FLASKMOB


Took a trip to San Francisco for some nighttime shooting with Darren and Tony also met up with Christian and others. The name of the event was Flaskmob . Flaskmob is a fairly new event created by a Photographer located in San Francisco it’s where photographers meet up at a certain location and socialize and take photos. When we got there we had to park pretty far away from the Embarcadero which I was expecting since it was on a Friday. Their was more people than I expected as well. We started off at the Embarcadero and ended up at Main Street then it was pretty much over. Over all it was a good event. It was mostly a socializing experience more than actually taking photos for most. I’m definitely not antisocial but for this particular event I wish there was more photos being taken not of a certain person but photos in general. Anyways I hope to attend another flaskmob eventually.

TRON

FLASK MOB

BAY BRIDGE

BAY BRIDGE

TUG BOAT

TRAFFIC

LIGHTS

RANDOMS

Willie Lewis Brown Jr. bay bridge

center

gate

construction work

contrast

LIGHTS

SHADOWS

bay bridge light

san francisco muni

sf night

UP/DOWN

restaurants near you

bay bridge

KEEP CLEAR

The next day I woke up got ready and headed to San Francisco to meet up with Tony. He has been working on a building downtown so he invited me so I could get some shots from the rooftop. Getting up to this rooftop ended up having some obstacles it was more like a grandpa fado mission than anything ahah. Anyways I got some pretty nice shots for only being up there about a 20 minute. 

ROOFTOP

CARL

SF.

tony 2

tony

BUILDING

HEATING/COOLING

The next day I had a photo shoot which started off in San Leandro and it is up in San Francisco this shoot came out pretty well to see a couple of the shots head over to my portrait section.

PERSIAH STORE 3

PERSIAH

PIER 14 REFLECTIONS

B&W STREETS

WALK.

LOVE

FERRY BUILDING

SPARKS

RICE MAKER

WDYWT: SUPREME LORO PIANA ,TH 07 X FUCT, FLANNEL AND JORDAN BRED XI

JORDAN BRED 11

MADE: ASIAN FOOD

MADE: ASIAN FOOD.

MADE: ASIAN FOOD.

BIG UPDATE LAST OF 2013-2014

I’ve been trying to catch up on all the pictures I have been pretty busy and I haven’t had time to update my blog as much as I would like to. 80% of these photos are from the end of last year December. 

Took a trip with Darren to do some night shooting in San Francisco.


Play basketball with Kenneth for a while.


Went out to eat in Alameda for my birthday The restaurant is new and I honestly forgot the name of it at the moment but it’s in the South Shore Mall. Anyways thanks to Mary, Moung, Teresa and Nai for taking me out to eat.

Also got The Jordan XII TAXIS which came out on my birthday and got them for my birthday. I’ve always wanted a shoe that came out on my birthday and a sheet that came out the year I was born which are the Jordan 5’s.

DTSF

bokeh

bay.

FIRE

METER

COURTS

HOOP

KEN

SBDUNKSCARL

WAITING

UP

MOUNG ,MARY & CARL

food

What do you wear today list:

The first outfit is my birthday outfit

Supreme eightball 

undefeated Tee

Flannel 

Levi’s

And Jordan 1 Royal/black


While cleaning my closet I found one of my baby shoes. Pretty nice to see that there still in tact and in good shape. I’ve been trying to do a quality light-rail sneaker photo but haven’t got a chance to but I did get a pretty good one outside of my house.


I still do restorations on the low and need to update my sneaker restoration Instagram page with more than just sneaker photos and put up my restoration photos again he weighs this is a before and after photo of repainting and a deep cleaning on some Air Jordan II Low’s 

WDYWT: Supreme eightball snapback undefeated tee

JORDAN 1 ROYAL

birthday cake

TAXI

BABY SHOES

Nike air Max 90 infrared

Restoration Escentuals: BEFORE AND AFTER - Air Jordan 2 low white/midnight

JORDAN 2 LOW

Snakes in the grass (NIKE DUNK LOW SNAKE EYES SB)

INITIALLY I WASN’T GOING TO PICK THESE JORDAN 11 GAMMAS UP BUT I ENDED UP GETTING LUCKY AND WITH THE HELP OF MY HOMIE JEREMY GOT TWO PAIR FROM NIKE TOWN SAN FRANCISCO. That morning of this release people got into fights and they shut down the line I was in San Francisco later that day and it was about 5 to 10 people in line to get the shoes first come first serve so I was lucky enough to pick up two pair. I was just going to flip the shoes to obtain a pair of Jordan one breads which are one of my favorite shoes. I usually don’t flip shoes but when life gives you Lemmons will you know the saying .

