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Chinatown
new lens!?!?! how??? a new style of photos im taking
I love this place
it’s the first place i go to if i know im not doing anything, a thing ive been doing since the 7th grade..
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
After 8pm, $2.49 Sushi!
Glowing Buddha
Waji
Ichi the Killer
Joy to the World
Chinatown
The Purple Man
Chinatown
What happens when Garbage trucks cant make it down King
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
im a 19 (running on 20) year old virgin
im not going to say that im proud or ashamed of it
im not going to criticize myself or anybody else
and it is definitely not a statement on my views and morals
i wish i could say i was saving myself (i hear that gets me brownie points)
i wish i could say that i had high morals for myself (i hear that gets me browie points)
i wish i could say i was catholic (definitely brownie points)
but im not.
its just how things worked out to become what they are now
now with that out there..i am going to further elaborate on why i think i’ve been single for so long (5 running on 6 years)
thats crazy right? not in a good or bad way, its just crazy! sure there were one or two flings in the middle, but in the end, i haven’t really experienced what 99% of my generation is obsessed about..hooking up, love, and having sex (i just graduated from high school)
okay, that may be a really broad view so im going to say it was a “joke” (read the previous post)
anybody who knows me knows that i think alot, often too much in certain situations
and its become rather unhealthy..but im okay with that
but whenever i talk to people about it, obviously they just dont understand what its like
i mean really though, should i expect them too?
this is what i hate hearing:
1) dont worry, youll find her soon enough
2) dont worry, youre time will come (wtf does that mean jared?)
3) dont worry, shes out there
4) dont worry
5) dont worry
6) dont worry
so i dont worry, i just think, think, think
but thinking too much leads to worry
so i try not to think about it
here’s what i do to not think about it
1) go into hermit mode
2) play video games
3) watch anime
and it seems whenever im out with my friends, im reminded of how much of a stiff i am
i know that ive become a good person, i dont know how much of it is due to the fact that ive been single for 5 years and a virgin
(my guess would be high..really high)
its one of those things where you count up the situations that couldve happened and how it couldve changed your life and you thank the world you didnt because of how you became to be who you are now
*4% of adults are virgins
im not saying were better and cooler or un-better and un-cooler, just that if you put us up against the 96% of adults that are in a dodgeball game, we would definitely lose…real bad
lets look at this chart
virginal college majors
from: http://www.earthfrisk.com/blog/?p=18
just a quick reminder, im an art major..seems like i should switch to math
so here is where it gets really interesting
this is my thesis on why the hell am i a 19-year old virgin majoring in art:
I’m an artist, its a work, a trade, a passion, a sub-culture, a life-style; but any of those require some amount of dedication just like anything else. But what is the importance of an artist in society? We aren’t mechanics, or doctors, or lawyers. We (those that lack the exposure to sell platinum records or million dollar paintings) do not make life that much easier for others, not significantly at least. And if we do, it isnt enough to be able to support ourselves. For an artist to be self-sustainable, to operate and function within the middle class (at least), the amount of dedication and work put in, i wholesomely believe, is immensely greater than it is with being a self-sustainable doctor. Of course right? Now im not going to say its harder or more rigorous, im opposed to criticizing the difficulty of one’s life and choices. We all go through it, thats my excuse for not wanting to hear your life story. But to put simply, to be an artist that can live off his/her work is rare (about 75% of artists in the nation have to have two jobs to sustain living expenses in this country).
With that said, i’m going for my bachelors in fine arts, knowing well that success is as slim as making the NBA and that attending an art college has merely transformed into a transition of becoming “a starving artist.” I’m paing $26,000 a year to eventually starve after I graduate (if they do not prepare me enough for the real world, not an artist community). I’m not going to starve literally, or possibly maybe..if worst comes to worst, but i’ll be starving: needing more, not having enough, malnourished, underfed, dying. So i have faith, i have to, i have alot of it, enough to pay pack a hell of a debt.
