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!

Où est la piscine

The worst part of Photoshop, which I guess is a good problem, is deciding what post production direction I'm going to take after I shoot. These old shots (posted above) of my friend Adela are a perfect example of how you can evoke different moods of one single photoshoot with Photoshop. Lately I have been feeling the retro 70's arthouse film look so I redited these pictures.

Below (for the most part) are the original colors from that day.

The Real Raquel

This is Rachel. She reminds me of a Bruised up Andy Warhol and this is New Jersey, where Rachel lives.




Cool song discovery of the day=

Nina

This photograph is of the beautiful Nina a good friend of my mine, the most good looking-est mom I ever met. Besides the contrast adjustments in photoshop this picture is 100% percent unfooled with.



Also Darnellscott.com is where you will find more details on the picture that's posted above, he's a friend of a friend and talented photographer. Darnell actually knows what he's doing, I generally consider myself a rookie who tends to stumble into something nice. Might I also suggest perusing his collection of art to the lovely sounds of passion pit.

"Like Trains & Taxis"

This is my first Band Photoshoot. I did it for a local band "Like Trains and Taxis". It's probably my most blatantly photoshopped picture ever. Any way they're actually good musicians check them out: http://www.myspace.com/liketrainsandtaxis. By the way Russ Mill check him out, he makes amazing art,usually digitally, lots of pretty people and splatters.

Hello New World

Welcome to my inaugural blog, I figured I'd make a site for viewing higher quality images of my work, here I will also provide commentary on my art as well as the art of others and share some of my influences with you. This site is also going to hopefully host a weekly comic strip, from yours truly, very shortly. I have a whole bunch of new art I can't wait to display.
This illustration started out as a piece about hope, it's an expansion of an Idea my good friend max did, I did it in honor of my Uncle Malvin in Nigeria who is HIV positive. It's called "when pigs fly".