GAMMA 11

jordan gamma 11 bpx

jordan gamma 11 side by side

jordan gamma 11 toebox

jordan gamma 11 SOLE

Hey what did you wear photo that I never put on my Instagram didn’t really like it that much anyways 

Supreme pinstripe
Supreme Dipset Tee
Cindy camouflage shirt
Levi’s and 
Jordan one banned bred

WDYWT: SUPREME HAT AND TEE

JORDAN 1 BANNED

ASS SHOT

Here’s something that I’ve made from the past couple weeks first plate is chicken and waffles 

The second plate is how did sugar caramel pancakes with cheesy eggs bacon and Spanish and a side of bacon

Third plate is Belgian waffles with strawberries bananas and whip cream.

Fourth plate is bacon wrapped hot links with red onions avocado cilantro and barbecue sauce and a side of fresh cut garlic and cheese fries.

WAFFLES

PANCAKES

WAFFLES

I MADE HOMEMADE:

I MADE HOMEMADE:

DONUTS

These are some photos from Christmas .

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food 2

EGG ROLLS

FAMILY

FAMILY 2

FAMILY 3

FAMILY 4

JORDAN TAXI 12

CARL & JASMINE

Went to San Francisco to try to win some raffles for the bread ones but didn’t have any luck oh well

WDYWT : supreme snapback 
10 deep letterman jacket
Levi jeans
Air Jordan taxi XII

MADE DINNER FOR A COUPLE OF MY FRIENDS SINCE THEY’VE BEEN BEGGING ME TO COOK: 

I made orange chicken, vegetables and steam rice

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SWEETS

M&T

TEA

WDYWT: X DEEP LEATHER LETTERMAN JACKET,SUPREME HAT

JORDAN 12 TAXI

RICE MAKER

Sweet and sour chicken

DINNER: Sweet and sour chicken steam rice and vegetables

DINNER: Sweet and sour chicken steam rice and vegetables

DINNER: Sweet and sour chicken steam rice and vegetables

AIR JORDAN POWDER X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 REVIEW

So I went to the mall and got a couple raffles wasn’t sure if I was going to win these shoes but was constantly refreshing my email and looking at my phone. I ended up getting an email on Friday I think it was in the afternoon I was surprised that I one, then I won another pair but wasn’t trying to double up for one and honestly didn’t need two pair. So I didn’t pick those up . Anyways I took a trip to the mall and pick them up. When I got home I immediately took out my original pair and compare them. I immediately saw the difference in color and leather texture
From the first two images you can see the box size difference.
All comparison photos are originals on the left retros on the right.
Overall I am glad I picked the shoes up and this is one of the few pick ups I plan on getting this year unless they come out with some real unexpected releases.

AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 2

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 3

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 4

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 5

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 6

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 7

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 8

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 9

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 10

COMPARISON: AIR JORDAN X 1994 OG VS AIR JORDAN X 2014 RETRO & REVIEW 11

COIT TOWER TRIP

Finally taking a trip to coit Tower after growing up in San Francisco most of my life I’ve never been to coit  tower let alone inside of it sold me and Darren took a trip out to San Francisco and took some photos at coit tower. Last time we came up here to take some night shots this time we actually went inside it cost a couple dollars to get to the top. Once we got to the top it was kind of disappointing because there was plexiglass blocking a clear day in San Francisco. Besides that I felt like a Tourist  but coit tower was a cool experience. After wondering around taking some photos we went to the palace of fine arts.

(This is a extremely late post from when coit Tower was still open they are renovating it at the moment)


The next day I was out snapping some photos in Berkeley after class plus couple photos from Alameda Naval base

DOWNTOWN SF

Throw the window

NORTH BEACH

PEIR

WINDOW/SF

COIT TOP

walk down

elevator

bay area 2

bay area

DARRIN

DARRIN

?

telescope

flower

FLOWER 2

BOKEH

UP

palace of fine arts 2

palace of fine arts

DTSF

SKY

walkway



Here are some photos of my most recent outfits/sneaker photos and one restoration project.


