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Nosaj Thing

2011-06-20T19:27:00.000-07:00

Two quick shots taken of Nosaj Thing, in his studio.

(Click on photo for a larger view.)

It's been a while...

2010-12-15T14:08:00.000-08:00

Random photo from the beach the other day...

Surf with Timmy.

2010-05-14T23:42:00.000-07:00

Trekked down to Orange County today for a little South Swell action. Checked Newport jetties first, which was horrendous. Made the call to drive down to Salt Creek and absolutely scored. Head high and almost perfect without the crowds. Timmy and I were in dropknee heaven. God bless Salt Creek. It's been a while since I've seen her like that... I don't get to make it down there as often as I'd wish... It's about an hour and a half drive with no traffic! But well worth it.

Took a few photos while we were searching for waves.

Newport surf check:

Timmy:

Tim Durfee

2010-05-14T01:40:00.001-07:00

Today I had the pleasure to help out one of my professors from the Media Design Program on one of his personal projects. Tim Durfee was asked to create a chair for an art show... (not sure of the whole details about the project) This is what he came up with... 20 foot long bookshelf/chair. It's pretty awesome. I had a lot of fun helping him put it together along with my classmate Haelim (model in the photograph... I also shot the photographs for her thesis site), as well as photographing the chair itself.

(More pictures to follow... Click the photo to see a larger version.)

linda...

2010-05-06T02:17:00.001-07:00

sun setting while apartment hunting...

"The Colors"

2010-04-22T03:29:00.000-07:00

I shot these photos for my friend Julianne Weiss. This was a final project for one of our classes. Pretty colors! More info on this project here: http://juliannemedia.com/#354067/The-Colors

Joshua Tree... 6.

2010-04-16T15:46:00.000-07:00

I brought my camera to school yesterday.

2010-04-08T17:41:00.000-07:00

I took about 30 some odd photos throughout the day. Here are a few in chronological order.

joshua Tree... 5.

2010-04-08T12:17:00.000-07:00

SideB:

Joshua Tree... 4.

2010-04-02T13:23:00.001-07:00

Joshua Tree... 3.

2010-03-31T23:43:00.000-07:00

Joshua Tree... 2.

2010-03-31T01:14:00.000-07:00

A few more images from the trip....

Went to Joshua Tree over the weekend...

2010-03-30T00:16:00.000-07:00

... and I have a string of photos to show you! I'll start with this one because it makes me happy.

new camera...

2010-03-23T01:28:00.000-07:00

... all sorts of different people.

linda

jae

"cool kid" jules

dummy

I got a Black Bird Fly for pretty cheap. These are a few of the photos from my first roll. Pretty fun! It's cool to use a square mask on 35mm film. Somethin different.

Nosaj Thing

2010-03-16T02:28:00.000-07:00

A little panoramic of my buddy Nosaj Thing's record release party @ The Low End Theory here in LA. The place was packed. Got shut down at the bigger outside space by the police/firemen, so the party got moved to the upstairs room. At least a quarter of the people weren't able to make it into the upper room after we moved.

These are a couple shots I took for him as press photos about a year ago.

It's uhh.... been a minute, hasn't it?

2010-03-10T19:06:00.001-08:00

Hello there! Long time, no see. I've been too distracted by school work... lost some focus on the photography side of my life... but it's ok. I'm actually still taking photos almost every day... (though the photos are often taken with my iphone... mmmikeyt.tumblr.com. But hey, it's still photography, isn't it!?!?) I've also taken a fair amount of photos on both film and digital formats, but I've been too lazy to hand process things... Annnyways, excuses aside, I've been trying to get back into the swing of things.

Here's a couple photos... not saying they're great, but they each hold a great deal of memories for me...

Adios! Hope to see you soon! And I hope to see you more often....

2 more...

2009-08-18T19:15:00.000-07:00

... from Vivan's wedding.

The Mother:

The Daughter:

"My best friend's wedding."

2009-08-18T01:17:00.000-07:00

One of my closest friends got married on the 8th. SHE... asked me to be a brides-man... and I was honored to be one. The wedding was held at her, now husband's, parents house in Napa Valley. The wedding was beautiful... the weather was perfect. I ended up taking around 500 or so images of Vivan getting ready. All of the moments up to the point in which we were about to walk down the isle. I just sifted through all of the pictures and came up with a few nice ones. Here's a couple to start us off... I'll post more throughout the week.

(also... please keep an eye on my new tumblr site. www.mmmikeyt.tumblr.com. I've been taking photos thoughout my day with my iphone and posting em up on that site. It's been a fun little side project to keep the juices flowing by taking photos every day on the fly. Please check it out!)

Tumblr...

