A Rare snow in Atlanta, originally uploaded by www.thesnapclap.com.

I guess when we moved here, me and my wife bought the snow from New
York with us. Sorry.

Obey, originally uploaded by gogostevie.

The Giant is here in Atlanta too. I’m trying to tell ya’ll’ the Giant is large. He’s everywhere. He’s like Santa Claus, he sees when you’re not looking, or something like that.

Atlanta Silhouetted,  by mcmillend.

So far I haven’t as much as picked up my camera here in Atlanta. I will this weekend since we’re going to the Aquarium, but seeing a shot like this makes me fiend for a lazy evening where I can melt into my photography. Especially since I got the super dope tripod from my cousin. Good work Mcmillend, this picture is fantastic. I’m a sucker for a good silhouette and a sunset.

Another pic from my phone.  This one is of Luckie street in Atlanta.  Where is everybody?  I sure hope its just the weather that’s got folks all holed-up in the offices.  I think you learn the ‘feel’ or vibe of a city by walking around.  I’ve driven by places a thousand times and didn’t really understand it until I got out of the car and walked around, you know?  You can’t understand what’s going on by looking at peoples cars all day.  You gotta, walk around and see the demographics changing around you.  See the city living and breathing, see folks going about their daily routines and such, you feel me.  To me, that’s just the most efficient way to learn about a city.  So far, Atlanta has been a hard crack.  Nobody walks around this place!  It’s a beautiful city, why don’t people walk around?  I went on a job interview in December and it bugged me out because the building had no sidewalk.  It was like a 30 story building with a parking garage, and no sidewalk?!  What gives?  The only way in or out was through the parking garage, that’s just ass backwards if you ask me.

I took this pic with my phone, from my office downtown Atlanta.  The Green tinge makes it look like the Matrix or something.  Atlanta doesn’t look too bad from above.

Photo by lalalaa Dolce Vita

As I get older I start to re examine the things that I did as a youth.  Lately I’ve been on a tear, and I’ve collected alot of old school hip hop and some ‘mid school’ golden area hip hop as well.  While I have my older family members to thank for my appreciation of old school hip hop, you know Kurtis Blow, Bambaataa, Fearless Four etc, it was the golden area that really stands out in my mind.  It seems like everything was great.  I was a teen, hip hop became more active to me.  I began to do hip hop and not just listen to it.  A Friend of mine just dropped a few tunes on me.  One of which was Da Bush Babees, “We Run Things”  I forgot how much I used to really, really like this song.  This song was HOT when it was out in like ‘92; are you kidding me?  

Its funny though, because listening to the lyrics they seem timely even now.  Da Bush Babees talked about representing for ‘real’ hip hop; and lamented that there are a million MC’s and a thousand DJ’s because there’s money in hip hop.  Man where they right!  For them it sprouted out of art and expression.  You know?  It was a golden era.  You did hip hop because you loved it, you did it because it was YOU, you know what I mean?  Nowadays, cats ain’t really down with that.  They just want money.  Forget the artistry.  Forget the expression.  Just give me the dough.

I guess that’s why I dont’ really listen to the radio anymore, or subscribe to the modern day definition of hip hop.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
1 Corinthians 13:11

soccermonster Photo by osbock.

I’m all for fun. But halloween isn’t a holiday. It isn’t. At least as we know it in America. Read this, and don’t knock on my door for candy.  Although I might be baking some cookies on Friday, so if you stop by, I’d be happy to share some with you.

By the way, this is an awesome photo  AND, it was taken with a Holga Toy camera (so you don’t all that expensive stuff to take great images after all)  Good work osbock!