Ever since the big happening – the tragic man-made disaster – had happened, my people have had that dark, sad mental state that I am a sufferer of as well. The Armenian Genocide, before and after April 24, 1915, has actually stamped its mark on us. Cliche (although not artistic)? As sad as that is, we have heard it over and over again, and we have tried to raise awareness, but what’s awareness when human nature takes over with jealousy, class-division, and attitude?

Last year, I blogged about the possibility of those who know about the genocide teaching a small lesson to those who haven’t heard about it, by using Twitter. One of the fastest growing social networking websites that not only go through almost every teenager’s home computer, but as close as their own cellphones. This isn’t propaganda. This isn’t unjust. The Twitter Armenian Genocide campaign is built by us for everyone to learn from. Facts. We don’t post pictures of the Armenian flags. We don’t tweet about how amazing our cars are. We, actually, mention facts, while adding the hashtag #armeniangenocide in the tweet itself. We share our surviving grandparent’s stories.

The hashtag is a “search term” that allows that specific term following it to be ranked in popularity. No, this isn’t a popularity contest, but it is something we would like to achieve. How and why? By tweeting (posting on Twitter) small facts about the genocide, and by uniting, thousands of tweets would be posted on the day of, April 24th being the symbolic day. When thousands of tweets are posted, the term will be featured on Twitter’s home page, under a list titled “Trends.” That is the goal of this campaign, because everyone in the world who uses Twitter will see the term, and if they click on it, they will see all of our facts posted one after the other.

The links to last year’s campaign are here, in which we were able to trend the term in Los Angeles, CA:

The first, being the start of the campaign: http://www.apotize.com/twitter-the-armenian-genocide-campaign/

And the second includes the results we achieved on the day of: http://www.apotize.com/twitter-campaign-results/

This Twitter campaign is all about awareness. I’m not a fan of violence nor am I a fan of revengeful thinking. I do, however, believe that things need to be written right so they don’t happen again. If you allow a thief to steal once with no consequences, they will steal again. If they don’t steal again, you’re showing the other ones around that stealing is okay, and having those others steal as well. Why not just end it there and not allow anymore people going through it?

Hi there! How are you doing? Artistic, I hope, because there’s nothing better than tattoos to stare at these days. Tattoos are art. Whether you agree or disagree, they are and continue to be great pieces of art. Not only are they permanent, they are also very expensive if done clean and right.

What Tattoo Should I Get?

As you grow older you realize how much less you need tattoos really, so if you’re getting tattoos to show them off or because a friend influenced you to do so, don’t do it. As cliche as that sounds, it really is true. Tattoos aren’t a game or a hobby, although they might be for some. I have personally filmed many people receiving tattoos whether designed by me, a tattoo designer, or by someone else they know. I’ve even met people who wanted their own names on themselves. I thought I was an egomaniac.

From Memorial Tattoos and Name Tattoos, all the way to Arabic Tattoos, which are my specialty. Arabic Calligraphy is something I not only enjoy the art of but am as well very connected to. I have done many parents’ names, and a lot of them in Arabic designs as well, these usually are the small forearm tattoos or wrist tattoos. Love in Arabic is definitely one of the most common Arabic words used for tattoos, by the way.

Tattoos With Meanings

If you’re getting a tattoo because you want the ink in your body, you have every right to, but I’d suggest not, just like others have suggested the same for a long time for a reason. That ink is permanent, and it’d cost a lot of time, money, and pain to take it off, and it wouldn’t completely be removed from your body and it can leave scars and old marks at the tattoo spot. Don’t do another butterfly tattoo or stars tattoo just because everyone else does them, this is ink, this is art at its finest, this is about your own personal flesh. That, in no way means that stars and butterflies are bad. They’re so catchy that they became very popular very quickly. My point is have a reason. Have a story that you will remember later on, keep that tattoo as a reminder of that story so now not only do you have to think of it, you also see it all the time and remember it. Any tattoo with no story will be as bad as a bad tattoo job, and that’s not going to be nice for you nor the people around you. No, I’m not talking about your classmates staring and gossiping about it. I’m talking about your health and your family being concerned.

