XXXTENTACION Memorial Jersey

Made for 'Skins' album release event at the RC Cola Plant, Miami, December 6th 2018.
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Photos I took of X at the Helping Hand event cut and sewn into a custom Heat.
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The 5th, 6th and 7th slides are photos I took of X at the Helping Hand event, a concert dedicated to the lives of the Parkland shooting. The judge gave him permission to perform while on house arrest for this charitable cause. He told the crowd to be careful with his ankle monitor because he was jumping in there, some people got to touch it. The first two photos are actually in chronological order, the first is him mid-dive from the second story and the second is what it looked like right after he fell into the crowd that pulled him up. I remember before capturing these first two photos I could see him pacing around on the second story and knew he was going to jump and had to get right underneath him for the shot. All I could think was wow, how I’m really witnessing greatness right now, catch me in the 8th slide witnessing that greatness. I was surrounded by many new and old fans because his latest album just dropped. It was a sight. All these photos I took on an 11 dollar disposable fuji film camera. Good durability for a wild crowd. I use to think stage photographers got the best shots, when really it’s the fan’s eyes who capture the moment. It was hard to get a bad photo of X.
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Last photo is me being ejected from the Skins album release event. The first time 'One Minute' was played for the public I jus remember thinking how sick the song was and rushed the front where I asked two dudes to launch me over the rail and got on stage. I got the crowd hype for a bit before security ejected me. Coincidentally, the song had a Kanye feature, and in the photo of me being ejected you can see mr. West peepin the madness. I snuck back in right after they kicked me out lol