Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone is having a very Happy Christmas Eve and that tomorrow will be a very Merry Christmas! Wish everyone the best and remember to tell all your loved ones you love them!

Artwork

Part of this piece was created using scans of a pattern from a gift the model had given me years ago. I had a couple ideas of names that I had chosen that might be good for this piece, but I don't know what happened to my list?! Grrrr

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Monica "Danger" Leon - tear sheet

Here is the tear sheets from the shoot with Monica Danger from VH1. (It was a 5 page spread and 2 other photogs worked on the other pages.)

Model: Monica "Danger" Leon

Photographers- Howard Hill, Jonny Vu, Robbie EMnz
Makeup Artist- Stefanie Guerra
Hairstylist- Simo Gomez
Designer-Lisa Jn Marie
Jewerly Designer Jackie Jones
Fashion Stylist Maly Siharath

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Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hope you all have a very happy Thanksgiving - I'm thankful for all of you!

Funny

I thought that it was kinda funny when I signed on to one of my accounts it said this.... and I wondered WHAT "name" did I FAKE in this account?!?! haha

Xin chào Howard!

Now you know how to greet people in Vietnamese!


Then I realized that it was the account trying to teach me something new.... and it was kinda Ironic / just funny. - HAHAHA

Projects and Prints

Well, I'm still working on my "top secret" project - and it is coming along amazingly! (A huge pain in the butt - hahaha, but I'm so close to actually getting it done with it - So I am very excited about that!) Also I'm just loving that yesterday I was able to print out some of my work - 16x 20 inch, and then also some 16x24 inch -- so some nice sized, big work! I have one of my pieces framed on my wall right now and I just love it - I have been so busy I haven't had time to work on new artwork or shoot anything.... so seeing it in a larger printed format is just so cool - I forget how nice it is to see my work on a wall and not just on the computer screen!

4.3 Million Dollars

I just saw that this photo was sold for 4.3 million dollars... I don't even have the words to express my thoughts on the matter.... but... whatever. =)

Here is the link for more info:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57323385/gursky-photo-sets-$4.3m-auction-record/

11-11-11

Just love days like this! 11-11-11 -- So cool! =)

Monica "Danger" Leon / Cover of Magazine

Well, things have been so busy lately.... I haven't had much time for ANYTHING!!! I have mostly been working on a HUGE special project - like for the past 6 weeks!! I'm hoping to get it finished in the next week or so... but it is like every time I think that I am about done - then I realize that there was a bunch of unforeseen "needs" that still need to be finished! But it is going well! =) Getting very close! THEN... today, I just got word that the shoot of Monica "Danger" Leon that I was a part of a couple weeks back -- well, the images were submitted to a magazine. And the magazine decided to use my image as the cover! So that was pretty exciting - I saw a preview of it.... I'll have to post it when it is released.

Street Artist: "Above"

Image Above: Cover of book

Image Below: "Above Passport Boxed Edition"

Recently, I met with the street artist, Above, and got a signed book from him. Zero+ Publishing will be releasing signed books and the signed Box Edition -Soon! Go check it out and go buy a signed one before they are all gone! www.zeropluspublishing.com

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VH1 Celebrity: Monica "Danger" Leon

It's 4AM and I just got home from shooting with Vh1's reality tv celebrity: Monica "Danger" Leon. She was on: For the love of Ray J and currently is filming a new season of her own series: Monica Danger Does Hollywood. Monica was a pleasure to work with - And I can't wait to edit the shot I got of her on the stairs! -- Ok, time to get some sleep!

Daisy Viktoria Fashion Show

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Kinda Funny

With all the "Occupy Wall Street" stuff going on.... I saw this online and thought this was kinda funny.... and Cops in LA would NEVER be this cool.

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Concept Fashion Show: Bryan Hearns

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Concept Fashion Show: KITTINHAWK

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Concept Fashion Show: NAMI

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Concept Fashion Show: Designer, Thai Nguyen

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Shawn Isaac (MTV)

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Teaser: LA Concept Fashion Week

A Little teaser from a few fashions shows this week... more images and more shows still to come! (Photos featuring work by: NAMI, Thai Nguyen, Kittinhawk)

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Artwork: Mortisha

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Brittany

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Teaser: Omarion

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Heart Hays (Recording Artist)

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Asia

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My dad would have been 58 today.

Today would have been my dads 58th birthday... kinda fitting that I got to watch the last episode of Rescue Me today... We use to always watch it together...

In thinking about my dad and life... I realized something about how people influence you... change you, help you to be someone.... I guess, that I kinda forget how people like my dad influenced me... I mean your just living day to day and they are always there -- so you don't really realize the great influence that they have on you or the SUBTLE influences. -- Typically I notice the influence people have on me when it is negative..... when it hurts or hinders my life... But after my dad passed away - I saw that I don't have the patience that I use to have, I don't have the ability to care for others the way I did.... I'm just not the same as I was... I guess because his influence or friendship is not there anymore.... it just makes me somehow LESS then how I use to be...

How we never KNOW really how someone makes our lives a better place or make US BETTER people... until they are not in our lives anymore.... not helping us BE who we "are." So I guess in celebrating my dads life... I see what he imparted/ planted and nurtured in mine..... And maybe in the same way... I am a tree that has been greatly pruned back.... and currently is less then what I was... but in time will bear the fruit that he labored to help bring out of me.

Thanks dad, I love and miss you.

"I noticed you were gone"

So the other day I noticed that one of my pieces was suddenly missing.... just gone and vanished...

I wanted to document it by reworking this piece specifically to reflect that shock of the disappearance... I wanted to try and express how the subject in the piece is kinda ghostly... the original work was sharp and focussed and in this reworked image the subject is fading herself away/ is kinda hidden or distance from the viewer... there is a divide that separates. She is like a dream or a dew in the morning... vanishing... I had altered the original image in order to show this change... But I needed something to make the image remain easily identifiable to what it was formerly... and so I chose to leave the eyes... and I soon realized fittingly so! -- Since the image is so abstracted, but the eyes so sharp and powerful... They draw your attention.... the windows of the soul, everything that was in the original "image" can be found in just those eyes. And I realized then that not only was leaving the eyes allowing the viewers to identify the subject/ the original image.... but it then hit me that the eyes were seemingly watching the viewer too... even haunting the viewer at the same time.....

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