How to Get a Tattoo?

You have to search and personally look for places to get a tattoo at, and that includes seeing other customers’ tattoos and checking their work out by seeing samples. Once you visit a tattoo shop and talk to anyone there, ask them about your idea and the price, and if that sounds good for you, ask if it’s okay for you to watch them tattoo somebody else. Usually the answer is a “if the person being tattooed doesn’t mind, you can stay and watch along.” So that’d be the best way for you to see all of the action yourself. After watching, you might be wondering again, “should I get a tattoo?” If you went there wanting a tattoo and then watching the people there changed your mind, then you might as well cancel the whole idea and walk out of there. Not many people give up that fast, and if you did give up that fast then that’s a good indication for you that you didn’t really want that tattoo that bad anyway. That’s a big sign telling you “good thing you didn’t do it”. Be very careful.

Angelina Jolie Tattoos

Tattoos aren’t viewed the same as they used to be. The views of tattoos changed, where it was once seen as an act for the “bad ass” and tough only, with sailors rocking naked girls’ tattoos (pin up tattoos) on their arms. Today, many of our high earning human beings, including doctors and famous personalities, have tattoos to show, whether a full sleeve tattoo or a simple paragraph of classiness on their back or side they can show every now and then with a dress that reveals a bit of the tattoo itself, making it news worthy by that time.

Tattoos are an important part of the fashion scene today. Problem is, however, that this ink won’t be removed. It’ll be there until we are dead and gone, so that leaves such a big fashion trend ‘always trendy’ because not a lot of people can unwind their $60 mistake, or piece of art. Right? FALSE. The trend will be over soon, and you can’t fix it if you got it because it’s trendy. A random advice, by the way: Your tattoo should cost between $100-$3,000 if not more if the job is hard work and it takes hours of sessions and multiple days of work, because just like anything in the business/consumer world, you get what you pay for, and a $50 tattoo might still last you forever, but will not look, not even close, to a $250 job. Not to mention the dirty needles. Yes, sometimes they might just be plain over-priced, but this is when you make the decision. I do have a tattoo on my wrist that I do love because I personally designed it myself, and the design is anything but cheap looking, thus making the piece very artistic. See how I just sold that to you? My answer should’ve been “Yes, I do love my tattoo because it represents a dear people in my life, and the needles were clean.” If that job was given to the tattoo artist without the design ready, they would’ve charged me a good $250 or so for it, for a small design as such. I got it for $60.

Getting a Tattoo

I will also tell you two facts that might have been fought against by celebrities publicly and argued about by friends, but these are facts because I have been to tattoo shops way too many times to know, and I have filmed and photographed way too many different situations of people getting tattooed to know and hear about this and collect ideas. Ladies and gentlemen, once you get your first tattoo, you will:

1. Want more tattoos. Yes. It’s an addiction. It’s the noise of the tattoo gun. It’s the feeling of the needle going in and out of your skin in that speed. It’s a combination of everything, but once you get a tattoo, you should know that you’ll be craving a new one, and if you visit a tattoo shop, even if you’re just there to support a friend, you will be very tempted to get a new piece. The cheap prices and sales don’t help keeping you away either. Be careful and wise. If you still don’t believe me, you will also notice, on your own, that you rarely meet people with one tattoo on their bodies. There’s almost always more than one on them. A major sign, right in front of you.
2. Be interested in people with tattoos. You will notice way more detail on that guy’s full sleeve tattoo than you would’ve before, and you might see hearts all around him, in slow motion too, ladies. You will notice way more detail on that girl’s back tattoo, and you’d think about asking the girl out right ahead, fellas. Just kidding, you’d wanna **** the livin’ **** outta her, on the spot.

Using MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram, I got myself linked to many people who are clearly interested in what I do. That being said, I will not be talking about how, but why connecting to many people works its way automatically and gets your chances higher in the numbers game. Okay, I might talk a little bit about how, as well.

What is the numbers game?

