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This last summer, the X-Games were hosted across the street from LA Live. I was in the prime location on top of EVO, so I didn’t have to wait in the crowds and I had an aerial view. Here are two photos I took that day, I just discovered that I had this post as [...]

Tonight I took the bus to the Silverlake Trader Joe’s for some groceries, on the way back I noticed a lot of cool fountains right next to the building that I live in. I decided to stop being lazy and get some photos of these places. Well, first off I wanted to get a cool [...]

I was really intrigued when I heard on NPR that it was going to be the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in 2011. This lead me to search for a few reenactments in the Southern California area. Even though I am from Georgia, I was never able to go see a reenactment in real [...]

Meet the visionaries at The Expressionary. A place where you can “express yourself like never before.” Both of these Chemical Engineering Georgia Tech graduates decided to throw away the notion of “normal,” and pursue something they are passionate about. Expression themselves as well as helping others communicate in specific words, with actual meaning. I flew [...]

I woke up this morning to a slew of sounds, which including helicopters patrolling the airs. I didn’t know what was happening at first until I turned on my TV to see on the news that there was an Occupy LA protest on Figueroa and 4th streets that was blocking traffic. I knew that there [...]

My brother Marvin came to visit with two of his friends this summer and I had to figure out a few places to show these guys. I wanted a short and easy trip to get them hooked, which hasn’t been that hard to do recently. Right when they arrived into LAX, I took them to [...]

Since I’ve lived in California, there has been a lot more people requesting to visit. Here is guest number two for the year, Bola. It was great to show him around the town, as well as force him to go to a baseball game I was covering. But all was fun, we were able to [...]

Back in May, Melody’s brother asked me to take photos during his wedding in Taiwan. I was just thinking of going to enjoy the wedding, but I thought it would be a nice way to show my appreciation toward the Tsai family if I helped out at their wedding. It was a long trek, as [...]

I was invited to the 2011 USC graduation both by the Daily Trojan and Melody, and to shoot for both as well! I got the best seats in the house for the ceremony, in front of the front row! I decided to get a few shots of the professors and faculty walking onto the stage [...]

My lab group takes a new group photo each year to track the changing group members. We are getting three new Ph. D. students in the fall but there won’t be any time to get that photo until next year so my advisor, Andrea Armani, asked me to help take the photo as well as [...]