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MY BLOG HAS MOVED!

2009-09-10T09:02:00.002-04:00

MY BLOG HAS MOVED TO HERE.

ただいま

2008-05-20T07:58:00.004-04:00

Im about to jump on a plane back home to NYC for a month, but before i do, here are a few old photos :)

Click the photo to see the gallery.

Peep(入りなさい)

THANK YOU JAY DEE

2008-02-06T09:02:00.000-05:00

ありがとうJDILLA.

すぐ。。。

2007-12-27T04:33:00.000-05:00

Good size update coming soon. Sit tight.
Email me with any questions: AlaniNYC@gmail.com
あたらしい写真すぐ。。。まてください。
またね。

Venture Sixteen: ちょとまてください

2007-04-15T09:43:00.002-04:00

This ones dedicated to Ayako.

Hi everyone.
Long time no see.
Its been a wild month to say the least.
So in the last month, i lived in 3 different prefectures (kinda like states) of Japan, Been ran over twice by kids on bikes (my fault though), Took a 2 day trip to Korea, was homeless the first day, got chased by korean gangsters the second day (picture below), and got chased by a cop and a gas station attendent on my way to the airport, got my own place in tokyo, saw a gang of rockabilly dancers beat a dude up, saw a guy walking a monkey as if it were a dog, hour later saw a guy walking a rabbit and finally saw a guy skinny dip into a park fountain.

So its been a good month. So now im just just getting settled in my new apartment and enjoying my new life here in Japan.
Couldnt have done it without the never ending support of my family who i miss dearly. Also the true friends that have been in touch with me since i left NY, you know who you are. Thank you.

Not many photos here yet, but i have some BIG projects i've been working on coming up. And its not just photography.
So enjoy the select few i put up. Cherry blossom (sakura) season just passed here in japan. Its amazingly beautiful to see the trees covers with pink and white flowers. Good vibes.

So until next time.
Mata ne.

Love is in the aaaaaaaair
Meguro river
One of the coolest girls ever
Fujiさん
This guy had no chance of catching me. and to add insult to injury, i took a photo as i ran past him
O_O

Venture Fifteen: ちょーやばい

2007-02-07T00:02:00.002-05:00

-Dub Reggae party
-The most amazing sound system ever
-Roppongi Boutique
-Mexican food
-Japanese pizza is good
-Nintendo DS
-Please call me Mantan
-Abi is a super-model
-Yuka is mad dope.

*Cho Yabai

Gallery(入りなさい)

Venture Thirteen: Photograffiti

2007-01-20T23:42:00.000-05:00

Heeeeeeeeeelllllllooooooo.
Here are some photo's of Graffiti writer Esow's art from Japan.
His work was really dope. I was diggin all of it. Really creative and clean. Thanks to Esow for the Art.
Thank you to Yuka for inviting me.
Thank you to Yu for the great music you are about to hear.
Thank you to Abi for the really good Nabe
Thank you to Miyu for her art and smiles.
Thank you to Yukiko!
And thanks to Japanese food and Hi Tea!

Also check out the updated post before this one. Alot of extras.

See you next time.

Peep(入りなさい)

Venture Ten:日本Venture Eleven: 富士山Venture Twelve: 正月

2007-01-14T03:10:00.002-05:00

This is the gallery wrapping up one month of me living in Japan.
Its been great so far. Good people, good food, great experience.
Now that im done doing my tourist thing, expect more of the art to show up.
Enjoy the gallery, it has extra pictures on there and i added some nice background music!
So one month down, and the rest of my life to go.
Enjoy.

Peep(入りなさい)

Venture Nine: Back at it, Like a crack addict.

2006-11-05T13:45:00.000-05:00

Hello.
Photo's from thee events leading up to Halloween.
Isnt Halloween great? What other day can you go out at night and see two of your favorite superhero's drunk and fighting.
And how about stealing a bunch of candy from your little bro or sis when they get back home from a hard days work of trick-or-treating. Cant get any better.

Ok 3 different nights. All crazy.

{ Japanther & Matt and Kim Show }
So for some odd reason i decided it was time to jump in a mosh pit, with my camera. In this case all technical adjustments are thrown out the window. You set-up your camera to what you think is correct for occasion and pray your lens and/or camera doesnt get straight smashed. Not recomended unless you know some type of martial arts. (Kung Fu!)

