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So, I do a lot of stuff working on my body. A lot of working out. You and me are both proud Planet Fitness members. But I’ve started doing yoga. Trying to get more into that. Rugby definitely breaks your body down (played for about 17 years). So, trying to find the next challenge is always important. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581465046114-OYCSQ0NSQ2A9U77OPYNM/IMG_0623.jpeg Dallas If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? Besides being Chinese? Ok Life has never been very stable for me. I do have a hard time meeting and connecting with people. It’s a struggle for me to go and attach to people/ meet people because my entire life nobody stayed around very long. So, it’s a hard thing for me to do (make human connections). There’s a lot to me that looks on the exterior but does not exist within. People connect what I look like to their own lives. I’ve only actually been in the country for a couple of years. There’s this whole other world that I’ve existed in that doesn’t matter once I come here. Having people understand the world that I come from and the world that I live in would be the thing I’d want them to know https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581465031858-TVTIAXLBHI7WP86QLI9T/IMG_0720.jpeg Dallas Describe the color orange to someone who is blind I’m trying to think of how people describe scents to me. I would say warmth. Like when you stand out in the sun on a beach day. Like you feel the warm sand. That’s how I would describe the color orange visually. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581464862843-E3NH0HEMN6C3L4IYJM6F/IMG_0715.jpeg Dallas What do you think it means to live a good life? To experience things. I think that’s what a good life is. You get a lot of people who say a good life is having success and a bunch of people around you. But you have to experience the world. You have to have some travels in your life. Otherwise, you don’t really get to know yourself. You don’t really get to experience the world and who you are as an individual. Having a good life involves going around, meeting people, talking to people, experiencing things, and most importantly being kind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581464833570-EBWN5PCS9KBMWV43DNMG/IMG_0638.jpeg Dallas If you could travel to one place in the world for a week (all expenses paid), where would you go? I’d probably go back to Thailand. I love Thailand. There’s a spot up in Koh Samui where we went for my senior trip. It was on top of this mountain and the views were incredible. Beautiful people, beautiful place, and fucking incredible food. But I’d probably do Antarctica. That’s my last continent. Gotta get ‘em all. To get there is pretty expensive. So, having that for a week would be pretty cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581465016808-3TY5ZOVEEM2SFGBPNVAM/IMG_0637.jpeg Dallas What emotion do you experience the most? Probably anger. That’s pretty constant for me. But it’s not like a “I’m mad at somebody/something” sort of anger. You gotta have some kind of motivation to do things in your life and keep moving. Even getting up in the morning to go to the gym. You have to be a little angry to do that. It’s an anger than comes from the need to get to the next thing. To move on and continue improving. Anger can sometimes be seen as dark. It’s a positive for me. It’s honestly just motivation for me to get better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581464850200-D0RJI3HNRPQ8SA0UQGMB/IMG_0616.jpeg Dallas If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? I’d do time travel. I think that’s kind of underrated. But like, being able to go rewind and fast-forward (not like going back and showing up in the 1940s. Just being there while everything else is happening and you screw up the timeline). Being able to go back and re-experience things and being able to slow down time because that the one thing nobody has control over. It’s the one thing you can’t get back or take away. Being able to make sure that no matter what happens, I’m able to use my time to the best and never run out of time. I think that would be the best superpower. https://www.owatson-photo.com/deresha daily 0.75 2020-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581466433623-6AJCR52E66SKKUYLPSOB/IMG_0092.jpeg Deresha If you could be a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? Do you see how indecisive I am? Because I would also say it depends. There are days when I would feel like I would be a nice pair of stilettos but then there are other days when I feel like I’m just like a big cozy pair of slippers. Ok, I’m going with me on a daily basis: I’m a happy person, I’m very warm and cozy. So, I’m going to say a nice fuzzy pair of house slippers. Or maybe I should say boots? Were going with house slippers with fuzz on the inside. It makes a difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581466449914-YZ9A38U3XOVLECJSSIP5/IMG_0081.jpeg Deresha If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I want them to know that there will be times when I fall off the face of the earth and you won’t hear from me for weeks at a time but that is not because I don’t love you. I still love you and I still care about you. It’s just I’m such a big introvert and its hard for me to reach out to folks like that. But the love/ care that I have for them is still there in regardless of whether I’m talking to them everyday or not. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581466494620-MBCJSEIPPNXTRFQFGOYP/IMG_0109.jpeg Deresha What is something you work on in your free time? Other than sleeping, I would say knitting and writing poetry/ short stories. And I’m slacking on both of them because I haven’t been paying enough time and care for myself. But when I do, I love to knit and make little scarves and stuff for people. Those are just so freeing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581466410785-D7NCY6JDLXG7YVPF0NTG/IMG_0066.jpeg Deresha If you could make one rule for a day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? I feel like this is changing and it would definitely change for me depending on the day. Like right now, the first rule that I thought of Is that on this day you should go to everyone who has wronged you or you have wronged and have a conversation about it. Talk that mess out because—I come from a Caribbean household. A lot of Caribbean-ness is in my family—I’ve seen so many folks stop talking to people who they really loved over the smallest things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581466464214-V46GAAVZ78NZAZDDVI9F/IMG_0069.jpeg Deresha What inspires you on a daily basis? I think what inspires me on a daily basis are the people that I love and really care about. Just the love that I feel for those people. When I’ve gone through sad times or times when I feel really frustrated with what I’m doing, my interactions with my family, or my friends, or Dave get me re-energized/ re-motivated. I think what inspires me are those people that I really care about…and love. That is what inspires me. https://www.owatson-photo.com/shiharu daily 0.75 2020-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467029567-NNTTLE8C9I2MB9WUFHQ0/IMG_0135.jpeg Shiharu What is one thing you work on in your free time? In my free time I like to write songs. I don’t have a lot of time to do it anymore just because of schoolwork and stuff. But I write songs. I practice songs for choirs like BCCE (The Black Celestial Choral Ensemble). Yea, just a lot of music stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467042251-ZO1GYNF1US4OSG62SW91/IMG_0119.jpeg Shiharu What do you think it means to live a good life? I guess to be with someone you like or love and do whatever you want every day. It can be a profession, but It doesn’t have to be. Just spending time with the people that you love. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467054297-2I82LN41J4X3VJTFISOA/IMG_0114.jpeg Shiharu If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? I feel like I kind of look mean sometimes or like I don’t want to make friends. Or I’m antisocial or stuff. But I’m really not. I really love making friends. I like to socialize. I like to have a good time with people. So yea, I’m not mean. https://www.owatson-photo.com/denari daily 0.75 2020-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467309008-WPP3CIVGG6SYBU5WO2DC/IMG_0476.jpeg Denari What is something you work on in your free time? I try to build up my portfolios. So that would be like my photography portfolio, my graphic design portfolio, or my drawing/art portfolio. I like to do the art. I naturally love to do those arts by myself so I would say that working on them is not just doing works. It’s just building the portfolio. Making the work more extensive, improving the brand, fitting more people into it, and all kinds of stuff like that. So, building my portfolios is what I do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467370142-ZTM5APJA5EFZEDC5CBOV/IMG_0394.jpeg Denari What inspires you? I’m not sure if it has to do with me being a male or me being a Leo, but there are times that I experience this feeling. It’s like an overwhelming feeling of pride. I become so happy or proud of something/someone that I literally cry. When I see my little brother do his little thing on stage (dancing, singing, whatever it may be), I become so happy that tears come out of my eyes. But I’m laughing. I’m happy as hell. I could never be happier than that. Continuously finding ways to experience that feeling is what inspires me to do more/ do the next thing. Had I not found that bro, I honestly wouldn’t care about much. That emotion is fleeting, but I’m always chasing it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467327426-2ROBM98LS7GEVHCV0TLY/IMG_0443.jpeg Denari If you could travel to one place in the world (all expenses paid), where would you go and why? I’m going to Egypt! Straight to Egypt. I’m Pharaoh, and I need to be among my predecessors. That would be a dream come true. And of course, I’m trying to make that trip happen in real life. But if I could make it happen right here right now, done. Sorry school, wait. Sorry family, wait. Egypt, let’s go. You feel me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467353282-SJ7G31BPUXRVHA2OO6CI/IMG_0427.jpeg Denari What do you think it means to live a good life? For those who believe that they know their purpose in life, I would say that it means fulfilling that purpose while you’re still living and continuing to live your best life thereafter. But for those who don’t know their specific purpose, living a good life would just mean the pursuit of happiness and the eventual achievement of it by harmless means. Because if you harm people to live your good life, you didn’t really live a good life. But if you can find happiness through harmless means, that would be the definition of a good life lived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581467291709-SBFZG957E8WOBAUDP45Y/IMG_0506.jpeg Denari If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? I don’t know exactly how to say this in the right way but: I am of fire. Not only because I’m a fire sign, was born in the summer, and like the heat way more than the cold. But it’s really because of what’s inside. I walk into a room and I’m looking to warm up everybody’s heart. At the same time, I’m bright. At the same time, don’t get too close because you might get burned. But at the same time, I’m necessary for life. Heat is necessary for life. How could I explain it? I’m loyal to what I am and who I am. Fire is always gonna be fire. I’m still gonna do what I came to do because that’s all I know how to do. I’m not in the business of acquiring new skills. I’m content with what I have. But I’m going to do what I do to the best of my ability until I’m burned out. I am of fire. https://www.owatson-photo.com/cletus daily 0.75 2020-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468316477-OUDNK07L47VG2CQKTRD3/IMG_9998.jpeg Cletus What do you think it means to live a good life? To live a good life. I guess it all depends on who you are and what your life values are. Some people, living a good life may mean having as much money as possible (having financial freedom). But to some other people that doesn’t really matter. Some people are fine. Its just having friends and family around. I guess for me, having a good life means being around good people that have been supportive of me. If you have those people around, it means that you have a good life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468386954-9PR1AI5BKDHVK7H6KYC2/IMG_9988.jpeg Cletus If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? Off the bat, I guess I’m not the most approachable person because I’m not always walking around smiling and shit like that. My mom told me I have resting bitch face. But I feel like after a while once you get to know me, I’m definitely more genuine. As I get more comfortable around you, I open up more to you. So if you don’t know me, try to get to know me and I feel like we can be really great friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468349773-7VSP8VDLRA5W0ZRK531G/IMG_9996.jpeg Cletus If you could make one rule that everyone would have to follow for a day, what would it be? Be healthy. Drink water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468339675-E3X1IF5KHRPTOYI7HEOI/IMG_0005.jpeg Cletus If you could travel to one place in the world, where would it be and why? I’ve always wanted to go to someplace in Asia. I’ve never been to Asia. I’ve been to Europe: you know Portugal and stuff like that. But, maybe Japan. Japan has pretty cool technology… really cool food, really cool people, and the culture’s also really nice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468367913-7756IDAOY6K0BM2VU7TQ/IMG_0002.jpeg Cletus If you were a pair of shoes, what type would you be and why? Oh that’s easy! OK. Id probably be a pair of Jordan 1s. Those are my favorite basketball shoe. I have three pairs. Three different colorways. They’re comfortable and the longer you wear them the better they look (They get better with age). https://www.owatson-photo.com/ryan daily 0.75 2020-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468591242-5176XL86WEGDHNMODSWN/IMG_0169.jpeg Ryan If you could make a rule for one day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? If I had to be serious and say one rule it would be: don’t be harsh or critical. Just be kind for one day and see what happens. There’s a lot of negativity and I think one day of just pure positivity would be something I would like to see. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468513290-9DK7F7W1K2Y13ASAHJHJ/IMG_0189.jpeg Ryan What is one thing you work on in your free time? I go to the gym a lot. The reason I do that is less about getting in shape and looking good but more about the routine. I think it brings consistency to my week. It really boosts my mood more than anything else does really. It just has the added side effect of being in shape and feeling better than you would if you didn’t go. Yea, its like my main hobby I would say. It is a hobby because you’re just working at something over and over until you get better. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468610755-HPAE9E8ZNQ6ISYF1WSC3/IMG_0192.jpeg Ryan I f there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? I guess I would say that I’m a thinker and I’m very curious. In the sense that a lot of hands on things pique my interest. I love cars, I love mechanical things, and I love seeing how things work. I think that’s the most interesting thing you wouldn’t know by just seeing me. I’m into intricate pieces of machinery. You know, like NASA and everything that has to do with exploring the limits of science. I think is something that appeals to me more than anything else on a spiritual level. Figuring out how we could better ourselves through using what we know and what we don’t know. I would say that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468570111-SVORPDMXSLTXRD4AWSL0/IMG_0193.jpeg Ryan If you could travel to one place in the world for a day, where would you go? I would like to go to Machu Pichu. I think all expenses paid, that would be a very specific trip that would require a lot of money. So, If I could forgo all the expenses associated with it. Its such a remote location and very specific archeological site. I think it would be really cool to see for myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1581468551134-VUSD9YSN410Y36336BXO/IMG_0171.jpeg Ryan What was the last thing you watched on Netflix/ TV? The last thing I watched was Game of Thrones. Episode three of the last season. I haven’t seen anything from it since season one. My brother was watching the Battle of Winterfell and he was like, “Oh do you want to watch it with me?” I was like OK. Spoilers aren’t really a thing to me anymore but, it was alright. (Me: Is there any interest in watching the rest of the series?) No. The thing was that the episode had a lot of inconsistencies and plot holes. It kind of hinted that the rest of the season would be uhh. So, I was like I guess I don’t have to watch the other seven seasons. https://www.owatson-photo.com/ochael daily 0.75 2020-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586168116504-6A9813DRUM1LJ7FVVFJX/IMG_5221-2.jpg O'chael What is worse: failing or never trying? I think never trying is worse. Honestly, failure is literally taking an L. An L in terms of learning a lesson. I don’t think failure is taking a loss because in every failure we learn something. It teaches us and helps us grow in whatever we do next. I think never trying is a cowardly move, because people usually don’t try out of fear. If you never try, you’ll never know what can or will happen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586168092264-JSWV2GW4UKE0TLQH3HRD/IMG_5220-2.jpg O'chael What do you want to do when you retire? Man, I don’t even have job yet. I want to sleep. I think when I retire, I’m going to want to sleep. Just thinking about the career I’m going into (Fashion Design), I know it’s going to be rigorous. I know it’ll be the type of job where I have to be on call and working long hours all the time. I know once I retire, I’m probably going to want to sleep. And