I reminisce, I reminisce...

Fell off on the blog for a minute, life's been too real lately and keeping me hella busy, but more updates are coming. For now, though, peep my lil' baby B-Girl before she became a giant Amazon-Karate champ... Too cute not to share! lol

Thanks for the flick Mold!

Can it be that it was all so simple then...

Didn't always spell it B-S-O-M-B, used to be B-Z-O-M back in the days of Can Control...

 ...Ahhh, the good ol' days! lol.

Past weeks pics...

Random pics, from the past week, that I am just getting around to posting....

Had another Art & Music show at The Airliner last Monday. Emmanuel Lemus showed some photos & prints...

 Mold's heart...

 A bad picture I took of a really good picture Mehdi Bouqua took...

 BMXR is Rad!

 One of the pieces I showed...

 ...Here's were the randomness comes in...

Went to visit an old friend the other day. He was showing me around his garden, and I found a baby praying mantis. Nature can give you such a high when you stop for a second to really take it in! ;) lol.

 I stopped, on the way to work the other day, and saw a city in the sky, when I looked at the shadows in the clouds...

Meet my spoiled-ass dog, Ocho. Here she is making herself at home in my bed, lookin' all comfy and cozy, while I was getting ready for work. This dog makes me so jealous, every morning, with this!

My Lil' Karate Champion

Sunday was a big day for my lil' warrior Princess & I! It was the Long Beach International Martial Arts Festival & Competition, and my daughters first time going to a big tournament. She was ecstatic, all week leading up to it. By the time we got in the convention center, she was so wound up and excited that she started asking me to spar with her till her fight started! Luckily, some of her friends from Karate class were already there sparring, when we got there, so I didn't have to get beat up by my daughter in public. She's come a long way, from running around the ring to get away from her opponent, in her first sparing match, to competing in a Point sparring tournament, & getting 3rd place, and it looks like this is just the start! After winning a Bronze medal, she is anticipating the next tournament and looking forward to it tremendously! Martial arts has done great things for my daughter, now it has helped make her an international karate champion! Needless to say Karate has made me the proudest daddy on the planet, and I'm thinking of starting to take classes myself. Although, I'm thinking twice about it, now, after hearing my daughter laugh at the 20-something year old that only had a white belt at the tournament. lol. My girl also competed in a competition were she displayed her Kata (choreographed patterns of movements practiced and presented in tournaments)

 No medal for her Kata, but she was all about the Point sparring anyhow.

Just before the fights...

And after the fights...

After the tournament, I got home and passed out. Being a Karate dad is hard work! After my nap, it was back to work getting ready for tonight's art show.

Random images from the weekend

Just a few pics I took this weekend at another club/art show...

 I didn't sell anything, but I brought home a new piece to add to my art collection, a print by Emmanuel Lemus.

 Sunday night, it was back to work...

In My Craft or Sullen Art

The header on this blog says "my stories told with the help of my art, photography, poetry, and music..." but there isn't much poetry on here, so I want to share one of my all time favorite poems. This poem is for all us artist that do what we do for the love of it. Can't take credit for writing this, unfortunately. It was written by Dylan Thomas, one of my favorite poets, and it's pretty deep. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do, and find the same inspiration in it that I did!

In my Craft or Sullen Art

In my craft or sullen art 

Exercised in the still night

When only the moon rages 

And the lovers lie abed 

With all their griefs in their arms,

I labour by singing light 

Not for ambition or bread 

Or the strut and trade of charms

On the ivory stages

But for the common wages

Of their most secret heart. 

Not for the proud man apart

From the raging moon I write

On these spindrift pages 

Nor for the towering dead

With their nightingales and psalms

But for the lovers, their arms

Round the griefs of the ages, 

Who pay no praise or wages 

Nor heed my craft or art.

- Dylan Thomas

Dub-Step!!

Sorry for the delay, while I figured out where Rapidshare put my uploads & files. But, as promised, here is some new music you can download and enjoy! As I mentioned I have some new Dub-Step & DnB for you. This here is the Dub-Stizep!! A 35 min. mix and 2.5 minutes of Nneka Vs. Benga! The Track listing and link are below. (If the link doesn't take you to the download when you click on it, cut and past it into your browser to download the mix. Still trying to figure out why it doesn't work for everyone. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone. I will get this resolved soon!)

Bsomb Dub-step.aif


Tracklist

1.) Pawn & Emu = Know Ya Self [Smog]
2.) Von D. (Feat. Warrior Queen) = Moon Eclipse [Black Acre]
3.) Benga & Walsh = Bassface [Biscuit Factory]
4.) Hatcha = Gang Green [Sin City]
5.) Joker = Tron [Kapsize]
6.) George Lenton = Sorry [Wicky Lindows]
7.) Crissy Criss = Take Me Higher [White]
8.) Drumsound & Bassline Smith = R U Ready (Dub-Step mix) [Technique]
9.) Flux Pavillion = Got 2 Know [Circus]
10.) Skream = Guitar Hero [Sin City]
11.) Jakes = Boom; Boom; Bass [Hench]
12.) Rude Kid = Screwdriver [Nohatsnohoods]
13.) 16Bit = Panic [Heavy Artillery]
14.) Rude Kid = Electric [Nohatsnohoods]
15.) Benga = Little Bits [White}
16.) Flux Pavillion = Normalize [Circus Rec.]
17.) Dr. Philth = No Fuss [Chronos Recordings]

...Afer the mix is a mash up with Nneka ('Heartbeat") & Benga ("Stop Watching"). I still have a DnB mix on the way. I should have it up, here, in the next few days, so don't forget to come back and check. Thanks for stopping by my bog, hope you enjoy the mixes!