final night in sb (bike to the beach with leila / MF sticker shoot)

we had an idea to shoot pics of the Massflow sticker on Leila's bike for fun, which turned into a bike to the beach (the last for a while :( ), ran into the Stod-meister, appreciated that classic Dev view... a classic time!

Surf check at Dreamy's (see lines)

on the phone w mom

Leila chillin

future home

the -meister

that classic view

Waverly: Last Look

Moving tomorrow. 
This place will be sorely missed. 
There's a lot that could be said about all the times here... a lot of growth and a lot of change.
A haven in bustling east LA! Who knew you could find such a place here - almost always quiet and calm and serene, especially the early mornings.. watching the sun come up out east over the mountains; and in the winters they would be capped with snow after every storm, but of course you could only see that on the clearer days when the smog lifted away...
Too much to say so I wont try and do that here!.. but it has been real. I am leaving Waverly a very different person from the one who arrived here a little more than 2 years ago! 

a brief last look, nothing special, to be paired with "New Spaces" from Oct. of 2015 when I moved in... (https://wavebelly.blogspot.com/2015/10/new-spaces.html)

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With the new cam (konica) i am taking many more random pics... ?

random mosh pit

random pics of Carlos and Krista

random pics of Stoddy and lobster

random pics of Em @ Anu's

random pics of Anu's

others

yer bois

Massflow, SF, Konica

New cam, Konica Big Mini 201. A glorified point and shoot.

I was reflecting on old pics from freshman year of college, when Carlos and I (and sometimes Chris) shared a simple Olympus point and shoot camera w flash. We took it everywhere - to the beach, parties, trips, dorms... and because it was so easy to use and compact we had shots of everything going on in our lives. We eventually lost the cam at a party, and after that I have mostly been using an slr, no flash, not so discrete. I have been feeling that want for a cam that I can take everywhere.

I like the work of a young photographer, Nico Young, who was photographing life in high school at Santa Monica High (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/11/magazine/11mag-santa-monica-high-photo-essay.html). His work was picked up by the NY Times and published in their magazine. He has great close ups of interesting characters and faces, all candid. Theres no way to get that with a bulky slr. I looked him up a bit more and saw one of his cameras was this Konica BigMini. I mainly got this cam bc it can focus down to 30 cm, damn close! Good for candids and close-ups and portraits. Small enough to slide into my back pocket and go to parties with.

Hence, the perfect break out event for this cam, a Massflow party in SF at Club OMG. All the friends were there. The cam performed...

The high school crew - Nick, Sari, and I

lol this is great

D.Tiff