Parlez vous francais?

Yeah I dont... But that doesn't stop me from LOVING the group YELLE from france and on Monday night they were in town to play a show at The Wiltern. The show was amazing none stop dancing and singing along. Oh wait you ask, I speak French? Nope but I have been listening to this band for 3 years now and can sing along. I have looked up lyrics just so I can kind of know what she is singing about. Now here is the down fall.

1. It turns out you can not bring a camera in that has detachable lens unless you have a press pass. It's totally ok to take photos but not with a camera with a detachable lens. Yeah I said WTF also. The people who run the venue couldn't even give me a good reason why.

2. Turns out the update to my video app that I did last week has a cool new feature it defaults the Mic to OFF. So all my videos have no sound.

Needless to say I was really bummed that I couldn't take good photos since I didn't bring my point and shot and now my videos have no sound. I did take one short clip vid to text to my friend. So here is that and some of the crappy photos also that I took on my phone.

FAME I'm going to Live forever

I'm getting more and more famous. So as you may or may not know I am friends with the lead singer and the drummer of DATAROCK. A few weeks back you may remember a post about a concert in LA. Well the video that they shot on location has come out on youtube and I appear in it a few times in the crowd. Now its not a clear shot of me cause of the effect and the 6 foot tall guy standing next to me but you can still catch a glimpse of my face now and then. But its cool to be in a video of the band that I have been seeing for 5 years now and have become friends with.

Here is a screen grab from the vid.

It was a great night and now I can remember it forever. Here is the video

Me and My Photography

Oh Halloween weekend my work had it's 12th annual Cosmic Creek Surf Contest. I have been going to it for the last 5 years. Two years ago I decided I wanted to try my hand at shooting the contest instead of surfing in it. I thought I did a great job, then it turned out I did do a great job. Because about 90% of the photos that were posted for some reason looked almost like mine

(as seen below).

Photo posted on surf line 2 years ago

My photo

The other photographer must have been standing right behind me. Well this year I was super amped to get my photos published. I made sure to get to the contest early. Shoot all day and then work all night color correcting and cropping them. But it turned out for the best because they used a lot of them for the write up on surf line. So I'm not saying my photographer career is starting but I am getting more and more into it. Here is the link to SURFLINE so you can see the photos and my amazing name. I will be signing autographs later this week.

Thats my photo on the news feed

On a side note this is the 3rd time my photos have been used. The first was for a poster to promote Billabong Surf With A Pro. And the 2nd time was a stock photo I shoot at a Yelle concert that they used for the all the art work for the Design For Humanity event (seen below).

Photo from Yelle Concert

Event art work

So if you ever need any photos taken don't hesitate to call. Also I shoot video also here is a video form the concert that followed the contest.

Halloween Xmas Lights

I really can't believe this. Some people just have way to much time on there hands. But I just might have to make a trip up to Riverside to se this in person.

Culture Collide

Concerts Concerts and more Concerts. Last week I went to LA a few times to see some bands and a screening of The Story of Fishbone. This was a giant 4 day Festival that only cost $20 for all 4 days. Anyone who lived in the area and didn't take advantage of this deal missed out. I saw at least 15 band play including but not limited to (CCS, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah, Datarock, and The Asteroids Galaxy Tour) and the movie. I mainly went to see my buddy Freddy and Captain from Datarock. This turned out to be a great thing cause I also got to meet Jeremy the lead singer from DEVO. Freddy put me on the list for the after party. It was supper late so I could only stop by for a few mins because I had work in the morning. The shows were great all the bands were amazing as always I have never been to a show I have not liked. Even if I don't know the band I end up liking the music they play. Here are some of the photos from the event.

The Line Up

Me and Liza in-between rocking out

Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah

Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah

Datarock

Datarock and Devo - Doing Computer Camp Love

Freddy, ME, Captain Straight Edge

Disneyland A lot

My annual pass ends on the 5th of November so I have been going a lot these past few weeks. I would have to say this month I have been at least 6 times. I have a grew I go with all the time. We mostly go after work for a few hours. We will ride some rides, get free bread, get some sort of food and dance at Electronica. No matter what we do we always have fun. So here are some photos from the past few trips.

New Poop and TRON toys with punch action

Mickey Gay Day Cookie

Space Mtn. Im not a crook

Space Rangers on duty

Having fun in the lights at Electronica

More Fun

Splash Mtn Glamor photos

And Poop Dancing at Electronica

Transparentsea Voyage

You may or may not remember about this when I mentioned it about a year ago on here. But the time has come. My friend Rasta and his friends have arrived in the states ready to embark on a month long journey down the coast to raise awareness about protecting our ocean marine life. The journey will follow the California Desert Whales as they migrate south. With four key stopping points along the way. I was going to join the crew for the OC leg of the trip but schedule conflict have only let me join at key stopping points now. Here is the link to the website and some photos from the opening event. http://transparentseavoyage.com/

The event van that I designed and installed

On my way to the opening event

Big anchor at the event site

The Harbor at Santa Barbara

Band of Frequencies

Hilton on the look out

More to come on this I have two more events to attend.