by Kyung

We recently covered Flight to Luxury benefit fashion show to XOXO Salon. It was an AMAZING event!

This event was held to benefit the Boys and Girls club of Metro Denver. All for a good cause, and lots of fun on the way!

Can’t wait to post some photos from the event, but in the meantime, here’s our badly edited video of the backstage chaos, captured for our friends at XOXO Salon!

Enjoy

by Kyung

Jess Lambiase

On Sept 28th, 2009, Jess and I first went on our ‘Urban Safari’.  It was mostly walking around downtown, and capturing the oddities.  Ever since then, she’s been an integral part of what we do, and with some understanding for what it’s like to work with me, she’s done a marvelous job catering to my craziness.

Together, we set out on accomplishing the impossible- conquering the vast chicken fields of Denver with our cameras.  We’ve had our battles, and we’ve had our setbacks (we’re human), but we always focused on the objective, and thus continued slaying the demon horde of the oncoming photoshoots without  a second thought.  Always together, and always telling each other to go “fuck yourself”.  We were indeed a harmonious duo.

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and young padawans eventually become Jedis, or in some cases, Sith Lords.  In Jess’ case, she’s chosen to leave SyMobius with a very loving, “go fuck yourself, Kyung” and has set out to engage the chicken foes on a solo mission.

for almost 3 years, I’ve always thought of Jess when I would think of SyMobius.  She’s become a staple of what we’re about, and needless to say, a huge influence to our cultural identity.  Not only confident in her own right as a photographer, she’s a never-ending torrent of creativity.  In my opinion, she lives to express herself.  She’s a true artist, and it deeply saddens me to see her depart our nest.

As an artist, I can acknowledge a handful of figures in my life, that I’ve come to respect and depend on, in times of creative need.  Without a doubt, Jess has been one of those fixtures in my life as a photographer.  She worked tirelessly to feed my creative hunger, and to push me when I felt empty.

So without further delay, we salute you, Jess, and we thank you.

Wherever you are, my friend,  I hope you are in good company, and we hope you know that here at SyMobius, you are missed, and also loved.

Your Friend,

Kyung.

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On July 6th, we once again photographed Kelly Eden, this time for Dark Beauty Magazine.

In these shots, Kelly wears a pair of amazing corsets provided by Spanish designer, Bibian Blue. It goes without saying, that the corsets do stand out in these photographs. The corsets compliment Kelly in a harmonious ensemble, and in our opinion, it’s always the woman that makes or breaks the picture.

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To me, each corset has a different “personally”, if you will. The red one seems more ‘feminine’ and the black one seems to possess a bit of ‘anger’. Thus, the photos we released tailor to that theme. The red photos are bright and soft to the eye, while the black features high contrasts and sharper edges.

If the two corsets are opposites, then perhaps their one common ground would be the model.  Someone who can compliment the outfits with even balance.   To achieve this, Abella and Rebekah has out done themselves.  Abella’s makeup works perfectly with both the darker, and lighter looks, while Rebekah’s hair features an edgy silhouette while remaining feminine.  Cannot say in words how integral their work has been for this release.

We really do hope you enjoy these photographs. We’ve had a ton of fun creating them.

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Photography: Kyung H. Min from SyMobius
Model: Kelly Eden
Makeup: Abella Michelle Bala, courtesy XXHEART
Hair: Rebekah Fuller
Designer: Bibian Blue
Photographed for Dark Beauty Magazine, Aug Issue, 2011

We recently shot Alternative Model, Kelly Eden at a warehouse conveniently located just outside of audible range of a woman’s scream.

All kidding aside, we had a great time shooting at our favorite location, “The Orgy House.”

Here are the results. We hope you like them!

Credit:

Great hair by Rebekah Fuller
Awesome Makeup by Heathyrre Kautz
Photog and Production by SyMobius

by Kyung
from the Falling Whistles Benefit Show

We’ve shot our share of fashion shows, but we were never asked to be in the show.

The Falling Whistles benefit held on the 26th, definitely stood out. Instead of a traditional runway show, DVLP Clothing decided to host a “live photoshoot” with SyMobius as the on stage photographers.

A cool idea to help bring awareness to the war in the Congo; a country under fire for their use of children as soldiers in war.

To learn more about Falling Whistles, go here
For DVLP Clothing, go here

Enjoy the pics!

Photographers: Kyung H. Min, Lee Stonehouse

By Kyung

Our staff photos!

We’ve had photos that we’ve been using for our staff page for awhile, but never an official set to show.  Recently, we shot a set just for this reason, and here they are.

We are drenched in gold sauce, because gold is awesome.   Gold sauce is also great on waffles and sweet potato fries.

Enjoy

Kyung

Jess

by Kyung

Rule #487: If you name a character “heels,” her heels will break in the middle of production.

For example: During the filming of Star Wars, it is rumored that the death star they were using “blowd ups – fa shizzle.”  This forced Lucas to write the explosion into the film.  In the original version of the script, they leave the death star, and the film ends in a dance number. (might not be true)

By Kyung

First, we (me) left our tripods in the car.  Back in Denver.  Like 5 hours away.  Yes.

So when the time came for us to whip out our magical 20D for the timelapse footage, we had no viable solution to keeping the camera steady.  Eventually, we had to borrow a tripod that the film crew weren’t using.  But as luck would have it, the tripod in question was missing the mount plate.

So what did we jackasses from SyMobius do?  Tape the sh#t out of it, of course.

Even though we had strong winds blowing across the set the whole time, the camera remained grounded, and steady.  This allowed us to run around with the 5D mk II and the D40 for the duration of the shoot, while the 20D snapped away the timelapse photos.

Happy story.  We like this one.

By Kyung

While we do plan on having individual releases of the images and videos in the future, we thought that it would be super cool to do a “making of the making of” parody doc.

It is entirely in our point-of-view, and as you can soon see, it was super fun to be part of the experience.

We hope you enjoy the video, as much as we have making it.!

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The Motor Vixens is coming soon in 2010!

This video isn’t an official part of the production in anyway, so we’ll take the fall for general complaints, pending lawsuits,  and for it being so crappy – Kyung

By Kyung

Before we left for the shoot, Horsey (pic above) begged me to let him come.   I wasn’t sure if Mike (the director) would be cool with a horse hanging out in the trailer, so I first said, “no.”

But Horsey was determined to come to the shoot, and he hid in my luggage for the trip.

Long story short, I forgave him, because he obviously has trouble getting around.  I mean…  He has no legs.

So after making up, we had a good time together at the shoot.  Even took some pics of Horsey for his scrapbook.

Before viewing the pictures of Horsey, please click the play button below.

Here’s horsey driving the RV.

He even showed up to the meetings.

He cried when he saw this horse driving by, because that horse had legs…