J Dilla – Lightworks (KJ Song Rec)

J Dilla - Lightworks (KJ Song Rec) | Third Monk

Light up the skies
The name of the game is lightworks
Light up the spliffs
The name of the game is lightworks

J Dilla flipped the track from Raymond Scott, a composer who has influenced many cartoon themes.

Raymond Scott – Lightworks

 

MF Doom – Lightworks

Doom spits on JD’s track, from the album Born Like This

J Dilla

Van Styles – Girls, Weed, and Skateboarding (Photo Gallery)

Van Styles - Girls, Weed, and Skateboarding (Photo Gallery) | Third Monk image 10

Van Styles is a visual artist with a focus on streetwear photography, directing and editing. He credits skateboarding for showing him how to look at things differently and always try a different approach rather then taking the easy road.

What makes Van Styles attractive to brands like LRG Clothing and The Hundreds is his style of photographing various subjects and settings and presenting them in a different light. Such is the case of taking well known adult actresses and capturing them in photos that show off his unique vision with streetwear  and fashion styles.

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The Fairfax and Rosewood area is really popular in L.A. While walking around one day, I noticed this game of s.k.a.t.e. going on and felt it would make a great shot.

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This was taken when I shot for the LRG summer lookbook, as well as 2 ads. This was one of the final shots of the day, and Adam from the Workaholics decided to end it with this pool jump.

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This is a double exposure shot with Kristina Rose. This reminds me of the beautiful accidents that can happen when shooting with film. It was shot on a Pentax K1000.

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I don’t do much landscape shots, but when I drove by these tracks, I had to pull over. This was down in Huntington Beach area — the right place at the right time.

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Tony Karr is an up-and-coming skateboarder who is just raw. I happened to be at the Brooklyn Projects ramp on Memorial Day, and he was there.

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This was taken at the Paid Dues show this year. After the last set was done, I noticed this couple not caring about anything except each other. It was a real life moment.



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Jessie Andrews is one of my favorite people to shoot photos with. I feel like this photo is just really fun.

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I like this photo for a lot of reasons, but mainly that I randomly snapped it from my car while driving around downtown Los Angeles.

Musicians Smoking Cannabis Photo Collection #1

Musicians Smoking Cannabis Photo Collection #1 | Third Monk image 8

Essentially, marijuana can extend the range of our free-associative capacities. It increases the novel ways in which we find connections between ideas, and it also extends the range of ideas that we might somehow relate to one another.

While not surprising, it does offer a scientific validation for what so many artists, philosophers and scientists have been saying for ages: that marijuana is a cognitive catalyst that can trigger heightened free-associative creativity, increased pattern recognition, and insight. – @JasonSilva

The RZA (Wu Tang Clan)

 

Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

 

MF Doom

 

Aceyalone

 

John Lennon (The Beatles)

 

Biggie Smalls

 

Del the Funky Homosapien (Hieroglyphics)

 

J Dilla

 

Jim Morrison (The Doors)

 

Onra

 

Method Man (Wu Tang Clan)

 

B-Real (Cypress Hill)

 

Devin the Dude