Do you have enough balls to sit through one of these scary videos? So here's the Challenge...Shut all your lights, turn off all the noise and make sure your alone and its night time...Now watch one of these videos and see if you can watch the whole video through... so here they are pick one and enjoy and remember it's just a video...
Ok so I about 2 years ago I drove all the way from Chicago to Los Angeles and I moved out here...about a year later Fashion TV Calls me and asks if I want to drop everything that I'm doing and take a job with them in Cebu, Philippines... they said they'll pay for my airfare, apartment and cut me a decent salary for a few months...So of course I said "Hell Yeah!"...so off I go to the motherland, never been there before I didn't know what to expect. I literally dropped everything in Los Angeles, quit my job, packed my stuff and just left. I think I'm still nieve enough to not really know what I'm doing but just diving forward and hoping for the best. When I got off the plane and drove from the chaotic airport through the marshlands and dirty industrial buildings I think that's when culture shock started to hit me and I realized "what the hell am I doing here?". Thats when i had a small panic attack. This place did not look like America at all. There was animals running around, packs of dogs, goats and cows...there wasn't houses there was huts, literally huts made with bamboo and straw roofs. There was no McDonalds, no Walmart and no signs of it being touched by american corporations (seeing a burger king would feel like heaven to my eyes)..but no nothing...just a different culture, mud for water and a bunch of people that I couldn't relate to.
It ended up being one of the best times of my life. I ended up really related to my co-workers since they were all in the same situation. They too all came from different parts of the world, Australia, Germany, the UK and the US so we all came together and bonded since we were all far from our homes. We had some crazy times, going out at night with a bunch of tall blond models in the philippines totally made us stars and the talk of the small town. Parties, riding dangerously on motorcycles, swimming in the ocean all added up in a truly crazy experience. The weirdest night had to be when I drank this drink that is band from America, it looks just like a vodka shot, where they set it on fire and you heat up a spoon with sugar on top of it...its suppose to give you hallucenations. Unfortunately it just made me black out...One minute I'm dancing in the pool the next minute I'm fully clothed, fully dry on someone else's bed. This happened not once..but twice!...Everytime that happened it was always hard to wake up the next morning and face the people you partied with.."what happened last night?" While they give you a detailed description of you being dragged from one club to the next, like a dead body and they even managed to drag my lifeless body into a Mr. Chow while they ate fast food! Sounds really bad but yeah know you only live once, I'm sure I would of enjoyed it just as much if I was not blacked out as well! Anyways by the end my contract ended I came home and I had one of the best and craziest experiences in my life...and I'm still alive...Hooray!
Now here is some pics of that couple of months actually these pics don't do it justice but I'm way to lazy right now to go through em' so here ya go:
Build houses and help the economy for people less fortunate. You can change lives, and not just there's but yours too! This summer I went to Mexico with a team of good Old friends to build houses for two families for Habitat for Humanity. We volunteered about 1 week of our time to take an adventure out in the Southern Part of Mexico near Puerta Vallarta. The families we helped literally lived in huts, built of wood and tin roofs. They had no real ground so they were walking on dirt. For that one week, we got to really understand the people, understand their culture and understand how and why they live that way. We ended up bonding with the families and building not just houses but hope for a better life. Our typical work day consists of working from 7am to 3pm and then after work we got to spend time with our team members and go to the beach and have dinner. It was an amazing experience specially because I grew up with these people and known them since the 4th grade and to meet again and bond was wonderful. You can change lives too by going to www.habitatforhumanity.org and signing up to volunteer for yourself or giving a donation. So here are some pictures of the trip: This third picture is the actual house they lived in and then we tore down and rebuilt a newer, cement house with cement floor...we built 2 houses all together.
Hey Guys,
Venice beach is one of my favorite hang out spots here in California. You can usually find me rollerblading with my little doggie along the beachside every saturday. There's a bunch of street shows, acrobats, b-boys, dancers, magicians, jugglers, drum circles and unique street venders. Most importantly there is a beach, crazy ass people and a great place to just chill out and relax in the sun with like minded people. Check it out...
One of the best Muay Thai Gyms by far in Los Angeles is LEGENDS---> www.legendsmma.com. I've been doing muay thai for over 5 years, been in many muay thai gyms, sparred in empty warehouses, boxed with Master Toddy in Vegas, started out in a gym in Chicago but LEGENDS by far is the best. Randy Couture and Bass Rutten are the fighters that represent it but some of the best boxers and MMA fighters come through there. Last Saturday there was a smokers at the Muay Thai Academy in North Hollywood in which Legends won all of their fights hands down. Here is a video of an Muay thai smokers event in Hollywood with Legends fighter Chris Brady: Hope you enjoy!
