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Art & Adventure with PJ Ortiz Luis

The online portfolio of Pacifico "PJ" Ortiz Luis, a storyteller utilizing different mediums of art including film photography, dance, and performance poetry.

So I Won an All-Styles Battle

I'm supposed to be updating my blog regularly with all my relevant art-related accomplishments....so here's one...I won an all styles battle in December.  Although I would call myself a Locker, I prefer to enter All-Styles battles as opposed to Locking because I was "raised" with other genres and rarely ever get to practice pure funky Locking with other lockers.

There were a ton of great dancers that night...but I think the main reason I won is for two reasons:
•  I put in ALOT of work practicing to all genres of music....and I mean ALL...I practiced to genres I know they won't play just in case they decide to try to baffle me

•  I didn't see it as battling.  I didn't see anybody as competition.  ...Instead, I saw everybody as my peer, and instead of battling I was having a friendly conversation with each of them and the music. 

Black and Purple Film

This is from my last roll of film from 2013.  I have two other rolls that have been unposted...but I feel like sharing this first because it is rather peculiar.  Something went wrong in the development process which resulted in this purple tint.  Typically, the film always comes out black and white.

Definitely not complaining though!

no-COLOR-vember

one last weekend of no-color-vember...decided to celebrate it by shooting a little infrared film....

Sunday Streets

I started a roll of film last week in Sacramento...ended up only taking 3 photos up there....with the majority of the frames left untouched on this roll of film...so I decided today was a good day to walk around San Diego...and shoot people....with a camera....