lovers

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." 

-Captain corelli's mandolin

91 centimeters

sometimes this is how i feel.


part one




part two

blogotheque

Blogotheque is amazing.

fiery furnaces , local natives

UCLA jazzREGGAE fest 2010

this year i was lucky enough to participate in the UCLA jazz reggae festival

[thanks to my mother hen, Kelsey Mitchell]

I was so humbled to be painting with Ryan Bubion and Teebs, along side Mear One.
Lately i haven't had a chance to express myself creatively, but this was a spiritual awakening.

"let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth"
-Jalalu'ddin Rumi

this weekend i knelt and kissed the earth

the beginning

         teebs

end of day one

photo:xans

photo:xans

smiles

photo: brent waterworth 35mm

my favorite picture 

photo: brent waterworth

35mm

photo: kelsey mitchell

photo: kelsey mitchell

mear one

homies

ta da!

this stop motion video was edited by Roger Griffith

he does amazing work.

dreams

ODDSAC

animal collective is one of those bands that you like or you don't. i happen to love them. tonight i went to a visual album done by them and directed by danny perez. it was about 54 minutes long, not to long and not to short. actually it ended up being just perfect. i think a high dosage of the film would have left me feeling insane. one minute i felt like i was a on top of the world, then anxious, to feeling complete despair, and any other emotion you could thing of in between. before long i just felt weird. i guess drawing inspirations from the japanese horror film called house, what else was it suppose to do? it was really interesting after to have members of the band and the director come out and talk to the audience about the film and left the floor open for questions. i think the best question asked was in reference to the title of the film, ODDSAC. aside from the aesthetically pleasing arrangement of letters, they said one night they were sitting around discussing titles and noticed they had an weird bag of gummies.

weird bag of gummies = oddsac.
brilliant.
go watch it. the ending scene is what i wish i could do every time i listen to animal collective

Murakami + Johnny Greenwood

an amazing author plus and amazing musician! what more could you ask for in a perfect film? Greenwoods scoring for the film There Will Be Blood was pretty epic, i can only imagine the outcome of this film!

directed by Tran Anh Hung 

"i once had a girl, or should i say she once had me"