…so between friday morning and saturday afternoon, it snowed…and snowed…and snowed. I was tempted to just stay in the warmth of my room, edit some videos, and get over my cold. But like the branches of trees weighed down by the accumulating snow, I bent to the pressure of the kid in me calling me outside to play.
…i’m currently in production on a documentary that brought me to ghana….while there, we filmed a gospel concert headlined by artists sherwin gardner and donnie mcclurken…i found the attendees so engaging that i took more images of them than the artists themselves…when they praise, they PRAISE!
this summer i rolled up to nyc for a lighting class. took the china town bus and came across this cutie who saw my camera and started talking to me about photography. we chopped it up for a bit, built some rapport, and found out she was rolling up to nyc w/ her boyfriend. being mindful of how it may look that his girl was talking to me, i made a point to include him in our convo. asked them if i could take their picture. they seemed surprised about why i would want to take their picture but agreed nonetheless. gotta love what having a camera can do as far as connecting strangers, eh? here are some that i dug. Continue reading ‘love on a china town bus’
…one of the most historical collections of folks who paved the way for hiphop…caught this event over @ nat geo…nas & damian marley building about the connection between hiphop & reggae music and their roots to Africa…
Dr. Cornel West doing a book signing for a young girl at Busboys & Poets…
…always down for a good hiphop show, I went to catch luda perform @ Ibiza in DC a couple weeks ago… Continue reading ‘heineken red star soul show with ludacris’
…for those looking for a great book to read, check sit, ubu sit by gary david goldberg…
the pic below is my mom’s dog ‘winston’ …aka ‘lil’ bit’…
…i know…i know…it’s been a minute since i last posted…been real busy w/ other work…video work…it’s the editing that takes most of the time….this past weekend was pretty productive…on friday, i shot one of my boy’s wedding in annapolis w/ the help of my good friend jefry…got to sleep around 3 am and had to turn around and go to the ronald reagan building and film willie colon’s performance…yeah, i know…whoah woe is me… Continue reading ‘two days late but…happy 4th of july’
…went to check out the group love is all (pics to come) at the black cat and got hipped to these guys who opened and did their thing as well…i love falling into good music….