then, travel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586168108831-OT94DZGYCV208A3Y0SZ6/IMG_5219-2.jpg O'chael What inspires you? What I would say inspires me is the thought that my future will not be the same as my present. The thought that one day the worries that I have now will no longer be. The thought that one day things will be easier. Life will be easier. Just understanding that a change is coming. The idea of that inspires me. Knowing that things will be different and being able to create my own happiness. That’s inspiring to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586168112900-YJMQNWNZHYYNPTV62RL7/IMG_5218-2.jpg O'chael If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I think if there was one thing I’d want people to know it would be that I’m not antisocial. I’m just socially awkward. When people see me, they tend to think that I’m not interested in them/what they have to say. I just have a hard time formulating conversation because I’m an overthinker. I’m always thinking of what others may be thinking of me in the moment. That’s where my brain is. It’s sometimes difficult to maneuver/initiate conversations with people. So, I don’t. I usually wait t=for them to draw me into the conversation. Then I would speak up, but I keep it very limited. I like interacting with people. I’m not against it. It’s just a little hard. https://www.owatson-photo.com/nate-1 daily 0.75 2020-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586169117780-WFBRW2L2KQT7JDOXRQM9/IMG_0875.jpg Nate What is something you work on in your free time? My Art. My poetry. It’s my favorite thing. It’s like the love you come home to. You want to see her. You want to be with her and work on whatever you’re focusing on. That shit is fucking phenomenal. When I think of work, I’m thinking about coming home to create. What I can do to saturate that inspiration. It would have to be my art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586169081761-YISBV637VU0N4PZ22A5T/IMG_0877.jpg Nate If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose? Sneakers. I feel like sneakers are convenient. I do like regular shoes, but that’s for a different vibe. Something your familiar with. The got to’s. You never want to wear them too much, but they always go with something. The ones you love. That’s how I feel about converse. Oh! Boom, right there! I feel like converse for me (especially the new ones) have that classic look. I like those. I got like three pairs of them shits. I have a yellow mustard one, cow printed ones, and a plain off-white pair. I love my converse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586169112326-QGHKH6O1R0FM8N559IHE/IMG_0803.jpg Nate What do you think it means to live a good life? To live as you want to live. To do what you want. In its entirety, do what you want. When you lived your life, you want to be like “yea I did that, and I’m happy with it.” It’s doing everything you want to do regardless of the trials and tribulations. Looking back at a certain age and saying, “I’m happy.” I’m definitely happy. I wouldn’t want it any other way. Probably some things but……….make your life worth it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1586169103646-I455S9EMZ16RLM9M81EU/IMG_0871.jpg Nate If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Damn that’s a hard question. Because different super-powers have different purposes Can I have 2 answers? Either being able to conjure/control wind and fire or being a vigilante. Average guy still kicking ass, but definitely putting himself at risk at all times. But I would mainly say conjuring air and fire. Because I like air and fire. https://www.owatson-photo.com/leja-1 daily 0.75 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594215614804-TS6FN792CV8FMMRJD084/IMG_1029.jpeg Leja If you could travel to one place in the world (post coronavirus), where would it be and why? I want to go to an island. Just because I’ve never been to an island before and I feel like that would be a great experience. Definitely somewhere that has blue waters where I can see my feet. I would just explore the island to see what they have. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594215579889-MU9CZR0XKQKQBAOYCGAL/IMG_1038.jpeg Leja What is one thing you’d like to change about the world? I would change the way people treat each other. There’s a lot going on in the world right now. A lot of hate and built up anger in people’s hearts. If we all just treat each other the way we want to be treated, then this world would be a much better place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594215533778-SF2AWOWCPNUWLOWMO79M/IMG_1028.jpeg Leja If you could make a rule for a day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? I think my rule would be that everyone would have to say everything that comes to mind without even thinking about it or what it would do to another person. Just to see what people are really thinking and how people really are. A lot of people try to sugar-coat or hide who they are based on who they’re around. If that rule existed, you would know people’s true colors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594215601730-BHZLJ7GY5QIA7VI7HZP8/IMG_1034.jpeg Leja If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I think I would want people to know that I’m tough on the outside, but really soft on the inside. I feel like a lot of people (when they first meet me) think that I have an attitude problem or I’m mean. But once they get to know me, I’m a really down to earth and laid-back type of person. I like to chill and just vibe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594215562153-ET8OA70EEFIFZIHV2YFV/IMG_1041.jpeg Leja If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose? Definitely some sneakers. Some comfortable sneakers. I wouldn’t say Jordans, but maybe some Roshes. Because, you know, they’re comfortable. The reason why I would describe myself as some Roshes is because they’re just a chill pair of shoes. Laid back. Nothing too strenuous on the feet. I like Roshes. https://www.owatson-photo.com/jewell-1 daily 0.75 2020-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594219989185-N8FRG4D3D49FFLGYZKAP/IMG_1267.jpeg Jewell If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? Teleportation, definitely. I’d be everywhere. If I could teleport, I would be in every fucking country every day. I’m visiting every continent. I’m traveling. I’m going places. Would I be able to bring stuff back? I would be the robin hood of teleportation. I would steal from the rich, and give to the poor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594219939191-020VI3C2H65GSFO2HZNV/IMG_1263.jpeg Jewell What is one thing you’d like to change about the world? If there was one thing I would change, it would be to give students a space to actually be able to talk and express themselves in a way that isn’t structured. Kind of like guiding them through their emotions and how they feel. Making a system that’s universal for kids to be able to talk. Being able to figure out who they are. Helping them be who they want to be. I want them to have a space to build themselves. Not in a way where it’s like “you have to sit like this” or “you have to look like this.” Grow however the fuck you want to grow. This is a place for you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594220016337-WQDNKXSFWVKHKP35L188/IMG_1129.jpeg Jewell If you could make one rule for a day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? Quiet. Everybody has to be quiet. Just one day of silence. Not the animals though. Just humans being quiet. I’d want to see how we communicate with each other if we can’t talk. A large way that we communicate with each other is through saying things. I feel like if you can’t talk, you’ll have to adapt to different things. So, no talking. We’re all going to be quiet for 24 hours. That would be cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594219921309-6XBI2WU25OHECIE3VMEC/IMG_1271.jpeg Jewell What do you think it means to live a good life? I think morally to live a good life means you’re doing things to help yourself. You’re doing things that make you happy/ Excited. You’re doing things that bring joy to you. You don’t have to have money to be living a good life. For instance: sometimes living a good life for me is a good book, quiet, and maybe random people. Living a good life is just being happy in your body, mind, self, and spirit. Being content with who you are, what you are, and where you are. It’s what feels right to you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594220029898-MTMY3S4DVXZR00D4FJI8/IMG_1203.jpeg Jewell What inspires you? I feel like that’s a weird question. So many things can inspire you. I guess it’s my future. The unknown. Thinking about all the possibilities that my life could have. The possibilities are endless. In life, shit just happens. Everything is not set in stone. I’m inspired by the possibility of what could happen. The fact that I have the options to make things happen inspires me. I could be a millionaire in five years and not know about it right now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1594219959263-DCFBGLSGKITJQ2BEP5OE/IMG_1270.jpeg Jewell If there was on thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I’m never going to be uniform. I’m probably not gonna fit into any group in society. I’m weird, quirky, different. Some people like it, and some people hate it. Some people don’t understand it. But, I’m not gonna change/fit in. I don’t like blending in with other people. I don’t like leading or following. In a lot of groups that I’m in its hard for me to “be a part of.” There’re so many sides to me that its kind of confusing. One day I can love something and the next day ill hate it. I’m not a uniform person. Fitting in is not my thing. My spirit and personality are too big to fit into a mold of what someone wants me to be. https://www.owatson-photo.com/emmanuel daily 0.75 2020-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148242490-6RIHTMYEPAUM0CVQU7IH/IMG_2312.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What is something you work on in your free time? My craft. The past 2 or 3 years, I’ve realized that I really don’t like working for people. I really don’t like making money for people. Just building something for me. I’ve ventured into entrepreneurship. Started the whole photography business. Here and there I make websites for people. I’ve recently started options trading. You know, building different sources of income. That’s definitely been a big thing for me man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148296288-OZLB0ZAMFGO8O48LRUEA/IMG_2457.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What do you think is worse: failing or never trying? Never trying for sure. First time I options traded, I lost $500. That shit was so fucking depressing bro. After that, I was able to read up and I ended up hitting this last Tesla spike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148861045-WZ2SOWBTZS28KMZAETEC/IMG_2425.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? If I could have one power. Damn bro. I’m really thinking about this. I don’t want to give a bullshit answer because if I wake up with this power tomorrow, I have to be able to use it the way I want to use it. Teleportation. I’m thinking of teleporting because of how my lifestyle is. I’m always on the go. I’m always shooting. I’m always helping a family member out. There are too many things to do in a day, for me at least. Being able to teleport would be really convenient. I would get so much things done in a day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148784162-XB7H6JJSXA8L0VJXEUCO/IMG_2471.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) If you could make a rule for one day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? Stay home and spend time with your family. We kind of take for granted us and spending time with each other. Being in NY and trying to live, it’s really fast-paced. At one point, I barely even saw my mom, and I didn’t notice that until covid. But usually, my mom leaves at 5 in the morning and comes back at 6 pm. My dad leaves at 11 am and comes back around 10 pm. I would wake up and nobody’s home. By the time they come home, I’m taking a nap or I’m fully asleep. Spend more time with your family. Like a day or two. Do things together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148917207-LX0U1JCBBWEGGS32KTB0/IMG_2467.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) If you could travel anywhere in the world for a day (all expenses paid), where would you go and why? Well if you asked me this question 5 years ago, I probably would have told you Haiti. My parents grew up there. But right now, I’m going to Japan bro. Growing up, I’ve always watched anime. I’ve loved anime all my life. To this day, I still watch anime 24/7. I love the culture and the food. To be able to experience that in Japan, that would be pretty dope. I was supposed to go this year for my birthday, but corona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148762684-S69ZELY9OP4OWXM4NJ9Z/IMG_2269.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) After a hard day of work, what do you like to do? After every stressful day, I always soak. Soak my body in the bath. I like to snack a lot. It may not look it, but I snack a lot. I eat more than a lot of fat people. My metabolism is so fucking fast that it’s like “bruh.” And just relaxing man. I don’t do too much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148772313-JI67Q83DYP1FCB6LZ8C9/IMG_2466.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What is something that makes you lose track of time? Video games is a no brainer. Can I say anything I want? Sex, obviously. Sex can make you lose track of time. And reading. As of late, I’ve recently started options trading. Just working on my craft when it comes to video editing, photo editing, programming. I could wake up at 7, read a few articles, and its 1 pm. And I’m like, “Where did the time go?” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148201550-QB5RUR0KGPPLCIE08XLN/IMG_2345.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What do you think it means to live a good life? To live a good life. Personally, a good life for me would be being content with everything you’ve done. Having no regrets. All of the decisions that I’ve made. All of the people that I’ve met. Relationships that I’ve made. The things that I’ve seen. Yeah. I like that. That was a good one. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148227135-W2PACNV6KJDSCOTCOZ87/IMG_2276.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What motivates you to get up in the morning? My parents for a fact. Growing up in NY. Coming from nothing and being given the opportunity to do something in life because of my parents (who had nothing) has definitely been the number one drive for me man. No doubt. My parents didn’t have too even be here. As long as I’m here and I know that they would want me to be something in life, that’s my ultimate drive. And plus, I want to get rich. Who doesn’t want to live comfortably? Wake up and go buy a car if you want. Wake up and buy a house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148310831-Q6VT2LRZKN2STXMFSKAA/IMG_2481.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? Now I’m at a point in my life where I’m on a mission. I’m striving for greatness. I’m on a mission to reach my goals. There isn’t much that’s in my way now. I’ve finished school. I still have family support. That’s what the mission is about. Being able to support my parents and myself. Achieving anything that I put my mind to. Right now I’m telling you, I’m on a mission. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148260423-74SDJ3G8NU149ZXBP16Y/IMG_2446.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What food best describes you? I’m a grapefruit, bruh. I can be a little bitter, but some days I can be a little sweet. Pause. Grapefruits are my favorite fruit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596148846337-GBVBHQV1AD27MQP1HH82/IMG_2452.jpeg Emmanuel (Bouzi) What emotion do you experience the most? Happiness. I’m always happy. People tell to stop smiling so much. I’m a very positive person. I always try to find the good in things. Even when I’m having a shitty day or I’m just not in the mood. https://www.owatson-photo.com/britnee daily 0.75 2020-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596149629758-U848Y0IH3RVWUFMT29PU/IMG_2181.jpeg Britnee What motivates you to get up in the morning? My grandmother definitely motivates me. My godmother who passed motivates me. I just want to see them happy because they sacrificed so much for me. If I feel like I can’t motivate myself, the important figures in my life motivate me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596149705824-ZEMUBWI4WYQUSTQRM8ND/IMG_2152.jpeg Britnee What is your idea of perfect happiness? Surrounding yourself with people that make you happy. Doing things that make you happy regardless of what anybody else has to say. Just doing what makes you happy without caring what anyone has to think. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596149668998-KO2BFNLH59PB870KJDXS/IMG_2190.jpeg Britnee If you could travel to one place in the world for a day (all expenses paid), where would you go and why? I think I’d go to Jamaica honestly. That’s the first thing that came to my head. I just like going back to Moco where my grandmother is from and seeing family. I like the food. It makes me more grateful for the life that I have here. Just being able to talk to my family out there. So yeah, Jamaica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596149648097-A6O504QSR4ENMNDOBKDP/IMG_2213.jpeg Britnee What emotion do you experience the most? I think contentment, if that’s an emotion. Im always in a state of contentment or trying to be in that state. I can’t say I’m always happy and I’m never always sad. But, I’ve just learned to be content in everything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596149689106-ZQH1CW4D7IFDPXIA7N1H/IMG_2183.jpeg Britnee If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? I want to read people’s minds. That sounds kind of bad, but I don’t know. I get very anxious. I always want to know what the other person is thinking. If I could get into somebody’s head….yea. I want to read somebody’s mind. I’m nosey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596150286780-1XMQRMOUP8JQJEFTULQ7/IMG_2262.jpeg Britnee If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? When a lot of people meet me, I’m fun, giddy, and very outgoing. Most people assume that I’m always happy. That’s an expectation people put on me. I don’t know, I have bad days too. But that’s just the energy I like to bring to people. If I didn’t know someone, I’d just tell them that I’m always happy but I’m still a person (if that makes sense). https://www.owatson-photo.com/charles daily 0.75 2020-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151871624-8VZDSRTDCIE1BXZFV3SF/IMG_2069.JPG Charles What food best describes you? I’m thinking of mad Caribbean food right now. I would say Pelau. My mom is Trinidadian, and that’s the dish she would cook all the time. Every time we have family over my mom would make a big pot of Pelau. It’s basically rice, beans, and chicken all together. I would say Pelau because it’s probably the meal that reminds me the most of home and family. I would say that’s the food that I would go with. