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HIPS.

A field guide to a person

The Index

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Not one lane — a catalog. Here's what I do, and yes, all of it counts.

I'm constantly creating and curating the ideas that pass through my existence — co-creation is the throughline, central to how I live. Inspiration finds me in a good conversation, in the light of the sun, in a real moment with a customer. My creativity runs on stimulation from both directions: what's inside me, and what the world gives back.

01 / Create

Arts & Sciences

The line, when it comes to the real applications, is so complex — the science of the arts, the art of the sciences, where the simplest detail matters.

Co-creating · Collaborations
02 / People

Day-to-Night

Interacting with people — years in customer service, where the dynamic is always different. It's about connecting, and doing it with real, genuine interest.

The people work
03 / Context

Culture & Interests

Let's go snowboarding, biking, or for a run; shoot a video, read a book, build a business, or go to a friend's show or a yoga class. What are you into?

Ongoing
04 / Currently

Industrial Design

In school for an A.A.S. in Industrial Design. Learning to design objects the way I design moments — around the human who lives with them.

In progress · 2028
After hours

Bartending & Mixing

Behind the bar as @truebartender — cocktails, hospitality, and reading a room in real time.

Mixing ingredients, mixing taste, mixing melodies — music is my medicine.

A cocktail on the bar Cocktails & Dreams neon sign At the Meletti Spirit Brand of the Year event Behind the bar as @truebartender
Selected frames

The Work

↳ A growing archive — Puerto Rico, New York, and everywhere in between.

About

I'm a complete piece of human interaction.

I don't fit in one box, and I stopped trying to. I make photographs and moving images for artists and music, I read a room for a living, and I sell insurance by day. The common thread is people — every one of these is really about connection.

Hips are where the body turns. I'm the pivot between worlds that don't usually meet — art and 9-to-5, music and margins, the camera and the counter.

And right now I'm in school for industrial design, which I'm genuinely proud of. It's teaching me to design things the same way I've always designed moments: around the human who has to live with them.

BasedWherever the work is
StudyingA.A.S. Industrial Design
ShootsPeople, music, culture
By dayInsurance — proudly
After hoursBartending · @truebartender
SuperpowerMaking people feel met
Off the clock

Balance is part of the craft.

Who I am away from the work matters just as much as the work itself. I stay balanced by getting outside every chance I get — snowboarding through the winter, the beach in any season, sun on my face between shifts and shoots.

That time out there is where I recharge, and it's exactly what keeps the energy honest when I step back behind the camera, the bar, or the drawing board.

🏂 Snowboarding · winters 🌊 Beach · any season
HIPS on a palm-lined street, sunny day
🌊 Beach · any season
🏂 Snowboarding · every winter
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Let's make
something.

Shoots, visuals for your music, a collaboration, or just a hello — I'm easy to reach and I actually reply.