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Love Laugh & Live

Wednesday, Jul 27, 2011 9:06AM / Standard Entry

So Megan Lee's video Love Laugh & Live finally came out on July 1st (a bit ago I know). Woo, I didn't do a horrible job. It's a cute song with a nice "pay it forward" type message to it.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u1pfrreWcz4

Magic bubbles woo.

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By The Way

Wednesday, Jul 20, 2011 12:32PM / Standard Entry

Hey Guys, it's been forever since I posted in here. Buuut I've actually been busy working on stuff. I got a slew of videos to show you guys, but this one was a beast of a project.

I had the pleasure of working on a music video for a local up and coming Southern California Rapper named C.A. He's a nice guy and hopefully he makes it big out there but here's his first video hope you all enjoy.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3_AmVRX0XE

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Empty Chair

Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011 5:55PM / Standard Entry

So I know I've been gone for quite a while. I apologize...that is if anyone even comes by to check out my page anymore heh. I've been finally working on some projects again so I feel like it's worthwhile to update a bit.

This is a project I did way back in July, but only recently was it put up online so now I can share. My part is a bit lame (acting wise) but it's all good, the product itself is very nice. We did it all in 2 days if you remember when I wrote about it way back when.

Quick recap, 48 hour film project. You get 48 hours to write, cast, film, edit, score, and produce a short film. You get certain criteria you have to satisfy, ours which was it had to be a buddy film, use a chair as a prop, use the line "i'm trying my best" and the character Rita Hernandez. I believe that was about it.

Anyway here it is. Hope you enjoy, there's no real martial arts in it though =\ so don't get disappointed if you don't see anyone getting attacked heh.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5W9mfD3exc

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Urban Decay

Friday, Sep 17, 2010 8:35AM / Standard Entry

I got entered into a contest with Urban Decay cosmetics to be on their new color/flavour of lip gloss.

Basic summary:
We are looking for TWO men to be featured on two new shades of Urban Decay’s Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss! From September 6 – October 15, 2010, visitors to the site can vote for their favorite contestant(s). After the close of voting on October 15, Urban Decay’s totally qualified, expert panel of sexed-up, testosterone-hungry ladies (and a few gentlemen) will evaluate the ten nominees with the most votes, and choose two winners. Our winners will be flown to sunny Southern California, and photographed as the faces (er… bodies) of two new shades of Pocket Rocket Lip Gloss.

And that's about it. You can vote once per day, and be sure to check your email and click on the verification link to vote.

So if you feel like it, please vote. One of the prizes can help me get a working computer (if you dunno all my computers are pretty broken right now so that would be nice haha).

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Rising Art Studios Photoshoots.

Saturday, Sep 4, 2010 6:59PM / Standard Entry

On a certain Sunday...pretty sure it was last Sunday (though I can't really remember now) Ernesto wanted to do a practice photoshoot with me. Actually it was a triple shoot that day. It was supposed to be me in the morning, then some girl in the afternoon, then another girl later at night I guess. But it ended with the original girl going first around 5 or 6pm. Mine didn't start till late around 10 or so. First girl did a nude shoot with my friend. Was my first time meeting her, though I'd heard about her and seen her in other photos done by them. Interesting girl, think she's definitely more attractive in person than in photos though heh.

So the night before the shoot Ernesto hits me up with a message on facebookchat askingif I was ready. I said yeah, but what kind of shoot did he want to do? So he just replied with a link to this photo...

So I replied with..."You want me to be Starkiller?" He just said pretty much, bring my hoodie and any other cool looking clothes I own. Unfortunately I don't own that many cool looking clothes...I don't own that many clothes in general heh.

Spent the day hanging with my dad, and then headed out to E's place for the photo session around 9:30pm. Rainbow was finishing up her last look by the time I got there:

Anh (ernesto's fiance) had done her makeup for this one, and was in charge of shooting it. She looked pretty good, I think there were better non upnose shots of her from this set, but he hasn't put any of them up yet. I'm never much a fan of nostril shots heh.

Same model, Rainbow (not sure if that's her real name but that's what she goes by) from a set they did long before i got there. I like this one though, nice and creepy heh.