WDYWT:BLACK SCALE , UNDFTD SWEATPANTS , SPACE JAM

1995 NBA Phoenix All-Star game weekend T-shirt, undefeated sweats, and Nike free Huarache light 

:1995 NBA Phoenix All-Star game weekend T-shirt, undefeated sweats

Nike free Huarache light

1994 AIR JORDAN X (Charlotte Hornets ) AKA POWDER BLUE. You think I was in the laundry mat powder everywhere.
This photo actually was spotlight on sole collector! 

WDYWT: 1994 Air Jordan 10 X (OG)

Tried to get a motion blur of my sneakers but it didn’t come out like it should’ve. Will try it again soon
Nike Air Classic BW OG. 

NIKE AIR CLASSIC BW OG

This was a restoration job that I did for my friend and it came out great.
Restoration Escentuals: BEFORE AND AFTER – Air Jordan 2 low white/midnight navy, painter brush / tape , acetone and angelus paint all orders include invoice/receipt now!

jordan 2 low restoration

Berkeley streets

MACHINE

wall

(instameet) plus much more of the week

Seen one of my friends on Instagram was coming to the bay area so we got in contact and ended up meeting at treasure Island. I went to pick up Darrin and then drove over the bridge to meet them I wish we were about 30 minutes earlier because we would’ve caught the fireworks anyways I still got some pretty cool photos of the San Francisco skyline with my 70-200mm 2.8. After that we headed up the hill to the new bay bridge side to snap some photos. I have personally never been on this level where the gate is just because I see so many people snapped this photo and thought it would never really be original but I like how the photos I came out regardless. After that we decided to hit Coit tower this was also my first time going there which is kind of weird since I’ve basically lived in San Francisco half of my life. But I enjoyed going on a photo walk hope to do it soon.

Later that week me and Darrin headed back to San Francisco made a pitstop at treasure Island to take a photo of the statue I don’t remember the name after that we headed to City Hall and I think I got some pretty nice shots.


Again A place I’ve never been to I been going down the street half my life but I know this restaurant is fairly new to the street but for being a foodie have never heard of it so I went with Altoni to this restaurant called Dottie’s this place always have a line wrapped around the block the hype was real. After waiting about 30 minutes we finally got a seat and ordered. I enjoy the atmosphere of this restaurant more than the food. The food was pretty basic for the most part they did have expensive Maple syrup I must say, besides that the French toast was pretty much the standout of this restaurant everything else was pretty much basic from what I ordered. I would give this restaurant a three out of five that’s just me though it was pretty much basic.


May and the rest the family invited me to go out to eat as we do most years for my father’s anniversary of his birthday. So we decided to go to Texas roadhouse in Union City. I ended up ordering catfish and sweet potatoes which ended up being really good surprisingly.

san francisco skyline

sf skyline

new bay bridge and gate

new bay bridge and gate 2

coit tower

coot tower & branches

trees

taking photos

lady

city hall

B&W CITY HALL

supreme

DOTTIES

gate

menu

waiting

look up

working

menu

brunch

candy

BREAD

DRINK

CAT FISH

KENNY

So if you don’t know by now which you should know is that I cook for the most part and the first dish is ribs which were marinated for about a day or so, The ribs have a Asian barbecue sauce drizzled over it and the entrée was french fries with cheese and garnish

The second meal is pork belly which was marinated for about four days in a sauce that I came up with if you don’t know what pork belly is pork belly is basically thick sliced bacon and then I made potato skins and finally Mexican-style corn.


Third edition of that week was a simple bacon pepperoni and chicken barbecue pizza.


For breakfast that week I made French toast Spanish eggs bacon and tater tots.


Was looking at ice cream photos on the Internet will basically I came across some ice cream food on Internet wasn’t like I was searching it up anyways I decided to make some ice cream cones and just not that I want to conserve it but put ice cream on the cone and put chocolate over it caramel etc, then sprinkles this took about a hour process to let the caramel and chocolate freeze. It came out pretty good for my first time trying it.


