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“It is not the clown’s job to make the audience laugh, it is to change the way an audience breathes.”
I went home recently and was surprised to find that many of my old classmates, who I can see regularly like my content and watch my stories, didn’t know that my passion is clown.
Headsup- my passion is clown.
I don’t know how that slipped past so many. It’s something that touches my life daily.
I can’t say I am anywhere close to where I want to be in the art form. It will certainly be a while until I close the gap,* but here I am. In Los Angeles and otherwise traveling to anywhere I can to amass a body of work that will close the gap between the shapes my voice intends to be heard with and the shapes coming out in the now.
*see: Ira Glass, “The Gap”
(at Los Angeles)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsgOQ5Zls5U/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o9fd220df1zo
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Itching to be on the move.
Burying my feet in hopes they’ll grow to roots. (at Great Salt Lake Salt Flats)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsdbmz3lB6m/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hifs2w1skmpq
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The sunset last night over LA was truly ridic. Also, @samuelmcharg has hooked me into this whole disposable-camera Hugi app life. Which is probing me to get the one sitting un-developed in my “junk drawer” developed.
… do I really want to know what’s on there?
I left it (in part) to see how time would affect the negative.
It’s perhaps been almost 10 years.
It could be feet dressed in converse.
It could be friends at the beach.
It could be my scantily clad friends posing for military lovers out over seas.
It could even be an emo kids’ slumber party that went well into the night to cover itself in makeup, washed down with vodka and a smoke.
Hm. No, no… that would put it at 15 years old.
Maybe it’s skateboarding around Provo, Utah.
Or drawing with chalk and sipping on white wine in the Summer heat.
Perhaps camping among red rock.
Or parading around Salt Lake City with the indie twilight kids, being chastised for saying “Bawn Eye-ver” instead of “Bow-n Ee-vare.”
That pixie-haired girl did have a very cute dress that showed off her bare neck nicely 👌🏽
(at Korea Town)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bsa2-hAF3aQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bvg4anxjjzsw
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Can’t stop posting 🕊algorithms be damned (at Korea Town)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZumg1lWGx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fsu5lsoydum8
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at Los Angeles, California
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsWq6EXFCur/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=604grk8vg1ry
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V. Flattered by what Ben says here. Also, yes. To his point on the importance of the connection between subject and photographer. There are so many different ways to find a connection. Sometimes it can feel clunky. Sometimes it’s an immediate relationship. The important thing is that you hold it in high regard. That you keep seeking to discover how best to connect with your current subject/audience/co-conspirator.
🖤
#Repost @staley
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Maybe this is retread. Maybe I’ve said this before. It’s not the camera you don’t have. It’s not that fancy lens you covet. And more than even the light at your disposal it’s the connection you can make with your subject that will have the most impact on what you are trying to achieve. And personally I find it to be the most rewarding aspect of portrait photography. But that’s me.
This is Julia, an LA based actress, and I’ve been fortunate to have the opportunity to photograph her a couple times. There’s a hint of melancholy, one part mischief and a large dash of the warrior spirit. What a delightful human. I really dig this shot we made.
#blackandwhite
#losangeles
#actress
#portrait (at Los Angeles, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVrZFoF7OO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12kpuwpjzl8p6
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I can try to wink. Sometimes it sorta works. (at Arnold, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsUZliklv3G/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=107ar3o9uic5y
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Been working really hard at re-arranging my priorities lately. Making sure they are on me and my personal (short term and long term) goals. Batting away butterflies of self-sabotage and releasing my grip on any wonderful given moment, thing, time, community, relationship. Allowing them to breathe, to exist and evolve as they will. Everything is alive, and I can’t freeze time. That’s what makes living these things so beautiful to begin with. Sometimes the transient nature of it all is a relief, other times it’s terrifying. Either way, it is. I offer myself as a working and active gear in the universal machine and will continue to lubricate my movement the best darn way I can.
🖤 (at Los Angeles, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsQyumnlhfI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=179mzjvghp7bs
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• • •
Starlight
Slips and swirls
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The unknown haunts me
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📷 @destroyinstagram
#analogpeople #buyfilmnotmegapixels #analogfeatures #ibelieveinfilm #wasteoffilm #filmphotographyday #filmphotooftheday #theanalogcrew #everybodyfilm #filmshooters #filmwave #blurryaesthetic #blackandwhiteaesthetic (at Hollywood)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsO7mOplr4b/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1equdrvxsmadj
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This year! This year. This year. This year.
It has been lovely and exposing and balanced and trying, gracious and prosperous and supportive and thrilling. I am so full of faith and gratitude for my relationship with the universe and all s(he) gives and takes.
🎁
Meerkat, mull-rat, let us be one with the arhat! (at Honolulu, Hawaii)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BsEZXMCl2L8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=fdqyduxr7vl8
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I don’t mean to keep a distance— by and large it’s not a fixture. (at Waipahu, Hawaii)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br4rkpNlhP9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=eqitl7cr7t7y
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🦀 (at Kailua, Honolulu County, Hawaii)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br3qd3XFWJw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fh1bbipgo4un
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Merry day.
Hope y’all are out there sleighing it ;)
Xx (at Lanikai Beach,Kailua)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br1N_rBllEv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1j7fvg4vmy7dt
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• • •
Sit
Still
Let your mind go where it Will
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📷 @destroyinstagram (at Los Angeles, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/Brxim0ol91q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wt4j1zihdjmi