2009-08-02T16:18:00.000-07:00

Hello hello. Post 101.

I just got an iPhone. I was trying to upload some photos taken from my phone onto this blog, but have found it to be a little troublesome. SOOOOoooo... I started another blog with tumblr. This will just be photos from my daily life. All photos will be taken with my iPhone. But no worries, I still intend to fill this blog with photos taken from my regular camera.

Here's the link:
www.mmmikeyt.tumblr.com

Also, I saw some people were following this blog on google reader. Leave ur email on the comments if you'd like to share posts!

blog post #100

2009-07-21T01:50:00.001-07:00

Been gone from this blog for a while. I'm going to try to revive it now.

Here are a couple recent random photographs:

Lucy...

2009-05-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

My cousin had her baby. We welcomed little Lucy Hulswit into our world at 11:03pm on Monday May 11th, 2009.

Congrats Mike and Marie! We're all very excited...

She.

2009-03-23T12:53:00.000-07:00

Sit.

Stand.

Walk.

Jump!

playground love.

2009-02-06T10:40:00.000-08:00

Took some photos yesterday on assignment for Time Magazine. I'll go into more detail on that later... but here were two random out takes that weren't used that I kind of liked.

Things went well! Photo editors are happy.... that makes me reeeaaaally happy.

old post/photo.

2009-02-03T14:56:00.001-08:00

This is from an old blog post when I restarted this blog... I'm posting it again just to post it. But this image always crosses my mind. I keep thinking that I need to print it out for my wall. Hopefully I'll get around to that sometime soon.

Every picture has a story behind it. Here's my memory from it:
It was shot down in Puerto Escondido, Mexico. I was down there shooting some bodyboarders for an Australian magazine. We just got done with lunch in town and were riding back to the hotel in the back of the hotel owners truck. It was me, and Jake Stone sitting in the back of the truck, we just passed the section of the main road that has a nice view of Zicatela (the main beach). Jake was looking back up the road a bit... I only had my 50mm lens on me, so sitting across the bed of the truck I had to lean halfway out of the side of the truck in order to frame the photo. I think I took about 2 photos? Maybe only this one... but immediately after snapping this image, my hat few off my head. I had to pound on the roof of the car and tell the driver to stop so I could run back up the road to pick up my hat. He stopped, told me to stay in the car and he'd back up, but I just jumped out and snagged it. When I picked up the hat, the car was already right next to me. I jumped back in and we headed back to the hotel. Now I take my hat off when riding in the back of trucks. haha.

ummm.. that story wasn't very exciting... but that's what happened. I just loved this portrait... especially the part where the wind is blowing his hair.

I have a few rolls of film that I have to process. Expect some newer photographs up soon.

My buddy Timmy.

2008-12-27T22:57:00.000-08:00

Here's some photos of my good friend Timmy Long. He's the only guy I surf with that loves it (as well as gets in the water) as much as I do. He's also a photographer... sometimes we get out and explore with our cameras in hand. Here's a few select photographs taken while wandering around places we weren't allowed entrance to.

random hike.

2008-12-16T22:45:00.000-08:00

With my first term of grad school behind me and winter break beginning, I find myself with plenty of time on my hands. One thing that I hadn't done in a while because of school is ride my bike. So today, when I woke up, I decided to go on a little bike ride with my camera(s). I took one of my film cameras out as well as my little point and shoot. My original intent was to just ride around my neighborhood and find things to photograph along the way... I ended up riding up a hefty hill and stumbled upon a hiking trail. So, the bike was locked up to a fence and I was off on a little hike. Where the trail took me was completely unexpected. I had amazing views of Los Angeles all the way down to Orange County, as well as Catalina Island. The recent rain storms definitely helped clean up the air quality which aided the view. Below are some of the pictures that I took with my small digital camera. I'm definitely going back up there... It's nice to stumble upon things like that.

this is a panoramic image... click it to view it at a larger size.

Downtown Los Angeles.

This little mound is my new "favorite place," in Los Angeles.

Dirt to road.

meeeeeeeee.

randoms.

2008-12-13T05:25:00.000-08:00

my shopping crew. they're not a good influence on me... we all pretty much convince each other to buy things we shouldn't, but want.

typical scene from a 5 hour studio class at Art Center.

smitten. maybe i shouldn't type that... but it's ok...

yours truly. (thanks scott...)

oh yeah... for my motion design class, my best friend dave and i shot video stuff on green screen. i'll post up the video once i clean it up a bit. but here's the set up and a portrait i took while filming. i found out that shooting, directing, and editing is verrrrrrrry time consuming and tiring. but it was a great learning experience... looking forward to doing more in the future.

the set up.

dave.

p.s.- i just finished my first term of grad school at art center... and i'm officially on break til the 11th of january. If you want some photography done, get at me!

