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| ikigai11: CASINO NELSON - PHOTOGRAPHER - NOV 5 / SCORPIO - BROWN EYES casinonelsonphotography.com - eyeofthebeast.com - casinonelson.tumblr.com 1. where do you live & what do you do well right now I am bumming around in San Francisco for the next couple of months waiting for the festivals to kick off (coachella, symbiosis, and burning man to name a few) and shooting random oddities. I have some work being featured in the next issue of this awesome art magazine Musee 2. a) how did you get started it depends on when you think the beginning is? I would say my beginning was when I moved to Los Angeles in 2006 and started shooting everything and going to school for photography at Santa Monica College. I made a lot of great connections and gained an immeasurable amount of wisdom about life b) what makes your work important to you I think my work is important because its my world. My loves. My fears. My memories. My vices. My therapy. It is my truth and imagination in a polarizing dance c) sunrise or sunset Sunrise. I will always pick a new awakening or beginning because I always want to be excited for a new day. But hey who am I kidding I can barely get up before noon 3. personal characteristics x 3 intuitive - odd - wanderer 4. what inspires you I love to see and read things that change my perception on reality. Any unconventional avant garde fashion 5. describe a rich moment in your life, all 5 senses I am sitting on top of my friends art car 20 feet in the air. I have an accomplished calm. I can feel the heat of the man burning a few hundred yards away. Looking below I see the chaos of people below in celebration of the past week and birthing of a new. I can taste the flames they are so close. The night air is crisp as if to be taunting the fire to play. I can hear the sounds of a thousand songs. I take one small hit of DMT and my world disintegrates. I can’t explain to you what happened after that, it is something that can only be felt for ones self. Burning Man 2011 6. “free ride anywhere” where would you go I would probably take a private jet to Sweden. If I got a free ride I might as well take full advantage of it right? Sweden has such awesome culture, design, and fashion that really resonates with me 7. what do you admire in other people I admire those who walk their own path, the weird, and ones that can change my beliefs and open my mind to other worlds 8. outfit you love to wear well my most prized possessions are a set of lazer cut stainless steal multi finger rings that a friend down in LA made for me. I always have those rings on 9. message to your future self Casino, no matter what remember that hoverboards don’t float on water…. 10. "power animal” do you have one well I just asked one of my best friends and she said a crane because I am long, lanky, and majestic 11. give us a Quote to live by (make it up yourself..) “Reality is nothing more than dust and a spark that lights the fire of the universe.” -Casino PS. your perfect lazy sunday morning song Pink Floyd (Live at Pompeii) - Echoes This song is an ego death manifested in a song and recorded live |