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About Me

With around four years of photography under my belt, I have become the #1 nightlife event photographer in Southern California (#1 DJ photographer in the USA!), and considered one of the best DJ photographers in the world (by DJs themselves!).
I'm the preferred US/World photographer for DJs such as: Tommy Lee & DJ Aero, Paul Van Dyk, Sasha, James Zabiela, Junkie XL, Hybrid, John Digweed, Christopher Lawrence, Nick Fanciulli, Danny Howells, Deep Dish, Paolo Mojo, Sandra Collins, Robbie Rivera, Rabbit In The Moon, Above & Beyond, London Elektricity, Trent Cantrelle, DJ Rap, Eve Falcon, Kristina Sky and more.
Recent clients include Pioneer, Insomniac Entertainment, Giant, Spundae, WiredLA, Ultra Music Festival, Avalon, M-Audio, Bench Warmer and Rockstar Energy Drink.
My photos have appeared in such magazines as Keyboard, Vanity Fair, URB, FLOORnet, 944, DJ Times, DJ Mag, Remix Magazine, Saturday Night Magazine, Skinnie Magazine, Berklee Today, Karma, Forbes, Entertainment Today, Play, ATM, Metromix, BPM, LA CityBeat, LA Nightly and Knowledge Magazine.
My photos have also appeard on websites such as tommylee.tv, apple.com, ministryofsound.com and many more.
If you need the info to add me, just go to rukes.com. My E-mail and last name are right there :)
All business related inquries go to my email, rukes(at)rukes.com.
You can view my portfolio here: http://portfolio.rukes.com/
You can view my galleries here: http://www.rukes.com/
Note that my MySpace isn't updated regularly. I might check it every day, but it's mostly for friends, not networking. I don't add random people, so if I never met you before, at least message me and say hi.

My Interests

Photography and music!

I'd like to meet:

Hybrid - Sleepwalking:
Somnambulistic while remaining blameless,
Encompassing sounds from the devil's playlist.
Technics would call me a turntable sadist,
Leave your head feelin' all cumulus nimbus.
Beatmix your soul 'till you're cross and faded,
Lost in the breakdown to feel less jaded.
You spin the tune backwards to hear what was said,
Voodoo grooves that will raise the dead.
Crawl into your brain then I cut and paste,
Making beats from your nightmares then we'll turn them into breaks.
We'll make the bassline oscillate,
As we fuel it with your anger and inject your hate.
We'll extract the essence of the grimace on your face,
Give it low end theory to make it sub-bass.
So we leave by and by weird example,
I'll pillage your village then loop it as a sample.
Play back your life in a tune,
You'll all be affected 'cause no one's immune.
We're motherfuckin' twisted!
Distort the frequency.

Music:

In no particular order: Hybrid, Pendulum, NuBreed, Junkie XL, BT, DJ Rap, Way Out West, The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Plump DJ's, Ulrich Schnauss, Sasha, Basement Jaxx, Beber, Curve, Garbage, Stone Temple Pilots, Paul Van Dyk, Lee Coombs, Rennie Pilgrem, Evil Nine, Sigur Ros, Freestylers, Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Stone Roses, Adam Freeland, Collective Soul, Kosheen, Radiohead, Orbital, Roni Size, Soundgarden, Squarepusher, The Crystal Method, Underworld, Aphex Twin, Grayarea, Burufunk, Evil Nine, UNKLE

Movies:

I have a huge bookcase full of DVDs. Too may of those to list.