...

2008-12-01T02:46:00.000-08:00

Her, "Why are you doing that?" face.

2008-11-14T02:23:00.000-08:00

4 consecutive exposures on 1 roll of film. 2 facial expressions total. I just thought it was funny.

1.

2.

3.

4.

I think it's time to switch up my cameras. I've been using my Contax G1 consistently for about a year now... I'm thinkin' either the Lomo LCA. Orrrr.. The Nikon FE2. Leaning towards the FE2. I got my mom a fairly clean FE2 for Christmas last year... My FE2 is kinda... broken. Going to see if she wants to trade it for my D100. Nikon FE2 with a 24mm (i need some cheap 35mm & 50mm manual nikkor lenses) lens and a bag of Tmax 400. Life is good.

some school. some vegas. my house.

2008-11-11T02:07:00.000-08:00

MDP sweatshop.

MDP robot.

S&J.

Drive.

What are you lookin at?

Views from home.

2008-11-09T11:57:00.000-08:00

Election Day. 2008.

2008-11-06T16:02:00.000-08:00

Oh what a day it was! I ended up going around to take some photographs at my local polling locations. I visited two different places. The first one, I arrived about 20 minutes before the polls opened. The second place I visited was shortly after noon.

Anyways, here's a few photos that I liked from this election day. Probably the most significant election within my lifetime so far...

Location 1:

Location 2:

Smokers.

2008-11-02T03:10:00.000-08:00

It's raining!

2008-11-01T17:07:00.000-07:00

neighbor.Kelli.or..."Kerry" as we call her round these parts.

1.

2008-11-01T03:43:00.001-07:00

Escuela...

2008-10-29T20:02:00.000-07:00

jae.jay. & chris.

haelim.morning class.

project.

sue.

jae.jay.

ramen noodles. a regular item on the MDP dinner menu.

Not photo related...

2008-10-29T17:08:00.000-07:00

... but I couldn't pass up on posting this. I need to go there within my lifetime...

New kids on the block.

2008-10-27T03:14:00.000-07:00

As you know, I'm in grad school at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA.) The incoming class for the Media Design Program consists of 18 talented people... and then me. Here's a little introduction to some of my new family members.

All photos were taken at a BBQ we had a little while back. A few people weren't able to make it...

MDP kids... in no real order.

/\ This last one is Nicole's dog, Benton. He's almost as awesome as my dog Ledger. Almost.... really close... but Ledger takes the win, always. /\

til' next time,

mikeyt.

Finally. New photos.

2008-10-22T15:43:00.000-07:00

I've been away from the blog for a minute. The Media Design Program at Art Center has been keeping me busy. Crazy busy. Crazy CRAZY BUSY. But it's all fun work so far.

Anyways, for one of my classes yesterday, we went on a field trip to downtown LA. Annnnnnnnnnd we had to take some pictures... so here ya go! Hopefully I'll be back to taking more photos, more often. (Actually, I've been taking the same amount of photos, but I just haven't gotten around to posting them up.)

SIMA Waterman's Classic Golf Tournament (for Water Magazine)

2008-08-22T16:01:00.000-07:00

Shot some more event photos for Water Magazine. This time it was for SIMA's annual Waterman's Classic Golf Tournament at Monarch Beach Golf Links in Dana Point. Basically, it's a fun golf tournament for the surfing industry. Different companies sponsor different holes, as well as 4 person golf teams. Every hole has some sort of alcoholic beverage, and by the end of the tournament, everyone's pretty loose. haha. It started at 10am and ended around 4pm... haha. It was the funnest day at a golf course that I've ever had.

Here's a photo of the Roxy team at Hole 9:

Foam Magazine Party.

2008-08-20T01:01:00.000-07:00

Took some event photos for Water Magazine tonight. They wanted coverage of the Foam Magazine re.launch party out in Laguna Beach. It was a good time for sure. Saw some people that I haven't spoken to in a little while.

Anyways.... Here's a random photo from the night. The Growlers were performing before the party ended.

?uest-o.

2008-08-07T02:00:00.000-07:00

Stoked! Me and some of the Prequel guys went up to Hollywood to do a little piece on Questlove of The Legendary Roots Crew. This story will be featured on PrequelMag.com as well as in the upcoming issue of the print magazine.

Basic rundown of the story is that he did a shoe with Nike.... but more on that later.

Thanks to Tanya of Nike, we got to pull ?uestlove away from the madness, for a little photoshoot. Below is the shot. Pretty stoked on it.

I think the colors and contrast are a little off. My monitor is overdue for a recalibration. But it'll do for now.

Enjoy!

But wait!!!!

