Dear Janolytes,

I sit here now chilling on my day off, my soul filled with a Starbucks Caramel Ribbon Crunch, led lights cascading my face,  pothos hanging above me, and Doechii playing via Spotify.

Waddup yo.

I’m off from Cottonfield 12 trying to catch up on things, like cleaning, organizing and this website. At some point I need to restart looking for a job, hopefully all the witchcraft I’d been doing will pay off.

Sick of these niggas. So sick.

This issue is honestly really fucking simple. Real simple. No elaborate plots, crafting plans, trying to find a nice backdrop to paint my creative visions on.

Simple right.

Ready? Here we go.

Its Spring 2021 and a nigga is feeling somewhat social. As social as I can be giving where i was working at the time. Fuck Cottonfield 6.5.  In case you are wondering how I went from 6.5 to 12 I’ll explain.

So if I went back to a cotton field it gets a .5. Returning here wasn’t exactly what I wanted but niggas needed a job Fall 2020. Especially since I wasn’t getting those wonderful COVID checks from Cottonfield 10, and the funds I had was on the verge of being fully evaporated.

Desperation will make you do strange things. If I won’t shy I would sell drugs or sell meat pictures.

Anyway I decided to visit 1 of my homeboys, and it was a simple visit. Nothing major at all. We caught up as we watched TV and he played video games. At some point it hit me he had a vast and impressive wardrobe. We know what came out of my mouth next…

Do you want to model for me nigga?

He said yea and BAM new photo journey unlocked. The plan was try to do it before Summer or when it got hot as fuck.

FULL FIELD NIGGA HEAT HOT.

At some point I scouted an area in downtown Charlotte and what I thought would be a simple adventure ended up taking a year later.

But Jano why?

Do you remember some issues in 2021 how I was having car issues.  Yea that is the conflict in this arc. From late March until early October 2021 transportation was an issue for me.  With that any shoot idea got halted, postponed or didn’t happen. At some point I left Cotton field 6.5 to Cotton field 11 simply because despite how much Bezos is benefiting from us ordering online My hours and pay were trash, and wasn’t covering my car repairs which weren’t solving the issue of my car stalling.

Ugh.

No it was a fucking arc bro. I barely saw my niggas, hoping in Lyfts to and from the field in early covid years, or I had to share a car with my ex. All of it was horrendous. By the time I car got fixed it was fall and I decided to revisit the idea come Spring 2022 since Cottonfields 11 busy time was Halloween, then the egregious fall and winter descended on us like locust in the Bible.

Side Note I’m listing to Charles Hamilton now now. Spotify can we just get this niggas WHOLE Discography on your platform, forever.

Back to the program.

Spring 2022 arrived and I hit up my homeboy. I’m not sure what was in the air of Spring 2022 but spring was busy. Between plotting photo shoots, working on my comic, doing vendor opportunities and other things happening.

He said he was still down for the cause, we picked a date and BAM light skin magic happened.

I picked him up, confirmed the outfit selection we had already chose, and headed to downtown one Spring Sunday Morning. I can honestly say this is one funniest shoots I’ve done.

Despite how much he verbalized in a comical manner how much he was tired of walking he also delivered in poses. Towards the end I played a song I remembered him vibing out to from our hangout sessions from years ago.

I think it was Never gonna give you up by Rick Astley. I think. I knew then, obviously not now.  But the authentic joy he showed was photo worthy. And with that we wrapped up, dropped him off, and  I went to prepare for the slave week ahead.

Moral of the story. Kick it with your niggas just for the simple joy of kicking it with your niggas. If something comes along that helps your passion, its a bonus. But def spend time with your friends when you can. You never know when you get the feeling to google a friend, only to discover that they passed away 2 years ago and you haven’t seen them in years.

Wait what?

Yea…..

 

Hey Google Play

Rina Samayama -Bad Friend

Anyway to see images from this fun filled light skin day click here.

Also

I finally made my Team Jano shirts. Finally.

Go Buy. 

I’m about to do Yoga and dive into a video game coma. I’m pretty sure I should beat Final Fantasy 7. Its been about 8 years since I started.

I know I know.

*Says this and plays Batman Arkham Knight instead.