and.manley.rew

your “success” is in my way

“your success is not my success. success is in the heart, a winner from the start. what you do has no bearing on me. i blaze my own trail. a path where others will follow. you cannot touch me, not because i am better than you but because i created it, owned it and passed it. this is my world, the things i do and say here, are from my own doing. has nothing to do with what the fuck you’re doing. so get a clue and get the fuck out of my way. your “success” is in my way…” ~Andrew Manley 

i just realized

so one day you wake up and realize that life is scary. you grow up a little bit and then everything is just like it was but not really. everything is changing so you are forced to change. life is a constant battle of realizations. what we know today is not what we know tomorrow. your position now is just that, now. metamorphosis is a change of the heart and soul, not of the external representation that you wear. journey of yourself is on going and that is never changing. ~andrewMANLEY

The wife says…

So long ago, I opened this account so that I can share behind the scenes of my photoshoots but that idea never took off because I became too busy with all the crap in my life. 

Instead, I have started to write more about things pertaining to my life and how those realities are life truths. I try to write in a way that can be general enough to hit the masses but also specific enough to have a deeper meaning for an individual. 

Sometimes they are rants, sometimes they are realizations. Either way, I write and you read and hopefully in the end, one of us is able to make that information matter.

None of what I say will be censored. It is who I am and what I feel. If you can’t handle that then fuck you. GTFO bitch

My wife told me to bring it here and so it begins.

American Idol

so after a long day of work, i come home to my wife watching american idol. i dont remember the last season I’ve watched because… well because the show is fucking retarded.

how so you ask? where should i begin. well i guess the best place to start are the judges. the most fucking retarded guy on the panel is randy. i watch one girl sing and guess what he has to say? thats right… he said it was pitchy and then he followed it up with it was interesting. how the fuck do you open your mouth and then really say nothing at all. the shithead has been saying the same shit about every singer since season 1. are you seriously kidding me? fuck my life! i fucking hate listening to that guy. he is way worse than paula ever was on the show, even when she was high or drunk.

as if that wasnt enough, the whole fucking show is based on a retarded ass voting system. vote for your favorite singer? how does that accomplish anything? its never worked. people who dont deserve to get booted get booted. you should really be voting for the worst singer of the week but no, no one wants to do that because that doesnt bring in enough text message revenue. we all know that just cause you win the season doesnt mean shit. i mean the only winners who did anything with their careers are kelly clarkson and carrie underwood. the rest… well who knows where they went. david cook was great but havent heard anything from him and who could forget when adam lambert lost. i guess i could go on but i dont want to… its all fucked up

too bad simon wont ever come back. he is a brilliant guy but he didnt say anything that i didnt say prior to him opening his mouth. he speaks the truth and well, we all know that i do that pretty well.

so fuck you to american idol but a special fuck you to randy cause you fucking piss the shit out of me. hows that for being pitchy mothafucka!

just take a moment…

my intended objective for this blog was to talk about the work i produce but i realized that ill most likely talk about whatever i feel like. so if you don’t like reading about what i have to say, just look out for the photos but those will also be followed up by my words…. so FYL… lol

i’d consider myself a pretty observant person. if you know me well, you know that i bitch about almost everything. why shouldn’t i when we are surrounded by so much mediocrity? people settle for less and they expect so little from themselves. you don’t have to be the best at everything but always try your best and don’t be afraid to question things you don’t understand.

if i told you that the sky was green and you saw a blue sky, you should believe your gut. yet, when people are told something, they are so quick to believe it. “i saw it on the local news!”. do you realize that the local news doesn’t ever report anything of importance? as if that wasn’t bad enough, celebrity news is becoming more priority. for example, why the fuck was lindsay lohan more important than the new zealand earthquake? can you fucking believe that? Let TMZ handle the celeb crap….

i had more to say but i’m afraid that the day is already calling for me….. phone calls, emails and texts are all flying at me… til next time

this week i’ve had to let a dear friend go as my scheduling assistant. you see, “Pro” is an artist, he raps. Since he moved down to Pomona from Fresno, he’s been on the non-stop grind. he’s very talented and works harder than most people i know. he never bitches about anything and he does everything with a smile. so why did i let him go? the answer is simple… he had too many things standing in his way of his music. i want him to get back to grinding on his dreams and i didn’t want to be responsible for his demise. so here’s to you pro, make shit happen, your time is now. so for those of you reading this, check out his site: http://www.beapromusic.com/.

as for now, ive brought on a new person to handle my scheduling affairs. her name is catalina, but i like to call her kitty-cat… lol. not sure if she even likes that name but that’s what i’m calling her. ive known cat for a year or so. [she’s connected with the s2000 filthiest family that i associate with. no she doesnt have an S but she does have a bf that has a nice collection of sporty cars (ass ;O) ) ]. cat is a quick witted, facebook addicted twenty something year old but i think she has what it takes. sure it will take lots of training and she will probably ignore more than half the things i tell her, but i have faith in her. she also started an internship in the los angeles courthouse today, so shes sitting in a ass load of traffic as i type this. good luck to you today cat.

what i wanted to talk about today is…. it takes a lot of work to schedule a shoot. i worked every aspect of my business for the last 6 years and now im ready to expand. so that is why im building a team. i havent been able to shoot yet this week and all of last week due to the fact that i had to rework the structure of my business. i will be taking my shots at high fashion, avant garde and environmental portraits. its been a long time coming and today is gonna be the first day. today’s shoot is super last minute and rushed. i dont even have a theme in mind and i will be working with a new model and make up artist (MUA). in the end, i know it will come together. some things are best left to spontaneity. let’s see where today ends up…

another blog?! fml

so against my good judgment, ive started a blog for the photography work i will be producing from this day forward. to tell you the truth, im really bad at keeping up with blogs. its way too much work and i rather be spending time with my son or one of the millions of other things that distract me on a daily basis. 

ive created many blogs and i have abandoned all of them. fml…. im pretty sure this one will be a fail as well but good thing is… i will always be producing photographs. so just know that i am somewhere doing something with someone everyday of the week.

this blog is mainly to show the new direction i am taking in my line of photography. when i was in college, i had lots of ideas but had no money. now i have money but lost all of my ideas. time to fuse those two together and start the next phase of my career.

my ultimate goal is to run a team of highly proficient experts who make an income from the projects i take on. so as of now, im calling out all MUA, stylist, location scouts, models and anyone else that is dope at what they do. let’s collab and make magic happen. it’s never easy but in the end it’s all so worth it and if we get famous in the process, so be it but that was never the intended goal.

thanks to all those that have believed in me since day one, you have made me what i am today. to my wife, thank you for always letting me be me. you are the love of my life and thank you for a wonderful son, who always make me fall in love with you all over again everyday. your love is why i do what i do everyday.

~andrew.