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Mornings in Bali are absolutely unforgettable, and sunrises at the famous Tegalalang Rice Terraces are beyond description. Can’t wait to go back, but first, need to plan my upcoming trip to Korea 😍🇰🇷 🗻 On days like today, it’s easy for me to fall back into going through my photos from @feelslovenia, hoping one fell through the cracks. This one definitely did. The detail in the mountain tops is what really caught my eye this time around. An Self-Portrait: Tegalalang Rice Terraces, 7:23 AM, Bali
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Thank god for drones! Traveling Bali alone was one incredible experience, and trying to take a photo of myself was real difficult. Either I set up a tripod and hope it doesn’t interf On the foothills of Bali’s mountains ⛰
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I was so lucky to have had an incredible stay on the slopes of Mt. Batukaru, and I’m already missing the mountains. Anyone recommend any? Thinking Dolomites...😍 A London classic. Have had an awesome time doing tourist things in my own backyard these past couple weeks, but busy planning another trip in the next few weeks. Any ideas where I should go? 🤔 🦌 Catching up with friends in Nara…
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Last year exploring the famous deer park of Nara feels like a world away. The deer are incredibly comfortable with humans, and can even be a bit aggressive when you’re not there during high sea ☀️ Golden hour on the Bay…
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I won’t forget those couple hours on the foothills of Sausalito, staring across at San Francisco through a golden haze. It’s one of those moments during which you pinch yourself; lucky beyond belie ⛰ Down by Otemanu…
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Deep in French Polynesia, and on the main island of Vaitape, Mt. Otemanu stands head and shoulders above the landscape. A former volcano, it protects much of the island from tropical rains, and helps create this uniqu 🌊 Moments on the California coast…
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I still think about that road trip on the coast of Big Sur. Cruising down the Pacific Coast Highway, we couldn’t have asked for better conditions, or better impromptu stops than this one. Pigeon ☀️ Golden afternoons in Slovenia…
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The more time goes by, the more jealous I am of my past self, who is right now still on that sunset hike in the Slovenian Alps. I think we need time travel asap.
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#Disco 🔥 Mornings on the Balinese mountains…
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Growing up across the US and in parts of Brasil, I never imagined my life would lead me to a moment like the one in this image. An early morning — maybe 6:30a — in a country I had only Finally, I found my hat.
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Miss you Bali. Also, do me a favor guys and wish my wonderful wife an awesome birthday! She was unable to come with me to Bali, and I’m trying to convince her to go with me again this year. Help me out ! 🙏🏽🙏🏽 ☀️ Welcome to Tegalalang…
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My last day in Bali was probably the finest. At the world famous Tegalalang Rice Terraces in Ubud, I witnessed a spectacular sunrise. With my @djiglobal Mavic 2 Pro, I saw it from a vantage point I found hard t 🌊 California moments...
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A roadtrip down the PCH in California is one of those things I tell everyone I know to do once in their lives. Why? It’s got everything. This shot was right in the middle of the highway, at Pfeifer Beach in Big S 🏙 Rush hour…
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Shibuya is one of those places that doesn’t seem real. It’s an incredible demonstration of the organization of modern civilization — bright flashing lights, streams of fast-moving people, loud advertiseme ☀️ Fleeting moments in Bora Bora…
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I have to say that few places make me reminisce on sheer beauty as much as Bora Bora. There was something hard to describe about that tiny island, in a chain of tiny islands, surrounded by water for tho ❄️ Snow days in Norway…
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Even as I crave the warm weather, I definitely still crave moments like these in Lillehammer. It was an incredible trip, not least because it was the first time we’d heard the term “in-house outhouse, 🍚🌅 Mornings at Tegalalang…
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I can’t describe the experience of witnessing a sunrise at Bali’s most instagrammed location, the rice terraces of Tegalalang. Fifteen minutes from @desavisesa and roughly thirty outside the hear 👁 Face to face…
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These Balinese monkeys are not only full of energy, they’re incredibly bold. Reach for your backpack for a new lens, and you’ll see several sets of orange eyes focusing intently on you, waiting to see if you 🗻 Somewhere in the Alps…
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Sunsets like these deep in the Alps seem to be beyond comprehension. There’s a scale that appears incalculable with the naked eye. Even so high up, with miles and miles of visibility, the peaks tower over

06 - Just to Save Face (City Boy Blues)

August 03, 2015

Every once and a while my boss sends me across Manhattan picking up equipment for a production or shoot. I’m always sweating. Probably because I wear all black, but that’s a personal choice, so I can’t really complain.

But I trek across Manhattan and end up in parts of the city I would never expect. Strangely enough, I’ve never been to the west side of Midtown, just like I’d never been to the Brooklyn Bridge until about a month and a half ago. I don’t really get out much; I’m just a different dude.

And being different is one of the greatest gifts I’ve been given, whether from my multiple moves and inconsistent childhood settings or from my interracial, immigrant parents. But it’s taxing, and a highly unique experience. My whole life, I never saw one man or woman that was successful that looked like me, grew up like me, or had my background. My role models could only be within my family, but even my father, for instance, would and will never be able to understand what growing up with a perverted social and political identity and no hometown would be like.

At sixteen I experienced being inebriated for the first time in the Hague out in Holland. Olivier, my day one, brought me along slowly, knowing I was real reluctant to do anything too crazy.

I told you I’ve been a pussy for a long, long time.

The next morning I didn’t understand why I was so thirsty, so I drank a liter of milk when I woke up. Stupid shit, but that’s what you do when you have no clue what you’re doing.

And I? I have no clue where I’m going. It doesn’t really make much sense, does it? I mean, what exactly is this that I’m doing? A written album for Action Bronson? If I told my father that’s what I spent my time on, that’s what I daydream about, and that’s what I’m obsessed with at the moment, he’d probably disown me, take my dog, and tell all his coworkers that I’m at Goldman Sachs.

Just to save face.

But right now I’m as confused as I was waking up with my first hangover. None of this shit makes any sense, but I do it because that’s what needs to be done. I’m already slowly going crazy, at least this is postponing the slide a bit. 

I’m just trying to make my own out here in a way that hasn’t been done before. It’s difficult not to doubt yourself, especially when your ideas require convincing those around you, simply because they don’t make much sense to them. You do what you have to do, I guess, but it’s taken me three years to make this step. Doing what you have to do just ain’t that simple.

Because, hell, everyone’s a goddamn critic.

Tags: Action Bronson, Goldman Sachs, Mr. Wonderful, Rap, Career, Hangover, Sixteen Years Old, Holland, Alcohol, Marijuana, the Hague, Different, Unique, Social and Political Identity, Manhattan, New York, NYC, Midtown, Brooklyn Bridge
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