Expo

-j

Crackin'

Ali Wong is a hysterical comedian who i featured in my second book "inspiration" and she's gonna be back in the bay for one night only on Dec 21st at the Punchline in Frisco.

Get your tickets here cause it will sell out!

Check the flyer for the line up and info and also some shots i took of Ali earlier this year.

Gracias Ali

-j

Rise

-j

Elevate

-j

Untitled

Arbor

Jenni and I were searching out snowboards for this weekends Tahoe trip and found out that they are having a snowboard design contest.

I own a 2005 arbor formula 48 and i love what the Venice California based snowboard company is all about.

So, i went ahead and submitted a Photo design for a board. Arbor always shows the bamboo wood on their boards and also the trademark tree logo as well.

If you guys could help me out a bit and simply sign up for account here at REI and then click here for arbor's contest page and click here to view and vote for my submission.

First prize is the board with my artwork on it!!! 

Please take the time to sign up and vote for your homie JJC , you can vote up until 1/10/10

here's a look at what you would be voting for

Bobby Digi / Bobby Fischer

Here's an older photo i took at the hip hop chess federation event almost 2 yrs ago.

-j

Five and Dime

Raashan Ahmad Oakland Video from JJC on Vimeo.

Big up's to Raashan & Kat

Thanks guys!

Fremont

-j

Flock

Our First Dinner

look at us now

-j

Valencia

Here are Some clicks from yesterday in the mission.

Caught in the scramble vol. 3 is up and available on www.blurb.com

you can view it and purchase here.

I highly recommend picking it up, it is the best book i've thrown together thus far

Have a great week everyone

-j

Brace

Here is the cover and some stills from Vol .3 and hopefully i'll be uploading it to blurb by this weekend.

As, you can see i played around with the site a bit, hope you guys dig.

-j

6:00 in Oakland

I had the honor recently of being asked to put together a video for Raashan Ahmad. It will be uploaded to my Vimeo in a week or two so keep and eye out.

Here are some stills from the project.

Thank you to all that wished me a good birthday this past weekend and spent time with me.

And thank you! thank you! so much Jenni for saturday night!

your the greatest of all time!

have a good week ya'll

-j

Outcome (RIP)

So,  it's a gloomy rainy friday afternoon in the hills of Oakland California today and i've have been prowling around the internet in search of inspiration. I posted some unfortunate news on my facebook the other day about my external hard drive going down on me and me possibly loosing 5 years of photography for good. A good artist always backs up his back up because technology can never be trusted and so is life, shit happens. I haven't heard the final word from the data recovery guy i sent it to and i am keeping my fingers crossed that at least some of it is salvageable but only time will tell. <-- scratch that last sentence, i just received the call that the drive is un-repairable and my last hope of getting the data back would cost me $900-$3900 without a guarantee of everything being recovered.

A lesson well learned john coyne

In an instant, years of hard work images & memories wiped clean.

My good friend Chris said was telling me just yesterday that if i don't get my work back, that maybe there is a reason for it. yup, maybe there is a reason this happened and some higher power wanted me to start over.

either way i have a clean slate and a new outlook on being a responsible artist.

I'm putting the finishing touches on Caughtinthescramble vol. 3 , a 200 page blurb book with many of the images that were on that drive.

Boy i'm glad i put it together when i did

I entitled it 2006-2009 but, i think i should call it R.I.P , whatcha guys think?

Here are some images i'm glad to still have, they are from the 09' treasure island festival 

as sad as i am to have lost such important work, i still have my health , good friends , family and i'm loved!

starting a new chapter sounds good

have a good weekend everyone

32yrs old this sunday

thank you

-j

ineffable

-j

7:00 AM

-j

Black Patch War

Been a huge fan of Common Market for a minute now and it was very exciting seeing them perform for the first time last monday night at Cafe Du Nord. My live performance photography still needs some work but, i was simply just happy to be there. I will continue to grow & learn and they will improve as time flows on.

I'm feeling so much better today, I gotta persevere though all the hardships that life throws my way and believe in myself. I can't depend on others to give me confidence or self worth, that's all up to me.

I plan on hitting the streets this weekend so we'll see what i come home with and i'll be sharing it with you guys soon.

Thank you

-j

Bumps in the road

I wish i was better at being me sometimes......

I've been feeling way off these past couple of days and i'm not sure what exactly it is that's bothering me. It might be me missing my family & friends back home or my 9-5 or not seeing my girl when i would like to. I have been very negative lately which i am am sorry for and my confidence in my photography and myself has dropped right through the floor. Whatever it is , i don't like it and i hope to be back on track and happy soon. 

Here are some links to some very talented people doing good things out there in the world.

Patrick Kawahara                      Alexander Richter

Jenni Tay                                 Rafaela Persson

Amanda Lopez & Jenni Tay       Mansi Midha

Nate Harvey                             Shiho Fukada

Shaughn                                 Dede Pickering

Here are some old hearts of mine

-j

By Your Side

-j