The last photo is my first attempt ever to make French toast I was really really looking for Cuban bread but could not find it so I had to go with some bread from Safeway anyways this is a stock photo basically and if you can see in the photo there is maple syrup coming down which makes the photo more appetizing. Four is my first time I think I did rather well on it is not a difficult process of any but I was trying to make a unique taste which I always try to do with my dishes.

ribs and fries

pork belly , potato skins and corn

PIZZA: CHICKEN AND BACAN

late brunch

ice cream

ICE CREAM 2

ICE CREAM 3

french toast recipe

I finally obtained a pair of OG Air Jordan 1994 powder blue X. After searching on eBay for maybe half a year I finally found a pair for a decent price only paid over retail  once in my life and I don’t intend to pay over retail for any shoes unless I really really want them there’s nothing I really need about shoes is more of a passion/obsession. Anyways I ended up getting the shoes which I had to get OG everything because a lot of the eBay ads have the shoe but didn’t have the original box or original paper etc. but I have to get OG everything if I was going to get the shoes and I got lucky and got them under retail basically an almost new?.

Air Jordan 10 OG Powder Blue AKA  Charlotte Hornets

Air Jordan 10 (X) Original (OG)

Air Jordan 10 (X) Original (OG)

Air Jordan 10 (X) Original (OG)

These are some behind-the-scenes photos of the Millvalley’s 36 filmfest  I wasn’t really allowed to snap photos and put it on my personal website but oh well I’m only going to put ones from personal viewpoints for say anyways it was a good opportunity to meet and greet with people also to get a feel of red carpet life I did a lot of behind-the-scenes interviews Q&A’s red carpet etc. Overall it was a great experience and I hope to do it again.

mill valley film festival

theater

dome

In motion

interview

back stage

mill valley film festival

listening

OCEAN BEACH/LOMBARD STREET/EST

Got a call from Darren and join him to go to San Francisco to do a photo shoot while he was doing the photo shoot I went on my own little adventure around Sutro bath and took some interesting photos just got a 72 202.8 lens and ended up getting some pretty cool shots of some birds.

SEAL ROCK

ROCK / BIRDS

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line of birds

what you looking at?

WALK BIRD SHADOWS

WALK BIRD SHADOWS 2

bird reflection

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SB. SAND

Took a trip to Lombard Street to get some cool light trails this was my first time going there but I think the photos turned out pretty good that time I will shoot in different areas also there was fireworks but didn’t get to catch them on the image.

LIGHT TRAIL: LOMBARD STREET

light sf

lombard street

coit tower

Took a trip to Milpitas to get my car worked on while waiting went over to Santana row to get some food .

waiting

appetizers

alcohol

nachos

bmw

vossen vvscv5

room

paper

Recently was blessed to obtain a pair of Jordan ban ones for a reasonable price comparison of these verses the rules that came out earlier this year is non-these ban ones have you macula material they were only released in Nike clearance/outlet store cross the nation very limited and hard-to-find she also snapped a photo of my Jordan 18s just for the hell of it.


jordan 1 bred vs royal

Dead stock Air Jordan XVIII BLACK/SPORT ROYAL

Air Jordan XVIII VS AIR JORDAN I

My outfitgrid for today: undefeated cardigan , 508 Levi’s, Michael kors , Cole Hann lunargrand , louis vuitton Damier card holder / Damier belt / Damier  case & Fuji X100

My outfitgrid for today: undefeated cardigan , 508 Levi's, Michael kors , Cole Hann lunargrand , louis vuitton Damier card holder / Damier belt / Damier  case & Fuji X100

WDYWT : SUPREME NO LIMIT, TH rosewood tee, Levi’s 518, 10 deep Letterman jacket, Michael Kors watch and Jordan banned

WDYWT : SUPREME NO LIMIT, TH rosewood tee, Levi's 518, 10 deep Letterman jacket, Michael Kors watch and Jordan banned

These original space jam 11s worse he glowed not that long ago for a pair of to thousands they look almost new to me.

2000 space jam

DECIDED TO MAKE LUNCH TODAY HOMEMADE: Pizza to the right is a garlic bacon chicken pizza & on the left is a pepperoni and sausage pizza with red onion & cilantro

DECIDED TO MAKE LUNCH TODAY HOMEMADE :Pizza to the right is a garlic bacon chicken pizza & on the right is a pepperoni and sausage pizza with red onion & cilantro

DECIDED TO MAKE LUNCH TODAY HOMEMADE :Pizza to the right is a garlic bacon chicken pizza & on the right is a pepperoni and sausage pizza with red onion & cilantro 2

asian food

MADE BREAKFAST : HOMEMADE Caramel powdered sugar waffle fully loaded omelette and apple smoked sausage/bacon

