International Hip Hop Festival & Holland

I can't believe a week and a half has already passed since I got back from The Netherlands. I feel like it's actually taken that long to let the whole experience soak in. From start to finish, it was amazing. I'll never forget all the dope heads we met, the places we saw, the conversations we had. Every time I'm in a foreign country, I'm torn between 2 ways of experiencing it. #1 being as a Photographer - shooting non-stop and coming home with hundreds, sometimes thousands, of visuals to show my family and friends. #2 is the senses-all-in way. By this I mean, not looking at anything through a lens but only through my eyes and really, really soaking everything in.

On this particular trip, I was able to find a perfect balance. I came back to Toronto with some incredible memories - a lot of those really laugh-able ones. You know, when you're sitting on the subway or walking down the street and you get your L-O-L game up, just thinking about a particular conversation or something that happened. Mad shout-outs to my travel sisters, Lori and JenJen. xo

Let's get to the goods though, right? I've posted 102 shots in a public Facebook album that you are more than welcome to check out. These are some of my personal trip highlights. Everything from the food we ate to the ill fiends we rolled with.

Recommended listening: Jazzy Ivy, the Korean emcee/producer who hosted the World BBoy Classic.

Much love,
L

Cali Love exhibit by Amanda Lopez

Amanda Lopez is a tremendously gifted photographer who some might recognize from her fantastic photos in our upcoming Girls Got Kicks book. Her ability to capture a person's spirit and sense of identity is amazing.

Inspired by the dia de los muertos (day of the dead) celebration, CaliLOVE, Amanda’s latest body of photographic work addresses more than the concept of death. Instead, Lopez’s portraits reveal and celebrate the preciousness of life. The artist’s first series captured completely indoors, CaliLove addresses the vastness of human experience and individuality. Viewers are called to witness the unique reactions and idiosyncrasies comprising the process of living as well as each individual’s way of coping with the uncertainty of life in the face of death. Within each photograph, CaliLOVE aims to capture this juncture between life, death and the everyday choices that define who we are and where we are headed.

When: Opening reception: June 18th 2010, 7:00PM-11PM
Show dates: June 18tth – July 13th 2010
Where: Free Gold Watch, 1767 Waller Street, San Francisco, CA [415] 876-4444 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting [415] 876-4444 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Cost: $0.00

amandalopezphoto.com
freegoldwatch.com

Ice Cream for Kicks

Check out photographer Loni Schick new project called Ice Cream for Kicks. Ice Cream for Kicks showcases Loni's sweet love of kicks! Check it out.....




















To see more of Loni's work hit up her website www.lonischick.carbonmade.com and also check her blog: www.cupcakesandmixtapes.blogspot.com

FSF NYC photoshoots

The FSF photoshoots in NYC were madness! Hours of traffic, late night subway rides, plenty of getting lost, and it all came out great. We hit the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan (uptown, downtown and Lower East Side!) and Brooklyn, including about 10 individual shoots and over 20 girls at the photobooth at the BBQ. Amanda Lopez, the official FSF photographer and collaborator on our book project (Girls Got Kicks), was amazing. Low light? Truck drivers trying to run her down? Need to double as clean up crew at the Q? She did it all! Here are just a few shots along the way...(from the times I remembered I had a camera too!) Many thanks to our subjects: Jae and her mom, Erica, Courtney, Toofly, Karina, Rashawn, JenOne, Fee, Jovi, and all the girls at the BBQ!

Up high to get the Toofly shots

Karina's mom helped out with this shoot.

Karina and her Jordans!

Jovon before the rain. (She took the wet Jordans really well.)

Relaxing with Toofly after the shoot.

San Fran FSF photo shoot in action!

Lots of sneaker changes...

Amanda risking her life for a good shot!

Gabriella was a Pro Mama, as always!

Two days of the West Coast photo shoot are under our belt, and I must say, we had an amazing time! Here are the very unprofessional pics I took, as Amanda (amandalopezphoto.com) took the real ones. Thanks to everyone who rolled through, and if we missed you, we'll get you next time!

The Sunday afternoon crew, thanks to all! From left to right, Jada and Ashley, Aleta, Lori, Nely (of the FSF street team), Tiph (reppin Homeygrown), Lani and Amanda

Justice, Annie and Chuli, chilling...