Then she was done, I was up...trying to look jedi-ish

Started off with my jacket from japan that I never get to wear. I looked too happy and nice in most of these pics though sooo they didn't work out too well.

My favorite group of pics are from when I took off the jacket and just had a black shirt, lots of straps and more martial looking poses...woo. I have a friend who loves star wars and after seeing the first few pics I posted he wanted me to make a Sith version for him...hence the pic on the right.

After the black top look Ernesto wanted me to strip off and take off my shirt...Someday I will do a shoot where I get to keep my clothes on -_- heh. I don't like most of those shots so I'm not really putting them up, then after that it was onto the hoody. For some reason I was being really goofy when we first started with the hoody so I have quite a few goofy pics with that style.

This was Jackie who went up after me. Anh was doing her makeup during my shots, and she looked pretty creepy in person. But after editing and everything changing the colors this pic came out pretty interesting. Looks like a cold eskimo ice/queen type girl.

Dun dun dun...running out of time, gotta go eat soon. But I think that was about it anyway. Fun stuff. Gotta do another shoot with them again I think. An I'm out.

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Justice Vancho

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正義番長 Mao toi la viet (dunno the tones heh)

A poor struggling artist trying to live his own way in a confined business run world.

Hmm about me huh? Well my story isn't for the weak of heart. Actually it probably isn't for anyone, because it's probably really boring. So I'll just go over some aspects.

Born in Manhattan New York. We lived in Queens, Brooklyn and eventually moved over to Jersey before heading out to California where my mom was from. We'd end up moving every couple of years because rent would go up and we couldn't afford to stay where we were.

I started learning martial arts from my father when I was about 4 years old, he's a 3rd degree black belt in Japanese JiuJitsu so he taught me the basics. He got tired of teaching though and sent me to sign up at the local Tae Kwon Do school. Every time we'd move I'd have to sign up at a new school, usually learning a new style as well. I stuck through doing martial arts at least 3-6 days a week up until the day I turned 18. Lots of the time I had wanted to quit, because giving up my days to train and tire myself out while other kids were just home goofing off or hanging out and so on seemed like a waste to me. But after I turned 18 I was off to college where I began teaching a weird TKD/Karate mix to elementary school kids all across the San Jose area up north. Teaching the kids was a lot of fun, one of my favorite jobs ever. Had to go through a lot because parents didn't like a kid teaching their kids, but after a while I'd have the parents asking me to teach them. I did that for a couple years but hadn't really trained myself in 3 or so years, until I joined a WuShu school back down in San Diego. I trained pretty good there for about a year, then got the chance to go to Beijing to train WuShu out there. My first day there though I ended up ripping my Achilles tendon and had to quit training for good pretty much. I fell into a bit of depression thinking my martial arts life was over, Achilles injuries always seemed the worst to me, and Martial Arts had always been a big part of my life. I haven't ever gotten my foot completely fixed, so still hurts like hell everyday, but much less than it used to. I couldn't walk for at least over 6 months, and couldn't walk properly for almost 2 years. The injury happened about 4 years ago, back in 2004. About 6 months ago I started training a lot again and now I'm back on track to where I want to be. Although my skill level has dropped significantly and I'm embarrassed for people to see me, especially people who knew me before my injury and before I was 18 heh.

That's my Martial Arts history, now for my acting one heh.

At around 10-12 I began an acting career. It didn't really get anywhere because I looked "too young" according to all the casting directors I would go see. I got a couple small things, but nothing significant. Then I had to drop my agent, who took advantage of me anyway, and had to start focusing on school. Later when I was about 16-17 I tried to get back into it again with a new passion and drive. I almost got a couple leading roles on tv shows, but this time I was too old heh. Then I had the opportunity to get on some high school drama show, but I was leaving for college then and my parents told me college was more important. So I left. Acting had to go on the back burner for a while. I tried once or twice to get back into it in the later years, but never had the opportunity or had to back out before I could really pursue it. Now I'm driven more than ever and on my way back to the life of acting and trying to get myself recognized. With the help of some friends, learning new acting techniques and getting some tips on where I should start and how I should approach the whole thing. Acting as an adult seems, so far anyway, much different from acting as a child. Exciting and scary it's the path I've chosen and the one I'll be on forever hopefully.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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