one day

……one day we will come to realize that we need Him more than air and more than water.

To fill every crack, occupy every void and saturate every desire,

strong

strong with the pen

Strong when I win

Strong 'Finish him'

my minds on ten

Slip when i fall

fall when i sin

trust only him

Father till the end

Strong with the pen

Strong with the lense

strong with the heart

strong with a tuff start

Gotta stay shy

gotta stay fly

filled to the brim

overflowed once again

Try to understand

Im misunderstood

maybe misonstrued

because im strong till the end

more than N E Thing

i love God more than anything

I was blessed by the Creator, to be one of the more Creative ones.

YOU MEMBER REMEMBER

Remember when you were a kid.......

Remember when you were a kid and on the night before school you would lay your clothes on the bed all organized with the new sneaks under the shorts. Because you knew your threads were cooler than the next kid. Exciting right?

Remember wearing your karate uniform as pajamas.

Remember using a towel tucked in to the back of your shirt pretending to be superman?

Remember ‘now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, and If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.

Remember believing everything your parents told you.

Remember Saturday morning and after school cartoons.

Remember time-out ! I don't. I got my ass beat instead.......Repeatedly!

Remember when your parents forgot to pick you up from school, Hopefully it was just me and not all of you.

Remember going to work with your parents all day and all the time .... For some reason this persuasion has extended till the age of 30. Lol. I love life. I hope you love yours. If not just remember how far you have came from
aaron watkins

one up

One-up

So I had this Client today Linda right? and She was telling me about her friend. Lets say her name is Sarah. I cant remember her real name, so Sarah will have to do for now. So Linda was telling Sarah how she was on this plane one time and she was having bad turbulence on the way back home from Jamaica. She was all nervous and scared, giving her details on how she felt. So Sarah bust out at the end of the story and says yeah i was on a plane before. Thats it! kinda weird huh?

Exactly Sara is that 'one-up girl'. You know? every time you tell a story or even talk They have to one up you. For instance you can be talking about a concert experience you had and then your friend comes in and says naw naw . If you think that Al-B-Sure concert was good ,i went to the Jodeci concert and it was way better. Or if you think that Big Gulp is good from 7 eleven. You should get the Slushy from quick trip.. thats what i get.

Everyone has probably been guilty once or twice but Why do some people always feel the need to one up you. Is it just to relate or is it insecurity? I am sure everyone has a employee or family member who one ups you. if not you might be that one upper' Well regardless of Linda's story, I had to do it! I one upped her with somebody i know who always one-ups me. So lindas friends sarah don't got nothing on my friend, he is the king one upping. I can always depend on him shuttin my experiences down.

aaron

TWO MORE

MI HERMANO

I TOOK THESE IMAGES AT A FAMILY BBQ ON THE WESTSIDE OF PHX.... WESSYDE!!!!!!!..IT WAS GOOD TIMES, GOOD FOOD, FAMILIA

OH YEAH THATS MY BROTHER AND HIS GIRLFRIEND

LUX CAFE.... BORED IN MY MEETING

Michael Anne

This is Michael Anne..

I went to school with her brother back in highschool Now she is studying to be a hairdresser. I shot this at my parents house 3 weeks ago

