Disrespecting the Place

"I sahree, no allow photo here" -employee

Yesterday Nica and I went to downtown San Diego to shoot.

So we're out looking for urban ghetto spots to get our

shots and found some potential places like this wig shop.

No Dice.

We keep walking and shooting . . .

Do Not Trespass

Taking pics along the way we find a big painted metal box and take some shots

using it as a backdrop. The box opened by accident with all these city owned

wires in it. I tried to close it though the door wouldn't shut. Nica's laughing

and telling me let's go!

So we walk some more until Nica finds this place. Nica's like oh check this place out!

There were like hundreds of old school chairs everywhere. Another potential shoot

location we both wanted to 'disrespect' haha.

We didn't see any "Do Not Trespass"signs anywhere, so we jumped the fence. She

goes first then I. As soon as I'm on the ground an alarm -across the street- goes off haha

I asked Nica, "is that alarm for us us?" I'm thinking wait is there a silent alarm idk.

Nica's like, "no man I think that's a car alarm" Alright I'm cool with that answer

haha.

And so we begin our shoot with ALL these great and inspiring chair props.

Until . . .

We Get Busted

Well not totally busted. Nica's doing her thing and I see 3 -MY NUMBER- SD police cars pull outside

the gate. I'm like, "Nica look" She turns around, we're both trippin and I'm like, "we're gonna get a

ticket" 3 Cops come through the locked gate. The first cop, Officer Green asked us what the

shoot was for. Nica and I tell them it's for her music CD.

The cool Green man haha asked Nica to sing, she's like not now. Officer Zizzo is one of those big

husky New jersey type cops. He has this mad bull dog face and looked ready to jerk us around.

Was I ever wrong.

Officer Porter is right next to this Zizzo guy and they're both messin with Nica asking her to sing.

They were easy going -we joked some- and even offered to help out. They were like, "do your thing

guys" So we shoot some more and got what we wanted from the place.

Porter was like, "are you sure you got the shots you wanted" I'm like, "yeah we're good with what

we got. Porter answers back with, "you must take perfect shots every time" - I took that as shoot some more.

"We got a few good ones" -me

Anyways I want to say thank you to those 3 officer's for being very cool and patient with us.

"THANK YOU!"