Have you ever seen a chick slip, twirl and flip upside down a pole? Have you ever though about trying a strip class out? I totally recommend This pole dancing class in Hollywood, CA. It's fun, sexy and its relatively cheap compared to a lot of other strip/pole dancing classes around. It teaches you not just to rub against a pole, it teaches you to love your body no matter what size, height or weight you are. It also teaches you how to be sexy and empowers women...Try it I totally recommend it at www.bespund.com also check out a little video of it on here...
Hey Everyone...I am a muay thai kickboxer. Muay Thai is a form of competitive kickboxing that originated from Thailand. It consists of boxing, kicks, elbows and clinches. I have been training for over 5 years now and fought once at the Arnolds Classics. I started training with Team Toro in Chicago then moved to Los Angeles and train at Legends MMA Gym...Anyways Here is a quick video of the place I train at...
- What would bring me more happiness than anything else in the world?
I think I'm going to go to the superficial route with this one and say Money. Cause If I had all the money in the world, I could accomplish more things, more efficiently, I could go to the school I've always wanted to go, I could have that extremely expensive Mac Computer to help me with my career, I could start my own clothing design store, I could live in that apartment complex with the water fountain in Sherman Oaks rather then living in Van Nuys, I could also live in both California and Chicago to have the best of both worlds, friends and family in Chicago and Career in LA....So shoot me cause I'm superficial but money would help me realize my dreams a lot faster.
- What project or goal, if left undone, will I most regret?
It would be two things, 1...is if I don't become healthy, quit smoking and become 95% healthy by the time I'm 50 I'll totally regret that..cause then my body will just breaking down and all the things I've worked for, I would not be able to enjoy and health is something that is totally in your control, no one else's. The second would be by the time I'm 50 -100 If I do not make at Least $150,000/year and own my own house then that would be a sad 50th birthday...cause by that time I want to support my family and give them back what they have given me...
- If I knew I could not fail, what would I undertake to accomplish in life?
- If I could give my children three pieces of advice, what would they be?
- What am I working at now in my life that requires the most time and energy? Is this what I ideally want to be doing with my time?
Right now, I am going to Hawaii for Thanksgiving for 2 weeks with my parents, I actually don't get to see my parents that often and we have such a great relationship now that I'm older, getting to spend time with them and bonding now is crucial for me, since I'm not sure when the next time I'm going to see them. I also want to spend time with them now while they are alive and healthy before it's too late. I am also in the process of getting my career together, focusing on working in the entertainment industry. And my 3rd goal is to lose weight, fast, detox and get spiritually right for the next phase of my life...so Hawaii maybe a pausing point in my career but it's a point when I can sit back, and retreat into my spiritual side before I get back into the rat race.
- Is this what I want to be working most at in 10 years from now? In 40 years from now?
Graphic design may not totally be what I want to be working on, but I do want to be working in the entertainment industry. I don't want to totally let go of graphic design since I feel that I am the most talented in that and just letting that go would be a sad thing for the world but I'm not totally sure if I want to be doing this for the rest of my life. Right now it's cool cause I have no kids, I freelance so I can just drop and go travel around whenever I want but like I said I'm not totally sure if that's what I want to do for the Rest of my life...It's either that, or produce, or become a news reporter but stay in the entertainment industry or take a whole new direction go back to school and become a nurse anesthesist for the stability and also I can travel the world and help people less fortunate with my nursing...who knows...only time will tell what I'll end up doing I just hope I make the right choice.
- If not, what do I ideally want to "work at" -- i.e. what do I want to be spending most of my time and energy doing?
Right now, as long as I'm enjoying my life, having fun, becoming a better person, constantly educating myself, making a lot of money, traveling around the world, building close relationships, dancing, making this world a better place, one person at a time...I think I'm in the right path.
- What do I feel is the "ultimate good" that a human being can strive towards?
- The ultimate goal would have to be changing the world into a better place one person at a time, changing lives dramatically...like has that ever happened to you, has a person or event in your life ever came and it dramatically changed your life to the better? It's weird cause when i think of the past and remember how bad I used to be, I think what changed me into a better person, into the good person I am today? And when I think about it, it's kind of weird but it was not just the good people that came into my life, but It was also the very bad people, that kicked my ass so hard that it changed me for the better. Those bad events that happened in the past ended up being blessings in disguises.
- Is closeness to God central to my ultimate life goal? What do I have to work on to achieve greater closeness?
Closeness is the central part of my life but I don't like to tell people that...I like to keep me and God's Relationship a secret between me and him. If I start telling people my relationship with God people start giving me their opinions, they don't believe me, they compare my relationship with their relationship, or they look at me weird cause I even have one...I keep that stuff to myself. But to answer your last questions I work on prayer and meditation and my faith .
Hey People...Here is just a taste of some of the graphics that I have done in the past...If you want to see more of my work (since I'm too lazy to upload more) go to www.evolvinggraphics.com
