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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: photography

15 Nov


I found a few images in my archive of the last few months and decided to add them to my photography website Jado Images, which is desperately due for it’s 2012 facelift!

The images are of super chill rapper Noreaga, who I had to spend the day with for my job at Vlad TV this summer.  Then there is rapper and sometimes singer Lil Mama, who I caught a quick flick of at the Black Girls Rock concert.  And last but not least, and my favorite picture of the 3, is up and coming singer Raye 6 (you may remember pics of her from my event site Frozen Heartbeat), who did like a 3 minute mini photoshoot for me backstage of the Ghetto Metal  show at SOBs last month, I ended up loving this candid shot.

Enjoy.

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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: inspirational souls

13 Nov



I just finished watching Red Bull Academy’s 2 hour lecture series with Erykah Badu! It’s hard for me to watch movies because I get antsy watching a screen for too long, but this was time very well spent, quite the engaging 2 hours!

The video came at the perfect time. I had literally finished writing my 1st journal entry in 16 months, and had written about finding inspiration, and getting reconnected with my soul again. And then BAM, right at the top screen, I see a Tweet Deck notification from Witches’ Brew saying “Erykah Badu – Up Close.”  My photographer’s mind figured it was a picture so I clicked, but it turned out to be an interview with Ms. Badu.

As a music lover both on the creative side as well as the business side, the interview was enlighting, vivid, warm and refreshing.  And made me wish i had reached my goal of being a producer by 30.  More importantly is that you can’t help but love Erykah!  I know she’ only 8 years older than me, but I want to be her when I grow up!  She’s so chill, level-headed, funny,  sexy without realizing it or trying know who she is and knows what she likes.  Some how what most the video resonated with me so much in regards to today’s journal post today is how’s she’s ever evolving, how it drives her.  I think somewhere in my trying to reach these many goals of mine, the movement towards them and the person controling the movement, got out of sync.  And that person, that soul, is quite a few steps behind my movments. But anyway…

She might not affect you in the same way, but there’s no doubt in my mind that her energy will consume you in some way.  So if you have some time, check, check, it out!

Anyway that’s something I’ll have to figure out, she may not affect you in the same way she did me. But there’s no doubt that her energy will consume you in some.

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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: photography

2 Nov



Since last year, the rapper, Live Wire and I have been talking about a photo shoot idea involving power lines and lightening.  I wasn’t sure how to go about executing it, but I had the idea in my head and just went for it.  Above is the result.

This shoot made me fall in love with the 1Ds Mark III!

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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN: video

27 Oct



On Tuesday, Duck Sauce (A-trak and Armand Van Helden) debuted their new video Big Bad Wolf.  As some know, not only am i a big fan of A-trak as a DJ, he’s sort of my weird entertainer crush, so of course I was delighted to check out the video!

I’ve watch Big Bad Wolf  2 or 3 times, and i’m not sure how i feel about it.   It’s amazingly innovative, captivating, funny, perfect for Halloween; it’s disturbingly good.  It’s just something about A-trak representing gentalia, or just being that close to another man’s crotch that weirds me out.  Fortunately i know those or camera tricks, so i’m more entertained than disturbed.  I do wonder though, how it was on set, because I’m pretty sure the guys, and girls for that matter, had to bare it all, so that they could super-impose the genitalia heads.   The outtakes are probably the most disturbing footage, hahaha.

Enjoy!

 

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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: video

20 Oct



It’s been a good month! Like the Adele video I posted, here’s another video that goes with the words and vibe of the song. 

Rihanna’s new video We Found Love, is so good, that I can give the very weak dance song a pass.  I end up just wanting to rave, have a great, hazy-weekend, that ends with a few interesting stories, and maybe, just maybe, love.

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WHAT GETS YOU MOVIN?: music

20 Oct



Check out the song my boy Nash One produced for the Red Bull Rhythm and Sound contest, featuring Lloyd Banks.  He needs your votes, so do him this solid.

He wins the great opportunity to be flown out to LA to record the song with Lloyd banks, as well as wins hell production equipment.

Click here to vote.

 

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WHAT GET YOU MOVIN?: music

15 Oct


T.I. has jumped on the “Ni**as in Paris” track from Jay-Z and Kanye’s album Watch the Throne.  I’m not the biggest T.I. fan, but I actually like his verse.  My issue is that he just added his verse to the original track, so by the time Kanye says, “She said Ye can we get married at the maaaall,” I forgot T.I’s verse.

People have been rapping the words, to quite possibly the strongest track on WTT for 2 months,…should have gotten out earlier, Tip.  Great attempt though..

Listen to the track below:

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