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Remember how earlier this year I told you Dev was set to blow up?  mtvU drops the video to her new single, “Fireball”.  Check it…

Remember them flicks I shot of Dev a while back?  Remember how I told you her shit was hot?  Peep…

Photography is super easy, right?  Those magazine covers especially… stand a model in front of a clean wall and shoot away.  Product photography is even easier since the products don’t move.  I came across a video and a written piece that shows how much work actually goes into a shoot.
The article comes from What’s the [...]

Remember Jackie whom I met at First Friday’s a while back?  She was pouring wine at El Vino that night and is a super rad chica.  I normally don’t do this but since she’s so rad, I’m helping her promote a wine tasting/fashion show party that she’s hosting in Santa Monica.  She’s a cutie so [...]

First photoshoot with the 5D. No post-processing other than exposure adjustments. Angelica is an up and coming singer, songwriter, beatmaker, musician… she does it all. Peep the photos from the shoot and watch her rip it on the harp (at the 1:15 mark) in the video after the break…
For some reason, the shots [...]

One of the cool things about the Hollywood Bowl is that you can bring bottles of wine into the actual venue and drink from your seat.  One of the bad things about the Hollywood Bowl is that you can bring bottles of wine into the actual venue and drink from your seat.  Due to the [...]

This week saw the release of Drake’s video to “Best I Ever Had”.  Undoubtedly the number one song of the year thus far, I had no idea it was about the trials and tribulations of coaching a female basketball team.  I can only imagine what the casting director was thinking as he was auditioning girls [...]

Dear Pops,
A couple weeks ago we held the one year ceremony since you’ve been gone. Moms decided to move you out of your bedroom and into the living room. She spent a lot of money on your new “home”. You’re chillin’ with grandmas and grandpas in a fat ass crib. It’s [...]

I know a lot of you have clicked on that Gymboss button on my page but I’m not sure how many of you understand the true kickassness of this fitness tool.  I’ve been using it religiously for all my workouts and it really keeps me on point.  In the words of the plethora of infomercials [...]

I didn’t want to turn yeahmanh.com into a personal fitness training site but that’s what it’s become as of late. I have this love/hate relationship with the fitness industry… I love to educate and have discussions about training and whatnot but I hate what the industry has done to unsuspecting consumers. They prey on the [...]

For those of you born post-1990, you missed out on an incredible era of innovative, incredible, and often times insane music videos. Michael Jackson put out a slew of epic music videos during the 80s: Bad, Beat It, Billie Jean, and who can forget Thriller?
I remember coming home from school everyday and watching CMC (California Music Channel for those of you who ain’t from the Bay) and MTV’s top video countdown. Singing along to gems like Boyz II Men’s “On Bended Knee”, E-40’s “Captain Save-a-Hoe”, and Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing”.
Then videos started getting all flashy with the emergence of Puff Daddy, er… Puffy, uh… P. Diddy, um… Diddy (whatever the hell he wants to go by) and the Bad Boy camp. You got Mase in neon jump suits and Biggie sittin’ in jacuzzi pools askin’ girls what’s their name, what’s their sign, as he creeps up from behind. Or maybe you fantasized about one day being able to big pimp girls on a yacht, emptying bottles of Cristal all over their heads, a la Jay-Z.
As ludicrous as all these videos and songs were, they were fun and actually lived up to MTV being what it set out to be: Music Television. Now, what the hell do they show instead of videos? The hugest douchebags in the world galavanting all over my TV. I could give a rats ass about Spencer and Heidi, LC, Audrina, and the rest of the Hills cast (why in the hell are these ninnies famous?!). If it weren’t for Rob Dyrdek and Big, I’d never flip the channel to MTV.
Told you so...
Since MTV no longer shows music videos and labels no longer provide huge budgets for big video productions, artists have turned to Youtube and other avenues to express and salvage their artistic integrity. Goes to show that you need not extravagant budgets, girls in bikinis, big rims and platinum molars to make a good music video. Make sure you don’t sleep on these rad videos and songs:
Hypnolove - Mademoiselle
Who is Hypnolove?
I’ve been trying to fig