2008-07-31T17:39:00.000-07:00

... I just checked Shmack Clothing's Blog, and they posted up the new round of ads featuring the rapper, Tyga. Photographs were shot by yours truly and were styled by Daisy Lewellyn. These ads will be in the next issues of Complex, Vapors, Frank 151 and Antenna. Keep your eyes peeled!

Lazy, moving and waves.

2008-07-31T17:16:00.000-07:00

Sooo. I recently moved up to Pasadena. About 10 days ago actually. I haven't even spent a night up there yet. There's been a nice string of swell in the water, so I've been staying with my parents in Irvine. The drive is about an hour closer to the spots that I frequent for waves. So that's what I've been up to.

My friend Timmy took this picture of me a little while ago. Right before I moved up to Pasadena.

"Look what I can do!".... what a kook.

Preview PQ.

2008-07-16T00:11:00.000-07:00

Did a little photo illustration for the next issue of PreQuel Magazine today... Next issue comes out the end of August!

I forgot...

2008-07-11T05:14:00.001-07:00

I was cleaning off my counter and saw two rolls of B&W film. I had totally forgotten to process the film from my trip to Yosemite with some of my friends. So I processed it tonight... and kind of messed up... it's a bit too contrasty for my tastes... oh well.

For your viewing pleasure:

Nothin too crazy about this picture, but I really liked the light.

Some guy looking at Justin.

Hiking.

YMCA...YAY! ("Y" looks a bit too, excited. haha.)

My favorite photo from the two rolls... We got to Yosemite really late at night. The next morning I woke up about an hour and a half earlier than the rest of the guys. Once my eyes opened and saw sunshine, I couldn't contain myself... I had to go check out what was around the campsite. I took this photo before heading out to brush my teeth. I really really like it.

HELLO SUMMER! New muxtape mix!

2008-07-04T03:28:00.000-07:00

I've been in a "summer" mood, so you get a summer mix! Enjoy!
http://mikeyt.muxtape.com/

Time Magazine: Fragile X Syndrome tear sheet scans

2008-07-01T16:27:00.000-07:00

To fxsmom:
Thanks for visiting and commenting! Those families had a lot of love goin around for all members of the family. I'm sure it's the same within your household. It was a great experience...

Tyga for Shmack Clothing. Time Magazine: Fragile X Syndrome Story.

2008-06-29T01:27:00.000-07:00

A couple weeks ago, I shot some photos for the streetwear clothing brand, Shmack(shmackclothing.com). The photos are going to be used in an ad, featuring rap artist, Tyga (www.myspace.com/tyga). I haven't really gone through them all yet, but here's two outtakes that I liked. I'm pretty sure these aren't going to be used in the ad though.

A while back, I was able to photograph two awesome families in both Huntington Beach and Fresno for Time Magazine. My photos were to accompany a story on Fragile X Syndrome. They finally ran the stories, and it's in the current issue that hits newsstands this week. I'll scan the tear sheets and put it up shortly.

Here's the cover of the issue... If you happen to see it out at your local bookstore or grocery store, etc... pick it up and take a look. The article is interesting in itself...

Link to the online version of the article.:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1818268,00.html

Supersidenote! This girl's photography is extremely high-five.able...
Julia Galdo:juliagaldo.com

Wynne, Arkansas.

2008-06-12T01:39:00.000-07:00

Just got back from my family reunion in Arkansas the other day. Had such a great time. I have a couple photos... mainly family stuff. I'll post them up over the next few days.

Here's one of my cousin's little boy, J. Gracchus Shaver Jr. He was trying to figure out where that stream of light was coming from.

Yosemite.

2008-06-02T22:31:00.000-07:00

I went to Yosemite National Park over the weekend with some good friends for a camping trip. We got to do several hikes that led to some phenomenal look out points of Yosemite Valley. I rarely use those words to describe places I've seen. But one spot was simply breath taking. There was this long ledge of overhanging rock that creates a cliff that drops out for about 4,000ft. or so... straight to the valley floor. It was amazing. I going to make it a point to go back once more before the summer ends.

I got 3 rolls of 120mm. film from my Hasselblad back from the lab. Here's the ones that I really enjoyed.

Half Dome:

Tourists:

Dave @ The cliff that I was describing above.:

A fallen tree:

Justin:

I haven't processed my 35mm stuff yet. As soon as I do that, I'll post more pictures!

This week, I'm off to Arkansas for a Family Reunion! So stoked. I'll have some photos from that trip as well. Can't wait.

a few.

2008-05-28T13:59:00.000-07:00

Dark(bath)room.

2008-05-27T05:51:00.000-07:00

Feels good to get back into a darkroom to print black and white... even if it's only a makeshift one in my bathroom.

