My admiration of graffiti art

My admiration for the street art of graffiti came out of a natural curiosity. While transporting back and forth to my high school far from my house passing by over head bridges. I would see the graffiti and would be curious as to who did that and how did they do it? I started to get interested in learning more about the culture and art of graffiti. As well, learning how shapes, lines and colors formed into letters and signs. I remember checking out the magazines at Tower Records and looking at them with amazement. While on my trips to Miami and New York City when I was fifteen getting a first hand look at it. As I tried my self to emulate what I saw in the magazines and walls. Except, I was never that good at it just mostly admired for what I considered art while others considered vandalism. From there led me into my interest in graphic design, photography and other forms of art. On occasion, when I do find an interesting piece that amazes me I will photograph it. For example, here is a photograph I took at the D.C. graffiti hall of fame in July 2006. If you would like to see more please go check out my photography here.

Kanye West - Stronger x Daft Punk

Check out this cool Akira inspired video. Definitely has a lot of Japanese pop culture influences in it. Check out my favorite videos under 'my links' or click here for more. Even though you might have your opinions on Kanye West or his music. You cannot deny the fact that this is one of the hottest songs out there. He's just bringing his own unique style to the world to enjoy no matter the size of his ego. Kanye even has is own blog you can check out here. Just like a lot of artists are doing nowadays as a another avenue to reach their fans.

Shadow man

As promised earlier folks, here is a photo that I took while in Oregon. This was taken in the backyard of my grandparent's house. An interesting reflection of myself on the ground. With the framing of the tree's shadows surrounding me. This photo reminds me of a famous self-portrait of Ansel Adams, which you can view here. You can see another version of my self-portrait under the links labeled 'my photos' or click here.

Are robots going to change digital photography? If you don't know what I mean, then check out this article. Forget about megapixles, check out these awesome gigapixel panoramas from around the globe. This is a collaborative effort of the Global Connection Project, which is a joint project of Carnegie Mellon University, NASA, Google, and National Geographic. Which gives me some photography ideas I would like to explore with in the future. With this technology being produced gives us worldwide possibilities to explore and bring global awareness to everyone.

Human Tetris TV show

If you have never seen a human version of a Tetris game, check this out! This is a hilarious idea and I wish we had something like this in the U.S. You can view more of these videos under 'my videos' or click here for my favorites. Also, I've been a bit lazy on posting anything lately. So I've decided to post this video for your amusement.

A visitor?

This photo was selected as the photo of the day on a blog for Reston, VA. I was quite surprised today to find this discovery and appreciation for this photograph. My photo titled "A Visitor?" can be found on the blog Reston Citizen (http://restoncitizen.com) for Sept. 7, 2007. This was some good news to keep me inspired on taking more photos. Despite not being a professional and still developing my skills. A big thanks goes out to Joshua Davis for posting my photo.

Pond swirl

A shot of the reflection from a pond filled with koi fish. It gave it an interesting swirl effect from this direction. It also kind of reminds me of a Monet painting, with an abstract feel to it. Taken in Glide, Oregon in August 2007 using a Canon S3 IS digital camera.

ASCII Art

This art is done by an artist who suffered from spastic cerebral palsy & by using characters “@ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _”. I can’t figure how he could manage to do it. But it’s awesome! I had the fortunate experience of meeting Paul Smith, the typewriter artist while in Oregon. This happened years ago while I was visiting my great grandfather. While visiting I had remembered from this show called Incredible Sunday, an old show if anyone remembers? It just so happened to be that Paul Smith was living at the same place as my great grandfather. So, I got to meet Paul Smith and see his works of art in person, I even bought one from him. I just remembered this from finding this story on the Digg website yesterday.

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