I had an amazing Thursday through Sunday this past week. Since starting this site, I’ve definitely made it a priority to get out there and partake in all the things that LA has to offer… even if it’s all by my lonesome!
Thursday 4/30/09
DDL Roundhouse
Whisky a Go Go
Hollywood, CA
The big homie Brent Akamine asked me to shoot his friend’s band, DDL Roundhouse, for their performance at the iconic Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood. Unfortunately, I can’t tell you what their sound is like because I didn’t get a chance to listen to their music beforehand and to be honest, really wasn’t listening to them as I was shooting either. Partly because I was so focused on shooting, mainly because I was mesmerized by the female lead.  Ha!  Don’t get it knotted and think she’s just eye candy though cause girl can definitely sing.













































































































































 


These guys came on right after DDL Roundhouse… one of the illest beatboxers I’ve seen:

Friday 5/1/09
First Fridays
Venice, CA
Started off the evening donating canned goods to Elvino and stuck around for some wine tasting.  The staff there is friendly, knowledgeable, and not at all pretentious.  This makes me happy as I am not a wine snob at all and, to put it bluntly, drink the vino to get drunk.  But, that’s not to say I ain’t sophisticated as I obviously make it a point to drink with my pinky in the air (or does that only work for coffee and tea?).  The young lady who poured my wine gets major points for confessing to drinking Natt

They call her Dev… and I personally think she has what it takes to make it big (if not here in the States, then definitely overseas in their crazy techno clubs).  My musical tastes are all over the board and I definitely ain’t a music critic but I know what I like… and I like Dev.  Everyone is up on the electro pop sound right now, but unlike the annoying as all hell (yet super catchy) Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow”, Dev comes correct… mainly because she doesn’t sing shit like, “You’re so 2000 and late.”
Dev - Make That Money (The Mixshow Commander JOTS Edit 1).mp3
The Mixshow Commander
The Mixshow Commander had this to say about Dev:
“She’s an A&R’s dream: her voice is on point, her songs are catchy, danceable, and well produced, and, most importantly, her mind is right in that her approach to music comes unencumbered by the kinds of petty hang-ups that destroy truly promising careers.”
And I agree.  She definitely has crossover appeal (geeky chic, not pretentious), and doesn’t marginalize herself to a particular audience (a la The Cataracs and their teenage female fan base).
Dev is relatively unknown outside of the Bay Area so when Mixshow invited me out to shoot her show, I seized the opportunity.  Though not the headlining act, I think she more than held her own.  And if it weren’t for all the 15-17 year old Beverly Hills High School girls who were there to see The Cataracs (and to an extent, The Pack of “Vans” fame), I’m sure Dev would’ve stole the show.
Dev - Make That Money (The Mixshow Commander Remix).mp3
If you’ve been reading my posts from the get go, I’ve had nothing but love for The Cataracs.  But after watching them live, I was left with a sour taste in my mouth, partly their fault, mostly their teenage fans’ fault.  The last thing I wanted to see and hear from 15-17 year old girls from Beverly Hills High is them singing along to the lyrics, “I don’t wanna talk, I just wanna fuck. We can do

KFC gave away free grilled chicken yesterday to promote their healthy alternative to everyone's favorite fried chicken.  In response, El Pollo Loco was quick to defend the fowl they have been slangin' since day one, also giving away their grilled chicken today...WITH tortillas and salsa (in your face, KFC!!).

Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to partake in the freebies from KFC so I can't tell you how their grilled faire faired.  I've never been a fan of El Pollo Loco's dry ass chicken so I definitely won't be going there today (but I really hope all the homeless people do).

On days where free chicken is being handed out hand over fist (er, wing over thigh?), has anyone ever thought about what happens when you don't suck the bones dry?  Or when the food is so bad or when you're so full that you can't finish what's sitting on your plate?  Coincidentally, I came across a short film that exposes just that... what happens to your scraps.



View this movie at cultureunplugged.com

The movie is almost comical in some ways, with children diving head first into a trashcan for table scraps, rice stuck to their faces and hair, heads tilted back like a Pez dispenser eating noodles with a somewhat disturbing joy emanating from their faces.  I'm watching this and I'm thinking, is this a joke?

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Chicken a la Carte looks like it was filmed in the Philippines (I saw a Jollibee) but it definitely reminded me of my trip to Vietnam last November.  The short film exposes an explicit dichotomy between the rich and the poor, in what most people would deem as an extreme case, but in reality is more prevalent than one might think.  All you unsympathetic and privileged kids, this ain't the same dichotomy that you have floating in your head: Sushi Mac vs. Katsuya, Macy's vs. Neiman Marcus, Kia vs. Mercedes.

What the father has to go through to feed his family is a normal occurrence for poverty stricken families everywhere.  Whether it be a third world country