remember I said I wasn't gonna squint when I got it it's okay you know what hurts when you start hearing that that's not happening right now I gotta wait till this is over [Music] we're at 111 tattoo shops Muncie Indiana we're here with my best friend debunk he's tattooed me my whole I mean seriously my whole I would say the majority of my tattoos are done by this guy here we had such a cool upbringing man we just skated and Rod bikes I was only bike riders my whole push was was to become a BMX
pro Rider we just had a simple life man we rode bikes we we skated we smoked some at the end of eighth grade at the end of eighth grade is when I first first got into BMX annoying as [ __ ] it's the senior year of high school I was trying to figure out what I was trying to do my parents kicked me out of the house so I at one point I joined the army dude remember I joined the army I was gonna become a 31 echo which is a military police officer which is
hilarious I said [ __ ] this I'm gonna go and be a door-to-door Salesman and left left the Army my first kind of out of out of the state trip which is the reason why they sold me on becoming a Salesman because I was able to travel to travel the US and ride my bike at the same time we're covered up my ex-girlfriend's uh initials oh [ __ ] when we lived together I was actually working at a call center collecting student debt and then took a train to Arizona and lived in Arizona and like
really pursued BMX as a career path I can talk it's not happening today dude [ __ ] happening about a camera and started doing YouTube Vlogs and I started vlogging every day something happened I saw Casey neistat's videos like I my life is interesting and then Long Beach was like a whole different Endeavor dude that's like when I was really in it all I was doing working at The Juice Shop in Long Beach riding my bike Juice Shop bike I picked up all my [ __ ] and left Long Beach and moved to New York
to become a model I don't know what that even means but yeah I came to New York and you know got an agent in New York City I was doing castings for stranger things I had castings for like big movies never acted a day in my life it was going to these [ __ ] crazy parties going to solo house I mean dude my life changed as soon as I moved to New York I became this like different person and that was kind of the slow progression of becoming a photographer working in the modeling World
seeing how what I can do with the camera and all kind of like I'm telling the destiny of things always kind of pushes you like he always pushes a different path you always find that path photography comes in about seven years ago right I'm riding bikes a lot I found street photography very much similar to BMX riding because you go out you search for a photo you get the photo if the settings weren't right the lighting wasn't right write the photo [ __ ] so it's like you get that film back it's like it's like
Landing the trick so every time I got filmed back dude I was like oh [ __ ] I have the same feeling of Landing a trick but I don't have any broken bones my [ __ ] body feels okay it's still fulfilling I still feel accomplished not to not to make it dark but I think that when I picked up the camera my BMX career started to really kind of slow down because all I cared about was documentation it's like chefs when their recipes take [ __ ] sometimes 10 years to kind of Master it
so all I'm doing is just picking pieces up as I go dude everywhere I go I get inspiration from here from books and other photographers from you guys you know all the kind of goes in your brain and does something
