My Trip to SF [hipstmatic photos]
i recently took a trip to the bay area this weekend. here are the photos i took while there using hipstamatic. i’m sad that i forgot my fisheye while i was up there.
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.
i recently took a trip to the bay area this weekend. here are the photos i took while there using hipstamatic. i’m sad that i forgot my fisheye while i was up there.
done some dancing since my last post….first, the high succesful asians in the library - dance party video:
then my dance battles, where i was sick and sleep deprived. but i’ll post em up for reference:
basically, funk’d up assigns a song, and we dance to it. most “likes” wins. i’m not in it to win it, but just to gain exposure for the san diego funk scene. [even though i’m the only one that technically entered….] here is some footage:
San Diego:
my entry:
alternate video:
this is recent footage of my show at The Woodroom. it will be public until sunday, and after that, it’ll be restricted to only friends after that…so friend me on youtube!
also, i received this commentary on my performance that really touched me:
"Talent + charisma + artistry = “PJ”
Great job last night! I hope someone got that on video.
It reminded me of when my husband and I were young and “newly-in-love”. We, as in your poem, had high hopes to change the world. We were modern “revolutionaries” - Rebels WITH a cause: “Fly high… Live hard… LOVE destructively…”
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Your word hit me in the face like a glass of cold water. It brought tears to my eyes in admission that we’ve both turned into birds in a cage. We’ve both let life cut our flying wings and we’ve become depended of the corporate/capitalist world we hated so much in our youth.
We both acknowledged that the greatest joy and the glue that has kept us together have been GOD, the common love of our son and the passion that someday we’ll be able to go back to our youthful dreams in our old age…
Thank you for your gift."
just some “hey i’m bored, so lets film me practicing” footage. more practice footage to come…