{Bike Kill}
With a name like bike kill you know same camera rules as above apply.The best description i can give bike kill is this......
block party+destruction derby (with bikes)+L.A Riots+Midevil times (not the restaurant)+Grand theft auto(all of them)+ Mad Max= Bike Kill.
How they get permission to this every year is beyond my knowledge, but its fun as hell to watch.

{Halloween}
Now with a weekend like the one listed above you know Halloween is going to be the end of the fuse on the bomb.
For legal reasons im keeping those pictures out of the gallery, So look at the pretty costumes.

Not really happy with the results the Flash gallery is giving me with my photo's. Not coming out as sharp and vivid as the originals, so bare with me as i find an alternate.
Click the pic bellow.....

Peep(入りなさい)

Venture Eight: Never not workin'

2006-10-26T14:29:00.000-04:00

Hello.
After countless threats to my life and the ones i love, i've decided to update.

Been busy. Good thing and bad. Getting a massive amount of art work done.
I do to much i think.
What'evs.
Accomplishment of the week though, i learned how to recreate the new advertisements for the ipod nano in after effetcs. The ones with the cool lookin streaks of light.

On with a few photo's. By the way i've been taking a lot of photo's, just not posting them. Im getting them ready for my portfolio and web site whenever the hell that comes along.

Hopchank at Happy endings.
Didnt start taking photo's till late, so if you left before i got one of you im sorry.
I love you though, and thats better than any ol picture right?...............right?

Happy Bithday to my little sis Carmen.
Happy birthday to Helen.
Happy Bday to Darnel. (check his new web site in the links)
Happy Bday to Cicely.

Peep (入りなさい)

Venture Seven: Properazii

2006-09-04T14:45:00.000-04:00

Hello Boppers.

Here are some photo's from this past Labor day weekend.
First off is the birthday bash for someone beyond awesome, Hanna.
Hope you had a birthday nothing less then awesome Hanna.
This was also a send off for our homie Jacob, who was leaving back to his hometown of the Bay area, SanFran. Peace out Jacob, it was a great summer with you here.

Birthday Lady Hanna aka Proper and Mike
Jacob in his pre-thizz stance
Reverend McFly moving bodies with the spirit of Dj Morsey looking on
"My name is MEEEEE SHEEEEELLLL AHHHHHH"-Sterling
Jvillie and Angelo with April lurkin
I give Ellery the prize for sharpest dresser of the night
Jens dropping it like its hot and picking it up when its cold with April even making cross eyed look cute.
The lovely April and The Beautiful Hanna ladies and Gents.
Your host with the most
Amy and George dancing the night away
West side till we die
Angelo and Nick-olas cage
1..2...3...Awwwwwwwww
Nick getting open for buisness
Jens and Ellery
George thizz'in all over the place with Jacob
Ghostface Benjamin
Rev. McFly & Dj Morsey killed it that night
Like 4 flashes went off all at once here
Na Na Chill
Angelo just doest hear the music, he Feels it. Jens knows
Happy birthday Hanna
Peace out Jacob, pinkys up
And a BIG THANK YOU to Bowen who came by and gave me this awesome book to help me with my quest of learning Japanese. She's a sweetheart.
Thank you Bowen!!
The next Day was a pool party over in williamsburg. I didnt take much photo's there so here are just a few.
:)
8)
"Yo i got those hasidic jump off's"-Jah Jah
Sweaty
YadadaKeem
Jahphet
"Hey Kool aid!!!!" and Sterling

Thats the end of this episode boppers.
For more pictures of Hanna's Bday Visit Choimatic.com in my links.
Also, with possibly the the best name in blog history visit George's 'Black on blog crime' in my links for some upcoming photo's.

Love you.
Especially you, yeah you. You know who you are.

Venture Six: August agony

2006-08-31T21:39:00.000-04:00

Back by unpopular demand.
So after having some of the most frustrating weeks of my life im back with some photo's.
My rooms a mess, wack weather, cant find a pair of sneakers i want, a combination of a cold and food poisoning, no time on either end, no sleep, My Pc has a virus (thnak god for my Mac's) and the cherry on top is i pretty much lost a few 100 grand......................yeah. and these are the least of my problems.
But the majority of my time is being taken up by other projects in drawing, painting, designing/illustration, web site, portfolio, video editing and motion graphics. So thats at least good. So let me stop with all the cry baby stuff.....