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151862965-F9NTCYVKSGLAZOZTVKUP/IMG_2051.JPG Charles What is your idea of perfect happiness? I would say my idea of perfect happiness is finding my purpose. Finding that thing that I love to do no matter what. No matter the time of day, the weather, or anything like that. The one thing that makes me the most intrinsically happy. Finding my purpose would definitely be my idea of perfect happiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151899904-R7TA9P4EYATE2LSJM1DA/image-asset.jpeg Charles If you could travel to one place in the world, where would you go and why? - Alright, so I haven’t been to Europe or Asia. I’ve actually been to Africa twice already, but I’ve only been to Cameroon. There are definitely other countries in Africa that I would want to visit. Actually, I got one. I would go to Kenya. When I was growing up, I loved nature documentaries. I think the best thing ever would be to go on a safari in Kenya. I would take a bunch of photographs of the animals (lions are my favorite animal) and spend the day out in the Sahara. I would be able to see firsthand all the things I grew up watching on TV as a kid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151885388-QAPNEOROFMS7PK8TVLZT/IMG_2111.JPG Charles What emotion do you experience the most? I would say longing. Are you familiar with that? Longing for something? It’s something that I feel a lot. I feel like I should do a better job most of the time at being present. I’m usually longing: thinking about something that I’d like to do or something that I need to work on. Usually, future thinking: longing to complete a task or longing to achieve a goal. I would say that’s probably the emotion I feel the most. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152283817-YJK236R9386E4HIFO9Q1/IMG_2135.JPG Charles If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I would say it would be about my personality. A lot of the times if I don’t know people I come off as quiet and reserved and that’s really not who I am. My close friends would really be able to tell you. I like to goof off. I like to have fun. But when I just meet you, it takes be a little while to open up because I don’t know, that’s just the way I am. So, I would just say don’t let the first impression of being reserved (a little bit) throw you off because once you get to know me you might think I’m the complete opposite https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151842142-HFTHY3Q8UTFBTKBCUAMD/IMG_1980.JPG Charles What motivates you to get up in the morning? What motivates me to get up in the morning I would say is knowing that I’m not at my full potential. That’s really what motivates me to keep going. To keep learning. To keep gaining more knowledge. To keep getting better at the skills that I practice. For example, making music (making beats). I really like music production, even though that’s not my job at the moment. Getting up every day knowing that I’m working towards something greater than my day-to-day life at the moment. I would say that’s what gets me up and out of the bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151878605-2Z284YDQXLWHKCJE6I7F/IMG_2077.JPG Charles If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? Can I go with a brand or a specific pair? I would go with Nike because I would say that I’m very adaptable. I have a versatile skill set. There are many different things that I like to do and with Nike you got your runners, you got your basketball shoes, you got your trainers, you got your soccer cleats, everything. You can’t go wrong with Nike and I’d say you can’t really go wrong with me either. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151917590-83I2XMIIVYITWDLOZK99/IMG_2132.JPG Charles If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? I don’t want to be selfish with how I use it. I would say the ability to fly. I would never have to worry about traveling anywhere. I could explore the world. I could visit all the places I’ve wanted to visit. I could meet different people and see what goes on out there. I feel like it’s easy to feel like you’re in a bubble most of the time, especially when you’ve lived in a place for a very long time. I think the ability to fly and travel to different corners of the world would be the coolest superpower. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151853157-9W5TDVSA2UY9XX08DOCF/IMG_1995.JPG Charles How do you find comfort on bad days? I wouldn’t say I have a lot of bad days, but bad days do happen. I would say my comfort is usually in music, because in those cases I like to produce music. Still not the best at it but I’m getting better (I really like to produce). My dad was also a musician, so music has always been something important to me. Something that I hold dear. Anytime I’m having a bad day or feeling down, I always listen to music. It’s something that helps me relax my mind and kind of forget about all the bad. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596151858479-HIO145QY7Q2V3AMQVNJN/IMG_2001.JPG Charles Which activities make you lose track of time? I would say that very technical activities make me lose track of time. Like when I used to be heavy into video editing and now that I’m into music production. Anything where I’m trying to create something usually makes me lose track of time completely. I’ll just lock into whatever I’m doing. Once I’m able to lock in, time isn’t really a factor anymore. I lose track of it. https://www.owatson-photo.com/nolan daily 0.75 2020-07-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152804736-ZB9LQP7Z3Z1BVCOEIZ1K/IMG_1697.jpeg Nolan If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I would say that at first, I’m humble and shy but once you get to know me, I’m kind of outgoing. People would say I’m disrespectful, but it’s in a cool/ calm way. I’m not trying to do it to hurt anyone’s feelings. It’s kind of like if I see something funny, I’m like “oh yea, hahaha.” I’m outgoing and loving. I wouldn’t say I’m basic and normal, but everyone has their different characteristics. Humble, passionate, caring, and disrespectful. I know that’s oxymoronic, but I’m somewhere around there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152716560-L8FES0R6SOC343YMI4D8/IMG_1837.jpeg Nolan How do you find comfort on bad days? That’s a deep ass question. Music. I listen to music on my bad days. Sometimes reading a book or looking at my favorite quotes also put me in a better mood. Communicating with friends and family. Talking about my problems can do something better for me than taking them on by myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152734381-3SB4PU6PDP39RDWH3GSF/IMG_1725.jpeg Nolan What emotion do you experience the most? I would say I experience happiness and stress the most. Stress from working 12 hours a day. Happiness because even though my job is stressful, it’s fun because of the people that I work with. 75% of the day I’m laughing. I like to find the joy in the little things in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152790051-WOR95LZ0AWDD2DF1XL99/IMG_1848.jpeg Nolan If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? I got you. Give me a pair of Asics. Ever since I started running track in high school, Asics have been my favorite pair of shoes. They’re comfortable. They give me stability. They last long. I can have one pair for 2-3 years. I work out in them, so they help me stay active. They’re also cheap. I’m not saying I’m cheap (I’m a little bougie) but depending on the shoe I’m worth it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152773378-5VK0W6Q4TSD0RZ5LD414/IMG_1859.jpeg Nolan After a hard day of work, what do you like to do? So, I work overnights. Basically from 10 pm to 10 am, depending on if I do a full shift or not. It sounds crazy. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a little stressful. If I work a part-time shift I usually come home, shower, and eat a pint of ice cream while watching Netflix. If I come home from a full shift, I like to drink tea and have a full balanced breakfast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152751913-TD4PWTA7W6WE3QPHYZ25/IMG_1758.jpeg Nolan What food best describes you? Can it be more than one? I like to have a cheeseburger but now it would a turkey burger, fries, and a milkshake. Macaroni pie, stew chicken, callaloo (for those that don’t know what callaloo is, go on google and search it up). Valid stuff. Basically, Trinidadian cuisine. I love some curry, some pumpkin, some roti. Oh boy. That right there man. Hits the spot. But I’m always down to try new things. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596152680967-A7JBBJLRQ3NPCC5AL474/IMG_1831.jpeg Nolan What motivates you to get up in the morning? My passion. I want to start a music label. So being able to take notes and do research on that helps me get up in the morning. Knowing that I have a job during this hard time due to Covid-19. I’m better off than some (not to brag about it). Being able to work out, stay healthy, and safe. Knowing I have a roof over my head and family that loves me. Stuff like that. https://www.owatson-photo.com/derrick daily 0.75 2020-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154215114-5GO0R3F37FFIFD3QXA9S/IMG_1592.JPG Derrick If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? I would definitely teleport. I know it seems like a typical cliché answer, but I would never buy a metrocard again. I would never buy a metrocard again. I want to go to Africa, I’m there. Asia, I’m there. Boom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154185943-ZRY2423G0SNBDEJ1F9J0/IMG_1536.JPG Derrick What emotion do you experience the most? I guess calmness, if that’s an emotion. Or chillness. I do find myself panicking a lot. I don’t do well with uncertainty. It’s kind of like not having your feet on the ground. You hover above it. You know the ground is there, but I’m a little more comfortable with my feet on the ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154208243-8KN7TELT9YPURWUFLP0L/IMG_1547.JPG Derrick What do you work on in your free time? Something that I work on in my free time. I would definitely say my music. My craftmanship in terms of music. That’s just around all spectrums. I like to produce. I like to rap. I like to sing. Generally, I formulate ideas in my head and I practice working on that craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154204566-JW15M7UO708L2TJL6U30/IMG_1541.JPG Derrick If you could go back in time and tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? Definitely try harder. I had people in my life when I was younger that tried to push me. We didn’t really see eye to eye, and I let that hinder our relationship. Now I see that they were trying to help me. But they weren’t going about it in the best way. Younger self, try harder. Stay committed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154223622-5YY14E42JLXIN17Q6O5N/IMG_1628.JPG Derrick If there was on thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? Just being open minded. I realized that everybody is a human being. Everyone has their own morals and values that they live by. Common sense is not such a common thing because everyone knows something that someone else doesn’t. When you meet people and come with an open mind, it allows you to build. It’s a better platform to build a relationship on if you come open minded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154195835-2T2WW6859J4PO164GBB0/IMG_1540.JPG Derrick What’s your idea of perfect happiness? I think my idea of perfect happiness is a balance of happiness and all the other emotions. I feel like too much of anything becomes bad for you and it kind of loses its value. If I’m happy all the time, then happiness loses its value. Surely, I want to be happy all the time but it’s not realistic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1596154220142-5G5BQWQFWXA3R83ROFKY/IMG_1627.JPG Derrick If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? The first pair of shoes that came to mind were the Nike Flight-posites. Specific color I would say carbon and red. I had these shoes when I was in high school. It was a really durable shoe, but at the same time they were really lightweight. I was able to do things I didn’t think I was able to do with such a light pair of sneakers. Much like myself, I seem to surprise myself a lot. And I’m adaptable. https://www.owatson-photo.com/nic daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012671651-RR351BYZD56ZAB3FMMWA/IMG_2551.jpg Nic If you could make a rule for a day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? - I would tell everyone to practice self-love. Honestly. A lot of people (especially in New York) just get up, go to work, go to sleep, and repeat the same thing. The days just kind of roll on. Sometimes it’s good to take a day or two to think about you instead of everyone else. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012249846-FA9C7OK3RP04J8TOXS8L/IMG_2558.jpg Nic What do you think it means to live a good life? - Living a good life could be a lot of things to a lot of different people. To me, it’s basically having your friends, family, and everyone you care about nearby. Being successful in your own right. Being healthy: socially, economically, and spiritually. Yeah. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012311638-9UWUX6DJJC9UGXO737R9/IMG_2599.jpg Nic If you could only eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be and why? - I’m a foodie, so I don’t know about that one. Alright, imma give you two things because I can’t think of one. I would say anything related to pasta or rice, beans, and chicken. The rice, beans, and chicken comes from me being Haitian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012390546-Q0G3QLRS7EEGWX8JAB2T/IMG_2629.jpg Nic What motivates you to get up in the morning? - Trying to do better than what those before me have done. So, I see how my mom came here from Haiti to give us a better life. Now, I’m trying to do the same for my kids. I’m trying to be as successful as I possibly can be. Doing what I love instead of what’s seen as mandatory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012179343-8T3631T6C55D9TKPJ1XV/IMG_2592.jpg Nic If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? - I would say I’m a pair of Jordan 1s. They’re classic, timeless, and they’re appreciated by the old heads as well as the new sneakerheads. I’ve always thought of myself as an old soul. I always relate everything back to that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012519386-6D6CQ8GGFDFLRUMIMFZA/IMG_2663.jpg Nic What emotion do you experience the most? - I would say I’m always content. I try not to get too high or too low. I would say I’m right in the middle. That’s why I’m always so calm, because I always prepare for the worst while expecting the best. I would say I’m more glass half full, because I try not to look at the negative. I always think that out of every negative, there’s a positive that you can find. