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I count my lucky stars that Amelia Louise Sellers knocked on my door one fateful day, asking for an apprenticeship. An aspiring photographer, Amelia has the brains to match her remarkable beauty. She’s part Bond girl, part babysitter next door, part rocket scientist, and she’s always willing to go beyond the call of duty on [...]

Here’s some pics from a recent live performance of Hi Fashion $9.99 at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood. There’s 69 more images are viewable on my candids Flickr (some are tagged moderate and restricted, so login to view all of ‘em).
Flickr Set: Hi Fashion $9.99 @ LACE:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lovebyte/sets/72157623436633335/

It was a cool exhibition at LACE, and [...]

Last year I got to work on a unique narrative-documentary hybrid film by Cheryl Dunye called The OWLS with an incredibly talented multiethnic queer artists’ collective, The Owls Parliament. And I’m extra happy to announce that it just premiered at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival!
That’s pretty awesome! I totally wish I could be there with [...]

My cousin, illustrator Mike Segawa, drew “tween” versions of me, Jen and some of his BFFs into his first book, published by HarperCollins.
Rad! ^_^ Thanks Mike, I’m totally honored to make a cameo in your illustration!

Check out more of his awesome work at http://mikesegawa.com

Looks like I make another sweet cameo in my homie Jim Mahfood’s Los Angeles Ink Stains Comic issue #36 where he recaps the last year.

Check out the full comic here.
It felt like 2009 was a pretty tough year for everyone. Which is why I’m extra proud of Jim for successfully selling his new animated show, [...]

Here’s one of my photographs of artist Jim Mahfood and model Kat Glancy which will be featured in the special 32-page bonus section of the upcoming hardcover French edition of Jim’s graphic novel Kick Drum Comix, published by Indeez Urban Éditions.
Mon Dieu! I’m so excited. This is the first time my photography work will be [...]

Here’s some awesome behind the scenes pix of today’s photo shoot by Jen Z who was assisting me:

Radness! =D
More info on this shoot and the final pics of Hi Fashion $9.99 will be posted in the near future. For now, I gots to take off my boots and sleeeeeeep like a baby. Zzzzzz……
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I’m commissioned every year to take the holiday portrait of filmmakers P. David Ebersole and Todd Hughes of the Ebersole-Hughes Company, and their adorable pitbull Butchie. This year’s theme is "orange" based on their shared love for the color and their sunny dispositions. I was going for a 1960s modern lifestyle look.
Here are previous portraits [...]

I make another cameo in L.A. Ink Stains comics #35 by the awesome Jim Mahfood where photographer Jeff Shagawat LEAPS into my car window! Hahaha! Classic.
Click the panel for more info…

Recently we had a photo shoot for Jim Mahfood’s Kick Drum Comix collection with Kat Glancy, the same rad model from our BPM Magazine shoot. We shot at my friend and awesome retoucher Chris Heins’ house in Los Feliz, as he has an amazing hot rod he let us use, a 1971 Pontiac Le Mans [...]