How did I take this?

Chinatown

new lens!?!?! how??? a new style of photos im taking

Revisiting Chinatown

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

Snowday Update

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

its 93 again!!

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!

NAM: www.myspace.com/nam206

KHINGZ: www.myspace.com/khingz

CS4 and LR2

lovin’ it

here are a few photos i re-tweeked through the new software

although i couldve done these with cs3 and lr1

the workflow is much faster and smoother with the upgrade

is it worth it?

well shit..from cs3, no..cs2..yes

i hear cs5 will be 64-bit for mac os x

that will be worth it

The Physics

The Physics

The Physics

The Real Barneys

Writing Professor

Summary of this weekend

yesterday i almost died…

so im driving to west seatte to catch the ferry to a photoshoot over on vashon island

when i get off the freeway…i realize my brakes are cut..meaning no brakes…meaning cant stop..meaning wont stop

meaning cant stop wont stop rocafella records..cuz we get down baby, we get down

haha so i ran this red light because my brakes werent working and i had to swerv in and out to avoid traffic!!

ughhhhhhhhh no way i was going to take this death machine onto the ferry

so i parked in some neighborhood about half a mile away from the ferry because everywhere around the ferry required permit parking

got on the ferry to vashon island and did the shoot..got on the ferry back to seattle, and drove home without any brakes (stupidy or skill?)

Ferry Ride

Ferry Ride

Ferry Ride

Senior Pics

Senior Pics

Vashon Island, wow..wierd place..dont think i could ever live there..its like one of those joints from a Q13 teen show..remember dawson’s creek? before the hills..and shit like that..hahaha

anyways

had to go home and work on this foundations assignment..make something 3D out of manila folder paper

so we can attempt to blow it up life size with cardboard

heres what i made…tape glue and paper

Paper Bride

Paper Bride

Paper Bride

Paper Bride

Im still working on it

got two essays to write and a history exam to study for today

fuck college

korea, ill see you some day