Mixtape #3: For a "Lazy Sunday Afternoon", in the middle of Spring...

2008-05-13T23:12:00.001-07:00

http://mikeyt.muxtape.com/

Old film from Utah.

2008-05-13T00:52:00.000-07:00

I had a couple rolls of 120 film laying around. I had forgotten what photographs were on them... apparently, they were from my trip to Utah earlier in the year.

A couple from the area around my family's old house.

Some random shots from around my old high school.

LAX -> JFK (12pm 5.8.08)

2008-05-08T14:01:00.001-07:00

Tim in DTLA.

2008-05-07T02:06:00.000-07:00

A few from a trip to NYC.

2008-05-05T04:26:00.000-07:00

I went to NYC last month for a good friend's wedding. Here are just a few random photographs from that trip. I have a couple more that I'll post later.

I've always been a fan of big open/empty/negative spaces, and I just realized that you can see that in this selection of photographs.

A friend turned me onto this site called "Muxtape.com." It's a cool site that allows users to upload their own 12 song mixtape, which is available for anyone in the world to listen to. I've already posted a second set of songs on mine, which you can listen to now. I'll probably change the songs whenever I get bored of this mix. But go take a listen, then make your own mix, and send me the link!

(I stole this list design idea from a site called thestylepress.net. Awesome blog... go check it.)

A couple more from the last trip... more Dave.

2008-04-28T12:12:00.000-07:00

The first photo reminds me of a photograph of musician Dustin Kensrue, taken by Myriam Santos-Kayda (www.myriamsantoskayda.com). Go check her website, she's pretty amazing... I love her work. Maybe that image is what I subconsciously had in my mind when I pressed the shutter... or not. haha.

Here's her photograph of Dustin Kensrue:

Sequoia National Park... and Dave.

2008-04-25T00:59:00.000-07:00

Someone please hire me to take some travel photos... these (below) are just some fun photos with a friend, but I promise I can come back with solid material! And if you do hire me, I have a great project idea. haha.

(vivan! hire me.)

Old film, freshly processed.

2008-04-11T02:07:00.000-07:00

Had a couple old rolls laying around. I just processed them last night, so here's some people for your viewing pleasure.

The mighty Pel:

My Mom (beginning of the roll):

My cousin Marie:

Miss Tiza, caught in the act.:

Vivan:

Go fly a kite!

NEW SITE IS DONE!!!

2008-04-05T01:33:00.000-07:00

www.MIKEY-T.com
Go check it out and lemme know what you think!!!!

Sneak Peek!

2008-04-01T01:58:00.000-07:00

A little sneak peak of somethin I've been working on.

More info later...

My Friend Scottie......

2008-03-31T16:25:00.000-07:00

... is amazing. he's leaving tomorrow on a trip of the 48 states........ on his bike. by himself.

6 months. on the road with bare minimums. so crazy. I just wanted to share with you guys on how awesome this is.

(scottie's in the "Trains before SEX" hat.)

Here's everything he's bringing. "minus food and water. and minus my replenishments of yarn, tubes, tires, etc..."

my friend scottie.... is cooler than you. GOOD LUCK SCOTTIE!

Congratulations (to me!)

2008-03-22T03:39:00.000-07:00

Grad school. Media Design Program.

Some things to come...

2008-03-18T03:06:00.001-07:00

Here's a little taste of what I've been working on. I hope to have it ready by the end of the week!:

I just got my 17-35mm lens fixed. I'm stoked to try it out on the D3. Full frame digital... ahhh so nice. Here's a photo of me messin around with the camera while workin on the project shown above.

Swrve Cycling Clothing

2008-03-06T14:49:00.000-08:00

A little while back, if you recall, I shot the owners of Swrve Cycling Clothing for Cog Magazine. Well, they liked some of my photographs and decided to use one of them on their new hang tags for the clothes. Pretty stoked on how well it turned out.

Front:

Back:

Original Photograph:

The last of Utah trip photographs...

2008-02-28T02:55:00.000-08:00

Well... I almost forgot to post the rest of the photographs. Here you go! The memories of perfect snow days are embedded in my head. It was also great to go back to the place that I once lived, almost 10 years ago.

L to R. Carlo, Len, Me. The backside of Snowbird.

This was from the first day at The Canyons. I really like this photo.:

In the tram to the the top of Snowbird.

Inside the parking garage at our hotel in SLC.

Leaving the hotel.

After Len & C.lo left, I headed up to Logan, Utah. Checked out my old stomping grounds, and visited my old house. I love this house and plan on buying it back as a winter spot if I ever get rich. haha.

My old house is in the center of the frame. It overlooks the whole valley and onto mountains on the other side. I forget what those mountains were called.

