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It was 20 years ago this month that I first made the blog Lovebryan. I recently finished college and was crashing at different friends’ houses and even sleeping on the roof under the solar panels of my old co-op at UC Berkeley. @oldmanbasel let me keep my huge Apple eMac in their room and I’d teach myself to code during the day while they were in class. After a few weeks, the blog was born. I made pages for all my friends to post about their daily lives, travels, parties, whatever. It was our DIY form of social media. I’d make new homepages every week with the updated posts. For me, it was an amazing platform to develop my photography, build confidence, get feedback and ultimately launch a career in photo. It was just as cool to see others like @mikebelleme , @sandycandykim , and @danilorparra progress from blog posts to illustrious creative careers of their own.

But for all the sweet nostalgia, it also contained plenty of navel-gazing, insensitive, sketchy, and embarrassing work. As the tech overlords forced their will upon us, we mostly migrated away from Lovebryan and to Instagram. With the exception of occasional posts by Danilo and @allenying , it’s mostly been a relic for the last decade. So after 20 years, Lovebryan.com has officially been retired. You can probably dig up various iterations on the Wayback Machine, but I like to think everyone’s best work and creative contributions are yet to come.

Thanks to all who contributed and viewed the site over the years. Love, Bryan.

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This is an ongoing series. Some of the many people I am thankful for 🙏. I’m thankful for you!! Leah gets two slides, because her style is so divine. Dad is learning things about IG, and bc of the tag limit, thank you in 18 to @franklygalland , 19 to @boboninstagram and @mario__miron , and 20 to @andylilien ✨.

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20 Y E A R S of Y O L A N D A
I got this car on August 16, 2005. I was 17 years old. This was the song I had cued up, on a burned cd, to drive off the car lot listening to 🩶

So many miles of adventures and memories.
So, so many laughs and good times.
She’s hauled my stuff, my friends, my loves, my life.
She’s hauled a couch to the beach for the day and then back to my apartment.
She’s hauled buckets of my tears (nothin like a good ol’ ugly cry in the car).
She hauled me across this country and up + down California.
A getaway car, as long as she’s just outside and her key is in my pocket.
A facilitator for all the spontaneity my heart desires. And for some really fuckin great ideas, some probably pretty bad ideas, and some definitely terrible ideas.
A savior of sorts - the uncountable times @kateeeelizabeth and I have exclaimed feelings of relief as we’ve reached the doors of this creature comfort on wheels over the years.

Yolanda has only let me down on the road a handful of times, and truly stranded me just once, in 20 years. *before you say anything about Hondas being great…she’s secretly an Isuzu🤫* Even when she was stolen + missing for over a month in 2022, she came back to me, miraculously, only minor repairs away from driving again.

She’s got her share of dents and scrapes and rain leaks and broken or finicky things, and her paint is starting to wear away in places, but for a 23 year old car, I’d say she’s still pretty good lookin 😊 ..with the exception of that damn San Francisco State sticker that I can’t bring myself to peel off- this 18 year old Georgia girl was so proud to slap it on there to let everyone know I was headed to California.

I truly dread the day I’ll have to get a new car, with all the screens and nagging beeping sounds and stiff seats and blindingly bright lights. I’d drive her for another 20 if I could.

The Bay Area has roughed us both up a bit over the years, but we’re still truckin.
Here’s to you, Yolanda. Thanks for everything all these years - for as long as you’ll go, I’ll go with you 🩶

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One film roll over two months 😅🎞️

- @currencaples’ campaign shoot in the desert!🌵
- @vansskate x @carpetcompany shoot with so many legends 😎
- @vansskate in NYC 🫶🏽
- Yosemite with the fam 🧡

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🌺⏩️🌳 December

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Creepin’ round JMP

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Yosemite with the fam 🧡

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Some forgotten footage from Oakland this past spring 🌳💚

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Almost exactly twenty years ago I graduated college and planned a trip to Europe with my crew of skate buds called the Bancroft Bombers. With my little Sony handicam, I filmed all our misadventures around London, Barcelona, Rome, and Paris and edited it into a far too long 45 minute video. I turned 22 on the last day of the trip and was the oldest by a couple years. Dylan was only 16 and learned how to blow fireballs with a bottle of absinthe he somehow purchased. It was a very memorable month and one of the reasons I got into photography. Here’s a trailer I put together for the full-length video and released on MySpace. Let’s do it again @mikebelleme, @dielan, @classicbadjournalism, @drummer_mama, @youngbc, @reg_old_greg, @shaboobala.

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#RP @tadghhickeycml: Happy Saint Patrick’s Day 🍀!! Tag an Irish person! We come from An Gorta Mór. As Tadgh says, it is time for us to step up for our Sandia brothers and sisters. It’s unconscionable someone descended from a family at the epicenter of the Great Famine would abet and enable this. We must disrupt and call to account: “An urgent message to Irish America

From @sadakaireland, @irelandpsc, and the vast majority of 🇮🇪.”

#happysaintpatricksday #luckoftheirish #irishamerican #thegreathunger #angortamor #angortamór #saintpatricksday2024

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