Next Level Profiles

T-No

Tien Wang is the dean of NLP. when the rest of us were new to it, he was through with it. armed with his humble canon 20D and 50mm f/1.4 lens, he shined light where other NLPers had yet to tread. tien bequeathed the rules of over-exposure to the rest of us when we barely knew which button snapped the shutter. call him a visionary, a prophet, a trailblazer … we simply refer to him as “T-No” (the melding of the brilliance of tien with the undeniablity of chuck norris). he’s the genuine article, the real mccoy, dean emeritus of the school of hard knocks, and the Q in HQH Studios: the self-anointed “Quartermaine.” be sure to rock a polarizing filter in his presence, for this NLPer shines bright.

Spark

Steve Park is the technophile to shame all other technophiles. a few words come to mind when describing brother “Spark”: minimalism, unification, blanka growl. what does this mean? think apple design, macbook pro/appletv/iphone/mobileme streamlining, and (in his words) pwning n00bs in the halo matrix. if you still don’t undersmell what he’s overstanding, then you probably don’t have a grasp of the NLP wiki-1337. understand this: if you gotta problem, yo he’ll solve it, check out the snaps, as Spark revolves it. “hun7″ represents one of the Hs in HQH Studios, and he represents lovely. and speaking of lovely, look out for the next generation of NLP: Spark the Second, a.k.a. Daddy’s Li’l Grunt Sydnie.

Big Hap Dawg

Don’t be frightened by Nick Schultz’s rough exterior, just trust the baby face … and his stubby fingers … and his overactive sweat glands. “thug life” isn’t just a tat on pac’s belly, it’s “Big Hap Dawg”‘s lifestyle. in all seriousness, he’s just a dude that likes to make life simple and comfortable. gadgets, sports, and the pursuit of the perfect photo and teabag are all means to this end. enthusiasm and focus are what he brings to the table, and the table is chalk full of contributions from all NLPers. he hopes to someday evoke a jessica claire-esque sensibility and emotion to his photos. but don’t get it twisted, when the other H in HQH Studios, “hapa17,” sees you in Team Slayer, he will perch his teabag in your coffee mug.