inspired by author/journalist/writer/an all around dope woman Femi Martin... I was drawn to write short stories again

she had put all of her homework aside and decided to dedicate her Sunday watching full online episodes of Sex and the City. It took her a while to find uploaded videos of the seasons without having to download or purchase any. The quality was not great but she settled. She felt powerful that she was finally able to watch stories of love and life, and not get sent down to memory lane. Carrie Bradshaw in the show bumped into Big while on a date, she watched the episode evolve with great excitement as she munched on her malt chocolate whoppers. It was every girls dream to be on a date with a guy and bump into their ex, however she was aware that this scene, is a only a dream that girls fantasize about. Out of 100 failed relationships the liability of this ever happening is 3.

She enjoyed watching this episode of Carrie confronted by her ex, even though it was a rather emotional and sadistic episode, she found it comical. Until the moment she felt every word, ever sentiment Carrie Bradshaw felt when Big had said his friendly good bye with a touch on Carrie's arm. The camera's slow motion effects made her drop the malt ball on her bed and touch her chest. As she watched Carrie look at Big walking away, she felt her eyes squint and her mouth slightly open. She had stopped breathing, and watched Carrie closely so she wouldn't miss the protagonist's next move. The scene was viewed in a long shot and Carrie's narrative voice echoed "I'm still not over you".

The last quote from the episode replayed in her head as she looked down her chocolate stained shirt and repeated out loud, "I'm still not over you".

Amerie

I'm a bit obsessed.

So back in the day I was all over R&B and now I can't really get into it. However, Amerie brings me back, I don't know what it is but she does it for me.

I killed her first album, All I Have, her sophmore was ok, never heard her third and I am a bit excited for her upcoming release of her fourth album, In Love & War. I went on Amazon and review her 30 second sample tracks and so far I am digging it. It has the soul, funk that we all love from her hit single 1 Thing.

I don't know what it is yet, but as far as R&B goes, Amerie has always been on the list. I don't know why people constantly compare her to Beyoncé , or why does everyone compare any R&B artist to Beyoncé .

Who cares?


I dig this song, I know if any other artist performed this song I would hate it. But Amerie has gotten a hold on me... daaag.








(I was tryna resarch the photographer who shot her cover album and I couldn't get the source, anyone out there know who's the talented photog?)

mobile

I've been trying to shoot a photo a day, whether it is my dslr, analog, my phone's camera or even your phone's camera.

So I am totally obsess with my phone and its 2 megapixel image making skills.

I've been doing a lot of self portraits/portraits, but my fave ones are the blurry party pics.




































I think I might do a project on blurry party pics, probably have them all mesh together like a collage, hmmm (thoughts).

Muse

Grace Jones became Andy Warhol's muse during the 80s.
and I don't blame him.

I learned how to smash those bad habits

Thank you for that Dr. Ian Smith.

Chance Meeting

Duane Michals is such an inpsiration to me.
After viewing this project my mind had a seizure due to so many ideas that came about and so I went on and did a photo project similar to Duane Michal's Chance Meeting (above).This photo is part of a sequence. It's untilted and shot with 35mm printed on fiber paper. I scanned it with my ever so "lovely" scanner that made my black and white images, brown and white. gangsta

gasp

Hassellblad H4D-60.

60 fucking megapixel medium format camera. Now that is a dream! Nearly 42 g's, gasp!

I've recently have been shooting a Mamiya m645 medium format film camera and I love the quality of the images. I've been shooting 35mm for so long and got my dSLR about a year ago but the image quality from a medium format camera is mind blowing. I can't wait to get my hands on a large format camera. YES! Best believe I will be carrying it as if it was a regular 35mm cam, ha.

Yeah, it's totally worth the struggle.