Just a short walk up the mountain is one of my favorite spots that I used to go to. Had a great view from up there. I've watched plenty sunsets from this place. And I was lucky enough to have time to watch another on my stay in Logan. These next photos were from the short hike up the hill.

Small rabbit trails in the snow. I think they're rabbit trails...?

The trees.

The million dollar shot... (I know, sunsets are cliche, but it's my favorite time of day! haha.)

I love it. Was the trip of the year..... so far.

Etnies Goofy vs. Regular.

2008-02-24T19:39:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I went up to Big Bear Ski Resort to take pictures for the Etnies Goofy vs. Regular contest. Here are my top choices from the day:

This first one isn't the greatest, but I liked how the mom and daughter were distracted.:

I liked this one... that hip was huge. (the photo's a bit contrasty/dark when i put it on the web. Actual file is better):

boing.

bang.

The new camera is working out sweet! Held up to some snow and rain from that day. Putting this baby to work!

Time Magazine + New Camera.

2008-02-21T03:39:00.000-08:00

Fun news! I shot some photos for Time Magazine a little bit ago (November/December?) for a story on school teachers across the country. I was told they scrapped the story... BUT! I got a call from Martha, my photo editor for Time, on Monday, telling me that they printed the article and that I got the lead photograph for the cover story! She also stated that they almost used my photograph for the cover of the magazine. "Almost" is still good news for me. Especially because I thought the photograph would never get published. Anyways... Below is the spread:

Check how big they printed my name! (Don't laugh at me. I'm still early in my career, this is still a novelty for me. haha.)

Here's a photo of the cover photograph that they used:

More fun news. My pops purchased a Nikon D3 a couple months ago. The shop just got it in yesterday because there's a long waiting list for the camera. It's Nikon's top of the line camera. The thing's sooo sick. I tested it out today with the prettiest being in my household... a golden retriever named Ledger. He's probably the worst retriever there is...

Example: Trying to catch his toy with his eyes closed.

But with that said, he's such a pretty dog. Love the guy:

And I had to try the high ISO. Here's an untouched photo, shot at 3200ISO.

The 6400 isn't all that bad for how high that ISO is for digital. But it's still not something I'd use. It's an improvement in the right direction for sure. It'll be interesting to see how crazy cameras will get within the next 5-10 years.

Upcoming shoots:
Musicians Blu & Leah.

After that, I'm working on a few things for a week and I'm off to Italy... then Italy to NYC... then back home. Word.

Oh man! I almost forgot! New issue of Prequel Magazine is out now! For those who don't know, I work with some guys on this magazine. It's a really fun project that's been going 2 years strong. It's a pocket sized lifestyle magazine that's distributed to boutiques around the country. This issue's awesome! I have a ton of photos in it, and the cover.

Here's a link to download the latest issue as a PDF version.... for those who can't get their hands on a hard copy.

http://www.prequelmag.com/prequel_issue5.pdf

In the words of PEL(pelnyc.com), "Tell a friend to tell a friend so we can build!"

Two views...

2008-02-15T11:27:00.000-08:00

... from my old high school in Logan, Utah.

Two random ones.

2008-02-15T01:34:00.000-08:00

rain.

lines and textures.

More Utah photos comin' soon. Probably going to post a few tomorrow.

Utah Part 2. (and cog magazine!)

2008-02-12T02:41:00.000-08:00

Here's a few from my film shots while in Utah. I'm going to be uploading a few a day. Might miss the next two days because I'm heading to Las Vegas in the morning for some trade shows. These photos are a little disjointed and from different days. We had a lot of fun... and a TON of fresh powder everyday. Knee high or more on the daily! But anyways, onto the pictures for your viewing pleasure:

*For the record. The Hummer H3 wasn't our first choice as a rental, but it did it's job surprisingly well. haha.

Also! New issue of Cog Magazine came out. I have some photos in there.

First one is a spread from one of the LAfixedrides.

Taco Tuesday's "Photo ride.":

Photos for a story on Swrve Cycling Clothing:

and the cover just in case you're somewhere to see it... a.k.a. a bike shop geared towards fixed gear bikes.

Ok. Time for bed. Next stop, Vegas. Maybe I'll bring back some photos from there as well!

Welcome to Utah.

2008-02-01T02:32:00.000-08:00

Another Minute...

2008-01-28T03:42:00.000-08:00

An Oldie, but a goody. Meet, Omid.:

So it's been a little since the last update with real photographs. I've been busy preparing my applications to send out for grad schools. Yup, decided to try to go back to school if they'll have me. But those will be done soon, then I'm off to Utah on Thursday for a little snowboard trip with one of my cousins and our good friend. I have a finished roll of film just staring at me. Hopefully I can get around to processing that and posting up some goodies before my Utah trip. Be prepared for some goodness when I get back though! (Hopefully!) I plan on bringing a few cameras and a decent amount of film.

