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Keeping the Art in Photartgraphy

About Me

:: AfterFive :: MAG [ After5Media.com ] an online magazine of photo-essays documenting lifestyle, fashion and culture in a way that everyone can experience and understand them. Beauty, culture, fashion and politics is communicated through open-mindedness, acceptance and understanding. It is in celebration when we show our most beautiful colours. Our work is done through capturing those moments, as they are fleeting and constantly evolving, never to be experienced again. The goal: To become not only a local, but international entity for communicating a global awareness of world entertainment, lifestyle, fashion and culture. Global acculturation not globalization. Homogeny is not our goal; ubiquity is not our mission. We exist to document and affect. -- FirstName LastName Photography
Vanity has no place in my work. If you don't like how you look in my work, it isn't because that I think you are beautiful, it is because you think you are ugly.
Photographers suffer in the service to the vanity of their subjects. Their gratification in return serves the vanity of thine self, the photographer. Truth of self is thus veiled in the reverberating madness; why wasn't I blessed with the ego that wallows in the pit of self-preservation, so that I can simply serve?
"Warren Difranco's work is fast. In an expression of how much movement and photography as medium diverge from one another, the work meditates temporality. It's full of punctuation like the slash "/", saying Look at this / and/or this / or there's this one. It's what Manny Farber would call Termite Art, sincere insofar as the tradition itself makes itself out of the blurring of distinction between theme and occasion--worth noting that much of Hsu's work consists of photodocumentary pieces of fashion and music shows--constant and eating itself."
- Kristen Holden [ Kristen-Holden.com ]
"We are seeking an art based on fundamentals, to cure the madness of age, and a new order of things that would restore the balance between heaven and hell. We have a dim premonition that power-mad gangsters would one day use art itself as a way of deadening people's minds." -DadaDadaDadaDada
"Your work serves no purpose whatsoever except to regail and celebrate the arts and achievements of others. This is why you will live and die unknown." - others

My Interests


Fashion, entertainment, and culture in a world where we may experience it through the eyes of those who do it. Ahead is essentially my entertainment and fashion photography portfolio; little peeks at full essays I have done on the different scenes and shows.

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Production stills for film "Moving Day" by director, Marcos Garcia.

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Patricia Field, stylist and designer for Sex In The City and Devil Wears Prada, introduces her new Barbie line. Steve Madden also introduces his first line for Spring 2008. Also featured is designer, Maria Bianca Nero.

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Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Los Angeles featuring Joseph Domingo and Candice Held at Smashbox Studios.

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I finally popped the LA cherry and shot my first rock show in Los Angeles baby, Sunset Blvd, Hollywood at the Key Club. Featuring The Dreaming, Nick Black and 3Faced.

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By far some of the best shows I have every seen, Which One’s Pink and Zep Again, great tributes to Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, playing at the Galaxy somewhere in the OC.

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From Japan, Meltone, at the 12 Galaxies, San Francisco and a shoot in Burlingame.

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New York City, the fashion mecca. A fashiony look at the big city to the east. Outfits by Paul Poiret and Kate Moss and her new TopShop collection that launched at Barney’s.

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TRASHion fashion!! Burning Man Precompression party at 55 Barneveld. Featuring designers Domini, Patchwerk Press by Field Day + Remade in America, Miss Velvet Cream with headpieces by ESTAR, Upcycling by Lucid Dawn and Bad Unkl Sista.

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Karla LaVey of the Church Of Satan, daughter of founder Anton Szandor LaVey presents The Fuxedos at the Edinburgh Castle.

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Sneaky snaps, from deYoung Museum, Vivienne Westwood's exhibit. Fashions that make you wanna slap somebody, bouuuy.

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San Francisco Zoo. Trapped animals at the zoo, please do visit them when you can. There is nothing more beautiful than the colours possessed by nature's palette.

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ALCHEMY. Fashion action. ALCHEMY.

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Shrinkle's Dollhaus featuring hot trashy clothes for them classy hos.

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Heaven 11 at the 111 Minna in SF featuring designer Miranda Caroligne and an amazing statement of anti-fashion.

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Metric and The Presets.

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Rockin Love Like Fire.

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The Folsom Street Fair featuring the Thrill Kill Kult.

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Fleet Week

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Fischerspooner performs at the Mezzanine for SF Fashion Week, featuring Casey Spooner and K Holden modeling for Kelly B.

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Where The Catwalk Ends , a roving fashion show by Missing Piece Productions, San Francisco.

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Where The Catwalk Ends, aftershoot at studio with Ladybug Mecca, Silver Lucy, Amanda Chen and Amy LeBlanc.

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Paul Reuben's Day, you may know him also as Pee Wee Herman, God of Geeks.

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Russian Rokenrol Revolution!! The Red Elvises tour the Bay Area, at Slim's, SF and the Blank Club in San Jose.

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Fetishism at the SupperClub, SF featuring Master Hines, Johawna and Eric Glaser.

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Tribute to the 50s and American Graffiti.

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Digable Planets at the Independent in San Francisco.

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Ladytron at the Mezzanine in San Francisco.

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She Wants Revenge with Astra Heights and Send For Help at the Great American Music Hall.

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Japantown celebrates its 100th Anniversary, the Cherry Blossom Festival and its sale to some undisclosed corporation.

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BC Fashion Week Fall/Winter 2006 Collections featuring designs by RevelationRA, Tiger of Sweden, Anna Kourukova and Mara Goetler.

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The Fetish Ball revisited. Preview for Buckle Magazine , pre-order yours now while supplies last!

