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How G-Eazy Uses Photography to Connect with His Late Mom and Appreciate His Success · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Geasy has had his eyes on music since he was
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Speaker 2: a young teenager, but before he was on the path,
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Speaker 2: he was exposed to an entirely different avenue of creativity
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Speaker 2: through his mom. She was an accomplished photographer and photo
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Speaker 2: printmaking professor at San Francisco Art Institute, and even had
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Speaker 2: her own dark room at home where many of his
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Speaker 2: early memories were cemented. She sadly passed away in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty one, but it made him reconnect with photography and
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Speaker 2: her favorite cameras now his, he tells the lip Service podcast.
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Speaker 2: After losing her, I decided to pick up photography again.
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Speaker 2: And walking around shooting with her camera, bringing it with
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Speaker 2: me wherever I go helps me connect. I get to
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Speaker 2: travel and experience things most people don't. Particularly with photography.
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Speaker 2: It's having access to a thing to shoot. There's framing,
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Speaker 2: composition and lighting, but ultimately it's having access. It's truly
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Speaker 2: extraordinary in something I think a lot about. It helps
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Speaker 2: me keep perspective as Geasy there his song Tulips and
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