These pic are from two random nights one at Delancy and one at Happy endings. Havent had time to really learn how to use my flash properly so a lot of improvement is in order. After speaking with Angelo for about 10min he blessed with with some flash knowledge that helped me out. So imma step it up. First up Sweat @ The Delancy.......

Sterling and his one man mosh pit
Nicholas cage
Gina Goooooooooooooold
Kalena and Bowen hit the flo
Some Jerk and the pretty Liz
Angelo sings when he's not taking photo's
Andy with the tables turned oh him
The Mr and Mrs
HANNAS BACK!!!!!!!!! :)

Next up is Hopchank at Happy endings celebrating the Bornday of Adrienne.

Birthday girl Adrienne, hates the photo's i take of her soooooo...-Photo by Jah*
Rev McFly and Choimatic discuss plans for world domination
If Dj Moe Choi was a transformer his name would be Choimatic with serato as his weapon of choice
Rev McFly preaches to the masses
The music played was so hot, by the time Dj Morsey got on, the tables burst into flames
Christine tried to sneak by me, but i got her
The lovely April ladies and gents........and her can of mase
Angelo's flash blew up that night, everyone was sad
Where's your chain Mandy? huh?
Cicely kickin it all night
"I either helped or hurt those guy's chance of gettin laid tonight"-Scott
What did the 5 fingers say to the face?!
Jah said bye to me at least 7 times before actually leaving, He had a good night.
Boogie down
Cicely and Mikel
Felix from NA NA CHILL
Geo and the girl of the night Adrienne. Happy birthday Adrienne

So thats it for now, i'll try to update a little more, i hope.
But check out my links for Death By Benjamin cause Angelo is killin it, thus the name.
Also check out Hopchank & Choimatic.com for pic's and parties.
Added Darnel Scott photography to the links and he's puttin in hella work.
Thats it for now.
Im out.

Venture Five: Sweatshop shoot-out

2006-08-01T11:35:00.000-04:00

Sorry updates have been slow, i've been busy and bummed out. This is a good one though.
This is a preview to the Sweatshop Labor photo shoot that i got to be a part of. (Big thanks to Lucas!) On board was Lucas, Phillip Angert (amazing photographer), Sage, Jacky, Jah Jah, Jacob, Jordane, Jvillie and myself.
Phillip Angert, professional photographer, was taking the main photo's while i shot the behind the scene photo's. It was great, i learned a whole bunch just by watching Phillip. His shots were amazing to say the least, and mine were definitley my best so far. I one thing i learned is that i nedd more memory, so im adding another gig to my camera. RAW's take up a lot of space. All this on a multi million dollar white room. Highlight of my summer so far. These are just a few of the photo's i took, a sneak peak. The good stuff will be posted on the Sweatshop labor web site in my links soon! So peep game.

Available at High five in brooklyn/Reed space in the L.E.S/Rival skate shop and many more to come!
Phillip Angert
Sage was like a swan in water
Ring leader Lucas getting things done
Jah Jah doing what he do when he does it
Jacob gold grillin
Mac Dre playing in the back, Jordane had to get Hyphe
Jvillie stayin sharp
Lucas and Sage in the mix
Jah Jah wrapping it up
Myself in the group photo CAMERA FIGHT!
Phillip, Jah and Lucas review some amazing photo's
End of the photo session, everyone is pleased
So after the shoot Me, Jah Jah, Jacob and Jordane walk it back to brooklyn where we relaxed in the good weather in a park right off the williamsburg bridge. There we met two little kids, Naji and his big brother Craig. Funny kids.
Dizy
Naji and Craig
Jacob pitches a fast one
But Naji's a pro "I rocked that joint!!"
Jah see's the hit and gives it a "PYAA"
So i know i said i wouldnt do parties for a while, but after seeing Angelo's photo's (Death by benjamin! in my links) he's motivated me to get the proper equipment. So i went out and got a sb-600 speed light flash. So i'll be all up in yo grill. Also please excuse the crude phototags im working on my logo and watermark.
Jacky says bye bye. Mata ne

Venture Four: Colorless rainy days.