Possibilities. The numbers game is taking the success percentage, and using that piece of information to do more. If out of every 100 Facebook friends, you get one client per month, try raising that number to 200, and notice if you do get two clients per month. You didn’t get luckier. Your work didn’t get better. You, simply, raised your chances. Every single place you share your work will gain you supporters who like your own style. When you have “friends,” “followers,” “fans,” and “subscribers,” you’re guaranteeing yourself that those people are a click away from viewing your next project. Those people made the commitment to believe in you and want to see what you have to offer next.

Don’t disappoint them.

When numbers add up, your percentage of possibilities might change, but you will still be gaining more. Once you get a hold of the best method to get new fans who want to see more of your work, which is entirely on you, you need to start publishing work.

According to Facebook and YouTube statistics alone, my fans are from the USA, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Canada, Netherlands, Australia, Germany, Armenia, Russia, United Kingdom, Belgium, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Turkey, France, UAE, Mexico, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Poland, Morocco, Brazil, India, Spain, Japan, Estonia, Austria, Singapore, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, Lithuania, Indonesia, Romania, Kuwait, Costa Rica, Taiwan, Luxembourg, Iran, and Palestine.

What do these countries do for you?

Well, each country I mentioned above has at least one person following my work. Basically, when I release a music video, someone from all of those countries will actually be NOTIFIED that I have a new video, or new work published! That, alone, is amazing. The numbers are way higher than one person per country, by the way, but you do get the point. Now, if I used this to my own benefit, I could dedicate each of my pieces for one of those countries, and have the fan base there expand by having those people living there re-posting the work and their friends seeing it all. Facebook allows people to “like” your content. When the content is liked, their friends will get to see that “action” in their “activity” feature built-in on their Facebook homepage and be linked to your content. A random person will log on to Facebook, see your picture on the homepage, decide to view it hopefully, and will be making that physical choice of clicking on your work!

Needless to say, if your work is good, those new people will not only “like,” but real-world like your work, and you will get the extra fans that way. Using what you have and what’s available to you, you can push your name way higher than you even imagined it to be. You also need to understand, if we’re talking 10% action, out of the 100,000 people who “pass by” your work, 10,000 will consider following, and only 1,000 might follow. Out of the 1,000 followers, 100 will check your next project. Out of the 100, 10 might be interested in the project. Out of the 10 interested people, 1 might buy the product. That is something you should consider and understand; just because someone has 10,000 followers doesn’t mean they make $10,000 a month. You can only count so much on that, but again, this is the numbers game. When you push that 100,000 I mentioned earlier to 200,000, you might have a chance of getting two, not one buyer. Never forget those are hypothetical numbers based on a fixed percentage rate that DOES NOT HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE. Some people might have a 25% action takers, while others might have to deal with 0.1%, if not 0%. Know and appreciate what you have, and build it. The higher you go, the better your chances.

Maximize your potential clients number by doing what you have to do to get them. Link and move around. Talk to people. 100,000 isn’t an easy number on networking websites, especially since your most famous celebrities are barely having a million likes, if they do reach to that number, on their Facebook fan pages. Work hard, and believe in yourself. When your percentage of activity is something as low as 0.1%, don’t sit and try to add more people, but try to see what the problem is with your own method and work, instead. Once that numbers gets higher, consider maximizing your NUMBERS, instead of the percentage, at that time.

Do people in other countries really buy products?

Some do. Believe it or not, just like wherever you live, there are different class levels in every country. The same countries that a genocide occurs, there are people who can afford buying your city entirely, unfortunately. That knowledge, however, is for your own work. No, you shouldn’t support and do business with unethical people. However, that was an extreme example. Simply put, if you think one nation might be too poor to order your product, you’re wrong. Somehow, they do manage to purchase what they want. So be ready for it. Don’t offer anything to countries you can’t ship to or support customer service, by the way. That would be a hassle when you advertise to people in some country, and when you get 100 phone calls in that country’s language, asking you for help about why they haven’t received their product, it will not be a good day for both of you.