ALYSSA

AND SHE DIDNT WANT TO TAKE PICTURES FOR HER SALON, BUT THEY CAME OUT PRETTY GOOD

lindsey profiles

cc

cc

once again makeup by caroline

phx finest== Christine Capuana

Shooting at 1.4 at 630 am

from downtown phx

Hanaye

She has been a client of Toni and Guy for years

LAUREN

THIS WAS SHOT ON MY PARENTS PATIO

HAIR BY MY BROTHER CALEB AND COLOR BY MAZ

jenn

more Nuvy

Nuvy

from Art 142

wink

italian Summer

LATE BLOOMER

807pm.I have been entirely too busy Lately. Between Trying to sell my condo, Photography, Hair, clients, Photo-shoots and shows, there hasn’t been much room for anything extra. I have needed to get this out and on paper for at least a week and half now. I have been driving around thinking, wanting to pull over and write, but as usual I am running late for an appointment. Anyone who writes probably goes through similar challenges. I’ll get compelled to write because of something I heard inspirational but I don’t get a chance to write because of the daily routine of life. I try my best not to wait, because at that particular time what I feel is the purest. Even more importantly, how I felt at that exact moment can’t be brought back or re-triggered very easily. SO LETS TRY ANYHOW!
Usually in my cases it is stemmed from lyrics over a guitar like Lauryn Hill, Chris Tomlin, or Kings of Leon. I try to keep my music Selection diverse (wink). Or my inspiration might come from a book that I am reading and one sentence or one word will provokes me. ‘I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink’. Trapped in between the lines on paper. Then my mind separates from my body and I begin to see the Quality, the beauty and art in Everything......Camelback Rd Starts moving in slow motion. A 15 minute ride seems like a trip to Cali. Better yet Time might as well be suspended. I get lost in a Sea of birds flying in Sync. Lines are created by Shadows and small amounts of light on a wall. The emptiness and quietness of a passing dirt field feels perfect. ‘Then my life becomes a puddle to the subtle glimpse of blue skies’
Do you know how your body really works? Have you looked at that clouds from a plane window? I don’t think you do, nor do I think you have.
Sometimes I think the He has given me his eyes to see his Children as sees it. And That is that He loves this place and you are His favorite child who He is especially fond of. Your freckles, your hair, your grin, your style, your walk, your tears, all your imperfect self.
( standing on top of the table yelling and grinding my teeth ) HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH! but you can’t fully fathom how much. Our minds can’t understand how it all works. I see and hear his voice in everything.
Can someone step up to the plate? Do you know how to love? Can you serve? Can you kiss? Can you Hug and embrace? If nothing else the new commandment is to love your fellow man as yourself. A letter that Paul wrote says YOU ARE NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE!
He whispers loudly’ my love for you is everlasting’ I long to be intimate with you. You can be rich as Bill Gates or Give all you possess away but without love it is useless. Only the things you do in Love will last. Only the things you do For God will last. God is Love. The words are synonymous. You can not have one without the other. Whether you help an elderly across the street, smile at someone across the room, or go out of your way to help someone in real need. That is operating in love or showing God inside of you.
What ever you set out to do, hair, photography, school, Cooking, or business? Do it With a right heart. Do it with passion. From what I hear, you only get one life to live. So go at it Aggressively. Take Life by the throat until she gives you what you want and you fulfill your purpose.
I will come down from the dinning room table. I know I might be a little loud and obnoxious but I am just starting to scratch the surface of finding out who I am and discover what my gifts are. It’s quite exciting and interesting at the same. One thing I came realize early in my youth was that I am very determined. About what? About Everything.
But tonight I just realized That I might be.... a late bloomer
905pm
aaron watkins

late bloomer

807pm.I have been entirely too busy Lately. Between Trying to sell my condo, Photography, Hair, clients, Photo-shoots and shows, there hasn’t been much room for anything extra. I have needed to get this out and on paper for at least a week and half now. I have been driving around thinking, wanting to pull over and write, but as usual I am running late for an appointment. Anyone who writes probably goes through similar challenges. I’ll get compelled to write because of something I heard inspirational but I don’t get a chance to write because of the daily routine of life. I try my best not to wait, because at that particular time what I feel is the purest. Even more importantly, how I felt at that exact moment can’t be brought back or re-triggered very easily. SO LETS TRY ANYHOW!

Usually in my cases it is stemmed from lyrics over a guitar like Lauryn Hill, Chris Tomlin, or Kings of Leon. I try to keep my music Selection diverse (wink). Or inspiration might come from a book that I am reading and one sentence or one word will provokes me. I start to think and then I sink into the paper like I was ink. Trapped in between the lines on paper. Then my mind separates from my body and I begin to see the Quality, the beauty and art in Everything......Camelback Rd Starts moving in slow motion. A 15 minute ride seems like a trip to Cali. Better yet Time might as well be suspended. I get lost in a Sea of birds flying in Sync. Lines are created by Shadows and small amounts of light on a wall. The emptiness and quiet of a passing dirt field feels perfect. My life is a puddle to the subtle glimpse of blue skies

Do you know how your body really works? Have you looked at that clouds from a plane window? I don’t think you do nor do I think you have.

Sometimes I think the He has given me his eyes to see his Children as sees it. And That is that He loves this place and you are His favorite child who he is especially fond of. Your freckles, your hair, your grin, your walk, your tears, all your imperfect self.

( standing on top of the table yelling and grinding my teeth ) HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH! but you can’t fully fathom how much and understand how it all works. I see and hear his voice in everything.

Can someone step up to the plate? Do you know how to love? Can you serve? Can you kiss? Can you Hug and embrace? If nothing else the new commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. A letter that Paul wrote says YOU ARE NOTHING WITHOUT LOVE.