MADE BREAKFAST : HOMEMADE Caramel powdered sugar waffle fully loaded omelette and apple smoked sausage/bacon

Red velvet ice cream sandwiches

red velvet ice cream sandwich

texas / back home

Last minute decided to visit my family out in Texas I was invited to a wedding and needed to get a way in the first place. I haven’t been to Texas in years probably the last time I was here is when my dad was a lot of minutes probably 5 to 6 years or more. Been here it was really awkward at first visiting a place you would always go with your family by yourself. Once I got there my cousins arranged for someone to pick me up it took about two hours to get to Tyler Texas from the Dallas airport. It was great to see my family which I haven’t seen in a long time but I was pretty’s sleepy and had jet lag so I fell asleep the next day was the wedding . I woke up to some breakfast then we got ready to head over to the wedding. Here are some photos from the wedding hope you enjoy.

TAKE OFF

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TREES

LOOK UP

ROAD

SET UP

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RING

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1.

READY

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father daughter

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father daughter WALKING

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MARRIAGE

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FIRST DANCE

FIRST DANCE WITH MOM 2

FIRST DANCE WITH MOM


The next day I went over to my cousins house to eat lunch/dinner and to conversation. Also got the opportunity to take some photos of their horses. It was really nice to see them.

The next morning we headed back to Dallas and the flight was pretty quick stop back to San Francisco then went home.

HORSES 2

HORSES

HORSE

GOING HOME

united airlines

SFO 2

SFO 1

Did a little shopping by myself without the San Francisco and was looking for some wallets and other stuff also got some Krispy Kreme ;).

fashion street sf

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gucci/ royal blue 1

crine

peoplo

krispy kreme

bay bridge and golden gate bridge plus food

Major blog update haven’t been on my updates very well but I’m trying to get back in the groove anyway here’s a update first from going out to do some night shooting with Darren,  Rolo Mindy and Nick.

new bay bridge

new bay bridge 2

treasure island

RIDE

honda

honda 2

Preparing for Millvalley film Festival at school. After that what’s the one my favorite restaurants 900 Grayson to have brunch later on that night went to the San Francisco creamery which is actually in Walnut Creek to try their Sundays.

top of bcc

interview

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CHICKEN AND WAFFLES

ICE CREAM 2

ICE CREAM

PIZZA

MADE LUNCH: Man vs food Double bacon BBQ cheeseburger. ( Topped with seasoned bacon, Grilled onions, Onion rings, Tomatoes, Pickles ,lettuce And homemade barbecue sauce on top With a side of waffle fries/seasoned fries

CHEESE BURGER

Later that week we took a trip across the Golden gate Bridge with Darren and Tony to visit and take some photos of the Golden gate Bridge this was my first time being over here. It was a nice spot to visit and will hopefully go back there soon but to me it’s just a generic photo opportunity that everyone goes to.

golden gate bridge angle

golden gate bridge regular

GGB B&W

TONY AND DARRIN

TON

MADE DINNER : ORANGE CHICKEN GARNISHED WITH CILANTRO WITH A SIDE OF STEAM RICE , DRIZZLED WITH ORANGE SAUCE.

MADE DINNER  : ORANGE CHICKEN GARNISHED WITH CILANTRO WITH A SIDE OF STEAM RICE , DRIZZLED WITH ORANGE SAUCE

MADE DINNER  : ORANGE CHICKEN GARNISHED WITH CILANTRO WITH A SIDE OF STEAM RICE , DRIZZLED WITH ORANGE SAUCE

chicken

chicken and loaded potato

SF BAY

Some photos from the past week went over to San Francisco to get a couple things for a up-and-coming wedding and Shore was foggy also going to class 

bay bridge

tunnel vision

CARL THE FOG

clouds

STREETS 2

STREETS

STREET

bank of america building

restaurant

UP!

TRUCK

BCC SIDE

BLUE

mac

NEW CAMERA: x100

I purchased a Fuji X 100 recently because I have been tired of dragging my Nikon D800 around with me everywhere plus it’s a pretty big camera and draws attention so I decided to pick up this Fuji x100 to be more stealth. The first couple pictures are just samples when I first got the camera so far I enjoy this camera a lot even though I cannot buy a different lens for it. The images are Crisp and the focus is on point for the most part. 


Anyways these photos are from the past month or so of food I cooked places I’ve been and restaurants I Ate at plus school.

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