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609012810232-CCOHSGAEKT99EDOH8KLG/IMG_2600.jpg Nic If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? - I’m caring to a fault. I would say the whole self-love thing is coming from personal experience. Caring more about other people’s feelings and opinions instead of focusing on my own. That has pushed me back a little bit. I will care and love pretty much anybody, even if you’ve done me wrong. I will care for/love you until the day I die. https://www.owatson-photo.com/germine daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013023781-LY1RTWGBPD9EHQ2R019V/IMG_2831.jpeg Germine What is your idea of perfect happiness? - Perfect happiness is filling your life with people that care about you. The lack of insecurity: financial insecurity, social insecurity, relationship insecurity. I feel like once I have that comfort/certainty, that’s where I find a lot of my happiness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013318086-IOOXLIVBFRKCI4S3A4ID/IMG_2840.jpeg Germine What do you think it means to live a good life? - I think living a good life means you’re taking every opportunity you can to help the people around you. The content of your character is really judged by other people’s perspectives. You’re a culmination of how you treat people. So, if you want to be a good person/live a good life, treat people well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013101524-UK21XGZM1XDMKQVZDTJP/IMG_2767.jpeg Germine How do you find comfort on bad days? - On bad days, my first instinct is to be by myself. Shut myself into my room and do nothing. Maybe watch Netflix or something like that. I think when I finally let myself hang out with somebody or be with my friends, that’s what really makes me feel better. After I let myself experience an emotion, I feel like I need to let it go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013067238-Z441DVMXMGH4J8U0KRCJ/IMG_2829.jpeg Germine If you could go back I time and tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? - It’s ok to not be a part of the mix. I think when I was younger, I was pretty consumed with having a bunch of friends and things of that sort. Now that I’m older, I understand more about valuing yourself. Enjoying time with yourself and people that are close to you. Not trying to be at every party, because they all kind of start to blend together when you’re looking at them from a larger perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013241582-CBGQSNHGO8HOFKGMSE9A/IMG_2771.jpeg Germine What motivates you to get up in the morning? - Somedays I don’t know. But, someday I feel like my parents made sacrifices to be in this country and give me and my siblings the best opportunities possible. I feel like it’s only right for me to honor their sacrifices and be the best person that I can be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013203401-E833UK2XX5VL2I6M4ILQ/IMG_2764.jpeg Germine How have you changed in the last 5 years? - In the last five years, I think I’ve become more “to myself.” I’ve become more secluded. Five years ago, I was more interested in sharing everything and being a part of everything. Now I kind of feel like less is more. Having quality experiences over the quantity of experiences, friends, and so forth. That’s been how I’ve changed over the past five years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013086776-KVMTDLYFJNPFLTY4PZH9/IMG_2708.jpeg Germine If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? - When I meet people for the first time, usually the questions are like “what do you do for a living?” or “where do you go to school?” I think when people find out that I’m a paralegal or that I’m in law school, they assume that my personality is business causal. That’s not the case at all. I like to joke around and tell jokes. https://www.owatson-photo.com/uriel daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013996517-ETWUZW7YGS6T7PR5UV97/IMG_2931.jpeg Uriel What emotion do you experience the most? - It’s a mix. There’s a lot of sad and there’s a lot of happy. I couldn’t say that there’s one over the other. It just depends on the timing. Every day is a different emotion, and you ride with it throughout the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013866347-YQ8T62N0Y6UE2RA026Q9/IMG_2932.jpeg Uriel What do you think it means to live a good life? - It’s all about whatever makes you happy. Everybody has their own interpretation of what a good life is. Some people would define it with money or popularity. But, it’s just about what you can continue doing that makes you happy. That’s a good life for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014025829-CG3H85AY9B5315GHS1NV/IMG_2971.jpeg Uriel If you could go back in time and tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? - To not be afraid, to be able to speak up. Keep riding on the momentum and never stop. Whatever you love, keep doing it and never stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013812218-GEXACOEI58DV823LE69V/IMG_2985.jpeg Uriel After a long day of work, how do you relax? - I would talk to a lot of friends or my brother. A whole variety of people because it helps take the load off. Bring able to talk about the day (the good and the bad) and have no judgement. Just having someone listen to you. That’s the best remedy for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013836449-VQSH59VINQHOUEH8H2ZI/IMG_2894.jpeg Uriel Describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? - The ones that I feel most comfortable wearing. Ones. You can’t go wrong with Jordan 1s. It’s also pretty cliché as well, but they’re so good. They’re simple and sweet for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014227135-9VZAH0KSZ6FDSYOV23PW/IMG_2964.jpeg Uriel If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? - One thing about me. There’s a lot of things about me. I don’t know which one would catch someone’s attention the most. I went to Colorado on my own last summer. It was the most amazing, lifechanging experience. I talk about it a lot because it kind of helped mold me into who I am right now. It was an experience: being by myself with no one telling what to do or where to go. I never had that before. I take pride in that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014206238-CCXAJTHG8F79GW9JYGKN/IMG_2921.jpeg Uriel If you could make one rule for a day that everyone would have to follow, what would it be? - Stop the littering. I hate seeing trash on the floor. This world is too precious to treat it the way we do. If I could make one law, you’d get fined. Heavily. To get fined so you remember not to do it again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609013899837-GLLZSB5QHGVDDC5J0AP9/IMG_2875.jpeg Uriel What is one thing you haven’t done that you really want to do? - I want to get out of here. I want to travel. As cliché as that may be, it’s really what makes people who they are. You know, getting those experiences from different places. Making their own experiences and having that story. https://www.owatson-photo.com/camillo daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014850964-8HHEV5AZIWA3YHZPXDFV/IMG_3027.jpeg Camillo If you could travel to one place in the world (all expenses paid), where would you go and why? - I want to go to Cuba. They live a unique life that can’t be replicated anywhere else. The island life is something very agreeable with my mindset. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014763302-IVUJIROXR59JS5BETAAH/IMG_3016.jpeg Camillo What do you think it means to live a good life? - Damn, that’s an interesting question. To live a life that your children would be proud of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014586601-R1GEOCLQH0AKCY55RCQG/IMG_3084.jpeg Camillo If you could only eat one food for the rest pf your life, which would you choose and why? - Probably pasta. C’mon. Its so diverse. So many different ways you can mess with it. Easy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014813799-6X4HCOAYA1IQQMQ524SM/IMG_3082.jpeg Camillo What do you imagine yourself doing 10 years from now? - Helping people. I think existence in general is pain, to put it simply. Seeing all the atrocities going on in the world right now (and in the United States), it’s easy to think that there’s no point in leaving a better footprint. I hope that 10 years from now I’ll be in a position where I’ve worked past all that, and I’ve used all the suffering and negative experiences in my life to help those around me. To set them up to live their best lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014614711-OCXRKU3JUYQU8AZNYXQC/IMG_3068.jpeg Camillo If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? - I like people. I like being around people, meeting people, and making connections. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that I trust people or that I consider everybody my friend. Its very hard to get to know a person and understand whether or not you can actually rely on them when you need them. Worst thing that’s happened to me was when I needed to rely on a friend, or someone I thought was a friend rather, I couldn’t. That broke me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014548137-C1O5ZKSMGS3PH8TSBMB4/IMG_3062.jpeg Camillo Describe your perfect day. - I get up when my alarm is set. I start off strong. Have a little breakfast action and some coffee action to keep me going through the morning. It’s a day where I feel like I’ve done something. Maybe in a smaller context or even as one small cog in a larger system. I’m happy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014687034-EAQ8YKV6MA76ZLE01I5M/IMG_3098.jpeg Camillo What motivates you to get up in the morning? - Coffee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609014644166-JG9P4QXI64FUGVJOH7Y0/IMG_2999.jpeg Camillo What is the difference between living and existing? - Living has a purpose while existing is something you do by default. Living is a choice. Everybody exists, by nature. If you choose to live, you’ve realized there’s an option to not live anymore. https://www.owatson-photo.com/cherry daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015644311-N727P8X0I0M501CDOVGS/IMG_3215.jpeg Cherry What is something you work on in your free time? - I actually have a journal in my phone. I’ve had it for like 6 years now in my free time, I like to just write down any thoughts that I have. Whether they’re personal thoughts or ideas that I have/things I want to do, I use that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015328907-A27ZRN1JNMH634VJ5UFP/IMG_3153.jpeg Cherry How have you changed in the last 5 years? - Besides the physical appearance (the nose ring , the gauges, and everything else), I think that I have significantly grown as a person. Most people wouldn’t know it, but I wasn’t always as confident in myself. Which is weird because I motivate you guys to be confident, but I lacked it. I guess motivating you guys helped me see that I needed to be more confident in myself. That’s something that I really worked on: being more confident. Being able to speak in front of people and all of that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015505503-OXFI9DJK3X5KVBPGUBW2/IMG_3246.jpeg Cherry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015534684-Q5VNPGEAVWE3WT9MABPA/IMG_3275.jpeg Cherry If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? - I think I would want to be able to read people’s minds. Not for the bad reasons. Sometimes we judge people when we don’t know what’s really going on. If you actually know what they’re going through/what they’re thinking you have a better understanding of how to act accordingly with them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015595975-9VJVYQVK6TRLC3BOBE7V/IMG_3125.jpeg Cherry What activities make you lose track of time? - Running. When I’m running, I kind of blank out and just go for it. Sometimes I don’t even realize how long I’ve run. I don’t look at the watch or anything. I just go for it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015570747-F3T0BDUB0PG3HO07V14G/IMG_3155.jpeg Cherry One food for the rest of your life, what would it be? - Cheese. I love cheese. Actually. this morning I ate three slices of swiss cheese for no reason. I can’t live without cheese. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015360072-JPGDXKQK35U8AYZUNCZO/IMG_3201.jpeg Cherry 1. If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would it be and why? - I wouldn’t go with a name brand but more a type of shoe. I would probably say I’m like a good running shoe. I know that’s kind of cheesy because I’m a track coach, but I say a running shoe because there are various uses to it. You don’t just use it to run. People wear running shoes to go out. They also work out in them. They’re multifaceted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609015414241-M2YD84568ZA31A0U39UF/IMG_3174.jpeg Cherry If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? - It would kind of go back to the point I made before about me not being as confident as a person. I think that in life we have to aspire to grow as people. I think that I’ve grown a lot in the past few years of my life. I’m definitely more comfortable in my own skin. It’s really important to be comfortable in your own skin, but more importantly be willing to change, grow, and evolve. Evolution is part of life. It’s something that will happen whether you like it or not. It’s just really important to be open and willing to change/grow as people. https://www.owatson-photo.com/isaiah daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016020270-0FVV32QBI4PIXAB9V3UQ/IMG_3379.jpeg Isaiah How have you changed in the last five years? - I have definitely matured and gained more responsibility. I am going down more challenging roads than I would have in the past. Things that would have made me uncomfortable. I think that’s where you grow the most, and I’ve put myself in a situation where I’m challenging myself to achieve my best. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016162448-IU8XLGY138DC3UOK6M53/IMG_3350.jpeg Isaiah What emotion do you experience the most? - Now a days it feels like I’m in a marathon. I’m in a race against myself. I’m not in a race with other people. I’m in a race with who I want to be and who God wants me to be. So, I feel a lot of struggle and fatigue nowadays. But hopefully that will change in the future. I’m a big believer in putting in the wok now, so you can play later. I don’t plan on working my whole life. I believe that real estate is the key. I’m in a great place to understand, underwrite, and sell property. I plan to give that skill to people in my neighborhood so I can pass that legacy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016292421-KFW49JKAJNKBAFMIGQ5L/IMG_3295.jpeg Isaiah If there was on thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? - I try to be as genuine as possible in most situation. I hate when people BS me and I try not to BS people. If I choose to deal with you, I’m going to deal with you with compassion and my whole heart so you better treat me accordingly. I got three words: genuine, loyal, and compassionate about whatever I’m doing. That’s just how I was growing up. I’m not going to do something I don’t care about. And if I’m giving you my time of day, believe it means something. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016132119-EYLO7FACEMZW4LAAKZAN/IMG_3455.jpeg Isaiah If you could trade lives with someone for a day, who would it be? - I wouldn’t want to be a celebrity. The scrutinization and the paparazzi that a lot of celebrities go through. I wouldn’t want that. I’m the type of person that likes to go out and enjoy themselves. If I have to be ducking and hiding, I wouldn’t like that. I don’t think that’s me. I would want a normal life. Ah! A racecar driver. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016109346-A2WTZZ0ZAMRYEZGMOI7J/IMG_3305.jpeg Isaiah Friends are hosting a dinner. Everyone has to bring one dish. What are you bringing? - I’m gonna bring curry goat. I’m not gonna lie, I brought that for my potluck, and everybody loved it. Curry is a staple food on both sides of my family. I Guyanese and Trinidadian. It’s a way to my heart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016048646-D80MN0UC9TGNOSGHZ2JT/IMG_3375.jpeg Isaiah What is one thing you haven’t done that you really want to do? - One thing I would love o do is to go to either Italy or France. Have a nice Italian sportscar and drive through the mountains. A big dream of mine, I hope I get there one day, is to be a racecar driver. Yea, that would be a big goal of mine. If I could race and do what I do in these Brooklyn streets for a profit, I would really like that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016090437-H0NZO2I3AAJFQMQZP33H/IMG_3369.jpeg Isaiah Your designing an adult playground. What’s one thing that has to be in it? - Gotta have some football fields, a track, and basketball. Some courts and most definitely a pool. In Brooklyn you don’t see too many community/outdoor pools. Growing up, that was a big part of my life. Swimming is what got me a full scholarship to Boarding School. It kind of got me out of Brooklyn. Exposed my mind a little bit. I think swimming, as a sport, has been dwindling. Especially in the city. There’s always been a stigma that “black people don’t know how to swim.” Its always been a goal of mine to change that. On of my first jobs was lifeguarding in the city and teaching in the city. So, yea: gotta have the pools, gotta have football, basketball. And yo, tennis is a nice sport. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016262511-HM33KW6RX8W2CFJTYU4G/IMG_3319.jpeg Isaiah What emotion do you experience the most? - Now a days it feels like I’m in a marathon. I’m in a race against myself. I’m not in a race with other people. I’m in a race with who I want to be and who God wants me to be. So, I feel a lot of struggle and fatigue nowadays. But hopefully that will change in the future. I’m a big believer in putting in the wok now, so you can play later. I don’t plan on working my whole life. I believe that real estate is the key. I’m in a great place to understand, underwrite, and sell property. I plan to give that skill to people in my neighborhood so I can pass that legacy. https://www.owatson-photo.com/angie daily 0.75 2020-12-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017036861-U5ZNTAOPFAG49ABP2S3K/IMG_3503.jpeg Angie Describe your perfect day. - Probably have breakfast in bed. My favorite show is Supernatural, so I’d watch that while I eat my breakfast. I like to dance. I like to read so maybe go to the park, read, then go out to dinner, and go out to dance after. I like to drink, so I’d get drunk and come home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017067648-UMULHTON0BFPOE1P4JJ7/IMG_3583.jpeg Angie How have you changed in the last five years? - I’ve definitely become more mature. Obviously hopefully. I’ve been more focused on myself. I used think about other people before I thought about myself. That’s something I’m still working on. I’ve become more responsible with my money and my time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016806797-JB7F2ALO9F6DYYZ3O066/IMG_3504.jpeg Angie What activities make you lose track of time? - Probably singing. I write music. When I’m writing, I can get lost in it. Reading also. If it’s a really good book I can also get lost in it. So probably reading and working on music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016978397-8HT0EAJ03NQCOXMYL0QZ/IMG_3552.jpeg Angie What emotion do you experience the most? - Worry. I have anxiety, so my mind goes a mile a minute and I think about a lot of negative shit. You feel me? So, worry is probably what I experience the most. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016911536-VXLMGKNWQJAZ4XYV40MO/IMG_3541.jpeg Angie If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? - I already know what it is but I don’t know what I would use it for. It’d probably be to read people’s minds because I’m really curious. I know its terrible, but I always want to know what people are thinking. I don’t think I can use that for any good besides my own, but that’s what it would be. To read people’s minds. I really want to know what people are thinking at all times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017003867-GNFFUC9B6YWSJ2SRQO3J/IMG_3540.jpeg Angie If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? - I already know what it is but I don’t know what I would use it for. It’d probably be to read people’s minds because I’m really curious. I know its terrible, but I always want to know what people are thinking. I don’t think I can use that for any good besides my own, but that’s what it would be. To read people’s minds. I really want to know what people are thinking at all times. