herro

im back
im taking ~3 rolls of film right now, gonna develope em whenever i can be home with dad's working darkroom

here's a preview



also gonna start posting music
actually putting effort into this blog

YAY!

Music Drop - Organized Konfusion

its been a while. I've finally gotten into Pharoahe Monch's old duo, Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion - Organized Konfusion



i'm about halfway through the first album (Organized Konfusion) and at first listen Prince Po's delivery reminds me of tupac via The Lost Tapes, Monch just sounds younger. They both go along with the kind of meter that was popular back then, but in some songs they break out into some more abstract oriented lyrics and rhythmic delivery

i'll be back later after i've listened to the other two albums they did together

peace,
-colin

Some Recent Photos

(Colin)

(our newest chap)

Hello

Well I guess I'm the third chap now? haha
Hopefully this works.

-Jerm

Texture Study and some random pictures...

So my friend Jarret and I went down to Monster Labs in downtown Sacramento last Tuesday to get Jarret's band (FFG's) New Cd mastered. The mastering went great and the new cd sounds awesome but the studio had some cool stuff hangin around too. I brought my camera with me for just such an occasion, seeing as studios are usually pretty interesting places. Here are some of the shots I took.

Photo Dump: LA/Laguna and Night Photography

LoveHate

Here is a new wallpaper i made. Got the idea from a shirt I saw but my interpretation of it is what i applied to this piece and how it relates to my life. I have a regular and wide screen version so if you need it at a smaller resolution you should be able to size it down without a problem.

1280 x 1024

Widescreen: 1280 x 800

New Camera: Nikon D40x

Here are a few shots I've taken so far with my new D40x. Hopefully it will stop raining soon so i can snap some more shots.

Colin

Jeff

it's been a while

maybe we jus got a lil too much captain in us

Album Reviews: Pharoahe Monch & Asheru

I've decided to take a new sort of approach to this blog.. Instead of posting 'reviews' I'll just be posting the current music that I'm into and some info about it. Occasionally I'll post random thoughts on the music I'm listening to. My ear for music is good but I'm fairly new at articulating why it's good or why you should check it out. Nuff said, here's my post for the dayyyyyyy

two albums two artists

Pharoahe Monch - Desire

Asheru - Insomnia Vol. 1





Artist: Pharoahe Monch
Album: Desire

Desire is the second.. wait this is only the second studio album this guy's put out? Pharoahe Monch is a fairly well known rapper, as far as I know. The first work he did was with Prince Po as Organized Konfusion. He put out Internal Affairs in 1999 with the single Simon Says, and though I have yet to listen to all the songs on that album, there's a very apparent difference in style between that and his second album, Desire. I read an interview he did where he talked about the "soulful" feel of Desire, which is very apparent just from the intro track. There's a lot more gospel type singing and the songs talk a lot about freedom (track no. 2 "Free") and struggles to accept yourself (Hold On ft. Erykah Badu) which tells a story of a girl named Diamond who grows up being ridiculed because she's black but ends up accepting that she is beautiful.


Artist: Asheru
Album: Insomnia Vol. 1



You might recognize his voice from the intro to The Boondocks (mondays 11:30 on [adult swim].. check it out)
Just from that one verse in the intro you can tell this guy is deep. His full length album only gets better. He seems to have a similar take on black america, and his song "Niggas" reminds me A LOT of the Boondocks episode "Return of the King" where they play with the idea that MLK Jr. went into a 30 year coma instead of dying and comes back to see his people not having made much progress. He seems to display a love hate relationship. God I feel like I'm typing on touchy ground here but I think both the episode and the song have good messages in the end. Anyways Insomnia Vol. 1 is dope, check it out.