+ Album Art. Inspiration. Execution. The Final Product. \\ 12.21.09
Shot the cover for my debut comedy album with photographer extraordinaire Robyn Von Swank. If you haven’t seen her work, it’s amazing.
We took what started as a drawing in my notebook:
To this:
‘Hasan Minhaj: Leaning on Expensive Cars and Getting Paid to do it’ comes out in early 2010. Y’all better cop that!
+ ‘Yahoo! OMG The 411’ Episode 11 \\ 12.21.09
Here’s a new episode of Yahoo! OMG the 411. I’m on towards the end of the episode:
+ Before it drops… \\ 12.03.09
The CD is set to be released in January and I’m excited with the work we’ve done so far. Right now its being mastered which looks like its being produced in a Dr. Dre-esque studio. Unfortunately there aren’t any diss tracks going at Ja Rule on the album (See ‘Get Rich or Die Trying’). Just got some stills from the CD recording at The Purple Onion CD recording from a few weeks ago. The CD was recorded and shot by Greg Ponstigl, a talented video, motion graphic, and live video artist. During the show he managed to catch some dope shots:
He also caught some cool video snippets on his Nikon d90. I love the way these came out. I also loved the way this lady cackled at all my jokes that night:
Hasan Minhaj CD Recording (Snippet) from Hasan Minhaj on Vimeo.