Do good. Stay good. And hopefully, this will give you the chance of maximizing your revenues as well. If it does so, please consider donating some of it to the needy. Remember, not everyone has access to information and knowledge as you do.

Another good day,

Apo Avedissian

 I got a call from a close friend, producer Sergei Avakyan, regarding a new project he wanted me to direct, about two months ago. I wasn’t sure if I would be able to make it on time, so I asked for detail and it turned out it was a video inolving a friend I had met with Sergei earlier on, drumming genius Jacob Armen.

I knew Jacob in person, but had never heard him play. So once I received the files, I was excited to work on this new challenge. Soon enough we shot the video, and every obstacle that’s known to man came against us, but a beautiful piece came off of it. Why? Because it has a story. It had a story during his making, it had a story during my making, and now that it’s up for you to watch, it’s creating a new story going forward. That can only tell you one thing about this project: perfection.
Ladies and gentlemen, here’s the piece directed by yours truly, titled Heartbeat. Enjoy the video, and pay attention to his music writing. Here’s Jacob Armen in Heartbeat.

Apo Avedissian

We took some time off and came back with a music video. From designing the idea itself to taking everything out of the paper and making it become a reality, we created Winners Circle. Alex Trebor’s newest song and latest music video is finally here.

We spent months perfecting this song, from the production team SKYIN HIGH, to Trebor himself writing over and over again, to the art direction by myself. This video was a new obstacle for me to tackle, since I tried horror/comedy earlier, and I sure have tried documentaries since they are a favorite of mine, but this is my first rap video with the story being very symbolic yet subtle. There are a lot of hidden symbols all over the video. Some you might catch quick, while others you might have to watch the video a couple of consecutive times for you to notice. Each symbol connects a dot in my life and everything I’ve been through or cared about.

The song represents our unity as a group. I’ve worked with Alex Trebor since our sophomore year in high school, and ever since we have collaborated on every art project together. We met Sergei Avakyan and Abel Shamiryan (together as SKYIN HIGH) soon enough at the studio and became even closer than a team. We now have a story to tell. I hope you enjoy the video, watch it until you understand it over and over again. Pay attention to detail and let it all teach you a thing or two!

Ladies and gentlemen,

Winners Circle

Thank you for watching,

Apo Avedissian

From a studio to another, from a computer to a laptop, we have all downgraded our equipment for the sake of saving a dollar or two. What do we do with the dollar or two? Eat, or feed the needy.

This trend started a long time ago, for the needy knows what the other needy is going through, and if it’s worse, then I can definitely share my food and miss a lunch to feed one who hasn’t eaten for a day (sometimes longer, believe it or not). Does that come from within? I’m not sure. I’d say it comes from my parents, since I’ve seen what they’ve gone through and still took care of others, but that’s a different story to get into. I hate having to tell you this, since the last thing I need on my record is to go out and yell “I donate money,” but it’s not one of those. We’re not millionaires. Not yet! We don’t own places. We don’t drive fancy cars. We make art. We make music. We make photos. We make videos. We make feelings! We do what we enjoy while trying to save a dollar or two from the work we do to feed us for another day and continue our efforts to make a change in people. Unheard voices are now heard, and through my art I’m able to speak. I’m not a talker, and because of my ability to express my thoughts through writing and documenting, I do it. I simply make a thought into a piece of art and throw it at you. You’re welcome to open it and watch it, or simply scroll down your newsfeed or e-mails and read other things, but I do what I do because I love doing what I do. I mean what I do. I do what I mean. I don’t say things. I can’t say things. These are my mediums. The people around me have shown an understanding of this world that I happen to agree with. Do we understand this world? Not really. But we know what we know and we usually agree on that view, and as we make art, we share what we’ve gone through in these pieces.

The rapper and producer and I meet, talk about a theme. The producer goes home, makes a sample, sends it to the rapper. The rapper and the producer discuss it, finalize it, record to it, then once the track is done we start on a video. These three sentences are very simple for you to read, but when you watch and listen to the final product, you’ll go through an out-of-this world-experience. That is what we’re all about. We enjoy teaching. We enjoy making art.

