Leo Nikolaev's profile

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In my younger years I thought about my best quality as a sense of humor. So I continued to learn myself biggest amount of jokes I could get my hands on and trained myself to be best at telling those. This was still age when the internet wasn’t so widely available and full content as it is now so to find well crafted jokes you had to rely on word of mouth to get best gags or find them in available comic literature. I got really good at joke crafting and also performing them a front of an audience so in my preteen years I was widely know as a local prank master who knew every funny story there is.
After elementary I joined photography industry school so my focus shifted to creating fine art. It was time when I got my first professional digital DSLR camera and I connected with it so much I begun to carry it everywhere. On every birthday party, on every vernissage, at every street gathering I was there with my trusted Nikon to capture the essence of event. My major quality at that time was to be everywhere and anywhere ready to shoot and record the rare state of reality which we all lived. After compiling so much of random street footage I begun to cut those moments in short street documents with gained infamy between my peers and brought me a lot of local wannabe art fame. I was glad my main quality was audio visual artistry cause I could create my own little universe of stories and share them with the world on platform of internet.
In those time I was also able to use my new found skills in new field and that was internet magazine. In that category of creations I wasn’t limited just around taking photos but I was able to tell intricate stories about popular events happening around my life. I jointed staff of popular magazine Vice liked by manny as fresh news source not just for youthful hipsters but legit output of credible worldwide news content. I reported to it from boxer tournaments, spiritual magic summits, mormon churches, music festivals or just Prague streets where I took pictures of dirty underground life. In those time I was proud of my fresh view writing as my best quality.
With crazy gonzo picture taking of my younger years came for me break thought in field of music video clips. My first ever legit work was as cameraman and editor of promo for czech gravity artist called Tron or Skapa. Than I continued to made one video for dark activist raper called Bonus and after that I captured my first in quotes mainstream success with odd, gritty video for unappriciated raper known at that time under pseudonym Tyler Durden which until this day gained around 400 000 views on youtube which was for me in that age huge success.
After my live-action shooting period I thought I need to prove myself as a animator for I was my long life dream. So I bought tablet and learned myself draw and animate by tracing my old videos and making short comedy animations for fun. Then I acquired two contracts for music videos. One for berlin experimental band called Wax Museum then after czech pop band by name Dukla. I animated two capturing stories for both bands which brought me on edge of exhaustion and almost caused me my mental health but I finished the task. I unfortunately wasn’t able to create any music video ever since but one of my best qualities is to reinvent myself and come back on the scene with new energy and ideas to create.
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