In the mean time, I got a couple new goodies for my Hasselblad. Finally got a 45degree Prism for it as well as an extra A12 back. So now I can shoot faster, and also be more precise in my focusing! That's always a plus.

My camera now looks like it belongs to Darth Vader. Just wait until I can track down a good deal on a handle and an auto winder for it. (I think I can put an auto winder on it. Maybe?) We'll be in business then.

*ALSO! Mike Hulswit (my other talented cousin/web design guy) and I are almost ready to launch my new website. We'll have that up by this week. There's just a few little adjustments to be made, which will probably continue even after we launch it. Keep an eye out. And an ear, because I will be yelling at you to let you know that it's up.

NEW DOMAIN NAME IS:
www.Mikey-T.com

*Some trips & important dates coming up this year:
-Utah (Jan. 31st-Feb. 6th)
-Las Vegas for Magic Trade show. (Feb. 12th-15th)
-Italy sometime in the end of March.
-NYC right after that into April.
-ART SHOW! @ UCLA. One week only in the student run gallery. (April 28th-May 2nd) More details on that soon!
-Arkansas sometime in June for a Family Reunion.

*Side note: You may be wondering what happened to all of the photos... I went over my bandwidth limit for photobucket, so the photos will be back by next month. We'll see if I have time (or care) to reload and redo everything. But I doubt that will happen. All of the photos will be back soon though.

So they say 30 is the new 20.

2008-01-24T19:27:00.000-08:00

Yesterday was my cousin's 30th birthday. We had a little surprise party for him.

The man of the hour:

"Lucy, I'm Home!!!"

Ride L.A.

2008-01-22T04:09:00.000-08:00

Where I get my work done.

2008-01-20T18:30:00.000-08:00

Some people I know.

2008-01-19T15:17:00.000-08:00

Nice day for a bike ride.

2008-01-18T03:01:00.000-08:00

It's been really nice over here in Southern California. So nice, that it's easy to get distracted from work. Yesterday afternoon, I took my bike around the neighborhood with my little lomo camera to run through some film.

This is Miah Klein.

2008-01-17T14:33:00.000-08:00

I've known Miah for about 6 years now? (has it really been that long?) Anyways. I just found out that he and his wife are expecting a child in August. So stoked for him! Congrats Miah!!

Miah is a fellow photographer. He's been doing weddings with another awesome photographer Mike Stonis. Check some of their work:

Miah's photo blog.
Miah & Mike's wedding photography site.
Miah & Mike's commercial photography site.

Jake Stone.

2008-01-17T00:32:00.001-08:00

Shots from Mexico.
(L to R) Miniman, Tim, Kiril, j.Stone.

Jake tried to run me over.

Then he did a little burn out... I'm not sure if I have shots of that, but here's the aftermath.

In other news... I got a new toy.
Mike Stewart Science - DK5. weeeeeee!

Never Published.

2008-01-12T00:09:00.000-08:00

I did a shoot a couple months ago for Time Magazine. They decided not to publish the article that the photographs went with. So, here they are for your viewing pleasure.

Ben Van Dyk. The article was about new school teachers starting their careers.

This is the photo that was chosen to be published before they canned the article.:

tomi.o!

2008-01-10T22:17:00.000-08:00

This is my good friend Tomi. She's awesome, and gettin hitched... which reminds me... I have to buy some tickets to NYC.

I'd also like to thank a couple people for postin up links to this here blog.

Nick Lawrence @ Riptide Magazine:
Riptidemag.com.au

Jason Eichhorst @ Merit Compatibles:
meritcompatibles.com

Meet Jeff Hubbard.

2008-01-09T21:43:00.000-08:00

I was going through all my photos in preparation for my new website, and came across this photo from last year's winter season on the North Shore*. It was never published, but I always get excited when I see it.

Jeff Hubbard dropping into a solid Pipeline Booooomb! Jan. 2007.

Luke Hall with a crazy dropknee air drop in Mexico.

*"North Shore" = The north shore of the Hawaiian island, Oahu.

Mountains, Beaches, Mattresses & Hooters.

2008-01-08T20:08:00.000-08:00

Snowboarding with my cousin, Len.

Outing to the beach with my cousins, Matthew, Jessica and Marie.

After dinner fun at a furniture store.

Three randoms.

Looptroop & Blu.

2008-01-04T03:03:00.000-08:00

Lemme spit some knowledge.

