Portrait Nite with Vahid, Chrystall and Brian

Random photos from around the house yesterday

Mi Primita Alejandra

My cousins are in town visiting from Colombia and they brought their sweet and adorable daughter Alejandra for her first visit to the United States. She is super sweet and adores Spiderman and these photos were taken as she watched youtube spiderman clips for over an hour.

Random Pics from SXSW

Random photos from SXSW

Flyp Media . . . A new way to look at an old media

FLYPMEDIA was shared on the ASU News21 site. It is an amazing example of how we can use the traditional magazine media and translate it into today’s new media. Here is the homepage: And the story Big Trouble in the Big Easy, where you receive a soundslides introduction, followed by a regular print layout and followed by an interactive map: See a job like…

Some favorites from Kate and Rowan’s wedding

Kate and Rowan’s wedding photos, at least the ones I prefer . . . I’ve fixed them all up and I hope they like the style . . . Again I shot this with fellow photographer: Morgan Bellinger at the Bentley Gallery in Downtown Phoenix last week. And that’s the end of the night

Afro-Colombian-Indian-American music?

So a friend of mine, on facebook atleast, Azul Enzue posted some videos today of Toto La Momposina an amazing Colombiana singer. Her work is a mixture of the sounds of the indigenous porro, puya and gaita with the Afro-Latin cumbia, mapale and sexteto (www.afropop.com). She is a perfect example of the blending of indigenous, African and Spanish music and instruments. The indigenous flutes,…

Party Time!

I turned 25 yesterday . . . it was pretty low key, dinner with my family and I was asleep by 830pm due to all the medication I’ve been taking. Anyway if anyone who ever reads this is in Phoenix this Saturday join us at Chars. We are celebrating four birthdays in one night. Here is the website for the club, it plays the…

NPR Immigration coverage

Photo from http://www.NPR.org I love NPR for it’s detailed and strong immigration coverage . . . if you click on this LINK you’ll be led to examples of thriving media organizations in a time when newspapers are failing across the country.

My wisdom is worth $1,300

So this photograph is pretty gross . . . but this whole procedure fascinates me. They took out 4 wisdom teeth in 15 minutes for 1,300 dollars. Thank goodness I’m covered by insurance and I have a good friend to drive my anesthized self back home. And well, we have this weird family tradition (and I know it is really, really weird) of keeping…