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609016868028-60GX95R4ZBKD3MMYJ3Y5/IMG_3496.jpeg Angie What motivates you to get up in the morning? - My mom. She really is what wakes me up before I want to get up. But other than that, I want to be rich. I want to be wealthy. I want to be comfortable. I want to be able to give my mom everything she wants. So, really that. https://www.owatson-photo.com/jordan daily 0.75 2020-12-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017895887-J8EWC44MGF569CPKGFL1/IMG_3631.jpeg Jordan What motivates you to wake up in the morning? - Shit, not much anymore. The fact that I’m not a reality tv star yet, I guess. I can’t die until I’m a celebrity. That’s my whole plan. Oh my god. That’s so bleak. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017935422-OYZZDFAYZHPHDMLS01KP/IMG_3676.jpeg Jordan What is something you work on in your free time? - Well as a practicing queer icon makeup artist: makeup. I love doing my face and trying to come up with stupid shit. I just did a purple look as The Count. Because “Yeah stop the count!”. Get it? From sesame street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017959950-FAOYOZRH04IP8XIYAT91/IMG_3699.jpeg Jordan How have you changed in the last five years? - The last 5 years have been rocky since I’ve graduated college and such. Couldn’t hold a job for like over a year, and I was just spiraling and drinking too much. Had to move back home to Seattle just to get my shit together. I came back to New York over a year ago and I’ve just settled. I’m a much chiller person. Still like to go full crack head some of the times. A lot of the times…like last night. But I feel like I’ve become an adult over the last five years. I still don’t know what the fuck a 401k is, but it’s a process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017532676-BBUMLTGCI47BA0E1W81Y/IMG_3612.jpeg Jordan If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? - They’d be 17-inch Doc Marten platforms. Literally just a stilt of a shoe covered in studs, but hot pink. Bright, a little edgy, but still badass. And gay, obviously. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017807936-1IXDQZ3Z3EHKKZDZVH18/IMG_3660.jpeg Jordan If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? - Oh, I’ve thought very deeply about this. I would have the ability to turn invisible. I’d like to pretend that I’d use it for good, but I know damn well I wouldn’t. I would just steal shit all the time. I would sneak into expensive gyms. I would have an Equinox membership. I’d just sneak my way in. I wouldn’t be a hero. I’d be a villain, but not a supervillain. I don’t want to take over the world. I just want free Trader Joe’s pasta. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017829525-T9TRQCFW1AFV7IBNSTK2/IMG_3695.jpeg Jordan What do you think it means to live a good life? - What I think it means to live a good life is that you’re just happy. Obviously, you make enough money, you have a job that hopefully don’t hate, and a roof over your head. Beyond that, its that you get recognized and appreciated for whatever you want to create and whatever art you have (If you do that). You wake up every morning knowing that your content. You don’t have to be thrilled about existing, but content. Solid. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017983721-YJH73GJNRLI3X1N6EASD/IMG_3681.jpeg Jordan Describe your perfect day. - It is a Saturday. It is middle of fall, not too different from this. I don’t have any responsibilities/plans. I wake up and I get my coffee – coffee number 1 because I’m going to have at least four cups. I walk to the park. In my perfect day, I have a dog. So, I’d take a little stroll with my puppy. Meet up with some friends and have some brunch. Have a drink that leads to more drinks. We go back to their apartment and get wasted on vodka. We stay up until 6 am on their roof looking at the stars and talking about everything from our absentee fathers to drag queens. Then, I slink home in an uber, drink a whole bottle of water, and go to bed. With my dog that I have in this fantasy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017868536-2BWJJ6NA11PTTYEIMIM2/IMG_3677.jpeg Jordan If you could have a meal with one person (dead or alive), who would it be? - Tiffany “New York” Pollard. Period. Done. I don’t even know what the topic of conversation would be, I just want to hear that woman speak. I want to hear about her trips. Like what has she done? I just feel like she’d be fun. She’d be a delightful little brunch guest. That woman is so engaging. The goddess of reality tv. So, give me Tiffany. She’s an icon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1609017781031-7AFPZUO59ZPEY7C9LU1D/IMG_3697.jpeg Jordan Your friends are hosting a dinner. Everyone has to bring one dish. What are you bringing? - The sugar cookies I bought at the store ten minutes before I showed up because I don’t cook. I try my best not to cook. Anyone who’s friends with me knows that if I’m coming over to a dinner party, its better for everyone if I don’t cook. https://www.owatson-photo.com/shawn daily 0.75 2021-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394948887-AQ6FXNV6WGH5C9GOVZFN/IMG_3949.jpeg Shawn What activities make you lose track of time? Rolling up. Definitely the gym. Gym be having a nigga tired. And the studio, making music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394867944-B5JL30P4W0TT03X7LPH5/IMG_3945.jpeg Shawn What do you think it means to live a good life? Financials have to be stable and your living arrangements have to be figured out. To the point where its no worries. Everything is on autopay and you don’t have to worry about nothing. No stress. No nothing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394694112-NA3FG5RFYY6VK4EL4ZD0/IMG_3882.jpeg Shawn If you could give a title to this chapter of your life, what would it be? I would have to call it “Make or break.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394657646-ESAD2LF1NMZV3LA8LQ4E/IMG_3843.jpeg Shawn What food best describes you? That’s going to have to be eggs, man. Imma go with eggs. Scrambled eggs though, not fried. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394810405-B9Y4JKI2I5LU4BH1AVTK/IMG_3929.jpeg Shawn Describe your perfect day. My perfect day. That’s crazy because my shawty asked me this question the other day. I’d wake up. Straight up out the bed. I got an ashtray right there, I got the grinder, and a rolling try. There’s weed already crushed up in the grinder so I don’t have to do too much. I would roll that up, spark that up, and start the morning off right. I would go to the window. It has to be a nice sunny day with sunrays shining with the spliff. I would open the curtain and just bask in it. That’s the perfect start. I don’t know about the rest of the day, but I know its going to be good after that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394850535-CRY2CMPDRDW48AYYOWOF/IMG_3940.jpeg Shawn If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? If I had one power, I’m not gonna lie it would have to be the power of mind control. If I had mind control, the whole world is my oyster. You could literally do anything you want to do and if there are any consequences, you’re good. Teleportation is cool too, but then you might have to go on the run at some point fucking around with that. Mind control is mind control. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394768413-F2REUM3XRCYGEWB47KGO/IMG_3915.jpeg Shawn If you could go back in time and tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? If I could go back in time and tell my younger self one thing, the one thing I would tell myself is “Don’t be lazy. Do the work.” As it applies to anything. That’s the one thing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394717158-83MH5UDFXBWISUVTRKMW/IMG_3888.jpeg Shawn What emotion do you experience the most? Man, what emotion do I experience the most. I don’t know man, the things that’s on my mind is the money. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394636513-SUCKU2X8N9FLO1OBVVSZ/IMG_3798.jpeg Shawn If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? That’s not a hard question, but its such a hard question. What would I tell someone about me? One thing about me is that if you’re on my team, imma make sure we win. Facts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394679616-N2FHI9GX78KEDYPU4595/IMG_3848.jpeg Shawn If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? I’m not going to lie, if I had to be a pair of shoes it would probably a pair of Yeezys. (“Why Yeezys?”). I gotta say why? Damn. Because them motherfuckers are comfortable. They’re adaptable, you can wear them in different situations. They’re versatile, they work with different fits. I’m a versatile type of nigga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394750722-H8VP98WZ0TGH3D9TRLCC/IMG_3893.jpeg Shawn If you could travel anywhere in the world for twenty-four hours (all expenses paid) where would you go and why? For twenty-four hours all expenses paid? I’m not going to lie, I’m going to Tokyo my nigga. Facts. I gotta see how that shit is. Fly that bitch first class (long ass flight) and see what’s up with Tokyo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626394789528-TZJA2KJ2AY6IELRXQJTO/IMG_3925.jpeg Shawn How would you describe success? I feel like success could really be anything you want it to be. In an objective sense, I would say success is a level you reach when you personally accomplish everything. Your initial goals at least, because you’re always going to want to accomplish something. But getting to something you’ve always wanted to accomplish in life, like a status or a level of living. You feel me? https://www.owatson-photo.com/roxy daily 0.75 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/3550d5a6-f7f0-480d-a2b6-9ace2f706567/IMG_4946.jpg Roxy What’s your favorite hobby? I feel like I’m still finding myself, so its hard to answer that question. I’m still figuring out different hobbies. But, at this point in my life I’d say that my favorite hobby is writing. There’s just something about getting your thoughts down. Whether it’s on paper or in the notes on your phone. When you read it back you just realize “Damn, I’m a dope ass individual.” You get to see yourself through your own lens. I think that that’s awesome. Being able to reflect and look back at who you are through the words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/769dab7d-b10a-4f72-8837-c617ffa211ac/IMG_4899.jpg Roxy What food best describes you? Could it be like a category of food? I’m thinking fruits. But if I had to pick a fruit, I think that I would be a mango. Because mangoes are sweet and I’m a sweet person. They have that rough exterior, but it’s all beneficial. Either way, its good for you and I feel like that’s the type of person I am. I try to bring the good out of people and be good for people. So, a mango. Everybody likes mangoes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/25e4f61b-4197-476b-9b99-71c5f40a10eb/IMG_4968.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? I’m here and I care. Like you said, expressions is all about a first impression. My first impression is chronic bitch face. You’re gonna see me and kind of get scared or even a little intimidated. I kind of give off a strong aura and presence naturally. Some people might think that means I’m mean, closed off, or aggressive. But I care a lot. That’s something about me that all of my friends know. I wear my heart on my sleeve and whether I know you or not, I will go out of my way to make sure that you’re good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/ef25068c-bddd-4b27-9e9b-cebf1846485a/IMG_4911.jpg Roxy As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Alright so this is gonna be a corny answer but when I was little, I wanted to be a princess. I grew up watching the Disney princesses. It was just something about wearing big dresses and being raised around riches that I wanted to have. But you don’t realize as a little kid that you could actually be a princess until you grow up and realize that there are still kings and queens in the world and if you marry into the family, it’s possible. So yea, that’s what I wanted to be when I was a little girl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/90afd1a1-efed-4081-95aa-cbb72df8a82a/IMG_4986.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out You’re designing you’re dream playground for adults. What’s one thing that has to be in it? What would I want people to have to enjoy? Honestly, one thing that it has to have is a room full of trampolines. Let me be free. Let me defy gravity. I think that there’s nothing more vulnerable than when you’re jumping. You can’t look sexy jumping. You just do it. So, I think that would be a must for me. Having that space where we can all come together and just jump. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/37ab454a-11ec-41f6-a881-b36b5173c6aa/IMG_4993.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out If animals could talk, which would be the most disrespectful? Honestly, cats. I swear to God, I think cats would be the most disrespectful animal. You can see it already in their face when they can’t talk. I feel like a cat would have no chill button, they would say whatever comes to their mind, and they would straight up just disrespect you on a different level. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/bd51b3c8-98fc-449a-ac6a-a4b011ad88b9/IMG_4889.jpg Roxy Describe your perfect day. My perfect day. That’s a good question. My perfect day would definitely start out with the beach. Waking up somewhere where the sun’s shining and the water’s crashing against the shore. Nothing but the sounds of the waves and birds chirping. I get up and there’s a nice cup of tea set up for me. There’s jazz playing in the background. I’d do some yoga. Something to get the body started and the mind right. A little meditation to set intentions for my day. The rest of the day would be me focusing on who I am and making the best of it whether it be going out with friends or spending the day at the beach by myself with a good book. I don’t know. I feel like the perfect day would be any day where I’m at peace with myself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/bb2c6360-3a69-40c7-8636-9a2b1773d8a0/IMG_4909.jpg Roxy If you could only eat one food for rest of your life, what would it be? I think if I could only eat one dish for the rest of my life it would be baked ziti. I just fucking love baked ziti. I don’t think you could ever go wrong with baked ziti. It’s just the fucking perfect mixture of pasta, cheese, and sauce. Its basically like pizza as pasta and I love pizza. Its just elegant, and I would feel elegant eating that shit every day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/98635e11-cd52-458b-9ea1-99e4d410854f/IMG_4949.jpg Roxy What is something you wished you learned sooner? Something I wish I learned sooner was the importance of self-love. I think that growing up in a dysfunctional kind of broken family, I was always looking for love outside of myself. It wasn’t until my early 20s that I realized you’re not going to get love from anywhere else but within. I wish that that was something I learned a little bit sooner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/92c5ce80-be8f-417a-bd19-3f3628af8d48/IMG_4950.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out What’s the hardest part of what you do? Well, it depends because I have a couple of different roles and a couple of different jobs. So, I’ll go with my counselling job. I think that the hardest part is not taking that baggage home with me. I used to be a substance abuse counselor working with people battling mental illness, homelessness, drug use, and pretty much everything under the sun. I think that the hardest part was coming home and not letting any of that affect me and reflect on how I thought as a person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/4ead519c-de29-4cad-832e-4d0bf8c97ce1/IMG_5002.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out What emotion do you experience the most? Unfortunately, I think that anxiety is the emotion I experience the most. I just constantly worry I’m overthinking. I literally wake up and it’s like there’s this TV on in my head playing different thoughts, things I should be worried about, and things I should be doing. Its an emotion that can be overwhelming, and it takes over a big part of my life unfortunately. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/fcecd05f-bb51-4e4f-a3c1-7e954a06f038/IMG_5011.jpg Roxy If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? I don’t know. That’s a hard one. If I woke up one day and could do anything, what would I want to be able to do? I feel like if I had a superpower, it would be to manipulate cells. Like any cells, whether it’s the particles in the air or the blood in your body. I would want to be able to manipulate that and use it for the purpose of influencing good. I feel like when you can manipulate particles you can basically do anything. You can manipulate how a person moves or even operates. You could stop them in their tracks. That’s real power and I would use that to make sure that people help each other. Not for evil or anything like that, but just to influence goodness and light in the world. If there’s any place lacking light, give them light. If you need water, here’s water. If you need to be healed, I got you. I can manipulate your cells. I would be a healer in a sense. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/724e2abb-6955-4184-8f75-65f0ec0974d0/IMG_4969.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out If you could travel anywhere in the world for twenty-four hours, where would you go? I would definitely go with Bali. I would want to spend twenty-four hours in Bali because I know that it’s a place filled with spirituality, peace, and calmness. There no materialism in Bali, and I feel like that’s somewhere I’d be happy for twenty-four hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/4f67928b-f2a5-4f74-9ce2-09b6413007d9/IMG_4989.