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My boy Scotty Lib hates his Mini-Diana (I don’t blame...

Thu, 31 May 2012 17:01:00 -0700

My boy Scotty Lib hates his Mini-Diana (I don’t blame him). Go to his blog to read his review on it, as well as other tid-bits of photo, video, and music creations from him.

Or just watch this video.

http://madlovemadlove.com/

Video by Scotty Lib

Adam Goldberg's tumblr is awesome.

Wed, 30 May 2012 17:30:44 -0700

Adam Goldberg's tumblr is awesome.

Josh Adams in Downtown Tattoo, Las Vegas

Wed, 30 May 2012 15:03:29 -0700

Josh Adams in Downtown Tattoo, Las Vegas

Ryan outside of Downtown Tattoo in Las Vegas

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:45:12 -0700

Ryan outside of Downtown Tattoo in Las Vegas

Not sure what this show/thing is really called, but I was...

Wed, 30 May 2012 14:42:56 -0700

Not sure what this show/thing is really called, but I was introduced to it as Laser Wolf at Sam’s Town in Las Vegas.

ATTENTION: Las Vegas Tattoo Portraits

Tue, 29 May 2012 09:40:15 -0700

If you live in LV or the surrounding areas, you are significantly tattooed, and you aren’t too incredibly camera shy, I’d like to talk to you.

http://blog.artripoli.com/ask

I know this topic for photos is kind of beat to death, but heavily tattooed people make interesting subjects for me and my personal work. Working in the tattoo industry for a few years I really developed a passion for shooting tattooed portraits, although I didn’t really realize it. It wasn’t till I was featured on a few different blogs for my tattoo portraiture work that I realized I had developed a portfolio that was heavily built around shooting photos of people with tattoos. When you are starting out, you shoot your friends, and it just so happened most of my friends were tattooers, or in hardcore and punk bands, which is a pretty heavily tattooed culture itself.

Now this part is going to sound sort of rude and pretty biased, but I am not trying to shoot photos of people covered in terrible tattoos. I know for some people they think what they have is gold, but trust me, it is not. So for safety’s sake, if the majority of your tattoos were done in your friend’s cousin’s kitchen, or you got them from a shop that also sold bongs and condoms, Iprobablydon’t want to take pictures of you for this project. I am sorry. I prefer traditional American, neo-traditional American (not curvy, bubbly, weird new school), Japanese, Mexicano black and grey (good black and grey, look up Freddy Negrete for a good balance of talent but staying true to that LA gang banger style). You don’t have to just be covered in tattoos that falls into one of those categories, because I think any style of tattoo, if done correctly, can look good. Now on the flip side of this, I have a lot of friends who are covered head to toe in tattoos and they think their tattoos are shit because they got them when they were young from less experienced guys, but I still think their tattoos look cool, so if you have any sort of hesitation it never hurts to just send a pic of your tattoos if you are curious. I won’t be a dick, but I won’t beat around the bush either; if I don’t like your work I will just tell you and we could maybe work together on something else in the future. No hard feelings, different people have different tastes.

And finally, I like to shoot environmental portraits/lifestyle, meaning this won’t be you coming to a studio and getting some photos taken. More likely we’d meet up, discuss some ideas for locations one time and the next time go shoot some cool stuff in some cool places.

If this sounds interesting to you and you are on tumblr, use this link to get a hold of me from your account: http://blog.artripoli.com/ask

If you aren’t on tumblr, you can always email me at artripoli@gmail.com

If you know anyone who might be interested in helping me out with this project, please pass this along or reblog this so they might have a chance to see it.

Thanks!

The most bizarre self portrait I’ve ever done. This is a...

Mon, 28 May 2012 23:14:05 -0700

The most bizarre self portrait I’ve ever done. This is a product of being home alone, with nothing to do and too much time on my hands.

thrashonistas: We re-did our portfolios. We also found a new...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:57:30 -0700

thrashonistas:

We re-did our portfolios. We also found a new host. We had been hosting our site through 500px for a while, but it just wasn’t giving us the flexibility we wanted. Now we are proud to say we are hosting our site with 22slides. Aside from having a really nice, and easy to understand, interface, they are also very good with customer service. Within 12 hours of signing up they personally sent us an email welcoming us and telling us they noticed we had messed up on part of our google analytics code, so they fixed it for us. You really can’t ask for better customer service than that right?

So last night we (Jasmine and I aka Thrashonistas) had a quick...

