Chicken and Beer 2010

This year's Chicken and Beer (a bboy jam with all you can eat chicken + all you can drink beer) was this past weekend in New York city. While I felt that this year's jam was a significant improvement over last year in terms of the logistics (bigger venue, better beer, more efficient beer distribution system). I have been told by many of the vets of the jam that the magic from the previous years seems to be gone now that people know about it. Although there were no random international bboys that showed up this year, I still had a lot of fun, both dancing and photographing the event.















My buddy Heat called out Loose Lee, a local NYC bboy. You might remember Heat from such posts as "Rolling with Heat" from my March 4, 2010 post. Heat didn't do so well here, but I tried my best to make it look like he did.

Ghost Hunting

I have started photographing for a new online music magazine called Foundwaves which covers the local music scene in Boston. I have been looking at the work of a number of Japanese photographers recently like Daido Moryiama, Ken Kitano, and Osamu Kanemura all of which will be exhibited at this year's New York Photo Festival happening in a few weeks. One thing I have noticed about the style of the Japanese photographers is that their photographs tend to have more democratic compositions, and have this feeling of vastness that is absent from western photography. I find much of western photography to be very linear, singular in focus and clear cut. My assignments at Foundwaves have given me an excuse to explore the use of long exposures in my work again, inspired by these Japanese photographers I have also found some grounding for a new direction to take my work in.

BBoy Project

This is my friend Josh, don't let the corporate getup/friendly demeanor fool you.





Josh can be pretty vicious...



...on the dance floor.