Courtesy Valley Phone

Tofer Chin is a fucken radasss artist. He opened his newest photo exhibition, Courtesy Valley Phone, at Reserve last night. His photographs documented Sao Paolo, Amsterdam and Los Angeles, his home. Reserve also showcased a series of tees and tanktops related to the exhibition. Rad shit bruh.

Tofer Chin: Courtesy Valley Phone from freshjive on Vimeo.

Art at the Kitty

Last night my friend Devyn Arrey Galindo had an art show at Wildcat in Santa Barbara. She displayed her photography in a very funky, fresh and creative way. A couple of blown up photographs in dope ass vintage frames, photographs on lamp shades, photographs made into magnets, a couple of 5x7's and postcards. The setup was just legit. Candles lit which made it have that dark intimate feel since artist like that shit haha. My girlfriend even bought I'd say the sickest piece there. Which was this big piece.

It fucken looks like a painting it's so clean and the frame makes it all come together. Another one of my favorite pieces there.

The Girl meets Boy from Mars lamp. It's different but in that good creative way. It was also priced very reasonably. Here's another wall that had some more art.

Everything was just done so creatively from the setup to the presentation. I'd say Devyn did a fucken legit job with everything and if any of you want to check out more of her work peep her website DEVYNARREY.COM annnnd also all the hair and makeup of the models in almost all the photographs were done by my girlfriend Justine Hosseini so take a peep at her website as well and see more of her work justinemarjan.viewbook.com They are both very talented young ladies.

Be Hungry

I came across this picture on this random sight online and I couldn't help but stare, and no not because the lady is naked.

It's fucken interesting to me and gave me the chills. She is skinny as fuck and looks like she's about to get tortured or something. The photographer behind this work Helmut Newton. He was born in Germany during the 20's and was a fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women. His work is fucken raw and real, very different from portraits I'm used to seeing.

My Favorite

Laurie Simmons is a photographer born in Long Island, New York where she continues to shoot. She stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as “living objects,” animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult’s memories, longings, and regrets. Simmons’s work blends psychological, political and conceptual approaches to art making, transforming photography’s propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. Mining childhood memories and media constructions of gender roles, her photographs are charged with an eerie, dreamlike quality. By far these are my two favorite photographs done by her.

Lying Gun shot in 1990 and as you can see I used this for the background of my blog title

Walking Gun/The Music of Regret done in 1991

NYC Edition

Ever since Levi Maestro aka Maestro Knows hit the streets in New York for his NYC Edition this is by far my favorite episode from the series. Interviewing and kicking it with Jonathan Mannion who in the photography world has done amazing work and has captured some of the most iconic pictures in the music industry. Check it out.