July

I've been dodging my real passion animation for a while through photography, because all you ever have to do is click a button, but this bastard Bang-yao Liu at SCAD came up with the simplest most amazing project. Hope he swindles the people at post-it out of a plethora of money.

It's been a minute but I'll try and keep up with my blog again I'll try and post at least twice a week.

I have an insane amount of new stuff and it's at my website www.ibraake.com it's up (finally) check it out, click away and get it's google ranking up.

And since Mike Jack died, I'd like to say personally he has probably been the biggest creative inspiration, so thanks, well done there. As a tribute here's a collage of all the amazing people dancing to his music the weekend he passed away to the stylish sounds of DJ Femstar.

Good-looks:

Rediscovery of your fav King of Pop song

Frances Mateo Driving us to Philly

www.IbraAke.com

Reading Terminal Amish Bakery [bar none]

Getting paid for 40+hours of work

Subway Musicians that are good

The month of July

Not-a-good-look:

Realizing how inferior pop music is nowadays

Cars in auto shops mid summer

www.IbraAke.com requires a lot of scrolling

learning Amish Bakeries close on Sundays after 4 hour drive there

Having to stay awake 40+hours straight working

Subways in the summer heat

Disinterest in working because it's July

Rennaisance Fair

Kehinde Wiley is an artist that has personally influenced my appreciation of Art history by updating that classical Renaissance style and applying it to my culture, I tried to capture that style in this photoshoot. Major thanks to Adela's Scarf for being designed to look so epic. Also I never knew this about the Amazon or Fedex logos, Da Vinci Code much?

Re-up Gang

I recently had the misfortune of losing all my digital artwork and all I can do really in times like these is re-up and not endorse the purchase of a WD passport external storage device to anyone.
These portraits are of Jia the lighting is dramatic because I ran into Eugenio Recuenco's work online and was inspired by it's darkness. Still very bummed out losing all my digital work 2008 has me feeling like I'm stuck in reverse.

11 The Reverse Fix [Prod. By Mick Boogie & nVMe] by The Green Eagle

And I apologize for using Photoshop to create unrealistic standards for a woman's physical appearance because Jia is already naturally as skinny as they come.^^

Dear Summer Pt. II

PS I am all about synthesizers right now.

06 Paranoid feat. Mr. Hudson by The Green Eagle

Natalia just visiting:

The Beautiful wife:

Some chick from the class next door she got that good hair

56 Redmond

Dear Summer I Know You're Gonna Miss Me...

Here are the Super-belated pics from the summer...sorry everybody. Enjoy.

Jia plugging in the speakers

Femi spinning in front of my wicked artwork

Femi spinning in front of some other dudes wicked artwork

Femi in New Jersey

Femi in Philly

Philadelphia

The Campaign photographer for Obama posted the pictures of him waiting on/getting the news that he's running the free world. Talk about exclusive candid photography, never have pictures of someone watching TV been so chilling.
More from Philadelphia PT. II. To recap it was a week filled with, Halloween festivities Philly hip-hop, Crack heads selling us Air Nikes at 3 in the morning, world series champ parades, and our car getting broken into (sorry ms. Wong) and did I mention we were pretty much flat Broke.
A lot of my shots came out looking horribly but that's life.
PS you can't not laugh at this.








Special Thanks to Ms. Wong

Special thanks to our hosts ^

Oh yea, and here's one more picture of Rachel rocking the Chanel scarf^

Halloween B-Boys and Girls

First and foremost I will be answering the phone with Obama instead of Hi for the next month, Anyway I was in Philadelphia for a Hip-Hop gathering called "the gathering". It consisted of breakers, poppers, taggers, emcees and 3 DJ's spinning it was a scene straight out of 8 mile mixed with "you got served". The shooting conditions were terrible for capturing natural light, extremely fast motion and low light...awesome!