2008-01-02T02:34:00.000-08:00

My friend Marc from Australia just sent me this photo (below). It's a scan from a recent issue of Movement Magazine. They asked all the contributors for 2007 to send in a simple photo of them and a little blurb about their favorite contribution to the mag that year.

Try n spot me!

For an enlargement of the photo above, click here.

And a link to the section on everyone's statements about their favorite contribution... click here.

Thanks to Marc! Thanks to Movement!

Also... If you have a chance to get to Barnes & Noble (or wherever else you can find this magazine), I have an ad running in Antenna Magazine, for Godwin Genes. I shot this for them when I was in NYC last... September was it? Make sure to pick up the issue... or at least peep it. Then go check out Godwin's line... online.

(/\jacked this photo from defgrip.net/\)

PAGE 31!!!

Two other variations that we were debating on using.

Rocky & Lackey.

2008-01-02T00:49:00.000-08:00

Don't have any new photos at the moment, so I posting some from almost a year ago. These two guys are two of the best bodyboarders in the world. Mitch Rawlins & Matt Lackey on a lazy afternoon at the Billabong house looking over Pipeline, Backdoor & Off The Wall. This is what you do on the North Shore when there aren't any waves...

Sneak peeks from mag work...

2007-12-31T05:30:00.000-08:00

This is for Cog Magazine. They're doing an article on Swrve Cycling. Swrve is a cycling specific clothing company based in Downtown LA. Owned and operated by Matt & Muriel. Great people with awesome product.

Muriel&Matt

This shot is for PreQuel Magazine. Part of the fashion editorial for the upcoming issue. Styling by Jon Phenom.

picks from the past several months.

2007-12-30T06:50:00.000-08:00

Revival of the Fittest.

2007-12-30T04:49:00.001-08:00

some photos from the past week or so. nothin crazy... but just some fun snapshotish photos.

foolin around in the salt creek parking lot:

Part two:

Part three:

Jake looks like his great... uncle?:

jake plays with water:

playmates:

wind chimes:

arboles:

caged:

smashing his own head:

fun with the family.... my cousin len and my grandma:

spent a day with my cousin Matthew. He's visiting from TX. we were supposed to go snowboarding this day, but it was really really windy up at the moutain... so i brought him to an empty neighborhood to do some sidewalk surfin:

Part 2:

Part 3:

Part 4:

Vivan madness (sorry for the messed up colors... i'm lazy... didn't fix that):

what you don't see is the mountain lion off to the right of the frame... right before they got down to wrestling. vivan won:

kid n pidgeons:

!!!!!!!

Nosaj Thing

It's been a while...

Surf with Timmy.

Tim Durfee

linda...

"The Colors"

Joshua Tree... 6.

I brought my camera to school yesterday.

joshua Tree... 5.

Joshua Tree... 4.

Joshua Tree... 3.

Joshua Tree... 2.

Went to Joshua Tree over the weekend...

new camera...

Nosaj Thing

It's uhh.... been a minute, hasn't it?

2 more...

"My best friend's wedding."

Tumblr...

blog post #100

Lucy...

She.

playground love.

old post/photo.

My buddy Timmy.

random hike.

randoms.

...

Her, "Why are you doing that?" face.

some school. some vegas. my house.

Views from home.

Election Day. 2008.

Smokers.

It's raining!

1.

Escuela...

Not photo related...

New kids on the block.

Finally. New photos.

SIMA Waterman's Classic Golf Tournament (for Water Magazine)

Foam Magazine Party.

?uest-o.

But wait!!!!

Lazy, moving and waves.

Preview PQ.

I forgot...

HELLO SUMMER! New muxtape mix!

Time Magazine: Fragile X Syndrome tear sheet scans

*Tyga for Shmack Clothing. *Time Magazine: Fragile X Syndrome Story.

Wynne, Arkansas.

Yosemite.

a few.

Dark(bath)room.

Mixtape #3: For a "Lazy Sunday Afternoon", in the middle of Spring...

Old film from Utah.

LAX -> JFK (12pm 5.8.08)

Tim in DTLA.

A few from a trip to NYC.

A couple more from the last trip... more Dave.

Sequoia National Park... and Dave.

Old film, freshly processed.

NEW SITE IS DONE!!!

Sneak Peek!

My Friend Scottie......

Congratulations (to me!)

Some things to come...

Swrve Cycling Clothing

The last of Utah trip photographs...

Etnies Goofy vs. Regular.

Time Magazine + New Camera.

Two views...

Two random ones.

Utah Part 2. (and cog magazine!)

Welcome to Utah.

Another Minute...

So they say 30 is the new 20.

Ride L.A.

Where I get my work done.

Some people I know.

Tyga for Shmack Clothing. Time Magazine: Fragile X Syndrome Story.