Wear Many Hats

Raymo Ventura is a Filpino-American Animation Director & Sound Designer. Tamara Hahn is a creative director, filmmaker, and animator. Together they make Deuxwave. Me and Raymo were in the same building I had the Dahsar Studio in. Raymo was in a space with jewelry friends, Forge & Finish. Tamara runs Tamarama Studios. Specializing in handcrafted storytelling. Please welcome Raymo Ventura &a...

Lucy Sanchez is a model, artist, and photographer. I first met Lucy on the set of our Brett Gray photoshoot that Dahsar produced in Philadelphia where she was one of the photo assistants for the great Aaron Ricketts. I was like is a model photo assisting? That’s dope but then again a ton of my model friends assist. They’re more than just a pretty face, they like to get down and get to work. Lucy i...

Paul Dally is a musician. I first saw Paul perform opening for Dijon at Music Hall of Williamsburg then an intimate set at the New York City location of the Cactus Store. Paul can throw down an acoustic guitar and also sing and dance to his own tunes while his beat machine plays all night long. While at the Cactus Store the set was so good, we wondering if we could go ”One More Song” but not too l...

Rhamier Balagoon is a model, musician, artist and activist. I met Rhamier when I worked at the Canal Street Market as a Barista at Office Coffee and was always happy to see him there all the time. I got to know Rhamier from time to time and to see him flourishing in his model career. Rhamier has modeled for Marc Jacobs Heaven, Helmut Lang, Rachel Comey, Noah, Nordstrom The ads for Corridor always...

Rizki Nugraha is a photographer and a coffee connoisseur. Rizki is a coffee consultant and developer for Overview Coffee which is based in Wyoming. Rizki loves to explore places and his eye for things is on point. His photos that he takes whether it’s in Hawaii or Jackson is definitely somewhere I want to be. Javanese-raised, Balinese-shaped, and Jackson Hole-based. I’m glad to meet someone from J...

Claude Shwartz is an actor. Claude stars as one of the actresses on the Freeform documentary series ‘The Come Up.’ Which like this show, it’s all about young creatives hustling as well as partying all over the city. The show focuses in on the ever changing Chinatown, Manhattan where part of Chinatown, there is this micro-trend that gets a lot of talk called Dimes Square. Look it up, there’s articl...

Nate Harris is a graphic artist from Philly now based in Brooklyn. He was a member of Philadelphia’s legendary Space 1026 collective from 2016–2019. As a commercial illustrator, Nate has worked on projects with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Target, Warby Parker, and Pelican Books. Me and Nate worked at a coffee shop briefly and I don’t know how that happened but the conversations were endless un...

Ian Shiver is a photographer who I believe every single one of my Philly and LA transplant friends who moved from Philly or NYC worked with except for me, why is that? Ian’s still life photography for brands looks so surreal that make you go more beyond, “ok I’ll buy it” but they all look like you’re in ASAP Rocky’s music video for “LSD” Ian’s represented by DMB Represents but his select clients i...

Claire Salinda is a writer, tarot reader, and consult on Creative Operations. Claire also volunteers as the Executive Committee Secretary for the Surfrider Foundation. I met Claire at the Canal Street market slinging coffees and it was nice to meet her while she was working over at Buffy and freelanced for Human NYC. Claire’s recent projects include partnering with Daily Harvest as a consulting di...

Ali Francis is a writer who I discovered from our friends, Playlab when they provided the Creative Direction on the launch video for Ali’s previous company, Baking Supply Co. Ali is a writer who has written for BBC, Self, Domino, Thrillist and many more. Ali is now an Editor for Bon Appétit. Ali loves the great outdoors, surfing, cooking, creative writing including flash fiction and short stories...

Ricardo Rivera is a Creative Director and founder of Klip Collective, a creative shop born out of his days as a rave VJ and documentary editor. Ricardo is a visual artist, filmmaker and a true pioneer of video projection mapping, having earned a United States patent for his technological breakthroughs in the medium. His work has been featured multiple times at the Sundance Film Festival, including...

Ricky Pinela is a content creator that I stumbled across via the explore page on Instagram. For once something that interest me via the algorithm. Ricky hosts a show called Bop or Flop where he runs into New Yorkers on the street and ask everyday questions that need everyday answers. Ricky does Hot Takes over on Tinder. My favorite social media site. Just playing. Ricky is at Kairos, previously Th...

Jayquel Michael Williams is a photographer who I met during Kamp Flea that was presented by Kamp Grizzly out in Greenpoint by McCarren Park. Jayquel has a studio called Landline Studios that keeps you connected to the community formed at the intersection of American and Japanese Culture. Jayquel has a podcast that he hosts with Kevin Da Moah called Keeping it 9000 where they have Anime conversatio...