The thumbnail is of one of the symbols of my Armenian culture. If you’re into that, Google it! I’ll definitely be teaching you a lot about that through my work later on.

Here’s a piece done recently by Alex Trebor, engineered by Nick Lalaian, and directed by myself, Apo Avedissian. It does show you what a crew goes through at home and then at work time and play time. It’s as real as it gets because a lot of the shots are real-life footage of unplanned real-time events, and all it’s missing is your views and thoughts.

Please, enjoy, study it, and while at it, smile when it’s done.

Ladies and gentlemen, Reflection:

Television is Poison

TV shows are all sad and dramatic and movies about depressing stories have got you by your neck and control your brain by now. You sit there and wait for that sad movie to come out and you go and pay money you worked hard for to be sad. You want to cry. These are stories people wrote to sell you and make money off of you. If it wasn’t for that they wouldn’t make books of it then movies then commercials to sell tickets then DVDs then posters. You might argue back and say “but some are real stories”. Let me tell you something, if I have a sad story, and I write it on paper and go have meetings with producers to pitch my idea and discuss how much percentage goes to each, that’s already business at its finest. If it was truly made for “awareness,” it would be made with no cast credits, and the profit all donated to a cause! Do they? No they don’t.
Sadness goes around and people love to go after it. It’s the same principle of the “I hate drama” creatures who tend to be the most dramatic of all, it’s the same thing with all. Sadness is an excuse. It’s an easy path. “I broke my arm so I can’t follow my dream of becoming an artist” guess what? Some have gone through worse and still make art with their feet or mouthes holding a brush to paint! People blaming other things around them for sadness just so they have a reason to blame why they didn’t follow their plans to accomplish their goals.
If you quit or can’t continue, don’t blame things around you. Lying to yourself won’t help you because you’re cheating you and nobody else.

I Changed

I’ve changed. I don’t like this. Social and Apo don’t go together, and in the past two years I’ve been getting way too social. I’m still the quiet kid, but this still is too much. I don’t feel the same anymore. I feel different. I miss being in silence. I miss being in an empty room. I miss thinking and writing more often. Having short sessions almost killed me, and now, with real health risks on my back, I need to bring myself back to who I used to be. I need to be ready to write. I need to be quicker than I am now. I need more faith. I need silence. I only work with silence. Without silence I can only hear myself not being myself. It might be me, but it’s not the me I present myself to when I’m alone in a silent room.
I need to get my best out of myself. I need to use the best out of myself. Purify the good. No pulp, pure concentrate.
I miss being me all alone doing nothing but being me and talking to everyone around me through my work, not words. Too social isn’t my method and I can’t do that anymore. I need to talk. I need to make art to connect and project my thoughts. YES! That’s what it is! I need to make art. I need to bring happiness back.

Good morning,
Apo Avedissian

You might not know much about psychology, but if there’s one thing you do know about what I’ll be talking about here, it’d be the idea of feelings are all in our head. Upper head.

Hi! Welcome back =) I haven’t blogged for a while because of a bunch of projects coming up. It’s the summer time, so I can’t complain. Here’s the thing though, I had nice meetings with an old friend of mine twice this past month, and we got to talk besides doing work. My friend has been introduced to you guys before on Apotize.com, this isn’t his first time here, but if you’re a new reader, this guy is a mind f$%^er. HD Magic is the name. Straight up magic in your face, live. No cameras needed, no people or any help needed. In fact, you might do the helping with your own hands. All that is needed is him and you and he can blow your mind away (not LITERALLY) actually I’m not sure, he might be able to do that too.

Okay so, feelings are good things.. just because bad feelings exist that doesn’t make it a bad thing. Don’t forget how good a good feeling feels like! Are you confused yet? If you are, you shouldn’t continue reading this article =)

What’s the Point of Mind Bend?