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out If you could go back in time and tell your younger self on thing, what would it be? You’re normal. Everything that you’re going through is normal and its not going to be easy going forward. I think that I would tell myself these things because I’m still having a hard time accepting that. Where I come from (the people I was raised by), we come from struggle and it wasn’t going to become any less of a struggle because I’m the first person who was aware of it. So, I would want my younger self to know that you’re ok and there’s nothing wrong with you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/92bd0ac2-3037-4b2b-948a-b09f76a1edae/IMG_4982.jpg Roxy - Make it stand out If you could give a title to this chapter of your life, what would it be? I don’t even know. For this chapter of my life? I would call it “The Struggle.” Because, it’s a struggle right now. I’m still finding myself. I’m twenty-four years old still living with my parents. I still have a long way to go before I’m where I want to be and all of that put together (with the speed at which social media and technology is expanding everything) I feel like it’s a struggle to catch up to everything and be who I want to be at this point in my life. So, that would definitely be my title. https://www.owatson-photo.com/cyrus daily 0.75 2021-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395334800-2PBASIJRMRCIGFU87HYD/IMG_4057.jpeg Cyrus What’s something you work on in your free time? Recently, most of my free time has been after work. I’ve been trying to workout every day. Eat very very well, workout at least four times a week. I’m trying to work on myself in that sense. Just trying to get very healthy. A lot of unhealthy habits Friday through Sunday normally, but I think during the week if I can stay very healthy (work out, eat right, etc.), my body will definitely thank me. We are getting older, so it’s time to start thinking about keeping this going. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395318216-PO9FYOGF30N8UZ35ME0I/IMG_4055.jpeg Cyrus If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? Easy. I actually talked about this with a couple of my friends on my podcast Waking Up Woke. Go check it out. I would want superspeed. Best power ever. What would I use it for? Not being a superhero. I would just go about my normal life a lot easier that the average person. There’s nothing super that I need to do. My life would be ten times easier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395146713-A4PI40O6KNPCEKV3UVLY/IMG_3974.jpeg Cyrus Your designing your dream playground for adults. What’s one thing that has to be there? Weirdly enough, I don’t rock climb at all but I feel like a rock-climbing wall has to be there for sure. I’ve probably gone once, but I feel like it’s got to be there. It would be fun to do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395188689-NTXOL2C7Z0VFQKWBE5RU/IMG_4033.jpeg Cyrus What activities makes you lose track of time? Fishing. I could fish for probably eight hours a day and not even realize it went by. Also, working out with people – like practices we used to have – time flies for me. It can be a three-hour practice but as long as you’re having fun, it just flies by with your friends. But I would say mainly fishing. I could fish all day and not even realize it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395203161-4LDJHIDVCQOFLTT1PX43/IMG_4034.jpeg Cyrus If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? A pair of shoes. Ok, I’ve got two pairs of shoes because they’re two different sides of who I am. One side is a very nice pair of comfortable leather boots that I wear. The other half is a comfortable pair of vans. Those are pretty much the only two pairs of shoes I wear because I can wear them with anything and for anything. They fit any style or occasion. I try to keep it as simple as possible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395401339-NJXFQM7X4ST8O9X0OE4A/IMG_4070.jpeg Cyrus What are you more afraid of: success or failure? I’ve got to be way more afraid of failure. I hate disappointing people. I hate not doing as much as I was expected to do. I don’t like telling people that I couldn’t do it or wasn’t good enough to do it. I pride myself on trying to get things right the first time. I do hate failing. I’m terrible at it. I try to learn my best from it, but I usually shut down when I can’t get things right the first time. Generally, I pick things up pretty quick. So when I come across things like that, it’s not great. Pretty tough for me to be honest with you. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395377932-OQ1C1MVL7CCUTR0UHSAN/IMG_4065.jpeg Cyrus If you had a year with no responsibilities, how would you spend it? For sure I’m going up to Alaska. I think an entire year there would be great. You get nice summertime there and good wintertime. I’d probably want a cabin on a lake or a river so I can hunt and fish. Pretty much living the whole Alaskan experience and seeing nobody. To just unplug completely. I think that would be awesome. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395222637-14DXYQO6XPU7G4HGR49T/IMG_4035.jpeg Cyrus If you could give a title to this chapter of your life, what would it be? Oh boy. A title to tis chapter of my life. Alright, I’m going to be cliché. I’m going to go with the Friends title. Have you ever seen that? Where it says “The one with…” That’s how their titles all go. I’ll be cliché. “The one with the long nights.” That’s it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395290876-OCH722UQU56207XSO2L7/IMG_4051.jpeg Cyrus If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? I would say that one thing to know about me is that I’m the textbook definition of a ride or die. I really truly care so much about the people in my life: my friends and family that I truly do love. I will do anything for them. I will support them, back them, and do what they need me to do. A true ride or die. Super loyal. For the people that I consider that close in my life, I would do absolutely anything for them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395243513-V21GMEXK4GEBK4F3VFHW/IMG_4041.jpeg Cyrus If you could travel anywhere in the world for twenty-four hours (all expenses paid), where would you go and why? Honestly, I wouldn’t expect me to say this but the first thing that came to my mind: Vegas. I don’t know why, but it sounds like a great time. I feel like 24 hours is more than enough. Ill have enough fun in those 24 hours to make it worth it. There are so many places I’d like to go, but I need more than 24 hours. Vegas, you can do everything you want to and then you’re going to want to leave. You’re not going to want to stay after that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395356079-VYRRC38KCMMI96FBKNHJ/IMG_4086.jpeg Cyrus What is the hardest part of what you do? So, I pretty much perform inspections on buildings. That’s not something you learn in school, but something you kind of learn as you go. So, I’d say the hardest part of what I do is having to do it all on my own for the first time through. Hopefully I get it right, or someone’s going to have to do it again. No one ever wants to do that. A lot of the work I do is kind of on my own and its figuring out how to go through the process by myself for the past two years. It can be a struggle, but I do like it. Learning on the fly and being able do things the way I like to do them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395172212-SX2P5LPWYROCJV3D4OPG/IMG_4014.jpeg Cyrus What do you think it means to live a good life? To live a good life. I’d say it doesn’t necessarily mean you come away with the most money or the most people that like you. But, as long as your happy with the life the you live, the friends that you have, the family that you have, the amount of money you have, the job that you work. As long as your happy in that sense, I’d say that’s got to be the best life you can live. You can’t really gauge your life based on how others live/ their standards. You kind of have to make your own. So, I’d say having good people around you and you wake up everyday not hating your life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395159476-8MACIIHX2NF246W6SU4G/IMG_4009.jpeg Cyrus Describe your perfect day. Well, I guess it really depends on where I am. My perfect ideal day would be back home in the summertime. I’d really like to wake up early. I usually go down to the river to fish. Maybe go and grab some lunch with friends. We also like to raft down the river which is really fun. Then, go back to one of my buddy’s places to sit by the fire and drink. But, spending most the day outside in the summertime is definitely my ideal day. For sure. https://www.owatson-photo.com/justin daily 0.75 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/94e47775-bd0f-446a-88b9-ba81fdb30599/IMG_4421.jpg Justin What emotion do you experience the most? From 2016-2020 I struggled with depression and anxiety. I still struggle with anxiety to this day. I feel like that’s an emotion that I think about a lot. For a lot of reasons. Being anxious is something that I feel a lot. It’s not entirely negative though, I feel like it pushes me to do things. It pushes me to pursue my interests. That’s how I know I’m alive. I’m conscious of what’s around me, and I care for myself. I care for my future, and I feel like me being anxious encapsulates that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/e9a2b882-feb6-4b2c-bf77-9f817f56b940/IMG_4442.jpg Justin - Make it stand out What activities make you lose track of time? Graphic design. I’ve really been trying to hone my skills in that area. I love to draw. I love watching anime. That’s something that I would deadass waste hours doing. Watching anime. Reading manga. Even working out. I can tell myself that I’ll spend thirty minutes in the gym and I’ll spend an hour and a half or some shit like that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/5fba2da4-be54-4d15-a09f-71fb538f69b7/IMG_4515.jpg Justin - Make it stand out If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? It’s funny because whenever someone asks me that question, I always say I want the power to take other people’s superpowers. I feel like that’s cheating though. I’m gonna give you a real one. The power to control gravity. It sounds simple enough, but you could really create mini planets by controlling gravity. I would be a supervillain honestly. That’s some supervillain shit: either taking someone else’s powers or controlling gravity. If I’m fighting someone, I’m using my powers to make a mini planet and I’m throwing it at them. Shit like that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/36139b3f-861d-4e53-9fc5-ad5f6dc42208/IMG_4381.jpg Justin If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? I wanna say that my answer to that is “I get it.” Those three words. I want them to know that I get it. I know everybody is going through their own personal thing whether its big or small. I try to be conscious of that whenever I talk to anybody. I try not to judge people based off of things that they tell me. I want them to know that I get it. At some of the darkest points in my life I’ve been told I’m one of the funnest people to be around. These were points where my self esteem was at an all time low. I’ve been told that I’m the most beautiful person when I haven’t felt that way. I want to be that for other people. I get that something has pushed you to feel this way or act this way. You don’t have to apologize. I find that a lot of people apologize for how they act or feel. You don’t have to because I get it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/95318ae2-9a88-432a-a938-b6b788d7d5a6/IMG_4409.jpg Justin What motivates you to get up in the morning? That’s a tough question. I struggle with getting up in the morning a lot of times. Not that I hate the routine. I like routines in certain aspects, but the routine that I have now isn’t something that I enjoy. What gets me up would be the motivation to do better than I did the day before. Thinking about designs, that’s one thing that would get me up. Doing something related to my brand. Whether its design work, research, contacting my business partner, brainstorming ideas. That’s something that motivates me to get up. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/38b00d12-b461-45af-a764-2aec028783ef/IMG_4550.jpg Justin - Make it stand out How have you changed in the past five years? Being more emotionally mature. 5 years ago, I was in a very dark period in my life. That was one of my heights in terms of being depressed and anxious. Since then, I’ve gained (by experience) the ability to analyze my emotions and know when I’m getting back into those bad habits. I’m more conscious of myself and more aware. More emotionally intelligent. Back then, I was very stuck in my ways. Only thinking about myself. I try not to be that person. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/337a7065-0dc3-4303-aed5-9a1735fa39de/IMG_4593.jpg Justin - Make it stand out If you could travel anywhere in the world for twenty-four hours (all expenses paid), where would you go and why? Is it ok if I have two answers? The first answer that popped in my head is Honduras. I’m from Honduras, if that isn’t already known at this point. I haven’t been to Honduras since I was eleven. I’m twenty-four now, so it’s been a very long time. I still have very fond memories of being there. The last time I was there was probably the best time. It’s a very beautiful country. So, either Honduras or somewhere I’ve never been. I’ve always wanted to go to Amsterdam. Literally, because when I was younger Amsterdam was one of the few countries that had legal marijuana. I didn’t smoke at that point, but I knew I wanted to and I knew I wanted to go there to do it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/19c6f434-2a28-4bcb-b169-e769f2378f7e/IMG_4574.jpg Justin - Make it stand out Describe your perfect day. I would wake up around nine. Nine or ten. I say nine or ten because I struggle with sleep. I’d do my usual morning routine: shower, brush my teeth, cook breakfast. I would do whatever responsibilities I have for that day. Something that I do is I design. I have a clothing brand. I design a lot, or I at least try to. If I’m not designing, I’m doing my own brand of personal research. It’s kind of like faux shopping where I would find pieces that inspire me. So: wake up, brush my teeth, do some design work, thrift shop. By that time its midday. I would – I don’t want to say smoke cause I’m trying to cut that out – but typically I would smoke to kind of sooth me. Simple day really. I would always end it with going to the gym though. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/c3a79bda-3087-4b6b-8d97-ed0975518642/IMG_4517.jpg Justin - Make it stand out If you could go back in time and tell younger self one thing, what would it be? Honestly if I could go back in time, I’m telling myself to invest in bitcoin. I would tell myself to take my time. In the past, I’ve rushed into a lot of things that ended up either biting me in the ass or not working out in general the way I would like it to. And, that everything’s going to be ok. I feel like a trend within my life has been me worrying about something. Everything’s going to be ok. You made it this far by yourself and you’re ok. Just remember that. But, definitely invest in bitcoin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/85f032d5-0528-48f2-be65-f156ee4e1958/IMG_4387.jpg Justin If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? That’s a tough one. I have this pair of slippers. Suicoke. They’re some purple Japanese slippers. They’re one of my favorite pieces of clothing that I have. I say the slides because I see myself as a very calm individual. But, it’s a flex at the same time. I’m calm, but there’s more to me. You put the slides on and it feels completely different than how you’d expect it to feel. I feel like all of that encapsulates me. Like we discussed earlier, when people see me they see me as a generally intimidating individual. When people see the slippers, they see that and nothing more. They’re clunky, but when you put them on it feels like you’re walking on air. But yeah, the Suicoke slippers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/4c906a05-ab3e-4ef9-be87-8a5ad03bb3c9/IMG_4440.jpg Justin If you had a year with no responsibilities, how would you spend it? I’m going to sound like a broken record, but I’m really passionate about my clothing and my brand. Back in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic when everything was uncertain, what I did with most of my time was design and work on my brand. That was me developing it and getting into the legal aspect of it to start it up. That’s the best answer for that question because that was a time when everyone could only do so much. That’s what I did with my time. I can’t emphasize how much I love creating art in general. That’s my brand of art. That’s something that I want to leave my mark in, and it means a lot to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/06e757b7-6f39-4eb9-b510-aded7c4b6b83/IMG_4491.jpg Justin What do you think it means to live a good life? I would say just being happy. Doing what you want on your terms. I feel like it’s that simple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/8ded68cf-e77c-4da4-816e-c96a414f15b2/IMG_4493.jpg Justin - Make it stand out Your friends are hosting a dinner party and everyone has to bring one dish. What are you bringing? Shit, I would bring Baleyaras. It’s a Honduran dish. It’s my favorite dish ever. Its something that I grew up on. Its just flour tortilla with fried beans, mantequilla (Hondurans call it sour cream, but it translates to butter in regular Spanish), and some shark fish or salmon. That’s what I would bring, because I love baleyaras. I really be trying to put everyone on to that shit. https://www.owatson-photo.com/najaya daily 0.75 2021-07-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395961986-GFCZAIUKQJU9ZNEFRGGQ/IMG_4271.jpeg Najaya You’re designing your dream playground for adults. What’s one thing that has to be there? A meditation station. I would like it lined with crystals where people can come and pick the crystal that stands out to them the most. I feel like it would have to be some type of healing place in that park. As adults, even though we like to play around and stuff, we do have o troubles that we like to hide. Sometimes we do need that place where we can escape. For me, my little escape is Brooklyn Bridge Park. By the water in a hidden spot. I love to spark my spliff there and chill. You know? So, something with that type of vibe would be cool. If it was lined with crystals by the water with sage. Sage that you can take home for yourself. As long as it’s a place where you leave feeling better. You feel more healed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626396019229-84UU1TFWGZX8TSU1710U/IMG_4311.jpeg Najaya If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? So, it’s always stuck between two things. It’s static, because I love Static Shock. That was my guy. That’s my superhero right there. If not static powers, then I don’t know. Maybe I’m just a healing type of person. Maybe I’m just so into that. But I definitely feel like if I had the power to heal people, that’s it. Right there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395825482-NET378UZKRO58CLVSZIR/IMG_8353.jpeg Najaya If you could go back in time and tell your younger self on thing, what would it be? Don’t give all your love away. Don’t put so much love into one person. Especially if it’s not yourself. Don’t be afraid to move how you want to move when you’re protecting yourself. If it involves protecting yourself, don’t be afraid to do that. Don’t be afraid to be yourself. Don’t be afraid to be by yourself. I was always afraid of just doing things by myself and being by myself. I went to college in Connecticut, that’s when I started the process of me forcing to be by self, learn about myself, and learn to love myself in a different way. At that point, that’s when I lost mad friends. People that I loved left my life. At the end of the day I felt empty, but I should have had that love in myself. I should have been able to be ok. It’s like now I feel like if that happens, I do feel like I’ll be ok because I have so much love for myself. And I’m just upset that it took so long to get that way. