tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62702715970652112912012-02-16T00:38:26.432-08:00the day and in life of amateur photographer Whitney Thomaswk thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292333797402924538noreply@blogger.comBlogger451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6270271597065211291.post-87552160880949945442010-08-16T10:48:00.000-07:002010-08-16T10:48:40.031-07:00

What up world, Today is the start something new. I'm completely done with enjoying the bar tending life. I hate it. It's not fun anymore like it use to be. The money isn't as good as you use to be too. I'm actually always broke. I'm barely making it some weeks. I just think it's time to find something else full time. I'm so committed to this job and it's not paying off. I wish I could just take

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What up world, I've been itching to go out during the day and shoot with my Holga but it's like record hot outside in New Orleans. I hate the heat so much. Summertime is probably the worst time of year for me. I like it cold, and I mean like uncomfortable cold. I went out at night week before last and last week to shoot but I didn't really shoot much. I wasn't really inspired by what the streets

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Hi world, Wow I haven't had much time to write any new post, but I promise I'll try to keep up as much as I can next month. I'm still a student with photography and djing, yet I adapt very well. I'm only getting better each day I wake with either joy. My focus, recently has been steered towards learning new methods of djing and getting more and more practice mixing and blending tracks. I'm

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Hey world, I haven't been too productive this week. Sunday I went to work and I was so cold and achy so I had to leave early. I didn't miss out on any money because it was slow but I still felt bad for calling someone else in on their off day. Monday I tired to get a little better by pumping myself full of meds but once I got to work I started to feel bad again. I worked through it but it was

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Hi world, My cousin was murdered on Saturday. He was sixteen...... It's a sad time for my family. Terance We love you. Rest in peace. w

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Hi world, Best of all worlds..... Pr_ck is born. later, w

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Hi world, While was searching for tracks to mix with, I came across these amazing pieces of ear candy for your enjoyment. The cameo video is one the greatest visual aspects of the 80's that I've ever seen. It's also extremely funny.... enjoy. w

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What up world, Life is full of surprises! That's all I have to say about my current situations. I'm not going in to details but single life is a surprise everyday. Anyway I haven"t been shooting much, I've been enjoying the miserable hot weather by going to the beach, tubing, and swimming every chance I get. I shot my friends band (The Scorseses) recently and I really wasn't into it like I use

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Hi world, Well the grief is over. I fixed everything on the website in a days time. It was rough but I believe in a good backup system. I had everything I needed to restore the site on my external hard drive. If  it would have been a couple of years ago I would not have had any of my pictures and any of anything. Nowadays you have to rely on your backup systems because computers crash all the

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Hi, World Well, I'm really pissed and stressed out because I get an email Tuesday from my web server stating that my entire website had been deleted due to a glitch in their backup systems. So I'm sorry guys if your reading this but I just put a few things up so that it could be running but it's gonna take my a few days to get back to normal. The plus side is that the amazing people at my web

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Hi world, Well I haven't been out shooting much in the past week because there are turntables sitting in my living room and I can't help but jump on them and continue my studies. As I probably stated before I love music more than anything, and to learn how to blend different genre's and music styles is some fun ass shit. I am in love again. Djing is all I wanna do when I have free time. When I

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Hi world, I love music. I'm exposed to so much that it's hard to keep up. Right now since I've been learning to Deejay I've been listen to a lot of dance tracks. A lot of these tracks are purely made for dancing and shouldn't be taken seriously and some of the other ones are strokes of genius. My friend Johnny put me on to some crazy shit that blows my mind. Zomby is probably the craziest

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I can't stop listening to these people. I'm in this mood though. Not sad and not to happy just in between i guess. I miss a certain someone. These songs help my through it all. Day by day... w

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CLUB JUICE MIXTAPE Hi world, I just made this flyer for my friends SkbFive today. This dance party is gonna be pretty f**king big. It's the start of the summer and we are promotion this shit big time. If your not there your gonna be missing out on some good music. They spin electro, jazz, dirty hip hop, dub step, and trany house. The mixes that I've heard are amazing. It's Thursday May

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  Bernie Mac(October 5, 1957 – August 9, 2008)I love this movie "Head of State" with Chris Rock. Bernie Mac is a co-star and he says this amazing quote in the movie that I never forgot. He was one the greatest comedians. May he rest in peace. "How do you feel about "White Collar Crime." First of all there's no such thing as white collar crime, and there's no such thing as black on black crime.

