http://altcitizen.com/2013/02/18/gracie-and-rachel-where-to-begin/

alt citizen is supahh chill

A friend of mine who now lives in Mexico City started this street photography project lately and i’m soooopah stoked to be a part of it. check it out —-> www.streetframes.com

Cole asked me to go skateboarding with him yesterday. I said i couldn’t because i was developing some film. He said that was cool. Cole is cool, he skateboards and takes photos. thats the stuff. 

Wellesley Mass. 

When I’m on sets, however i manage to get on them, i love shooting photos. But tomorrow i will be assisting Nathan Perkel and i probably shouldn’t, because he has much to teach me about lighting and process and sometimes i’m afraid my photographic practice gets in the way of learning about photography. 

I take solace in the occasional walk to the P.O. box, even if it yields no favorable results. 

Chaos

Taylor’s the only one not from Cali, but his Burrito habits claim otherwise. 

Spirits

…Maybe two months ago… i spent the day walking around Central Park trying my hand as a “portrait artist, 10 bucks a pop!” I am super naive. When, as one would expect, people did not have cash to pay for the picture, i said that was alright, that they could mail me the money, that i trusted them. So then i drew them, happily proving that i meant no harm, that so long as the idea of payment was involved they would value it, wanting the money so this might be some new exciting job I could boast about. I imagined two possible outcomes, they lose the drawing and don’t really care about it, so never pay me, or else the drawing sits around and every time they look at it they are taxed by knowing that they did not pay me, and so pay me. Well months passed and i didn’t receive any money in my mailbox. I was sad, i resigned my faith in naiveté, and my aunt told me that if i’m going to do portraits i have to do them for at least 25 dollars - so people appreciate them more, and not waste my time with petty change. I think about what an art handler once said when i was drawing him on the job, “Drawing time is never wasted time.” Today’s tuesday, but yesterday, on monday, I received a letter from a girl named Libby, who had commissioned me that day to draw a nearby tree for her. What sweet success, she sent me a nice little drawing on a handwritten note with the money plus interest. Now we’re pen pals. Well, i’ve digressed, I listened to this fellow playing the saxophone for a while in between drawings that day. Culture lives in the streets. 

” Sam, i crashed my car. It’s getting fixed and it’s impossible to live here without a vehicle. I miss New York very much. Hopefully I’ll be there in the spring. We’ll see. I can’t stand LA for much longer. Can’t wait to hang out all the time. We Will be Kings.” - 10/22/12

Tyler Reese , here to stay, Kings County New York. 1/28/13

my true friend. 

Can’t wait for summertime.

Zane gave me a tarot card reading while i was waiting to meet my love, i couldn’t pay him though, so i drew a picture of him and offered that he keep it. He refused, he’d rather be in my collection.