Shelby Kay is a still life stylist that I’ve known since the Philly days. Shelby thinks I don’t think she’s cool but I’ve always known her to be mad cool even before the Urban Outfitters days. Shelby be working with Kendal Jenner for Moon, Post Malone with the PlayLab crew, Better World Fragrance House with Drizzy, what’s not cool about working with all those brands. Shelby is the gurl with the cu...

Sarah Summerlin is a comedian that also has a podcast called F.O.M.O. Machine. Sarah is also an engineer so she’s got beauty and brains. We can still say that right, that’s not like an outdated saying right? Judging by her instagram, she likes SmileDirectClub, CitiBike, reading and Jack Harlow but not in that order. Please welcome Sarah Summerlin to Wear Many Hats. instagram.com/wearmanyhatswmh in...

Jae Kim is a photographer based in New York City. Jae also likes to ride motorcycles, go to Club Night Club, work on set, work off set, tattoos, model, and has his own t-shirt line called Bogus Luck. I sound like his spokesmen for a dating profile. Me and Jae connected because somehow we like the same things, except I don’t have that many tattoos and I failed my motorcycle license but we do have N...

Caro Juna is a musician based in New York City. Caro recently  put out her new single 'Devotion' and previously her EPs 'Violent Delights,' and 'Flower Language.' She was previously a producer and stylist over at Sundae School now over at Wieden+Kennedy. How I found Caro was through Khoi Pham, when he illustrated and designed the EP and single cover for 'Violent Delights' which looks exactly like...

Jelani Carter is a Podcast Producer, Media Producer, and all around hilarious producer. I came across Jelani Carter’s earliest work through his YouTube days with videos such as: “Who can DeThrone Kendrick” “I Wish I Could Sing” “Why Country Music Is Like Rap Music” and “I Don’t Know How To Save Money” Jelani is a Podcast Producer over at Vox Media Podcast Network and Vulture. Jelani is a Throwing...

Kareem Rahma is a three time Webby nominated comedian, writer, producer, and actor. Kareem wrote and stared in the new short film ‘Out of Order’ directed by Nicolas Heller also known as New York Nico debut at Tribeca Festival. He hosts Live Laugh Love Live at Kelloggs Diner where I first met Kareem but he produces comedy shows all over the city. Kareem has a podcast company called Some Friends whi...

Helen Holmes is a journalist, reporter, or anything you would call a writer. Helen is Culture Reporter at The Daily Beast and she formerly worked as an Arts Reporter at the Observer. I enjoy watching her IG stories of her criticizing films, her adventures, and reading her select stories from The New York Times Magazine and GQ. Scoops, Scandals, Secret Worlds. Sweet but Seiko. Please welcome Helen...

Michelle Tuan is a comedian and actress based in Los Angeles. I met Michelle when she worked at Opening Ceremony in New York and I told her I was taking comedy writing classes because that time I believed I could write for SNL and told her about my spiritual journey about being a comedian but it was most likely a quarter life crisis. But instead she became a comedian herself and has been in commer...

Liam Benzvi is a singer-songwriter and composer that I can’t stop playing on repeat. I’m not sure if its changing of the seasons or I feel liberated while riding very fast in the new Citi E Bikes to his music. I first heard of Liam through Luca Venter, a photographer I’m deeply into. I loved their collaborative photos for Buds Digest and thought, I know what Luca does, but what does Liam do. Glad...

Kelton Bumgarner is an artist, designer and creative director in Philadelphia, PA. As an artist, he explores landscapes and decay through sculpture and unconventional photography. Kelton is currently the creative director for Atmos USA fka UBIQ in which he has worked on numerous projects from concept to completion, including several sold-out collaborations with brands such as New Balance, Diadora,...

Teresa Johnson is a holistic health coach that you may know her as Veggie Mom Club. Before Teresa was a holistic health coach, she was a model, volunteered for GrowNYC, an environmental nonprofit, and was hired to manage a few sites for their Fresh Food Box Program. Teresa has plant-based community dinners with Mayday Space and Bushwick City Farms, and by word of mouth and Instagram, was hired as...

Brian Nguyen is a video director, shooter, and photographer. Brian currently works over at Hypebeast but I knew him as a Hypebeast way back when during the Philly days. We crossed paths over at Temple University where I surprisingly went to school but it was always good to catch up with Brian at the functions at Ps & Qs formally known as the great Abukus Takeout. No not a restaurant, a streetw...