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Hide and Seek gave me chills the first time I heard it a couple of years back. It is the most amazing thing I've ever heard in my life. enjoy... w

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Hi world, Well I'm in a great place right now with my work. I'm completely inspired, overjoyed by the world around me that the images are pouring out me. When I'm driving or riding my bike in my wonderful city I just notice things that are jaw dropping and I feel that I have to go back and capture them. I LOVE MY City! Every aspect of it inspires me. I just hate the way some photographers shoot

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Hi world, I can't explain in to words what Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan does for me. I can not speak the language, but I understand the expression and the feel of this piece of music. The harmonies, the tones, the pitches they reach are unparallel. They have a timing that they follow I'm sure but it just pure music. I have a couple of his albums and I listen to it when I'm out shooting. It sets the

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Hi world, I f**king hate the state of Hip Hop today, but two of my good friends are DJ's and they have turned me on to shit that I would never ever listen to. Gucci Mane, of all people. Never would I ever buy an album but I love some of the remixes that they play me of his songs. Drake I'm learning to love, because he's actually a pretty good rapper. Lil Wayne there are no words. This guy

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I love every inch of these women.... Their voices touch in a way that you can't even describe. Gifts from god. Enjoy, w

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Hi world, Is this the five o'clock free crack giveaway! This is who I base my life around. Tyronne is god. Any man who goes for what he wants so passionately is awesome to me. Kudos to you Tyronne. My hero. I've also found some old pic's of me with my long beard. I left a few for you to view, I also shot a new one of  my tattoo's. Everyone who meets me always says, "why does he look so mean?" I

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  Hi world, Just watch and learn.

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Hi world, These are songs and video's that I loved from my childhood. These are awesome songs and I watch the video's now and they are f**king awesome. Check out the hair and the costumes. Timeless.... This is when music was worth listening to. Later, w

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Hi world, I'm showing some of my new stuff at the PhotoNoma show at The New Orleans Museum of Art next Wednesday. There are 99 other photographers also showing and presenting their work. I thought I'd go to the Photo Alliance site and check out some of the local talent, and at first I experienced nothing promising until I came across this Goddess of imagery. Stacy Kranitz is amazing. She makes

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  Hi world, If you have never taken out the time to experience this incredible movie, you are missing out on something truly beautiful. This experience will either confuse you or open your mind to all the possibilities of love. It explains how important love is, and how difficult it can be. It is one of my favorite things in this entire world. I didn't understand how powerful it was until I

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Hi world, I guess I'm gonna share some of my likes and wants with you.... The person in this video is the sexiest woman in the world to me. I usually don't care much for the new "R&B" of this generation but I dig her, and I love what Timbaland and Timberlake her done with her sound. Plus, she's the sexiest thing in the world. I never watch video's because I don"t watch much Tv, but my daughter

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  Hi world, The scariest sh*t happened to me yesterday.  My daughter woke up and had a seizer and was rushed to Children's hospital. She had a fever and it rose up really fast and caused the seizer. She was in it for at least 15 minutes. She's ok now, yet the fever hasn't gone away completely. The medicine that her mother and I give her helps a lot and bring the fever down but it comes up again

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  Hi world, For what it's worth I had an amazing day. All of it, even if it was just the greatness of today. I'll take it and run with it really fast. I've been smiling all day and the night unexpectedly was perfect too... I'll be going to bed happy too... later ya'llllllll w

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Tribute to my beautiful friend Alesondra and her movie"Love on the rocks." Today I woke up feeling a little sad and a little happy. Yesterday I got news that my ex-girlfriend is dating someone else, yet I'm happy that my new website is up and running. I was crazy excited about the new move in my life, the hard work, and hours and hours in front a computer. I'm just not that excited anymore. I

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Hi everyone, Today has been filled with worry and anger. I've been trying to get my new website to show and it seemed like it was so many steps. After i did all of the steps, i was told that everything i was doing was wrong and that it was one simple thing that i had to do. After wards i was relieved but it still took me all day to figure it out. Just goes to show you that patience is a virtue.

