magazine by Wanto's edit & design. One of great night memory.