Philly Again.

World champ contenders again.

Twins

Top secret pics of Ella and Hali

Brianna

Big ups to Margarethe for having a dope room. Tay for his lights, and Brianna for her looks.

Adriana Cruz

Today I hung out with a stranger I met on the interwebs. Her name is Adriana Cruz she takes dope pics most of which you'll never see unless you hang out in person with her. So I took her pic and this is by far is the winner. I don't know why I love taking pics of people with their faces obscured, the models usually hate it. Anyway enjoy. This is one of my faves I've done already I can tell. Very faux-nostalgic.

NJ transit paint job

Julianna

She's totally going to hate the pic I chose but right now I'm keeping the rest top secret.

Jean

Jean and his Opera singer friend. A-La-Reneé

Photoshoot with Ella and Justin

Ella Crowe and Justin Reddington

Princeton/South Jersey weekend.

So my friend Amir visited and my friend Sarah was having a family graduation party, that turned out to be the perfect storm of awesome food and drink weekend. Mad props to everyone that made the weekend possible.

OMG I kept my promise

Monsters: 013 meisje wip from Volstok Telefunken on Vimeo.

These are awesomely short shorts for anyone out there with a ridiculously low attention span. Volstok TeleFunken places his animated monsters in real life 30 second situations and quirky hilarity ensues.

Also I thought I'd share this gorgeous picture of Ella Crowe a friend of mine. This is one of my favorite photos because the great lighting you see was due to mother nature, and awesome location scouting which is something I need to do more often.

More recently I shot this portrait as my attempt to copy the great Mark Romanek's "Got til it's gone", video stylings.

Good looks

Getting photoshop CS4
Shoe sans socks in the summer
My new Nikkor vibration reduction lens coming in today
Brazilian breakfast with Frances this morning
Discovering awesome links via twitter (IbralikeZebra add me)


Not a good looks

Not much of a notable difference in the new photoshop CS4
The smell of shoes sans socks in the summer
My doorbell being the only one not working
Wipe out comas due to rich Brazilian pastries
Not knowing that many people in real life that use twitter

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