Met up with James yesterday for a quick powwow and lunch mtg. James and I have known each other since high school and we’ve been collaborating on a few projects. Its good to know things haven’t changed much since DBHS. Still the same ol James, yet this time around he’s making things happen with Art Hammer, the canvas and plexi-glass elitist! 

The Shoppes of Chino Hills

Day cap with a small coffee, capt crunch- where you at Queenswreath!

Always nice catching up..till next time… Wood floors sonn!!

LT

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Switching gears to some event coverage, I had the opportunity to shoot Saks Fifth Avenue’s Fall Preview and Trend Presentation here at South Coast Plaza! Definitely an event I can get used to..some wonderful snacks, sophisticated individuals and super sleek models!

Ladies of Saks Fifth Avenue

Fall Preview

stunning!

cool purse

gnarly coat

Also in attendance was Kilian Hennessey, to promote his new line of fragrances. 

deluxe!

signature

Kilian and Saks Ladies

Thanks again Lanna for the great event!

LT

The Kaba Modern photos came out really good, it was fun just messing around with them. Can’t wait to see the official Yeo’s ad.

Photos are (c) Yeo’s

Tigran and I had the privilege of shooting a new ad campaign for Yeos Food Company! We headed to the Yeos warehouse in City of Industry first thing Friday morning and met up with Kaba Modern and some Kaba Legacy for the shoot.  It was nice to see everyone again since their schedules are pretty hectic as you can imagine.  Here are some pics from behind the scenes!

The Yeos Warehouse and set up

Friday Shipments

Berty Bert in the house! with Mike Song

Cindy posing, me shooting, posing.

Mike Song, Kyle Dineen, Lawrence Kao and Tony Tran watching along..

Kallusive holding down the clothing rack.

Tigran and Berty getting some shots

Tigran chimping some images from a quick portrait session with Lawrence.

Directing the group shot

Green Jia

Mike, Yuri and Lawrence

Tigran wrapping up the shoot

OG Tikko Crew

Spop Purple Year 

Group Pic, thanks again Brenda of Yeos for having us!

Kaba had a long day shooting and they still went on to finish up the commercial!

Thanks for stopping by! Be sure to check back for actual pics from the product shoot! 

Cheers,

LT

I’ve been a Dave Matthews Band fan for the past 12 years. This Tuesday, the band lost one of its original members, Leroi Moore. Probably one of most well respected Jazz musicians in our time. I dont know any dmb song without a ridiculous solo by Leroi. He was the backbone to the harmonious tunes we all come to love and admire. His death was definitely shocking news-not once did it cross my mind that DMB would someday lose a member so abruptly. 

My deepest condolences goes out to Leroi’s family and DMB. It definitely will never be the same, but the music will live on-and thats for certain. 

photo courtesy: antsmarching.org

Live at the Gorge- Proudest Monkey 2:55 

LT

I had a great shoot last week with the boys from Picmember, we invited Nina and Tom for a concept photo that will be used to market picmember’s new campaign. Here are some photos from the session.

Having too much fun with each other..

That day was a long one for sure, we started off early to get some extra beach shots at Palos Verdes, but the only way down to the spot we found was following a suicidal vertical dirt path, which we managed to walk/slide down with tons of weight. The pictures that followed were totally worth it though. I finally fulfilled my goal of getting both model and my camera in wet, using an underwater case for the canon :O

And last, but not least, I finally developed some b/w film from my Lubitel camera that traveled to SF with us, here is one photo I really liked.. I took it from up close pretending to look into a dark metal box, im sure they didn’t know that it was a camera.

That strip of gibberish in the bottom is there because I have to manually position the film for each shot by using a small circular window where numbers pop out.. NOT Accurate ..but with time I shall master it!

TT

District Weekly Published!!

Avi Buffalo

yoii!

-LT

Had another great assignment with 944! For the Women in Power issue of September they had me profile Director of Fashion Design and Business Marketing guru, Mary Ann Gale! It was a quick shoot at the Art Institute campus in Costa Mesa- had to improvise quick, and put together a lil backdrop. Thought it went well with her attire, brought the Hensels to play as well. Thanks Tricia for coordinating the shoot!

This week was pretty awesome, Pari at Paridym Pictures called us to shoot some furniture for Touchstone’s new marketing, and we flew to San Francisco for an exhausting but awesome 12hr shoot. I emphasize awesome so much because the studio there was a bliss to work in, ample space and great accommodations for all our needs. Here is a little sample of what we came up with:

Thanks to Pari, Caroline and all the crew that was there to help us. Here is a photo of us after the shoot.

Check out this insane setup that Paridym used for the video that followed!

So that was the studio, but I gotta show you all some pics we took in SF, that city is so cool to walk in and just explore, me and Lou kind of rediscovered our cameras haha. Oh and the flight there was just as exciting…

I gotta give props to Richard Branson for creating an amazing airline, Virgin America.. I have yet to experience Virgin Atlantic, but I have to say the domestic counterpart is plain bad-ass.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if it is not that profitable, since it was the most economic choice and it was by far the most modern plane I have been in. Boarding on it was like walking into party limo, and they let me reserve my seats before hand, and even offered to upgrade to first class for just $50. But there was really no need for that since all the seats come with their own entertainment system, including TV shows, music and DOOM! yep, the oldschool game.

Check out the party lights!

Lou was watching music videos, while i played video games.

But anyway, enough advertising for Virgin although they really do deserve it! I read that profits for the next 10 years are going to a fund to help fight global warming.

Back to the city…we had really good food with really good company. If you are ever hungry around china town, I recommend eating at the House of Nanking.

That’s Lou and Char Char waiting for our delicious food.

We also ordered some weird tea full of flowers, I didn’t think it was better than plain green tea, but was interesting to drink.

This is us cruising in the mighty rental that got stuck in a parking garage (long story, my fault hehe)

I guess this kid saw I was taking photos and he made the funniest face…

We also frequented a couple of bars down by Castro and then this Irish pub by the Marina area.

Lou’s new Nikon D300 performed like a mean beast, look at the sharpness on these photos. They were taken with the tiny 50mm f/1.4 which was a great all around lens for the city, and later when the sun went down, it got some awesome quality shots in low light.

Me and Lou still snapping pics while waiting for the flight back, check out that the colors in the back!

I seriously got a lot of cool vibes from being in SF.. the city has a lot of peculiar things that make it unforgettable. The weather was kind of chilly, but the people very warm. And the city has those crazy hills, its surrounded by water and iconic bridges, and a little piece of China in the middle of it. Was very relaxing to experience it during the week, people just did their thing and we didn’t feel like tourists that much, which was cool.

Here one last pic to finish this post. …part of me just wants to take surreal jumping photos

Hope you’re enjoying whats left of this summer!

-Tigran