2006-07-22T23:12:00.000-04:00

In the brief time period where it didnt rain, i went outside to take some shots of anything. Central park is right across the street so i took a little walk. All shot with a 24mm wide angle nikkor lens in color, then taken into photoshop for Black and white conversion.

Vertical panoramic shot made of 2 photo's
Lates

Venture Three: Shame on you when you step into...

2006-07-22T01:55:00.000-04:00

First off for all you digital slr heads BAM!

New Nikon!

Recap of a few days. Im not going to post this party stuff for a while. Real photography after this.
Throw combos
Mob
I took a trip to the bronx zoo and saw some animales.
I saw a Bald Eagle. Thruthiness
I saw Flamingo go's
I saw some pig's too
Then it was off to see Japanther and Big A little a play some punk that night.
Strobe
A-a Rocked it
Japanther rocked it as always. And they played new songs!
Ok, enough of this. Im really going to use my camera and 3 lenses now.
LATES

Venture Two:Baby boomers

2006-07-12T22:38:00.000-04:00

Ok i want to start this off by saying happy birthday to my brother Ricardi, Jah Jah, George, Lucas and Sage. Have a great one. Now on with the pictures.
I was trying really hard to not let this blog turn into a party photo blog, instead of photography, But it seems most of my free time is spent at parties. I’m not complaining though. Me and Jah Jah are going to go on some city wide photo missions, so in the mean time enjoy these photo's from George's and Jah Jah's birthday parties.

Most of my photography classes in the past didn’t allow me to use a flash so im not used to using one. On top of that, i only have the built-in camera flash. So i tried to make the best of what I had. Improvements are needed, but im getting there.

Day 1: Big birthdays in little China1 aka Number1 China (Lucas)
George & Jah Jah: Birthday boys
All night
Choimatic killed it
Rev. McFly killed it
Ahmad layin in the cut
Me and Chico
Lucas and Jacob: From the A to the Bay
!!!!
Adrienne & Geo had a good time, you can see it in thier faces
David was there!
George aproved of the night
Day 2: This is when it gets crazy. This is the day of Jah Jah's birthday. Here is the set up, Jah's been drinking since 7am. He's been drunk all day catching wreck all over new york, and Jacob,George,Angie,Lucas,Richard,John,Jahphet,Jason, and myself meet up with him that night to celebrate..........with fireworks.....on a roof.
Boom
Smiles like these mean we're up to no good
Kampai!!!
Jahphet almost blew himself up

So George had a drink
So did Jah and John
We got it popin
A sky rocket blew up in Jacobs hand
Then a Sky rocket almost hit me!
Jahphet getting creative
Jason and ? getting ready for the finaly
Uh oh
putting the finishing touches
Final goodbye to babyhead
baby boomer
After that we were off to happy endings where we were to meet up with more of the crew. Jah Jah jumped on his bike with a few others and i went in richard's car with the rest.
We out!
Fear and Loathing in Las Lucas
We get there and the usual suspects were there.
I forgot thier names....sorry
Even Adamn and Jay were there
Sterling cutting a rug
Scott
ChaseFace Killah
Chico
My favorite person in the world:April and some other girl who's birthday was also that same day
David,Scott,Nico
Ahmad and Jah no wait Jah and Ahmad....i think?
She threw down
So did George, as always
We saw skeletor
So Chase called upon the powers of grayskull
Jah got the glow
<3
:)
LURK HARD
Happybirthday Ya Ya, Enjoy your Life
FIN

Venture one:Birthday blackout

2006-06-29T21:23:00.000-04:00

So i recently got a Nikon D50 my first digital slr, my first digital camera period. Im happy with it. Not as good as film in my opinion, but the conveniences make up for that. Im still getting used to the camera and its settings, i've had it for 2 weeks now so im still a rookie. These pictures are the day i got the camera and on my first night out with the camera at japhets birthday party. I've taken much more since then so i'll post up soon. I'll try and make it a habbit. Click on the picture for a larger image.
Pooch
Yuts
Ana
Adrienne
Lucas speaks the truth to the youth

Jah Jah & Jacob, grillin
Thats it for now. I've taken much more since then so i'll get to posting that sooner or later. Check out the links for Death by benjamin and The Nothing Fancy Blog for some dope work also. Lates.