09.22.09

The story of the chance meeting and remeeting of Steve Damstra II and I is a long and crazy one, but in a way one that I think is worth hearing. Now, it's not really one that I will put you through right now, but sometime, in person, go ahead and plop yourself next to me me at the bar and ask me, more than likely I'll even buy you a drink, I like to tell the story that much. Someone I would like thank very much really forcing us into meeting each other, is actually The Dim Mak's Collection's very own Steve Aoki. Gave us the first chance meeting, our later remeeting is a whole other story.

My reasoning for really bringing up Steve isn't only just to show off this photo of him that I shot over a year ago that hasn't surface till now. Its only partially to plug the recent music video that his band Folded Light made with Waverly Films, it doesn't in fact have anything to do with the fact that he's also from the groups Whirlwind Heat, or Dueling Lugers, ( although both of which are really worth checking out), but it really more to thank him for hooking me up with some songs he was working on that I really enjoy.

Its really a great record that he is working on, so great in fact that if I were to write a review of this one, It would read like this " Steve Damstra and Jaffe Zinn have really stumbled across something with this sophomore release, if they were starving for pussy in their last release, upon this one they'll be swimming in it and gasping for air" and thats all I really have to say about that.

09.07.09

Recently did a quick little shoot for my buddy Steve Aoki and his Dim Mak Collection featuring the talents of one of the Cinespace resident Dj's and all around great guy DJ Dan Oh! and of course one of my favorite gals Jillian Kate. I think this is the second time I've actually shot Dan, and to be honest with you, I don't even know how many times I've worked with Jillian. We took a little break for a bit, but its time for some new beginnings and as usual, I always have something new I'm cooking up in this noggin of mine. These are some random takes from the shoot. The actual images should be up over at Dim Mak sometime soon.

06.28.09

This ad I did recently features one of my favorite actor's wearing a new Dim Mak hoodie's while he is djing. I'm talking about my favorite alien E.T. I believe he's pretty much everyone's favorite (although my brother will fight me to the death with his belief that the role is held by Alf), but he has a special place in my heart. I actually have a picture of him on my desk in my office, and when given the opportunity to work with him I really flipped out. It was really cool of DJ AM to make an appearance in this ad as well as Steve Aoki in the bike ride scene. Its pretty rare for me to beable to work with so many different talented people for one ad. AM was really nice, and he's so talented, it was cool to finally be able to work with him. I hope I'll get to be able to work with all these guys again soon. Look out for this ad in the most recent issues of BPM and possibly Vapors!

05.27.09

Steve Aoki and crew were able once again to get me to come back for another season of Dim Mak maddness. It really didn't take too much this time, I was actually going to head up to LA anyway to see Frank Muzik Dj over at Cinespace, so stopping off and jamming out some stuff for Steve wasn't too big of a deal. Once I got thier Yoshio immediatly began popping off the bottles that my buddies over at Tyku hooked me up with and went straight to work. I really don't know what it is about me, maybe I just have one of those faces, but models just think that I am thier punching bag and that is especially the case with Ursula. I assure you this time it wasn't me getting fresh or anything like that. I was totally being a good guy this time...

10.16.08

Here is a preview of things to come from my up and coming shoot for Dim Mak. Here's a little something something with Dim Mak head hancho Steve Aoki and jeweler to the stars Ben Baller.

09.17.08

Here is the first sample of some of the stuff I have been doing for Mr. Steve Aoki and his crew over at Dim Mak. This ad features the magical Murs - lin. Who I was just with in the Gym Class Heroes music video for the song Cookie Jar. This thing was especially fun, because we got to do pretty much anything we want with it. Little Ray Ray went all out on this one for the illustrations. Steve actually makes a pretty awesome camo in this one as well. I'm really glad I held on to all of my old dungeon and dragons books. I have to admit, that our main referance for the dragon was from the original monsters manual. I'm not proud of that fact that I have such things on hand, but one must confront his past to over come it right?

07.13.08

Today was pretty rad, hopefully I started what will be hopefully a long relationship with with Mr. Steve Aoki and his retinue of LA party giants Dim Mak. We shot some pretty hot ladies, well... scratch that, some really hot ladies and one really hot dude. Here is a video of some of the hotness that can be seen featuring the one and only Murs.