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...a couple years ago.

t'ha!

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good, clean, fun.

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FLASHBACK

...here's a random thought we sorta attempted last winter.

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This is me circa 198_ . As you can see i've rocked the Missing Tooth Look before.

On the back was an early attempt of writing with my right hand. I was naturally left-handed and in the Haitian culture [ as with many cultures around the world ] this is considered 'incorrect'.

So, my mother 'turned me righty'.

Hilarious that i wrote my name backwards in two ways. Confused - but still clever!

hmmm...and if i remained a lefty would i have still become a designer? Or would i be Bizarro Jelsen?

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Woah.

My roommate at the time, Stacey Tyrell, and i cruised bed-stuy one saturday with a cloud of red balloons, a skateboard, and a camera then far too fancy for my vocabulary.

Good times.

Check out Stacey's solid photography > H E R E <

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Savoir-Faire from Jelsen Jargon on Vimeo.

Went through my student hard drive the other night and plucked this film i did back in 2004. It was for my FinalCut class final - cast, shot, and edited the night before it was due.

oh, student life.

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My Highschool(s) Experience

Freshman: Forest Lake Academy [ private ]

Sophomore: Lake Brantley High School [ public ]

Junior: Lake Brantley High School [ public ]

Senior: Forest Lake Academy [ private ]

My family and i left New York and moved to Orlando, FL just in time for my freshmen 1st day orientation. Orlando, aka Borelando, was a strange foreign land where lizards scale the bathroom walls, pickup trucks have hanging brass balls attached to their bumpers, and the humidity molests you.

Looking back i realize that even then i was keen to 'sudden newness'. So adjusting to the abrupt change of environment was in candid stride. New state, new city, new friends, and i could even carry over my "Jellee" nickname?! - hooray!

Freshman year was a breeze. Lots of poolside EVERYTHING.

....then the next year came around and i had to 'start all over again'. I headed to my district's public high school for both sophomore & junior years. Interestingly, I figured i'd try going by my middle name for the first time, Lee.

Total rebrand. I was a bit more focused on schoolwork, wore glasses, sat in the front of most classes and even offered 'pay me to study for you' services. I relied less on my previously established private school class clown credentials....though by junior year my impulse to obnoxiously entertain was showing its face again...which consequently resulted in summer school algebra class(es). ehem.

Senior year was my return to the private school. Brandishing my 'unique' public school experiences as war wounds [ bragging rights ] got me even more cool points. This was in part the making of a slightly over-confident / just under-arrogant hybrid that i had become by the time graduation rolled around.

...immediately afterwords, real life began. And Jelsen Lee Innocent commenced. I'll let you know how it all pans out 40yrs from now, eh.

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Orlando Went A Lil Like This:

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