hang out tip

English translation: spontaneous [while hanging out]

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English term or phrase:hang out tip
Selected answer:spontaneous [while hanging out]
Entered by: Reuben Wright

23:08 Jun 13, 2020
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English term or phrase: hang out tip
I notice that your pictures were never really posed for. So that's why, when you just explained it, that it was like on a hang out tip, like you were catching everybody.
I used to tuck it behind my shit and I later designated by style as pro photos on a hang out tip.

The first sentence by the interlocutor and the second one is the photographer itself.

Thanks in advance,
S.J
Canada
Local time: 14:38
[while] hanging out
Explanation:
"Tip" is old school rapspeak. "on a X tip", tip being:

A way of being or feeling
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tip
https://www.discogs.com/Various-On-The-Rap-Tip/release/50681...
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Rap-On-The-Lighter-Tip/maste...

"hang out" is what close friends do, an informal way of spending time together with no particular purpose. This means the photographer wants it to be an informal meeting outside of a studio, getting to know his subject by "hanging out" and taking pictures spontaneously at different moments, avoiding the "posed" feel of a studio, giving an impromptu, spontaneous, informal and intimate feel.

https://212arts.com/photography-store/ricky-powell-basquiat-...

I think for your first occurrence you will need to use the idea of friends "hanging out"; "it was as if you were just hanging out [with them]"
and for the second occurrence describe the photographic result as a style; "I later designated [m]y style as "pro[fessional] photos taken while hanging out".

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2020-06-15 01:26:00 GMT)
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This was no paparazzo; he was part of the scene. This article's titile, "Point and Shoot" gives the context behind his unposed, unplanned, spontaneous style.
https://medium.com/@jamesfinucane/point-and-shoot-an-intervi...

"It was just prior to one such art event that Powell shot one of his most well known photographs, that of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat en route to the opening of their famous joint-exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in spring of ’85. “I was ***hanging out*** across the street with two dudes who were very important to me at the time, graffiti writers Zephyr and Revolt: prolific graffiti writers-slash-celebrated outlaws. I was ***hanging*** with them watching the scene, psyched just to hang out with them and take a few pictures, when I saw Warhol and Basquiat coming down the street towards the opening.

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2020-06-15 01:28:18 GMT)
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This was no paparazzo; he was part of the scene. This article's titile, "Point and Shoot" gives the context behind his unposed, unplanned, spontaneous style.
https://medium.com/@jamesfinucane/point-and-shoot-an-intervi...

"It was just prior to one such art event that Powell shot one of his most well known photographs, that of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat en route to the opening of their famous joint-exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in spring of ’85. “I was ***hanging out*** across the street with two dudes who were very important to me at the time, graffiti writers Zephyr and Revolt: prolific graffiti writers-slash-celebrated outlaws. I was ***hanging*** with them watching the scene, psyched just to ***hang out*** with them and ***take a few pictures***, when I saw Warhol and Basquiat coming down the street towards the opening.
Selected response from:

Reuben Wright
Canada
Local time: 14:38
Grading comment
You got it right first. It was spontaneous. Thank you.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +1suggested spot
Cathy Rosamond
4good place to go and spend time
David Hollywood
4[while] hanging out
Reuben Wright
3a waiting place for paparazzi
philgoddard


Discussion entries: 6





  

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41 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
suggested spot


Explanation:
cf. Ricky Powell, the New-York photographer shot his pictures on a spot or place he would suggest to the people he would photograph.

Ricky Powell said the following:

"I captioned my pictures of 30 years as “pro photos on a hang-out tip."

"When I do a shoot, I tell a person, ‘Yo, just meet up with me. We'll go for a walk and talk.’ We'll be walking and talking, feeling each other out, and having a laugh. Then we'll be walking by a certain brick wall, or a stoop, I'll be like, ‘Yo, yo. Right here. This is perfect.’ So I think I have a good sense of what's dope. And thankfully it works out.

https://www.theobservers.co/blog-people-s2/ricky-powell

Cathy Rosamond
France
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M
4 hrs
  -> Thanks
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
good place to go and spend time


Explanation:
I would say

David Hollywood
Local time: 15:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 116
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
hangout tip
a waiting place for paparazzi


Explanation:
I think this may relate to paparazzi. A hangout tip would be a hint, perhaps anonymous or from a PR agency, saying if you hang out in such-and-such a place, you might catch a famous person coming in or out. The Ivy restaurant in London used to have photographers standing outside, snapping all the customers in case they were well known figures.

Your particular example is a photographer who shoots both celebrities and just people who look interesting.



philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 119

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Reuben Wright: “On a tip” is rap talk here; I don’t think it’s used here as a synonym for “tip-off, “scoop” or “hint”. And it’s “hang out” (just hanging out) not a hang-out (place). This photographer was not a paparazzo but a culture magazine/art scene photographer
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15 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
[while] hanging out


Explanation:
"Tip" is old school rapspeak. "on a X tip", tip being:

A way of being or feeling
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tip
https://www.discogs.com/Various-On-The-Rap-Tip/release/50681...
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Rap-On-The-Lighter-Tip/maste...

"hang out" is what close friends do, an informal way of spending time together with no particular purpose. This means the photographer wants it to be an informal meeting outside of a studio, getting to know his subject by "hanging out" and taking pictures spontaneously at different moments, avoiding the "posed" feel of a studio, giving an impromptu, spontaneous, informal and intimate feel.

https://212arts.com/photography-store/ricky-powell-basquiat-...

I think for your first occurrence you will need to use the idea of friends "hanging out"; "it was as if you were just hanging out [with them]"
and for the second occurrence describe the photographic result as a style; "I later designated [m]y style as "pro[fessional] photos taken while hanging out".

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2020-06-15 01:26:00 GMT)
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This was no paparazzo; he was part of the scene. This article's titile, "Point and Shoot" gives the context behind his unposed, unplanned, spontaneous style.
https://medium.com/@jamesfinucane/point-and-shoot-an-intervi...

"It was just prior to one such art event that Powell shot one of his most well known photographs, that of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat en route to the opening of their famous joint-exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in spring of ’85. “I was ***hanging out*** across the street with two dudes who were very important to me at the time, graffiti writers Zephyr and Revolt: prolific graffiti writers-slash-celebrated outlaws. I was ***hanging*** with them watching the scene, psyched just to hang out with them and take a few pictures, when I saw Warhol and Basquiat coming down the street towards the opening.

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs (2020-06-15 01:28:18 GMT)
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This was no paparazzo; he was part of the scene. This article's titile, "Point and Shoot" gives the context behind his unposed, unplanned, spontaneous style.
https://medium.com/@jamesfinucane/point-and-shoot-an-intervi...

"It was just prior to one such art event that Powell shot one of his most well known photographs, that of Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat en route to the opening of their famous joint-exhibition at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in spring of ’85. “I was ***hanging out*** across the street with two dudes who were very important to me at the time, graffiti writers Zephyr and Revolt: prolific graffiti writers-slash-celebrated outlaws. I was ***hanging*** with them watching the scene, psyched just to ***hang out*** with them and ***take a few pictures***, when I saw Warhol and Basquiat coming down the street towards the opening.


    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tip
    https://www.discogs.com/Various-Rap-On-The-Lighter-Tip/master/1678039
Reuben Wright
Canada
Local time: 14:38
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
You got it right first. It was spontaneous. Thank you.
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