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395932317-AU10S222E5ILC9V22BMV/IMG_8355.jpeg Najaya If you had a year with no responsibilities, how would you spend it? I’m taking my mom to do whatever she wants. I’m taking her around the world. My mom is so important for me and she sacrificed so much for me. If I had the opportunity to be financially free and still have the freedom to go about? Were packing bags, were going shopping, and were gonna have fun. Because she deserves it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395766520-GYCAER0WBVG5139VNV21/IMG_4227.jpeg Najaya What activities make you lose track of time? Honestly, walking my dog. If we find a good space to walk. Just being out and exploring. That’s something I can get lost doing all day. Exploring the city, walking around, and being in my zone while being in the zone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395851428-TJ1C232QLZV1PJ6ZSDJM/IMG_8352.jpeg Najaya if there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? My name, Najaya, means “To help or save someone.” My last name is Royal, like royalty. I just want you to know that whatever is destined for me is going to be big. Its going to be royalty. But, its going to be something that’s going to help and save a lot of people. I’m going to change the world. I know that for sure. I know I have an energy and a vibe that’s meant to make this place a little brighter. So that’s why I’m here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626395894627-8SRIKBYC80XKRRUNGUG9/IMG_8354.jpeg Najaya If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would it be and why? If I could have dinner with any person. Honestly? Like, honestly? It would be my grandma. She passed away, so that’s definitely something that I really won’t get again. But, if I could dinner with my grandma again in her apartment. Just because our meals: That’s when we would vent to each other the most. She lived in Brownsville, so it was nice little project apartment but she always had her table by the window. She would always look out the window. I was always sitting next to her, watching her look out the window but listen to me talk. She was an amazing amazing cook. She could put her foot in greens and it was so good. But I’d definitely have dinner with her. I don’t need a celebrity. I need my grandma. Feel me? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626396051601-DM50G4GQ7E0S9HCYU4J7/IMG_4342.jpeg Najaya How would you define success? Success is something I can’t fully define yet because I don’t feel like I’m fully there yet. I feel like I’m in the stages of becoming successful, but that’s something that you have to build to. But, being successful would overall mean being happy. Knowing your purpose and living in that purpose. Helping other people find their purpose and inspiring others. I feel like when you inspire others, that’s when you become successful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626396003087-F4IL67X94WRANXAA30LD/IMG_4330.jpeg Najaya If you could travel anywhere in the world for twenty-four hours, where would you go and why? I would go back to where it all started. My family is from Denmark, South Carolina. My grandma, that’s where she grew up. I know they lived in a plantation type of area. Denmark, South Carolina is very very very country. I’ve never been there personally, but I would love to go. I would love to feel what type of energies are around. I know my grandmother had a lot of siblings. But, I also know that her mother was Native American. So, I want to know who was around there at that time and what energies may still be there. I might learn something more about myself while I’m there. Yes, its been years since my family touched that land, but I’m just in tune with energies and people. If there’s something meant for me to know about myself there, I know I will find it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626396071789-DMB3GKHINZ4ZD8CL461B/IMG_4345.jpeg Najaya If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? I’d say it would have to be some type of sneakers. But I don’t want to say a name brand because I’m so original. Feel me? If a brand could describe me best. Don’t laugh at me, but imma say Pastrys. Only because those are classics. They used to be my favorite sneaker when I was growing up. I definitely used to love how they came so differently than other sneakers. They came in the cakeboxes or something like that. It was always something bright and colorful, and they didn’t need lights to stand out. So, I’m Pastrys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1626396149339-6N4JZXVC9R3WJWZNM2D5/IMG_4335.jpeg Najaya What do you think it means to live a good life? I think living a good life definitely means making a change: doing something productive, inspiring someone. Definitely feel like we’re here for a reason and that reason is bigger than ourselves. So: to add to whatever is next. To be a foundation for a stronger type of society. Just making sure you have purpose. https://www.owatson-photo.com/eli daily 0.75 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/ea9dc909-62f4-4e5a-9531-ab3e3b2a39d0/IMG_4772.jpg Eli What do you think it means to live a good life? To live a good life. That’s all personal. But honestly, whatever you do to make yourself happy. Can’t beat your own happiness. If you could find a way to make yourself happy, you’re living the best life that you could be living. Some people don’t get that chance to make themselves happy. You could be in jail or worse. So, being happy is the best way to live. It’s hard to live out here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/ac5966d0-fff9-469b-a199-41cf0d0bcac0/IMG_4656.jpg Eli - Make it stand out If you could have one superpower, what would it be and how would you use it? That’s also hard for me. My favorite superhero ever is Batman. He ain’t have no superpower. His superpower was being rich. He was a rich white man. I don’t even feel like being a rich black man is the same power as being a rich white man. Damn. Oh! My favorite movie: Jumper. I’d straight do that shit all day. Jump from place to place. He would just disappear and show up wherever he wanted if he thought about it. He could be in the middle of a bank, on top of a pyramid, on top of a mountain. That shit crazy. My superpower would be jumping. Jumper or Batman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/0ddd7467-1313-4967-a1a0-f3aa99aeee9c/IMG_4796.jpg Eli - Make it stand out What was your happiest moment in this past year? I got two of them. One is my daughter’s first birthday. We didn’t get to do nothing crazy because of the whole Covid shit going on, but she’s one. Like, when did she get the time to even turn one? Getting mad big and shit. But, that and I dropped my first song this year. It’s on Soundcloud. I dropped it March 21st. The gods be talking to you. They definitely be talking to me in my life. Showing me signs and everything I need to be doing. Love that shit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/d4b0f72a-530d-4ae4-9a67-4e76380f4ecc/IMG_4755.jpg Eli If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose and why? I knew this question was coming, but I still wasn’t prepared. My favorite pair of sneakers that I ever got my hands on was a pair of Margielas. Them shits felt like clouds when you really got comfortable in them. So, I’d definitely say a pair of low top Margielas. The Future low top future Margielas. I love those sneakers. Those are my favorite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1ba95985-0f75-4777-a892-a74503d5a48d/IMG_4653.jpg Eli - Make it stand out What activities make you lose track of time? So outside of smoking? Making music. Writing lyrics. I’m probably writing lyrics and smoking at the same time. I’ll start and I won’t even look at the clock but 4 hours go by. I’m like “Yo, I started this shit at 9. I was supposed to go to bed at midnight. Its 2 o’clock.” But yeah. Writing lyrics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/2425deee-f385-40d8-b872-4b84612203d8/IMG_4672.jpg Eli How would you describe success? I feel like that’s also personal. You know? Depending on the person. The same thing with finding happiness or doing what makes you happy. Success will come when you’re doing the stuff that makes you happy because you’ll either become successful off of it or you’ll find that you don’t need success to feel how you want to feel in life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/df5fa6c4-a0bc-4d1a-9e67-e9b1ed5b58c4/IMG_4654.jpg Eli - Make it stand out Describe your perfect day. Describe my perfect day. Really my perfect day: I wake up and I’m doing something productive. Something towards making music, brainstorming ideas, getting other content together, stuff like that. I’d start my morning off like that and then maybe work out a little bit. Get my juices flowing. Then, burn a spliff and eat some food. Then, I’d be chilling for real. For the rest of the day. See my daughter and chill. Everything gravy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1040bfca-728a-4455-b348-65407d33e8af/IMG_4632.jpg Eli You’re building your dream playground for adults. What’s one thing that has to be in it? You know what imma say. I need the ganja plant. That’s the only thing I need in my playground. Ganja plant and a sofa that feels like a bed. But, it’s not really a bed so I can’t stay there forever. But, definitely a nice sized sofa to lay out there. Maybe a big tv/movie screen and a ganja plant. Fresh off the pickings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/35f59212-1acd-48e5-8735-7e497f5eb365/IMG_4783.jpg Eli - Make it stand out What food best describes you? Yo, anything buffalo chicken. I could just be saying that because I just had some buffalo chicken pizza. Anything buffalo chicken. That shit is fire. Whoever made buffalo sauce, they deserve top for life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/018cf926-35d2-43a6-bf5b-16c4d0e54a93/IMG_4791.jpg Eli - Make it stand out What emotion do you experience the most? I be sad as fuck. The situation I’m in is because of my own doing. That’s why I smoke a lot of weed: so I don’t be mad at myself. When you’re mad at yourself and something else happens, you just blow up for no reason. That’s why I stress finding your own happiness and doing what makes you happy. A lot of times I be like “Damn nigga. You did this shit to yourself. Now you tryna get it right.” But outside of that, I would say happiness though. My number one feeling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/0fb1bac2-d731-4472-98c7-1243fc9711ae/IMG_4646.jpg Eli If you had a year with no responsibilities, how would you spend it? You don’t even understand what that means to me. I got a kid now, so its nothing but responsibilities 24/7. But a year with no responsibilities? I’m a menace. I’d be everywhere. No responsibility? That means no feelings attached. I’m doing everything. Everything is getting done. Imma make some fire ass music too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/80e274cb-625d-42ea-a4ca-1a7f6aae1c55/IMG_4634.jpg Eli - Make it stand out If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? Straight up: Marcus Gold. They got to remember that name. It’s gonna mean a lot. It’s never gonna stop. I feel like I don’t have to say much about it when I say that name. Its gonna come to a point where you not gonna have to even know what’s going on, but you’ll know the vibe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/de9660f7-9ddf-4ab7-a5ec-a22cb8f68437/IMG_4679.jpg Eli What motivates you to get up in the morning? In high school, I was always the early bird. Waking up mad early. Even on the weekends. Once I got to college, I never woke up early again. Never ever again. When I came home from school the same shit was happening to me. I still couldn’t wake up. Now, it’s like I be waking up damn near 7/8 o’clock every day now. My kid. My daughter. When I wake up, I’m working on music and I do what I want to do. I know that if I put my whole heart and energy behind it, that shits gonna be perfect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/87a52601-56bb-4781-813e-ed975108fc80/IMG_4662.jpg Eli - Make it stand out If you could travel anywhere in the world (all expenses paid) for twenty-four hours, where would you go? Africa. What city is that in Egypt? Cairo? Cairo. Seeing the pyramids in Egypt. Seeing the Giza pyramid. All of that. I’d be there right now for twenty-four hours. I wouldn’t even leave the pyramid. I’d just go in. It’d be like Manifest: I’d come back five years later like “what happened?” https://www.owatson-photo.com/leelah daily 0.75 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/65dc7b4a-78dd-4ef5-988d-fe52bc4088ad/IMG_5266.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out What activities make you lose track of time? Working out. When I work out, sometimes I have to look at the clock like “Oh.” Or maybe my body is telling me. So, that and then dancing. I can dance probably from sun up to sun down. I freaking love dancing. There’s not a time when I’m gonna be like, “I’m tired of dancing.” You know what I’m saying? So those two activities. I can go forever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/434fcaca-9fd0-4672-9cfa-69c0619c78ee/IMG_5104.jpg Leelah What food best describes you? Wow. It’s gonna be something with a shell, because I do have a hard exterior. But once you get inside it’s so amazing. I’m gonna say shrimp. Only because I love shrimp. Once you open up that shell and get to that good juicy meat. Swirl it in some lemon juice or something. You’re like, “Oh my god. This is so freaking amazing.” I think that’s me. A person has to get through the shell. It’s not that hard. I’m not difficult. It’s just me. So, because of my experiences and different things, that’s me. But that shell. Once you open it up, it’s so good. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/943ca4fb-a2db-404c-8d5f-0da60412882e/IMG_5119.jpg Leelah If there was one thing you’d want people to know about you, what would it be? The one thing I would want people to know about me is that I am so genuine. I am not gonna try to scam you. I’m not a liar. What you see is what you get. Sometimes people appreciate it and sometimes people can’t handle it. But that’s me. I’m gonna be 100% honest. I’m not a manipulator. I believe you should do onto others as you want done to you and I stand behind that 100%. I think that would be the sum of what I’d want everyone to know about me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/5ec543e0-8650-4e97-b079-a691f880db63/IMG_5153.jpg Leelah How would you define success? So, for me success is where a lot of these worldly worries and woes are not even an issue. Right now, I wouldn’t say I’m successful because I still worry about money, building, and all those things. So when those things aren’t present, I feel like I’ve succeeded. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/ebe0c0c8-7c0e-4138-9486-bacf2ec93fe4/IMG_5278.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you choose? I’m gonna say the type of shoe I am is a very supportive flip flop (not just them little dollar store flip flops) with arch support and cushion. I say that because I love to be super casual. I like to be able to just get up and go. When I throw on flip flops its like a “Shoop” and then you gone. I’m so easy going. I like for everybody to be comfortable and be themselves. To me, it’s a super casual shoe. So, I’m a flip flop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/76203111-643b-4b49-b757-c3ed6f0a5378/IMG_5255.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out If you could make a rule for a day that everyone had to follow, what would it be? Man, there’s so many different rules that I would have for people to follow. But the most important one I think right now is that everyone would have to cover their fucking mouth. Ok? Give me a full cover. Cover your mouth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/fccab668-2163-42c0-bd06-7d662da51f4c/IMG_5089.jpg Leelah How have you changed in the last 5 years? Oh, that’s easy. So, I don’t drink as much as I used to. I’ve also tried to be more consciously aware of my reactions and responses in situations. 