Friday, December 31, 2010

2010 What A Year!


















1. I finally passed that massive kidney stone that took almost six months... Ugh! I Ain't stretching the truth it worse than having a baby, Labor does not take 6 months!

2. My planned exhibit of Dance Through Life started, stopped and is still waiting to happen, still the promotional image was on point and it will happen in 2011!

3. My photo of Austin Clarke was published in the back of the American version of More via Publishing giant Harper Colins. A new book is in the cards this year!

4. Could be the highlight of my year, My first wedding shoot... Glenroy & Anthony! Simply Amazing! I told my sister no to her wedding as its too stressful, but this was too important to say no to!

5. Otumba Abi's Birthday! I was in Naija heaven.

6. I'm with Oprah..This is my favorite thing! (no you my audience are not getting one;-)

7. My one man show FIERCE! went off with out a hook!, Actually 65 of them! Just in time for Hotter Than July in Detroit! Thanks Affirmations!

8. Travoy in the Flesh launches... Travoy gives me great creative opportunities!

9. Cedric! The smile says it all! Can't wait to work with him again!

10. The Javon & Mardi shoot at Hanlan's point was amazing! Perhaps ground breaking.

11. MY BFF Nigel and I at one of Polly's parties!

12. I turned the big 50 this year! Still young at heart, this is the key to life!

14. This was a big year for Kashedance, this is the promo shot for the year! Thanks Kevin!

15. Well come to the new Sony Centre! Its second grand opening in 50 years!

16. YES! I was in the middle of the G20 mess.. I get the rush war correspondence get!

17. The Almighty Ball 2! The second amazing year for this AMAZING Ball!

18. DJ Blackcat...too Kewl for School! I've had more fun creating party promotions you just don't know, this guy gets me and lets me loose creatively! Much love!

19. Caribana and the Tribal Ball! And even better my girl Lasaunji was there for it all! A perfect weekend!

20. Temi and I at Pride!

21. Omari... Whew! awesome up and coming model! Thanks Leo!

22. Tavon, Brian and Jermaiine are my new core of Aqua Noir! Its like modeling in 3 dimensions!

23. Finally success at the Youth Line Auction! My piece made some great loot for a great cause!

24. Montrice gets a stone! He will always be remembered in our hearts!

25. I have a studio! Small but flexible (check out photo 26!)

26. Alistair in full flight in the new studio!

27. Speaking of Alistair, we both made the poster for Soulful Messiah and the Globe and Mail Arts section! What a way to cap off a year!

There were so many great moments for me this year... great new models, like Curtis, Craig, Travis , Tavon!

2010 has been full of photographic blessings both new and old, a special shout out to Javon and Mardi who have also been parental supporters! If I have missed anyone... let me know... I am blessed by many! I look forward to 2011!

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Thursday, December 30, 2010

Leap of faith?
















Sitting here working like I always am on my dream, wondering if the year coming is the year for me, what will it take, what still needs to be learned before it happens, will I need to make a leap of faith. Don't have the answers but I feel closer than ever before.

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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Aqua Noir

































This is the third shoot in a series for a my new book, to see more click Aqua Noir

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Monday, December 27, 2010

Sommeil Pas De Danse

Thanks to Blogger glitch some of my best posts were taken out... So to reconstruct here is the first of quite a few reposts!  Enjoy..again!;-)





















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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Fond Memories Of A Simpler Christmas Day





















It's 1960 and I am barely 5 months into this journey. I have fractured memories of Christmas so it is great that I have these images from my Grandmothers home in Detroit. Its a simpler time where hanging lights on the house is not yet a competition the trees are always real and sometimes still decorated by things you can make such as stringing colored popcorn and baking ginger cookies to be used as ornaments. Below could be one of the first of my Christmas images with My Grandmother on my first wooden rocking horse which I still remember as it was passed down to my brother and sister. The thing about simple wooden toys was they tended to last forever, passed down as tokens of youth to one day be given to our own children.























Christmas 1965, now five years old playing with our Fisher/Price toys which spun around like tops. Toys back then really encouraged imaginations and creativity.





















Creepy Crawlers was all the rage in 1967... You poured goop into a mold which was then heated and the goop would harden into a solid toy in the form of some kind of bug... over the next couple of years they created edible versions of the same toy where you could eat the bugs you made often making mom grossed out.






















1968, and the space race is on! So was my imagination which was charged up by my Major Matt Mason Moon Base play set. I know that this gift had come at quite a price for my parents as it cost around $50.00! Back in 68 that was a princely sum of money! It was money well spent as it ignited my creativity and love for all things science...All ready Star Trek is the show I am watching on NBC unaware of my involvement in the show later in my life!





















Science related gifts continued in these pictures from 1970 and 1972. Chemistry sets and microscopes, telescopes.... So many things that captured my excitement on Christmas morning. We all felt this and in retrospect Christmas became a time where my parents guided us into the directions we would all take in life. So now it is 50 years later and Christmas has taken on a completely new diminution. I now enjoy a day of reflection and often spend this holiday with my extended family. The commercialism of Christmas has worked hard to make me cynical but I have not given up yet. I still believe that Christmas is an important time of year to share love with friends and family!





















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