ॐ☯Yoga. Portrait. Activism. Landscape. Fashion. 2013.☯ॐ
Sometimes in Los Angeles, New York, Miami but at the moment in Oakland. A nomadic child of the Universe. Fascinated with all things yoga, energy work, geomancy, hidden knowledge of the occult, and ego death. Casino is a trained Ashtanga Yoga teacher and believes in union of all things. Check out his yoga practice here. His work deals with the nature of reality, identity, the ego, and spirituality as seen from one of many extentions of god conciousness. Art. His past clients include Marie Claire Korea, Thvm Rag, Musee Mag, Ke$ha, Pase Rock, designers UNIF, B.Scott, Fremont, Posso, Costume Dept, Lauren Ann Wolfe, and Beubelet. This blog is all original work. See more of his complete portfolio here.
“hurling consciousness” from the photo series Echo of India.
“We are all vibrations echoing from the past rushing into the future, and a photograph captures the ever present moment”
-Photographer Casino Nelson
Remember when people thought the world was round?
— Hot Chip
To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
— Dr. Seuss
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
— Auguste Rodin
This country belongs to the people and whenever they shall grow weary of their government they can exercise their constitutional right to amend it, or revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it.
— Abraham Lincoln
Every photograph is a physical manifestation of a ghost of time.
— Casino Nelson
I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody’s face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
— Duane Michals
My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain.
— Helmut Newton
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
— Walt Whitman
know thyself and all one self-same soul; banish the dream that sunders part from whole.