So i try to dedicate myself to a higher degree of learning and understanding myself and my art because they are both reflections of one another. But recently, the amount of photographers in the area has skyrocketed, i shoudnt even say photographers, more so picture takers. As Stephanie Slycooley has said, they are re-hobbyists. Now, im not against you carrying around your new nikon or canon DSLR (or sony and pentax if you really have to) but due to it, the interpretation of what photography beyond an art community and into real society has become vague, lost, and cheap. Because those people that carry their nice cameras label themselves a photographer by attaching their full name as a watermark on their picture, i am not being taken serious in my work. They have nice cameras, they take nice pictures, but they continue to struggle to find beauty within the photographs..simply because it doesnt exist.
All of this and many, many, many more reasons have led me to believe that to become successful n a world measured by dollars as an artist, i have to become better than my current self and offer more than what others can. But really? How can you do that in art? You can choose to hire the best doctor or knee specialist in the world to examine your fractured bone and you can have a japanese specialty mechanic do maintenance on your honda..you have those options of choosing the best. There is no “best” in art, only the most influential. It’s really all preference, and the goal is to be preferred by almost everyone
So as of right now, this very moment, i am in a state of permanent confusion. Always confused, thats the job of an artist. What the hell does that painting mean? That sculpture? This song? I know that the understanding of art is life long and longer, and its almost the same reason why many pieces of art is appreciated more after death.
So what does this have to do with girls? Well understanding yourself is key to understand others right? Girls cant convince themselves to take part of a serious relationship with an artist simply because he is a nice guy. Of course! It’s so damn true! He does’nt have and can’t promise any stability in life! Now i’m not saying all girls arent willing to, but at this age, within this culture, and how the views of most of our generation has been molded to conform to the popular belief of what beauty is, yes, yes i do think so.
Ahh.its really because i dont have any faith that a girl in her right mind ever would
date a guy like me.
now before you respond
things i dont like hearing
1) as long as youre doing what you love…
2) its okay (im not asking for help, im asking you to respond)
3) dont worry
ps
of course this whole thing is written for the girl i want in mind for a long term relationship, if i wanted an artsy girl, this would be a whole other story 
(joke)
Ohh man!! I havent seen snow like this in Seattle for about ten years! So you know I had to take it as a golden oppurtunity to do some urban snowboarding on Beacon Hill with Jelani..Drove up to Mclellan and ran into some friends who were already a step ahead of us along with the rest of the neighborhood. Gotta love the south end for that! People brought out their inner tubes, stole garbage can lids, and ripped up real estate signs to get their sled on
I cant believe how many people are dumb enough to be driving too! i mean when else are you really going to call in for a snow day? shit…
after that, met up with the homies on Graham and had a snowball fight for like three hours, then people had to get there daily dose of church..thats when me and conrado decided to cut out
i was stranded!!!! man jelani left me on graham and i thought someone else had driven their car to graham but everybody walked! wtf!!!! so we started walking back to conrados crib..which is like 2.5 miles away
yeah thats not so bad but its hella far in snowboard boots!! and hella bus’s were crapped out on the road, like 5 on the walk back..looked like a scene from I Am Legend or something
cut down columbia street and decided to get some pho (energy booster)
i hate pho (and im vietnamese)
finally got to conrados, watched some tv, drank some heineken, and ate some pancit!! (never too full for filipino food)
woke up..ate some more pancit and then headed out on our quest to salvation
waited at the bus stop on ranier, two bus’s passed because they were full, then finally got on the third bus, got off jackson and departed
ive been trying to get my ninja with taking purely candid photos of strangers, although i do try to balance what is moral and immoral about it..at the end of the day, im taking a picture they never knew had existed and most likely will never see..and hopefully when they do, theyll call me and hire me for a job
then kicked it solo in chinatown and finally caught the 150 back to my lair
i wish i had more interesting stuff to say but im just trying to enjoy the snow as much as possible right now
my hands were freezing their hairs off taking flicks so i stopped with that although im trying to take some more shots to mess with on photoshop over break
hope you’re enjoying the snow as much as i am
Metro Bus
Metro Bus
Following People
Following People
Chinatown
Chinatown
Chinatown
Ranier
Conrado
Snow Girl
Guy
Ranier
Ranier
Happiness
Fergison
Pho!!