Do you go through ups and downs in your life that you’re very happy about then very sad about the next day? Well, Mind Bend will show you something you haven’t thought of before, because, like I’ve always believed, visuals do put ideas in our heads, and they can be very different from what you’re used to thinking about. My work here is to show you more sides of this world that you have never seen before. I don’t care which side you choose, for I’m not a marketer. I push for recognition. As long as you be who you are, WHILE YOU KNOW WHAT OTHER OPTIONS THERE ARE, then you can be anyone you’d like to be and possess anything you’d like to possess by hard work and dedication. Why am I lecturing about hard work and dedication? Because I know by concentration you can do anything.

Concentration Rules this World. So does Focus.

Focus and being clear with your own self will give you powers powerful enough to push for what you desire, and by working hard, even getting it! I can’t keep telling you about how good these things are. I will teach you, but you need to work with me to learn. HD Magic has done this for years, and continues to WOW crowds and teach while doing magic tricks for you. The point here isn’t real magic or illusions, the point here isn’t what was done. The point, however, is what you learn after the performance, for it might teach you a life lesson in ten seconds that you never got to learn somewhere else throughout years. Open your mind, study what you see, and allow yourself to also learn before teaching.

Enjoy the show,

Apo Avedissian

Hi there! Welcome back to Apotize, which had been blocked by Facebook for two weeks now, and is finally unblocked just as we speak. [MUSIC VIDEO INFO BELOW]

Here’s the thing, just like we’re taking over Earth with our industrial ‘things’ and technological advancements doesn’t mean that Earth will be sitting there for the rest of our life time, or a couple of generations down, and clap for our achievements. Just like we’re taking every jungle down one by one, Earth will have its earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and everything in between until we’re all wiped out and everything is recycled and life goes back to zero. You can call that the judgement day, you can call that big bang theory two, or you can call that bullshit. That’s none of my business. My business is directly with society. This giant network, Facebook, got a little butt-hurt from recent blog posts I posted about how Google Plus is going to screw it. I said Google Plus will take over everything facebook ever stood for. Talk about privacy, and now Google will be doing the same to them, and they will do it the right way because, I still stand by my point, Google is simply better than Facebook. Just like Google will take over and Earth taking everything back again, I’m simply back!

Music Video Information

I know I mentioned earlier about the music video being worked on, and I gotta say I’m pretty excited for this one. I haven’t put this much effort on any work since the last video, and that last video was a practice one. I’m looking forward to sharing this “mind-projection” with you and I do hope you get the point and message of the art work I’m about to show you. The new music video is for a song by Alex Trebor, produced by Sergei Avakyan, who are both musical geniuses in their own types of work. It has been amazing seeing what three creative minds can come up with, especially when each mind specializes in something the other has almost no idea or very little information about. It’s a complete circle now.

I always ask people to learn before they enjoy. My work is about teaching. I try to make it amusing so it catches attention out of the millions of other videos out there and not get you to be bored, and once you click on it you get to see and learn, but there’s a limit to that. I won’t put clowns to grab your attention and make you sit, smile, and clap as you watch like a little baby. I’ll only do a subtle thing there, but like I said, learn and enjoy. It’s both healthy and fun for you. Make Up by Jess, I don’t even have to say anything else besides this to explain the amazing art-pieces she pulled off; made everything to what I had in mind the same way I watched the video in my head before making it a reality =)

So here’s the deal!

How do I get to see the video?

You can now sign up using the Google Newsletter widget located on your right hand side column, right below the featured video at the top. You can sign up using that device, and what that will do is send you an email when ever an Apotize article is up with only the link inside. What does that mean? It means that there’s no cluttered bull-crap spam that takes over your email. This is a single e-mail per post system that comes with only the link to remind you that there’s a new article you can read on the website. What else does that do? Well, besides it being run by Google (making it absolutely safe), I’ll be sending the music video to whoever signs up in the next two days, no matter how many people, I’ll personally email all of you with the video link before it’s released to the public and you will get to see the music video and comment before anyone else even hears the song =) Good enough of a deal? I think so! Go ahead and sign up now and wait for the email. You’ll be getting it soon ;)

Good night,
Apo Avedissian

The Artistic Comeback?

