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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Shampoo's Birthday @ HK Lounge 11.22.10

I love this guy. Shampoo is one of the realest people you will ever meet in the entertainment industry. You ain't hot in the streets if this dude ain't on your team doing your street promo! He's helped me out alot with my endeavours over the last 3+ years and for that, I am grateful. I don't shoot much club stuff anymore, but I wouldn't miss shooting his bday for anything. :o) ♥ u Poo!

(self portrait mini photoshoot lmao)

(Shampoo poppin bottles)

(Serius Jones & Shampoo)

(Shampoo & Prizzy)

Monday, November 22, 2010

Dirty Souf Yankee front page feature on SOHH.com

So SOHH.com interviewed me about a 2008 photoshoot i did with Nicki Minaj for Spate Magazine that was never published or released... there's parts of the story that are mis-quoted and other parts that were omitted and I think it makes me come off as a hater which isn't cool. The interview was a phone Q & A session and the article is a paraphrased story.

To clairfy, I just want to say that the whole situation was very unprofessional on Nicki (for being 3-4hrs late) & her management's part and that's why I was disgruntled. I told SOHH that Nicki had been willing to continue the shoot outside in Times Square since she was so late & since Spate couldn't re-book the studio space because they were closing but it was her management who shut it down as she was getting dressed in her second look & said they would contact me to set up another shoot at a later date and then ignored all my phone calls & submitted other photos for the article & cover to Spate unbeknownst to me.

Also, they quoted me as saying "I didn't coach her for any of the photos,". Not accurate. I told SOHH that I didn't coach her for the weird, explicit, not cute shit she was doing at first. I also didn't submit the fucked up, ugly, not cute pictures to SOHH for this article. I submitted the decent shots that I DID set up, coached her on posing for, & re-touched.

(side note: If anybody is interested in purchasing any of the original high-rez pictures of Nicki or the entire set, please contact me. They have never been released or published aside of the 2 with the watermark that you see on SOHH.)

Here's a direct link to the story: SOHH Nicki Minaj DSY cover story
**Update: That link is no longer active, so here is the archived shot of the page

Saturday, November 20, 2010

behind the scenes of 106 & Park iPhone app photoshoot with J.Shotti

Shouts to J.Shotti for asking me to come along on this shoot! I actually may or may not end up in the app because in Rocsi's solo picture i was posing as paparazzi on the red carpet. LoL We'll see... But in the mean time, check out some behind the scenes shots of the group pictures!

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

"You can't get fresh until you get Dirty... Pt. 1" was AMAZING!

My gallery show/photo exhibit this past Friday at Black Ink Gallery was an AMAZING success! Thank you SO MUCH to EVERYONE who came out to support me and be a part of it. I couldn't have asked for a better turn out and event. So much love and positive energy! Thank you to Puma and NinjaSonik... I love yall.

(above photos taken by and courtesy of Christopher Buddhu)

Check out some of the write ups & press I recieved from the event!

CosmoBailey

The Lahli Lama (DSY post)

The Lali Lama (NinjaSonik post)

Telisa D.

Also, check out more photos & commentary from the event on my facebook here: facebook.com/dirtysoufyankee

If you blogged about the event or know someone who did, please contact me with a link so I can add your site to this post, thanks guys!

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Dirty Souf Yankee presents: "You can't get fresh until you get Dirty..." Pt. 1 - 10.22.10

You guys, this is my FIRST SOLO PHOTO EXHIBIT!!! I'm so excited, I can't even tell you. All I can say is, if you come to my site and enjoy my work, you NEED TO BE THERE!!! You don't wanna miss this, I'm telling you.

I'm going to have DSY t-shirts and select photo prints available for sale PLUS NinjaSonik performing as well as some surprises you won't know about unless you show up. :o)

October 22, 2010

Black Ink Gallery

55 Lenox Ave. (@ 113th)

7-11 pm

2 or 3 train to 110th

Please RSVP to: DirtyNinjasRSVP@gmail.com

See ya'll there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday, October 10, 2010

DIESEL ONLY THE BRAVE: Brave Battle

This was fun today! Shouts to the homie Catty (who SHOULD have won & got robbed, but it's all good) and Oronde who participated and Jesse Boykins III who was judging. :o)