He whispers loudly’ my love for you is everlasting’ I long to be intimate with you. You can be rich as Bill Gates or Give all you possess away but without love it is useless. Only the things you do in Love will last. Only the things you do For God will last. God is Love. The words are synonymous. You can not have one without the other. Whether you help an elderly across the street, smile at someone across the room, or go out of your way to help someone in real need. That is operating in love or showing God inside of you.

What ever you set out to do, hair, photography, school, Cooking, or business? Do it With a right heart. Do it with passion. From what I heard you only get one life to live. So go at it Aggressively. Take it by the throat until you get what you want and you fulfill your purpose.

I will come down from the dinning room table. I know I might be a little loud and obnoxious but I am just starting to scratch the surface of who I am and discover what my gifts are. It’s quite exciting. One thing I came realize early in my youth was that I am very determined. About what? About Everything.

But tonight I just realized That I might be.... a late bloomer

905pm

aaron watkins

A WEEKS ON-ONGOING CONVERSATION

A week on-going conversation

We are going to be so mad at ourselves when we get to heaven!

When we figure out how much power we had on earth and did not use it. Because we did not realize our own strength, and our own potential. We did not realize who we really were and what we could have accomplished.

After we arrive our eyes will be fully opened. The fear and doubt will be pealed off of us. Our indecisiveness and lack of faith will no longer cloud our minds.

I am greater than I know and bigger than I seem because greater is HE that is in me than he that is in the world.

Lord Let me not have any regrets of what I should have attempted or done on this short time on Earth. I want my talents to be used up and my gifts to be emptied.

Even as I sink into the keys trapped between these lines... I realize that I am more than a conqueror, predestined for greatness because You are mindful of me

AARON WATKINS

more work

phoenix promo at PCL. 5 stories high and Toni and Guy

Rocks and Ash

my favorite MC

I CANT BELIEVE YOU DON’T THINK ITS BEAUTIFUL

Welcome to THE struggle, where a poet got a rhyme hustle,

Goin through It blind, cause it know it more mind than muscle.

When “THE DVIVINE” humble?, my pride crumbles, my eyes bubble with tears makin it clear where eyes stumble

Its like im double when im in trouble, I got 2 sides. My life’s a puddle to a sudden glimpse of Blue skies,

Carry the rain away , it varies from day to day, no matter what we say, we change…. But remember who Remains the same.

We send up prayers in HIS name, …with our hopes it might help you quote givin up praise to GOD if you felt what I wrote, your head noddin till I melt in denotes, heart throbbin puts a swell on my throat. Smoothing sailing till we fell of the boat,

now we swimming in SIN, treadin WATER waiting for our ship to come in.

DEEP BREATH, BEFORE THE WATER ENTER OUR CHEST, WAIT!! THE AUTHOR OF LIFE offfers YOU HIS LIFE VEST

WHAT IF WE HAD A SAY SO?

What if we had a say so?

What if we were there at the beginning when he created us?

What if he let us choose certain characteristics, about our life before it all began?

What if some of the struggles that we face was our verdict and by our design? Because we knew that they would help us achieve greatness in the end.

What if Our Maker was more loving than we realized and gave us a choice.?

What if the flaws in our existence were not flaws at all? But were there to make us more alluring or interesting.

What if going to another level was of our pick, and the timing was our own? Isn’t that what our three-score and ten is about ? choices? The right to free will . The option to choose our career and spouse. Or to choose right or wrong..

God created the concept of Life. And our families seem to shape our upbringing and our thinking, But in the end the decision is our own.

What if we had a say so in beginning before time began. What if we still have the say so now, and can turn our weakness into strength. Or our enemies into friends and our grudges into acts of kindness. What if there was no such thing as perfect timing. And the opportunity was of the present-now and not the later.

WHAT IF.

Aaron

everyday peeps

Every day people

I seen a picture of them sitting in their living room on the internet, Everyday people. Hardworking Christian family with two small kids. Still living in the Southside of Chicago? Are you serious? Americans that reside in the midwest, but soon to be on the east coast. Both parents went to College, studied hard and CAME UP. Its definitely motivating, there are no more excuses for me or anyone . Any goal that human being is trying to obtain has become obtainable. Whether it has been health issues, job and career goals, a mental state, or even physical limitations. It can be accomplished!