Yeah it’s been a while.. (who starts a blog with “yeah it’s been a while”?) but after two years of taking a break from art making, well, art ‘publicizing’, if you want to call it that, I recently got back into doing what I love to do: Photography and videography. About two years ago I took a long break from publicizing my work, not because I quit, but because everyone around me became photographers (some still become photographers and ‘directors’ today), but thankfully they realized that getting views for your content isn’t that easy, and getting real work is even harder, and like any other career, you can’t just jump in and get it right and have millions of fans paying you for your work, all the top dollar price ranges.

Advice for Photographers

Photography involves a lot of permits and contracts and legal papers. I’m talking about real photography here, about getting people in your studio and signing contracts with them, not the free “Lil Wayne will be in our storage/warehouse today, the fastest 10 photographers who reply or suggest their homeboys get to come in and take pictures of him” while the photographers run and take pictures just so they can brag about who or what they shot, not realizing that their pictures are gone and they don’t own the rights anymore because the other party has all the permits on their own and you just released your rights to the other party. Sad, isn’t it? Well, some still do it today and are still running around busting their asses working for others for free, and their work is published everywhere, but guess what’s missing on these big posters? THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S CREDITS, and of course the side that you’ll never know about, the photographers’ paychecks. After all, this is advice for photographers.

This Might Be About You. Or Not.

I have a lot of photographer friends, so if you’re reading this and going “I thought that mother f***er was my friend,” I still am. It might not be about you directly, but if you happen to do this, then you’re very welcome for the reality check. I don’t mean harm nor disrespect. In fact, I’m telling you your rights and why you’re not making money from these people. I’m talking about $20,000 contracts, I’m not talking about the $300 photoshoots for the others you get because of bragging about your other free photoshoots, not even photoshoots actually. Paparazzi gigs. Again, this isn’t directed at anyone. For those who know me personally, you know if I wanted to say something about someone, I’m saying it and I’m naming them too. So don’t stress over this. Stress for your self. This is advice. Pure, loving advice. =)

All of that being said, I watched all of them quit, come back, quit again, come back once more, quit, come back, so I decided to do what? Come on, you just read it thrice [ ;) ]….. COME BACK. Yes, that’s the phrase! Hi! =) I’m back!

My Close Friends Are Talented Too!

I sat down and listened to a musical masterpiece produced by a close friend of mine, and vocals are of another close friend of mine after they showed me what they made and guess what? I said I need to make a video. The last video I made was a year ago, and it was made for my practice. Yeah, “Monster” was a practice video. We put our effort in it and everyone else who was there did as well, and it came out with a clean story and awesome feedback as well. Speaking of feedback, please write me what you think. I do answer back whether your suggestions are positive or negative, as long as you know how to critique. To me “shit’s nuts man! slkdgflksmfdlkbmsfdb” is the same as  ”sucks balls al;glmasdfmv” even if one was positive and the other was negative.. explain why “the shit” is “nuts”, or why it “sucks balls”.. you don’t have to explain the “kledlbgkmdlfb”. You’re welcome. So, as I was saying, I decided to make a video. A realer one. Back to what I usually make and of course what I learned from my rights and wrongs on Monster. What does that mean? It means it’s simply better. If you liked Monster, you’re gonna enjoy this. No there isn’t a magician in it. No there are no disappearing thugs who chase a lonely girl, nor is there a Monster, but I do believe you’ll like it.

“Stop complaining and make art; everyone has their own fears, pushed by people around them, that make them be in a hurry or the total opposite of it, being lazy, in getting work done.” An old rich man told me. “Are you pushing me and in such a hurry about my art because you think you’re gonna die soon?” I replied back.

My newest directed music video, or actually, my mind projection, as cheesy as that sounds, should be available for you to see very soon. If you remember how Monster worked, this will be released the same way. Again, I will be waiting for your feedback. Updates coming very soon.

Back to the “lab”, preparing to educate while entertain you,

Good night,

Apo Avedissian