5 years ago, when things irritated me or rubbed me wrong, I would just react off of it: whether that’s me cursing somebody out, deleting somebody, or blocking them. Sometimes it was for the good, but there were times when I thought “Damn. Slow down. Think it through. Don’t be so emotionally charged sometimes.” So, I’m trying to not do that too much. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1d79c443-9c6a-4ba8-9877-d149fde13336/IMG_5202.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out If you could give a title to this chapter of your life, what would it be? A title for this chapter of my life. It’s probably gonna be something to deal with transitioning. My son has now graduated. It’s not that I have an empty nest, but I realize he’s going to be going his adult way. I’m also getting into my acting and different ventures: the business and things that I want to do. So I’m just transitioning into different areas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/b1059ce3-7728-433e-af92-ca19316c2a97/IMG_5260.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out What’s the best lesson you’ve learned recently? The best lesson I’ve learned recently is not to get discouraged when things don’t look the way you think they should look at that moment. Keep pushing forward and keep going towards what it is that you want to do. For me, that’s gold. Another person told me once that we’re living in moments in time. These moments are gonna leave unless you hold on and don’t let them go. That was strong for me as well because sometimes I just get stuck. It’s just a moment. It’s passing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/e0daf06d-e750-4031-8823-92b712c88ac0/IMG_5167.jpg Leelah You’re designing a playground for adults. What’s one thing that has to be in it? So, there’s gonna have to be a riding bull. I feel like a riding bull has to be there. One, because I’ve never been on one and they look like so much fun. And, when I look at people on them they look like they’re having so much fun. I would want it to be on of the bouncy ones, so when you fall off it doesn’t hurt. That’s what I would do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/4c040b19-dff6-463e-bf0d-c59fe61b1981/IMG_5242.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out If you could have one superpower, what would it be and what would you use it for? This is so bad, but I’m gonna say it damn it because I am true to who I am. I would be invisible, and I would use it to get money from different banks or wherever. Whatever I wanted. I would just be invisible and go grab it. I know that sounds terrible, but I know a lot of people would probably do the same damn thing. So, that’s what I would do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/bb4e7896-73d2-4596-911a-081913e5f52d/IMG_5068.jpg Leelah Describe your perfect day. Oh gosh. Ok. So, my perfect day. I would wake up whenever my body woke up. There wouldn’t be an alarm clock. I would wake up and open up all my blinds. Ideally, the weather would be gorgeous to the point where I could open up all my windows and get a really nice breeze through the house. I would start my day with some coffee (which I love). I’d have some coffee and probably some great eggs. Maybe an omlette with a little of shrimp or salmon on the side. Some gluten free toast with strawberry jelly. After that, I would go to the bank. Withdraw maybe about $300-$500 and just kind of tootle around town. If I see something that I like I would get it. But basically, it would be a day to explore, be out, and treat myself. I would probably start that during the daytime where its nice and sunny and I can sweat a bit. I would go for a jog. Just a nice jog for maybe about 45 minutes to and hour. Do some yoga, some nice stretches and shower. Get 100% gorgeous and just doll myself up. I’d go to a restaurant, if I had a favorite restaurant. If I knew a chef that knows how to cook the way that I like to eat then I would go to that restaurant. But if not, before I doll myself up, I would go into the kitchen and prepare a meal. Something really good so I can eat before I go out. From there, I would head out. Now ideally, where I would go is to meet an amazing man that I’m crushing on. We would just go out and have a good time. More than likely, we’d be sitting outside somewhere because I’m just an outdoor person. So: a park, a back patio, rooftop deck, or something. We would meet and have so much fun. Laugh forever. Then, I would come home. Maybe I wouldn’t come home. It all depends on where we are in the dating process. Maybe some other adult stuff would happen. And then I’d come home and go to sleep. So that would be my perfect day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/720e8854-dde0-4d02-bba1-61cf0b978203/IMG_5272.jpg Leelah - Make it stand out If you could travel to any place in the world (all expenses paid) for twenty-four hours, where would you go and why? I would 100% go to Africa. I’m getting my DNA researched right now with Ancestry. I cannot wait to get it back. I know I have to be from either there or Haiti. Some amazing island. I feel like I’m an islander on the inside. You know what I mean? So, I would go there. Wherever that ancestry goes back to. But, definitely gotta go to Africa because it’s the motherland. https://www.owatson-photo.com/mikah daily 0.75 2022-06-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/ed577820-e5ac-445e-897f-1b2b782307c6/IMG_5312.jpg Mikah What did you want to be when you were younger? You know the path that I’m on in life right now compared to where I thought I was gonna be in elementary school or high school is vastly different. I loved math when I was younger. All the way up to high school really. I legit wanted to be a math professor. I wanted to go to MIT, graduate from there, and start teaching there. Then, junior year hit when you start applying to colleges. I realized that that’s just not going to be for me. I realized that I wanted to have a career where I’d be able to move around, freely express myself, and interact with people on a different level than I would as a teacher. I also just stopped liking math at some point. I don’t know what happened, but it wasn’t for me anymore. So, I gravitated towards fitness. An that’s what I’m doing currently. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/c7abac1e-38f9-42c0-affe-14c55ec7accd/IMG_5354.jpg Mikah If you could have one superpower, what would it be? I guess for me it would be super selfish. I know some people would want to heal people and stuff, but mine would be kind of like Wolverine. The self-regeneration thing. That is just super convenient. Especially for me who like to work out. My muscles could just recover on a daily basis and I could get back in the gym. For convenience’s sake, that would the most useful for me now. Plus, you stay younger and healthier longer so I would definitely go with super regeneration. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/18d253d3-26ce-40bc-871e-8dfc5d8936a6/IMG_5371.jpg Mikah You’re building a playground for adults. What’s one thing that has to be in it? As a classic, you got to have monkey bars. I feel like no playground is complete without monkey bars. That’s like the introduction for most kids, and as adults you can still have fun going across them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/ec6658ba-26bb-4331-924c-aba2693371b9/IMG_5378.jpg Mikah - Make it stand out How have you changed in the past five years? I’ve done a lot of self-reflection in terms of my own personal growth. During COVID and quarantine, just being by myself more kind of put my priorities into perspective. I feel like I’ve become more disciplined in terms of scheduling and creating goals. Things that I definitely wasn’t doing before. Or I just wasn’t putting as much attention towards. Now I feel like I’m in a good groove where I’m putting things together more carefully, looking more long term at how things can affect me, and just navigating it like that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/5660272e-7a9a-49e2-a1bd-abd8c7798876/IMG_5328.jpg Mikah How would you describe success? Success for me is doing something that fulfills you. I don’t think its monetary. I don’t necessarily equate success to money. If I do earn a high wage but I’m doing something that I don’t feel fulfilled in or dread going to daily, I don’t think that’s me being successful in life. I want to do something that feels like it’s fulfilling a purpose for me. Something that I feel like I can grow in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/85d43621-71e8-465a-b6d5-e097a41a2853/IMG_5395.jpg Mikah - Make it stand out If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I guess a brief synopsis of who Mikah is would be a dynamic person. A lot of my goals in life currently in terms of where I see myself in the future or how I live day-to-day are forever moving around and changing. I have a set plan and goal that I want to accomplish, but I’m free for things to change over time. My biggest thing right now is fulfilling my purpose. Doing things that I find meaning in, and directing my attention and energy towards those things. Right now, a big thing of mine is being intentional in whatever I do. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1569e11b-3e89-4c72-b93c-1ea7a47a33d3/IMG_5415.jpg Mikah - Make it stand out If you could travel to one place in the world all expenses paid for 24 hours, where would you go and why? That’s a hard one for me. My first thought would be Japan. Mainly because everything that I’ve ever seen in Japan just looks dope in terms of the culture and the whole scene. I like anime as well and that’s huge in Japan. Also, trying the food. That would be a big culture shock for me. I love eating, so that would be one of the main things I’d look forward to there as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/c5948018-2a74-483d-93e1-ac2f9a669fd8/IMG_5344.jpg Mikah What activities make you lose track of time? Typically, nowadays when I’m recording videos for YouTube or Instagram. Just fitness type videos. I’ll be in the gym actually doing my workout but, just the process of recording everything. I’ve legit been in the gym for three hours at a time just recording. If I have people with me, even better. Time will fly. Same thing with rock climbing. I’ll be up there climbing walls literally for two to three hours. Until I can’t grip the wall anymore because my hands are done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/dd1bd36e-951e-4f2b-9de6-bbdd73c3d0fe/IMG_5413.jpg Mikah - Make it stand out What motivates you get up in the morning? I genuinely enjoy what I’m doing right now in terms of being a personal trainer: interacting with clients, making videos, and just growing my presence on social media and stuff like that. It’s just something to look forward to. Even my own progression in the gym as an athlete. Just being able to go through the days and know you’re working towards something. But, also working with others and seeing the satisfaction on their faces when they achieve their goals. That type of thing just keeps me going for sure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/f593455f-d1f6-450d-899f-ca7fade36388/IMG_5324.jpg Mikah Describe your perfect day. Alright. Waking up any time after 9 am. I hate waking up early in the morning. I do it for clients, but if it’s just a regular day I’m waking up around 9/10 o’clock. I usually have a set routine that I like to do where I wake up, make my bed, wash my face, brush my teeth, all that. Start off with a smoothie to get some fruit in and then probably hit the gym. After that, eat. I love eating, so any type of filling breakfast after the gym. After that, I don’t know. I like to be active so my whole day would be spent with me doing different activities: Whether it be rock climbing, hitting up a gymnastics gym and getting some work in over there. Then coming home, showering, lighting some incense, and just chilling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/9923e696-f5f6-4ef0-8898-4078585e567b/IMG_5351.jpg Mikah What food best describes you? Ah man. I would be doing myself a disservice if I didn’t say peanut butter. I don’t think there’s a moment in my life since I’ve been eating whole foods that peanut butter was not in my diet. I want to say that since high school I don’t think there’s been a day where I’ve gone without eating peanut butter. And that’s no joke. Why I say peanut butter? Other than me just loving it? It’s a food that goes with almost everything. It’s a good spread, you can put it in smoothies, you can add it into different foods for sauces. Its versatile and gets the job done. https://www.owatson-photo.com/chedine daily 0.75 2024-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/8cd97986-e3bb-4839-b9f2-afa470f9698f/IMG_5516.jpg Chedine Your friends are throwing a dinner party. Everyone has to bring one dish. What are you bringing? Oh, that’s easy. I’m bringing stew pork. I can stew anything. You want something stewed? I’m your girl. If it’s not stew pork, I’d bring lamb. I love lamb. Not a fan of curry goat, but I love lamb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/1d10f6b1-7764-4649-86cb-821a8a484703/IMG_5481.jpg Chedine I you could travel anywhere in the world for 24 hours, where would you go? I would go back to Jamaica. And that’s cliché. “Going back home.” But even though I was born there, since the time I’ve came to America I’ve never been back. And yes, I can go on vacation. But I’m putting it off because I essentially want to go visit my dad’s grave. As much as I want to do it, I also don’t want to do it. Because then it’s a real thing. Like, you want to go and pay your respects, but you also don’t because a grave feels way more final. I get that the person passed, but seeing their name in stone. That would be…. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/22d65230-02a3-42cd-be08-07a6045aaf1d/IMG_5543.jpg Chedine If you could go back in time and tell your younger self one thing, what would it be? Oh my god. I love my son, but “Do not fuck with that nigga!” I was bugging. A whole baby is crazy. Babies are forever. That was nuts. My son is beautiful, but girl no. Do not answer. Don’t reply. Just, no. Go down the street. Turn the other way. I would slap myself. Just full on beat myself up. You know those funny memes where it’s like “If your baby daddy ain’t shit, what was the moment when he…” I don’t know! I don’t know. I wasn’t thinking about him being a deadbeat baby daddy though. I know that. I didn’t expect that. I thought we were in love. I thought it was gonna be amazing. I missed all of the flags. I am not Six Flags. I did not know what to look for. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/812f4269-89d9-4297-82b9-ec26b9025f24/IMG_5488.jpg Chedine If there was one thing you’d want people to know, what would it be? I would want people to know that even though I may come off as aggressive, I am sensitive and nice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/2caad67c-2304-421f-a318-ff85c8aae484/IMG_5580.jpg Chedine - Make it stand out How would you define success? I think that success is a social construct. I would define it as happiness. Because you can aim to achieve such high goals, but if you’re not happy -- if you’re not comfortable -- are you really successful? I used to be a nurse. I made real good money as a nurse. But I hated it. And I didn’t feel impressive. I didn’t feel worthy of like “Oh my daughter’s a nurse.” I kind of felt tired. Like I was missing life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/c522f2c6-7ca4-4ea4-b988-aca9968015e3/IMG_5487.jpg Chedine - Make it stand out Describe your perfect day. Cheesy, but I would wake up and clean my house. It’s kind of a habit I got during the pandemic. After a while you have nothing to do. So, I cleaned the same corners every single day and it kind of became a thing. I would clean, then I would work out. Your already sweating form the cleaning, so you might as well get the sweat in some more. Then I would take a shower. There is nothing better than a clean body and clean sheets. Then I go to sleep. Those are the good naps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/eca82958-a31a-4da4-afc5-dd4d5e4000d5/IMG_5585.jpg Chedine If you could give a title to this chapter of your life, what would it be? It would be This Is for You, but the You would be “me.” I’m finally at a point where all the things I’ve ever prayed for, I have. So now everything that I’m doing is legit for me. I’m not doing it for anybody else. I’m not doing it for any reasons other than my happiness. So, it would be This Is for You. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/12cc9af9-bfd9-480f-8d89-723b75be2458/IMG_5517.jpg Chedine What activities makes you lose track of time? Fan-girling over what I want my apartment to be. That’s because between the pandemic and living my life, me and my son experienced a lot. I mean thank God we were able to keep our home over our head, but it was hard. It…it…That little boys seen some stuff. But now that I’m successfully in my role, I can plan for other things. Like really giving him a room that I think that he deserves. Or really making our home somewhere you really want to come home to. So, I can lose time on Pinterest, or Ikea, or Raymore & Flanigan. As of right now, the kitchen is done. I’m working on his room. It’s kind of expensive, but it’s getting there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/0d775f03-0ee8-4dab-ba56-91690e41bf1c/IMG_5548.jpg Chedine - Make it stand out If you could describe yourself as a pair of shoes, which would you be? I’m probably the cheapest person in America, so as a pair of shoes I’d probably be a pair of Crocs. I love crocs. But not regular crocs. The crocs that have the fur on the inside. Because you can use me technically in any situation. Should you? Probably not. But, you could. You could. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59275d843e00be74ac7af06f/331d1fd0-ff86-4912-bbd9-422204664c0f/IMG_5562.jpg Chedine - Make it stand out If you could have one superpower, what would it be? I’d be a jumper. Have you ever seen Jumper? To be able to jump: “Hey I’m in Dubai”, “Hey I’m at the bank”, “Hey I’m here.” And nobody knows why. I’m just rich and doing whatever the hell I want. I would not say shit.