Back Beat Symphony

I wanted to give thanks to the homies Max MacVeety (Crown City Rockers) & DJ Zeph (Oakland Faders) for allowing me to do the promo shots for their album Back Beat Symphony.

Here are the album images and some clips i've taken of them doing what they do best.

-j 

Nasa Chan

Don't have much time to write about my good friend Nasa who just recently visited the bay last week.

Nasa , her friend moko and i hit the streets to grab some clicks and chop it up about what we've been up to the past 2 years since we saw each other last. Although she used to live in the bay , she currently lives in Japan as a photographer/ web designer.

It was good to catch up and run around in the bustle of the san francisco christmas crowd. I'm excited to see the shots she took of me with her New hasse and i hope to see her in japan when i get the opportunity to visit.

You can see some of her work at the following links

nasastyle.com

nasastyle flickr

nasastyle blog

thank you nasa and moko, it was great seeing you guys and i hope to see you again soon!

I hope that Eryone has a great Christmas and happy new year, i'm heading to portland tomorrow to spend the holidays with my amazing girl and her wonderful family for the holidays.

2010, can you believe it?

Love,

-j

 

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

206

I'm sittin' here geekin' out on a saturday night rendering video files , editing photos ect..ect.. and i wanted to post a little something about a scene i have followed pretty religiously for the past few years. It must have been back in 05' i started finding all these insanely talented cats from Seattle on myspace. Now, i love east coast hip hop and the Cali has a grip of talent as well but, wow the northwest has a stronghold on the hip hop something crazy. I think i stumbled over Macklemore & Kublikai first then Symmetry & Ryan Lewis and after that it was one talented soul after another. So, basically i wanted to write this to drop some names, pay my respects and enlighten others who aren't aware of some of what the 206 has to offer.

I won't be posting any of my work in this entry, instead links to all the incredible people that i want my readers to check out. Here is The Fake Empire Video project Featuring Macklemore and many others, produced by Ryan Lewis 09'.

 And these next two short videos are from the making of  "The Town" by Macklemore

Produced by Zia Mohajerjasbi who has recently become my new favorite videographer.

 I really love sharing other peoples work thur my site and i hope you all enjoy me taking a break from posting my work for the sake of these hard working individuals.

They inspire me and i hope they do the same for you.

Here's some links to other Seattle folk that i dig.

 

Common Market                  Ryan Lewis                Zia Mohajerjasbi             

Blue Scholars                      Johnny Valencia          Sabzi   

Kublikai                               Jason Koenig              Grynch

Grieves                               Macklemore                Symmetry

 

sorry for the long post but, it had to be done

night yall

-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

 

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

 

Accomplished

What a nice way to finish off the work week!

You can click the cover below to take you to the preview/purchase page and browse through the first 15 pages to get a feel of the layout. I am so greatful to have met such beautiful people in the making of this project and truly hope that you are pleased with the final outcome as i am. I also signed up for and paid to be a part of the blurb book contest for my first Vol. which is running until Aug. 20th and you can cast a vote for it HERE.

I mentioned in a previous post that i would not be doing a show due to finances and lack of confidence of my work but, i am pleased to say that i have been looking into galleries and prints makers to make that a reality.

Much love out to Jenni and Amanda  for giving the confidence to reconsider a solo show!

If anyone would like more info on helping me promote my work and Vol . 2 of caught in the scramble please feel free to E me at jjcphotography@gmail.com.

Thank you again to eryone for being patient and understanding through the past few months while working on this book.

Back to work i go  it's almost punchout time!

Have a great weekend 

 

 

 

 

-j