Saturday, September 1, 2012

Girl in the Window


Probably one of the better pictures I've taken.

In photo-school they teach you little tricks to composing your pictures in order to make them look a little more interesting. One of these tricks that's always eluded me however, is taking a picture of someone standing in a window. When you do this, the window basically acts like a circle on the page telling the viewer where to look. If you do it right, it's really difficult to take a bad picture. In my case however, I always managed to press the shutter a split second too early, or too late. Thereby leaving pieces of my subject cut off by the edges of the frame, resulting in a terrible picture. Finally on a bright sunny afternoon this past week, I got the idea to set up this shot in formal setting. As all the elements finally came together, the process started to feel like second nature, like "damn, it'd be really hard to screw this up right now. I have no idea why it was so hard before, why do I feel stupid?"

BBoy Monster: Kim Minsung

BBoy Monster: Minsung, Radio City

BBoy Monsters have invaded New York!! I was in the big apple last week for our annual crew reunion, and met up with the legendary BBoy Kim Minsung for a shoot in time square. This guy is a former world record holder for 1990's and all around ridiculous powermover. Our crew has affectionately nicknamed him "God Moves," here are a few reasons why.



BBoy Monster: Korean Devil

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Photographer

Xing Yi - 5 Linking Form

Mysterious Attainment Broadsword

Long before I ever started break dancing. I, like a good asian boy, was really into Kung Fu. For most of grade school, I went to Kung fu class on Sundays in an after Chinese school program. While I have long since given up on my kung fu adventures, here's a guy who actually stuck with it. This is my buddy Henry Lee, newly graduated acupuncturist and master of the style of "Wudang Quan". These images were compiled from movements in the "Xing Yi 5 Phase Linking", and "Mysterious Attainment Broadsword" forms (Kung Fu names are so cool!!!!).

Note: to my militant Asians, I'm sorry this does nothing but perpetuate the stereotype that all chinese guys are Bruce Lee. My bad, next time!