Dee on a sneaker mission, pausing at the BART station

The "Sisterhood" even walked on dirt for us

Ashley and Jada oozing style

"Do not block" aka-- DON'T SLEEP ON THE LADIES...

LA next...

Join the West Coast FSF photo shoot!

Here it is, the first professional femalesneakerfiend photo shoot, and the first step of a great collaboration with the talented Amanda Lopez. This photo shoot is building towards a magazine spread and future FSF book plans, and we're looking for a wide variety of girls and women with a passion for their kicks. We're not just talking about folks with 200 pairs, we want to see you if you love your kicks and have a story to tell. We're hitting the West Coast first, and it's coming up quick! Contact us at photoshoot@femalesneakerfiend.com if you'd like to be a part of the shoot.

November Photo Contest Ends Tomorrow!

[Sammianthaa in the pumpkin patch.]

GET OUT THE HOUSE! That's the theme for this month's almost-over photo contest. Take your kicks out somewhere nice. Get a pic of them, and tell us what the place means to you....
You can win a FREE FSF SNKR SQD t-shirt! For more info on the contest, click HERE.

Vans Series--Amanda Lopez photo exhibit

For those of you lucky enough to live on the West Coast (of the US), check out Amanda Lopez's first gallery exhibit of the very cool True Story: the Vans Shoe Series. These self-portraits of sorts are taken across the world during her travels to Los Angeles, Pinar del Rio, Mexico City, Havana and Teotihuacan. It's a figural self-portrait, a diary, almost a graf-like proof that "hey, I was here". Thought of in reverse, it's a Vans version of "Where's Waldo?"... Enjoy!
(click the image for the details)

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GET OUT THE HOUSE Photo Contest

We get lots of photos of sneakers and sneaker fiends at FSF, but this month we're looking for something different: "GET OUT THE HOUSE!" is our November photo contest, and we mean it. Show your sneakers a good time! Take them somewhere nice...

Here are the contest rules:

1) Take a quality photo of your sneakers somewhere you love (or have someone else take it if the kicks are on your feet). It could be in nature, in action or just around the way, but a spot that has meaning for you.

[Cinebean chilling in her Vans]

2) Send it in along with your name, the location of the photo and why it's important to you. Email to contest@femalesneakerfiend.com by December 1st. For more information and ideas, go to our November contest page.

3) 2 winners will get their very own FSF SNKR SQUAD t-shirt, designed by artist d-nyce exclusively for FSF.

Pinkeye posing in her FSF SNKR SQD tee...

Official United Trade Show Afterparty and Frank151 Spring Shoot

Thursday January 24th
@ Sutra (16 1st Ave at 1st St).
The East Village, Manhattan NYC

Music By:

DJ Haul
Morse Code
Synapse

Complimentary Signature Cocktails Provided By the Sutra Lounge from 10-11

RSVP At events@frank151.com

Boogie's Back

To follow up his first book, "It's All Good" (Miss Rosen Editions/powerHouse Books), the Best Photography Book of 2006 as selected by Photo District News documenting the gangsters, crackheads, and junkies of New York City's most notorious neighborhoods, the photographer gives us a limited edition of his latest self-titled, "Boogie".

Born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, Boogie began photographing rebellion and unrest during the civil war that ravaged his country during the 1990s. Though he never planned to leave his homeland, a green card won in the national lottery brought him to the United States in 1998. Boogie settled in Brooklyn, where he resumed his photographic pursuit of those living on the fringe, outside the law, in the margins of society.

Boogie's work continues to reach diverse audiences with his precise blend of incisive investigation and aggressive aestheticism. Digging beneath the surface of everyday life has become this self-taught photographer's mission. To celebrate the release of Boogie, a limited edition of 500, colette and Galerie Olivier Robert present two distinct exhibitions featuring some of the photographer's most personal images that have been gathered during his travels through life with camera in hand.

PowerHouse Books, Colette, and Galerie Robert Oliver are pleased to announce two Paris exhibitions to celebrate the launch of the limited edition book. Boogie January 7–26, 2008 at Colette. 213 Rue St. Honore, Paris. March 12–April 12, 2008 at Galerie Olivier Robert. 19, Rue Mazarine, Paris

Limited Edition Boogie is available at PowerHouse Books.

Visit the artist's website: www.artcoup.com

Pics and info: www.worshipworthy.com