Now I actually feel like, …in my mind,…. that I could be president, I believe that I can do anything through Christ, who gives me strength, and with the direction of the Holy Spirit. ….You see most families are blessed, the rest of the families just don’t know they are. Not knowing and not believing are a killer combo. Its like being rich and famous but on the entire opposite end. The negative end! Okay better analogy. Its like having no money and no drive to go get it. Believing in yourself and knowing who you really are, is like having Shaq and Kobe pre-breakup. To have speed and strength, or sword and a shield.

Barack and his family entering the white House is Good thing, And Good things only come from our Creator. This election picked some folks up, This gave some a new ,a rebirth, whatever you wanna call it. It uplifted old, young, downspirited, and every person who said I can’t. I wont even say I cant believe it because that would be in justice. Because Nov 4 happened. And it happened big. Jesses Jackson, crying , Oprah snotting all over that man she didn’t even know, Kenyans in Africa dancing in the street. Nov 4 a National Holiday? No World holiday! But No I guess one step at a time Right? Is the U.S. ready for a black president? If you aint ready, you better get ready! And like Chris Rock said ,” You know how I know we are ready for a black President? Because we just had a retarded one and were still here. Aaron Watkins

persuasion

english homework

persuasion paragraph

If I could change one thing at work, it would be that we could focus more on the quality and the love of Hairdressing and less on quantity of clients and money. Of course this would be in a Utopian environment but it would still be great as an artist to experience change. I have been a hairdresser for 10 years and I have been around the industry since I was old enough to remember. Most of the time, but not all, an employee’s performance is rated on how much money they are bringing in. For me there is another alternative to make the 40-50 hour work week more enjoyable. For instance, I always create my best work when I am doing it for free. Whether I am doing it for inner-city kids who really need haircuts, Battered women's homes, or local fashions shows to create excitement, I am doing it because I love cutting hair and not because I am trying to get to get paid. I ask hairdressers all the time why did they decide to do hair. Most of them say they are artistically inclined and they can express themselves, or because they love hair, fashion, music and these industry are all cousins of each other. The funny thing is that you can make loads of money in this industry, but it shouldn’t be the focal point. I believe the money will come if you keep the real reason of why you became a hairdresser in front of you.

aaron 10-5-2009

So Blue

I usually see blue before I see black. Maybe because there are clear skies in Phoenix 300 hundred days a year. Maybe because there aren’t many clouds here. Or JUST maybe its blue because it was his favorite and when I look up to the sky, I see endless possibilities for my future and I remember to never think small.

The Creators favor color might have been green. But that has too much relation with the greed of money that plagues our nation, or the twelve hour workdays we put in just to get a flat screen in every room. Lets be clear. Me and We are all guilty of wanting more ISH. But I don’t feel like my mind was made strong just to accumulate more STUFF

Blue sometimes represents Royalty, which He definitely is, In by which makes us sons and daughters to the Most High. I imagine when he looks down from his throne, through space, at the earth, that first color he notices has to be blue right? If God gave us a sense of Humor, what makes you think he doesn’t just bust out laughing sometimes at certain things we do. If he can give us Taste Buds for a favorite Food, then I think He can have a favorite color, which might be blue.

Maybe Red? Because it’s a primary color, Or because it runs through our veins and it is the life source of Man, but I can’t help but think about the blood Jesus shed for Man willingly. Or all the atonements that came from animals before Christ came.

Blue for me means seeing the world and every country in it. It means I have No Fear of a Divine Romance. It means in no way shall any harm come near me. It means I have to get up every time I fall . And only God knows the number of times I fell in my youth and now I am afraid of no – thing.

aaron watkins

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5-The Five represents the Artistic Team of individuals who we work with daily. They are the ones we collaborate and mesh ideas with to create that one strong look and perfect image. In my industry, hairdressing, you find tons of young talent and motivation. Unfortunately hairdressers do not have photos of their work. So I wanted to address that issue and push hairdressers to setup their own photo-shoots, as well as to work with the 5 as a team to achieve their own looks and develop their own style.

There is nothing better than looking at a 7 page fashion spread and seeing the ideas and progression from the first photo to the last. The main elements missing are the concepts and the written story behind the shoot or particular project. They never post the thoughts of the Artist. The only thing you see are the credits in the bottom corner. We are pushing the Artists on this site to write and video their stories of their projects and talk about how they are contributing to their industry, and how there industry is influencing fashion. These 5 unique stories are crucial to creating a successful photo-shoot to grow your portfolio.

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