Scattered Thoughts Of A Creative Mind

A Little Music To The Ears

A year or so ago I was bored as heck and decided to check out “Vimeo”. I didn’t realize how awesome it was until I actually looked at the visual artist’s work. Since then I’ve pretty much been watching videos on it more than youtube lol.

Upon searching for cool videos I stumbled upon a video directed by Takcom for a song from this guy named Vital. The song was called “Saying”. The video was freakin’ awesome…and so was the song. In fact….it was sooo awesome that I just had to listen to more of Vitals music and check out more of Takcoms videos. I found out that Vital had an EP out called “The Vital EP” which is on iTunes. The song “Saying” is actually one of my favorite songs now….like FAVE-FAVE lol. Check him out. He’s great in my book

Vital’s Website/EP

Vital - “Saying”

Takcom’s Vimeo

Back to life. Back to reality.

Going through old pictures always makes me feel mushy inside. Especially when you’re going through an album on Facebook or something and notice someone that you haven’t seen in forever. You look at it like “OMG! I miss him/her…I wonder how they’re doing.”

It’s crazy how you can look at a picture and remember like everything that was going on in it even when you thought that you completely forgot about it. It’s like a time machine…a really cool one that doesn’t really exist physically…but sure as hell seems real mentally lol.

Man I love photography. I think that one of the main reasons why I take pictures is because it gives me the ablility to say that I captured those memories…and it feels great …

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The Come Up

March 15th 2012 I walked into the Ritz Camera Shop on Walnut Street in Center City Philadelphia to purchase a new camera. A few months back I asked someone that I was following on Tumblr (Daniel Seung Lee *who I think is an AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER by the way) what camera was great for beginners. He told me a D90 was a pretty great one. I checked it out and you know what…he was right lol…but when I went to the store…I couldnt afford it…long story short I had to settle for a D3100…(The camera that pretty much every NON PROFESSIONAL photographer has). Honestly, I was a little angry. I mean when you’re a photographer…People automatically look at your cam and judge you by it…If you have a big ass camera they just assume that you’re legit lol…..but let me stop rambling about my camera…it does take some pretty good shots lol…

But now to the REAL reason why I’m writing this post lol…

Within the past few months I have met a ton of people…taken a ton of pictures…and had a few revelations.

Everyones goal is to be successful. People want to do this and that… and people want to have this and that…but what prevents them from getting them? You know..that job… that car…that house…that fame? Well it’s simple…DOUBT. Time and time again I kept telling myself…”dude you can’t do this, you shouldn’t even try anymore…” I looked at everyone else’s work and was like “why the hell are they sooo damn awesome”…”why are they sooo popular, I know I’m better than them”…you know…stuff like that…I kept worrying about what everyone else had and what everyone else was doing. I felt bad because I felt like I wasn’t going to amount to anything. Not understanding that me doubting myself wasn’t helping me get any more successful.

This small revelation really cut me deep. It even got to a point when I asked myself if it was something that I really wanted to do…

A few weeks passed and I got a few messages from people asking me to take their pics…and I’m like “wait…you want ME to take your pics? I’m not even good” lol. I ended up breaking out of my little depressed shell and started taking tons of pics again…just to become better. I ended up meeting some people who where just like me when they first started with their craft…but you know what…THEY DIDNT GIVE UP…They didn’t try to be like everyone else…they just did what they knew and were content with that…so I modeled that…With each day that passed I took a little time to perfect my work…I’m getting a little better…or at least thats what I think haha. After I completely got all of the doubt of me “never making it big” I started networking, made a website, got some business cards, and did a TON of more promo stuff…just because I know that you can’t be on the road to success with your car in park…despite the traffic…you just have to fight through and go hard until you make it to your destination…and even when you get there…KEEP GOING! You never know how far you’ll go. 

I’m not going to sit here and say that I’m this successful ass dude…because I’m not…but I know that one day I will be…

This Means A Lot

Here’s a message that I just received that almost made me shed a tear :’). The love that I’m getting for doing something I love makes me feel great!

“I think that you are an amazing and totally talented artist and photographer. Back when I was a friend on fb I used to look at your pictures and remark upon how awesome they are and that you have a great eye. I think that you are great at your craft and that you will wind up being a very well known name.”