Ranier
Metro
ive also gotten more into these motion pics
Trees
More at: www.flickr.com/canhsolo
ive had her for like..three years at least and i still dont know what type of dog she is! help me?
my dog
my dog
my dog
my dog
my dog
ive been at home all weekend catching up on naruto..i finally finished today 
ive been playing alot of video games too
it seems like whenever im on a break, i take it as a full on opportunity to transform into an anime-watching, korean music listening, video game playing, top ramen fiending bum..aka me in middle school ): (i need to change this now!!!)
but i wasnt totally lazy today
i went for a walk out in the snow (what was left) with my camera hoping to find the allentown sasquatch that had been spotted earlier this week
but i was left with these black and white photos of what i like to take pictures of on my spare time (mailboxes, fences, and roads..im hoping to start a magazine called “mailboxes, fences, and roads” one day)
Snow
Snow
Snow
Snow
Snow
Snow
and yes for being super asian!!
SUPERAZN
SUPERAZN
Buddha just copped a Louis Vuitton polar bear fur coat with the matching beanie
and as always, check out all of the photos i took on my flickr site:
ps
www.canhsolo.com will be up and running before break ends! i promise!!
I dont remember shit from 93, but ive always heard about 93 in seattle
and with the recession in full effect (or not…yet) alot of shit has been going down in south and central seattle
well thats what i hear anways..you know i keep my ears open for these things, i gotta stay hip to it!! haha
with the recent shooting in southcenter and the many more (which you dont hear about) in south seattle/skyway
unless you hear the gunshots and see the skid marks for yourself, thankfully i dont
the recession is hitting hard, people are stealing from friends, friends stealing from people..its getting outta hand..and i cant convince myself to pay $5 for a roll of sushi anymore.
just tellin you all to be safe out there! and if there are any dead dogs and white people dead on the road, i know who did it! BRRRRRRRAT!!
on another note, lets talk about music…lets talk about hip hop
linked up with nam and khingz yesterday night after my last class had ended, still trying to get the taste of carrot juice out of my mouth, but not being able to convince myself that i had to buy water. ive never been down with buying water! so i hit up khelil right after i got out of the tunnel, asked him if he wanted to meet up and take some photos in chinatown (i miss this place) since he lives like 5 minutes from it via bus tunnel. Headed straight for the waji (uwajimaya) and for some damn reason i spent 10 minutes looking at the sushi!!!! the price goes down after 6, because then its not fresh anymore..it gets below the $5 point, which i can do..not because im budgeting (probably it) but because i can now excuse myself as being a victim of the recession, i cant eat fresh sushi nomo, the current economy got me eating discount sushi (wtf!!)
and why did it take 10 minutes for khelil to get there when he lives 5 minutes away? i dont know..its probably because he was trying to look hella fresh for the photos, rockin that handmade wool jacket made by JILLTHY (his girlfriend)
damn jills, what do i gotta do to get one of those? pleeaaaaaasse!!!!!!
we then started conversing in a thug like manner, peepin what’s currently in and out in japanese culture, checking out the free shit they give away with their magazines (although theyre $10+ magazine, were basically payin for it), then talking about how fresh this iz and that iz, then trying to imitate it with US brands because we dont get filthy shit like they do in japan..
20 minutes later, nam arrives
and we get this shoot crackin!!!!
nam
khingz
khingz
khingz
daichi
daichi
daichi, khingz, nam
daichi
nam
nam
nam
met daichi in front of gossip, a dj from japan, who’s actually leaving to do a show in shibuya in a few weeks…fucking jealous.
the seattle music scene is exciting right now, with all this material theyre being spoonfed from the recession, we can all pursue a more authentic gangster rap hustler persona hahaha
OHHH YEAH! AND ALWAYS CHECK OUT ANY OF THE ARTISTS MUSIC I POST ON HERE! BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ONLY AMAZING AND TALENTED LOCALS, BUT BECAUSE I SHOW THEM LOVE AND THEY SHOW ME LOVE!! WHAT GETS THEM EXPOSURE GETS ME EXPOSURE!
KHINGZ: www.myspace.com/khingz
Book 
Book
Book
Design
my first book (;
hahahaha sike!!! this was an assignment for my foundations class over viewing the strategy of lines, mapping, collecting, and producing a “container of information”..its an actual book with actual stuff to look at and read inside so i was only lying about it being published..for now
i dare you to look inside..i double dog dare you
pretty good huh?
finally with sound
fast foward to 1:10 hahaha
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