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Model Casting for America's Top Model at the Sony Metreon now called the Westfield Metreon. Hundreds of models, one photographer makes for an interesting adventure.

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Happy Asian New Year! Vietnamnese New Year celebration in Tacoma, Washington.

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Flaming Dragon Tattoo Studio in Tacoma, Washington.

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French DJ, Miss Kittin on tour in the US, spinning at the Mezzanine in San Francisco with Superpitcher and others.

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The Grand National Rodeo.

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Goth Clubs :: a documentary about gothic club culture.

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Fetishism.

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The SF Flugtag on the waterfront.

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Sailing. This is a series of photos done during my 4 years working seasonal part-time as a Marine Ecology instructor aboard several sailing ships including the Hawaiian Chieftain, the Kau' lani, Second Life and the Gas Light.

MUSIKORE by :: afterfive ::

I'd like to meet:

Talented documentary photographers who like people, fashion photographers with genuine fashion sense, entertainment writers who have "been around", graphic designers who can predict the future, web gurus who can also predict the future, and playas who know the difference between props and respect.

Photographers whom I admire and share similarities with in terms of style, vision, dedication and/or work ethic: Elliot Erwitt, Helmut Newton, Mario Testino, Lauren Greenfield, Ayumi Nakanishi, Cammie Toloui, Sophie Pangrazzi, Eugenio Recuenco, WeeGee, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Richard Avedon, Ken Kobre and Annie Liebowitz, who told me I held my camera wrong when taking a portrait of her.

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

--Henri Cartier-Bresson

Music:

:: afterfive :: Musikore is kind of a personal music portfolio."The reason I do photographs is to help people understand my music, so it's very important that I am the same, emotionally, in the photographs as in the music. Most people's eyes are much better developed than their ears. If they see a certain emotion in the photograph, then they'll understand the music."Björk, Index Magazine, july 2001Featuring Ladytron, Stereo Total, The Coup, Laibach, Rowland Salley from Chris Isaak Band, Hawnay Troof, Miss Kittin, She Wants Revenge, Astra Heights, Send For Help, Digable Planets, X-Clan, Superpitcher, Meltone, Poor Man's Whiskey, The Red Elvises, Love Like Fire, Ladybug Mecca dripping like water, Crown City Rockers, Metric, The Presets, Birdmonster, Bob Sinclar yes, the Bob Sinclar, The Mormons at their final show :O(, Goapele, Polkacide, Rube Waddell and FischerSpooner.TO BE ANNOUNCED - CowboyX, Charlie Drown, Pzychobitch, Madonna, more Ladytron, Silversun Pickups, Royksopp, Grand Master Flash, any hair band, Scissor Sisters, Throbbing Gristle, t.A.T.u., Virus, Kenny Chesney, Dixie Chicks, Tiga, Alison Goldfrapp, Shiny Toy Guns, Fiona Apple, Bjork, Marshall Tucker Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Roger Waters, Vive La Fete, Peaches, M.I.A., Coco Rosie, Android Lust, Genitorturers, Tom Waits, Client, etc.

Movies:

Unzipped, Devil Wears Prada, Gia, Joe Dirt, Delusions of Grandeur, Iris Almaraz, Immortal Beloved, NightWatch, Downfall, Infernal Affairs, NOT the Departed, Bridge Over Terabithia, The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, Excalibur, Pan's Labyrinth, Amelie, La Puta, Moving Day, Marcos Garcia

Television:

Television = Tunnelvision

Books:

Carl Jung, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? best not to list my other books on MySpace as it is a funnel trap for spying eyes, searching and cataloging the unsuspecting intellect.

Heroes:

Dreamers, those that push the limits of their being to achieve great things and initiate the evolution of human thought and creativity. Without them, nothing happens and nothing is different. Rosa Parks, Che Guevara, Dolores Huerta, Mohandas Gandhi, John Lennon, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy, Iris Chang, Abraham Lincoln, and others who have been persecuted and murdered for their accomplishments and pursuing the impossible of dreams and yet they were hated for it.

My Blog

John Cusack for a New Order

John Cusack vs Republican RightI've always bitched about how celebrities just make their money and hide out when they carry such huge responsibility for global political change and do not take that re...
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 01:10:00 PST

We need more oil. Blood for oil.

More Oil NeededRepublicans who are preventing taxation on oil companies are subsequently blocking legislature allowing tax breaks for alternative energy sources. High prices at the pump are threatenin...
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:13:00 PST

WTF

I want this book!bush_mcclellan_book
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Thu, 29 May 2008 06:28:00 PST

Wikipedia, censored.

Food for thought.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/us/20wiki.html?_r= 1&scp=4&sq=wikileaks&st=nyt&oref=sloginThe judge taking wikileaks down in a hurried process is Bush appointee judge...
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:22:00 PST

Mac Users are so AWESOME

What is the deal with Mac users that know nothing about PCs and their capabilities?  It's not enough that I finished the job and sent everything that is needed?  When you have nothing else b...
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 05:35:00 PST

Welcome to the Golden Age of Mediocrity.

That's it, that's all I gotta say.
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:59:00 PST

tasty whale meat

Tasty Whale Meat?Volunteer
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 01:55:00 PST

Chez Melisser

Great cakes!The Urban Housewife!
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:05:00 PST

Michael Kaire, fellow Eddie Adams Alumnus remembered.

Kaire Award established MU graduate remembered By: Rachel Swick Media Credit: Mike Kaire Media Credit: BZ Media Credit: Snapper Staff Media Credit: BZ ...
Posted by :: afterfiver :: on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:25:00 PST