So the holidays are over. I was sick for a couple days but I’m better and preparing for the 2008. The last couple days I spend with thinking about a master plan for the New Year and now I’m going to bring it to paper and make a real business plan.

Right now I’m still unsure what direction I am going to go. I want to do more music photography but labels cutting the budgets more and more and I am not sure if it’s really still worth it. Matter of fact is that hip hop photography is the worst paid photography / graphic industry (you still getting paid good but if you compare it to other photography / graphic design niches, its real bad!). But shit I just love what I do so what can I say? But more about this later…

A couple weeks now I got this song from my man T-Parris on my myspace.com/militaryminded page, and I got to say, he never asked me to put it up there. I went on his page one day and heard this song and I know where he coming from and since I know him personally I feel what he saying and see his struggle. So I put this song on my page and took every other song off, so people hear him.

Today I was checking some his page out and found a link to his You Tube page and he got a live performance of this song online. Check out the video and some photos I took of T-Parris back in 2006.

Merry Christmas. I did a business card for Edward Sizzerhand (from the legendary german rap crew „Square One“) a couple weeks ago and I just wanted to post it cause I just ran over it. Check it out.

Christmas is right in front of the door, so I left Berlin and went back to Hamburg to see my family over the holidays. The last couple days I was doing the assistant for a shooting with Murat Aslan, who was shooting the album cover material for a German rap group called Automatik. It was a 2 days shoot; the first day was from 10 am to midnight and the second day we were shooting from 2 pm to 5 pm.

The light equipment was rented for the whole shoot and I took it home with me after the first day and was shooting till 5 am. Here are some of the results.

I was just going through some old photos and I found the photos I took of Kanye West out in Las Vegas. They never have been online to the public so fuck it and I’m giving those out as a gift. They are also available on my Flickr.com page.

Hey everybody. Over Night I bumped the raw video file to an .mpg file and it worked fine. The quality is cool to, so I’m waiting on the upload to finish so I can send Rob a link.

I was just browsing the internet this morning and found this video. It was done during a photo shoot I took with Hood Surgeon (Dr. Dre’s son) and JT The Bigga Figga. Hood was just about to sign with JT and Get Low Records to put his solo album out but the deal actually never happened, because JT couldn’t come up with the money.

I have no idea who did this video (must be someone in the Get Low Camp), the editing quality isn’t too good either (I don’t like what they did to the photos, black-white photo but colours on the shirt … what the fuck?), but I thought I share it:

I started off the day pretty early finishing up this video for Rob Dinero. Anyway, it was the worst. My computer was bugging as it never has been before. I’m still on an old as PC, which has probably over 4 years on his back (don’t say “GET A MAC!” – I am waiting on the new one coming January 15th!). I edited with Adobe Premiere and it kept closing down without a warning. It was so bad that I had to save every single step I made … been a pretty big headache after awhile. So now … after over 20 restarts it’s finally done.

I was going to dump the footage into an .avi file to send it to Rob to approve it. So after I started it I went to the movies to see “Hitman”, it was a cool movie to see, the main character didn’t fit the role too much. After been back home I saw the file was corrupted so I have to do it again, and after another restart hopefully it will go through.

Oh the tune of the day is Wyclef Jean with “Heaven’s in New York”. I miss the city and hope to get my ass back over there by the beginning of next year. A couple weeks ago DJ Iroc ran into Snoop in New York and they were talking about me getting back to the states and Iroc recorded it. I will try to post the video tomorrow.

Here is a screenshot of today’s nightmare … oh and by the way: Never edit a Spanish video if you don’t understand the language!!

Ok … long time I guess. I was just thinking I need to write my blog again. Well matter of fact, I keep thinking about it a lot but I just don’t find the time or energy to do it. Anyway sometimes it’s good to look at everything from a distance and bring you through the day. Especially when your head is filled up with bullshit and you don’t know where to take it to.

So I had to leave NY real fast. I went out to the European Music Awards in Munich to see Snoop real fast. After that I stayed out here. I am in Berlin now doing a lot of photography behind the scene work with Murat Aslan – a young, talented photographer from out here.

This weekend I spend most time working on the computer. I have a lot of stuff to catch up with and this is my recent “2 Do List”:

-    honda 4 MySpace Page Layout . 0% done
-    DJ honda Website . 80% done
-    DJ Iroc MySpace Layout . 50% done
-    Syience MySpace Layout . 10% done
-    Cash Profit MySpace Layout . 0% done
-    Rude Boy Records MySpace Layout . 0% done
-    Kitoh MySpace Layout . 0% done
-    Samy Davis Jr. Web Layout . 0% done
-    Video editing for DJ Rob Dinero . 60% done

As you see a lot … a lot of MySpace Layouts, and I am starting to hate it. I just finished the new layout for New Child, a long time friend of mine. Check his page @ www.myspace.com/newchildren. The photo on the page was done by me too; I took it back in April 2006.

Right now I am about to get into the video of Rob. And will spend the rest of the night on that to finish it off. Also I am a little bit sad that Jessica Alba is pregnant … not by me. Bullshit!