Sat, 26 May 2012 10:34:00 -0700

So last night we (Jasmine and I aka Thrashonistas) had a quick and fun photoshoot with Jasmine’s sister Tessa. The idea was inspired by our friend Lacey aka Lulinternet. Lacey makes animated Gifs that normally involve junk food, people, weed, and the occasional dick reference or two. She also sells her own merchandise and this all-over print junk food shirt happens to be something she sells from her store. After we moved to Vegas she sent us a little care package, and this was our way of saying thanks. Hope you enjoy it Lacey.

Makeup: Jasmine S. Garcia
Photo/Editing: Thrashonistas

This is probably the best picture anyone has ever taken of me....

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:55:48 -0700

This is probably the best picture anyone has ever taken of me. Photo credit goes to miss Jasmine S. Garcia aka www.jasminescrafty.com

Man this is like going down memory lane for the last 3 or 4 years going through this library.

Just found this photo of Moe Jeff as I am going through our...

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:51:41 -0700

Just found this photo of Moe Jeff as I am going through our photo library and making selects for the new thrashonistas portfolio. This obviously won’t make the cut, but it’s good for some laughs right?

Going through selects for the new THRASHONISTAS portfolio...

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:07:50 -0700

Going through selects for the new THRASHONISTAS portfolio because we are redoing the site. Came across this shot of my good friend Jef Wright aka Mr. Wright. I miss this dude.

It’s about to go down. Love this place. (Taken with...

Thu, 24 May 2012 19:56:09 -0700

It’s about to go down. Love this place. (Taken with Instagram at Red Robin)

when did u move to vegas?

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:58:02 -0700

May 8th was when we got here. So a little over two weeks ago now.

Kyle is partied out.

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:50:47 -0700

Kyle is partied out.

Ol’ dirty ass Tyler.

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:46:48 -0700

Ol’ dirty ass Tyler.

Kingston at the Kill City grand opening party in LA last week.

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:43:07 -0700

Kingston at the Kill City grand opening party in LA last week.

Tessa and Brett

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:40:04 -0700

Tessa and Brett

Helldorado Days Parade in downtown Las Vegas, NV New life...

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:38:04 -0700

Helldorado Days Parade in downtown Las Vegas, NV

New life goals:

- Become a Freemason
- Work my way up and become a Shriner
- Be old and awesome in a cool tiny car in parades

REVIEW: Expire - Pendulum Swings

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:59:47 -0700

Expire in Columbia, MO, October 26th, 2010 - Photo by me

It’s not often I review music, because this blog is for my photos and videos, but something needs to be said about this new Expire (@expirehc) record. I texted Zach last night and my exact words were, “Legit, you dudes wrote a classic,” and that’s what this album is, a classic. I’ve been listening to hardcore and going to hardcore shows for almost 15 years now, and so many bands and albums have come and gone. I will go literally years without listening to a band or album, and not because I don’t like it, but because it just didn’t stick that much. Some albums have stuck with me for a long time, just to name a few; Blood for Blood’s Revenge on Society and Livin’ in Exile, Hatebreed’s Satisfaction is the Death of Desire, American Nightmare’s The Sun isn’t Getting Any Brighter, Madball’s Demonstrating My Style, and even more recently, Trapped Under Ice’s Stay Cold. These are a few of those iconic albums I can put on while driving long distances and everyone on the road is scared shitless of me as I swerve in and out of my lane, screaming every word, punching my steering wheel, banging on my chest, and banging my head like I want it to detach from my shoulders. I know music is all subjective, so you may have read my short list of albums and thought, “this guy doesn’t know shit,” and that’s fine. But you know what I do know? Pendulum Swings put my mouth on the curb and stomped on the back of my head repeatedly for 20 minutes, metaphorically speaking. Every single song on this album is a banger and worthy of letting out any and all pit aggression you may have pent up in your angsty hardcore kid soul. At 27 years old I don’t really do the mosh thing too much anymore, getting old sucks kids, but I will tell you this, when that opening note of “Just Fine” hits, watch the fuck out, because I am likely to be spotted going side to side, smashing through kids two stepping/safety moshing and attempting to head walk 19 year old kids in Life Of Agony shirts half my size. If you haven’t listened to this album yet because you are poor and can’t buy it yet, you are just dumb, you can hear it on spotify for fucking free. With that being said, you should still invest in this album, although I don’t have any photos in it, the layout does look cool, and having a physical copy of music is always cooler than having an MP3 on your zune (I assume you have a zune because you are too poor to buy the album so you likely don’t have an iPod or iPhone).

Final thoughts: Listen to this album and mosh with no regard for anyone’s safety or feelings.