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My tribute to my greatest inspiration... Saul williams DNA Feel the music Son, we got you programmed like a beat When I press snare, yo, guard your grill Press kick, you move your feet You can't compete I got my hydrants parked on every street I'm federal, nigga, son of sun Come close and feel the heat I am the streets The white lines only separate me from me You hydroplane in false gods

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   Little RichardThe King was in New Orleans, in a wheel chair, playing a show not to long ago. He gets on stage and says, "Shut up wooooo, Hey Where All The Fat White Women At?" The crowd was in tears with laughter... Yet no woman stood up... I was thinking, that the king gotta get his too... Ya know!That's all that needed to be said I guess... This is why he's the KING....

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   Hi world, So, I was in enjoying a wonderful breakfast, while I was working on my site today and I thought about how funny breakfast can be. I thought about a funny track that I know called breakfast. So if you've never seen or hear the track I'm sure you'll enjoy it as must as I do. Big ups to my friend Musa who spins this track on the regular because it's hot and it's needed in the world.

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Here's raw inspiration from two different spectrum's. The godfather of soul vs the greatest creation on god's green earth. Enjoy, because i always do...

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So hello world, I've been so busy working on the new website that I haven"t posted any new picture's. Although it's so time consuming, it's coming along great and I'm really proud of it. If you remember the old site, you also remember me constantly complaining that I didn't like it. The new one is more my feel and personality. Anyway I've recently been hanging out with my friend Danny, who is

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This band is my new favorite thing in the world.  A friend of mine discovered them through another friend and since the first listen I've been hooked on their sound.  It's weird, people ask you what inspires you as an artist and sometimes you can't answer. Well since I've heard Little Dragon, my body, heart, and soul is filled with inspiration.  The new website will be up at the beginning of

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Wow, hi everyone reading... It's the new year, and my passion for photography grows deeper the more that I don't go out and shoot. I know that sounds a little crazy, but it's true. When I'm stuck at my shitty job waiting for the money to come in, I come up with some great ideas for photographic themes, and I write them down. I think of shots that I bet no one has ever shot before, yet I have no

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Hi everyone, i know i haven't written you all in minute, but its been rocky couple of months. the book i published is selling but not at a rate that is beneficial. although i really haven't promoted it properly. i've been lazy when it comes down to my passion lately. life has really been teaching me some lessons recently. i've been trying to figure out what market of photography i would like to

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hello everyone, i'd like to tell you about the wonderful day i had yesterday. i spent some quality time with my little girl. i say quality time because since she's been born, i might have seen her a total of 10 times in 3 months. the reasons for this i would rather not discuss. anyway, i worked something out and now i will probably see her at least once or twice a week. to explain how happy

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hi everyone, last week was a very good week. i was excited because my friends in the band "the American Tradegy," from Shreveport, Louisiana, were playing on Friday at the Varsity in Baton Rouge. I hadn't seen them all since hurricane Katrina, when a few of us migrated to Shreveport to stay at the guitarists Jackie Brock's house. I remembered all the fun we had during those tough times.

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thank god that shit is over. i hate Mardi Gras with a passion. i think it's a local holiday that brings the worst out in people. last year i went to lot of parades, but this year was i was not feeling the parades this time around. The plus of the season is the money or lack of money floating around in the bars. I work at a bar, so at times i reap the benefits. though like a said earlier M.

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Hello everyone,yes it's true i published a book and it will be available in March. the title is "Someone must know" -a chance at absolution-, it's a 80 page coffee table book filled with photographs of beverage napkins with secrets written on them. everyone that i mentioned the idea to loves the concept but the typical suggestion is that it would be better as a book. i

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Hi everyone: well guys i know i've seen better days, but I think things are getting worse. this week was a long week, and as i sit here on SUPERBOWL SUNDAY(lame) i hope that things will turn up soon. the money at work is basically non-existent and i leave after every shift wondering how i got here. how i ended up in this place in my life where my bills consume me... it's like if i decide to

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Hello Everyone, Last week was crazy... Let me enlighten you as to whats going on in my life. I'm a struggling photographer, I'm an angry bartender, I've been the worse boyfriend in the world, and just recently, I've become a proud parent of a beautiful little girl. As i stated in my last entry I just had a gallery/show opening of my current work, and over the course of a month the responses

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hi everyone;i want to welcome you and also thank you for dedicating your valuable Internet time to reading my blog.on the 3rd of January i had my first gallery opening at a local shop called Magazine Metals. my work will be on display the whole month, so if your in the New Orleans area, please take a few minutes and check it out. despite the rain, the show was extremely successful.

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