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Visual Story Teller β€’ Cultural Archivist

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Joined June 2009
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Los Angeles, I’m home. 🌴
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AND TYLER FUCKING MITCHELL
WIZKID, A$AP ROCKY, RIHANNA & DAVID CHAPELLE
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a n!gga is overdue for a legendary comeback.
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A nigga can still end the year with a win that changes his life forever.
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the boots & hat, is my final era.
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The camera becomes a way of staying present without having to sit still long enough to feel everything that's happening.
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drinking bottomless ol fashions and calamari courtesy of the Nike family….
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Nobody in this footage knows they're on camera. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. No one glances at the lens. No one fixes their hair or straightens up as they walk past. A camera in public in the 90s was rare enough that you assumed it wasn't pointed at you, so people moved through the world completely unguarded. Everyone in this video also left the house unreachable. If your mom needed you, she couldn't get you. If your friends were at the mall, you found out by going to the mall. You could be nowhere for three hours and nobody worried. Psychologists call what we do when we know we're observed self-presentation. We manage our posture, our expressions, our pace. The women in this clip are doing none of it. They're just walking. Anyone born after 2000 has spent their entire public life knowing any moment could end up recorded. That awareness never fully switches off. It's in your shoulders at the airport, your face on the train. The ache in this clip is simple. These are some of the last humans ever filmed who had no audience in mind.
Shopping at the mall in the 90s. Not a phone in sight
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Move to California and see what its like to grind life on hall of fame difficulty. See what you really made of
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It a never be another trick like dis nigga🐐
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everyday im learning to accept things the way they are and not for what i thought they were.
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So quick witted. πŸ’” @DollyParton #DollyParton
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Ive grieved so many versions of myself that im not even sure anymore.
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I love when directors get this crazy
This shot in Luke Cage was absolutely insane.
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Wiz Khalifa says he told his 13-year-old son to wait until he’s older to smoke marijuana after learning that some of his friends are already experimenting with it.
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Most times I talk to myself to get ideas from a real nigga
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A nigga like me wasn't born lucky, I was built relentless
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A nigga in motion don’t have time to explain his direction.
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