Yo Gabba Gabba Art Party!

Well it seems that post production has come to an end for Season 3 over at Yo Gabba Gabba. And to celebrate the post production dept. threw an Art Party. Which was a fun party that invited all who worked on the show, either during production or post production, to hang some art up. It was a fun party and a great way to see everyone who worked on the show again.

DP Jay Lafayette, Show Creator/Director Christian Jacobs, and Makeup Artist Marissa Deleon.

Motion Graphics FX and part time DJ for the Party Jordan Kim.

Show Creator/Director Scott Schultz.

Production Assistant Evan Sinclair.

Artwork by Erin Pierce A.KA. Brobee and the voice of Toodee.

Motion Graphics FX and amazing time lapse artist Joel Fox and girlfriend Michelle.

Animation Art Director Parker Jacobs.

Artwork by Parker, you might recognize some of the character design from the show.

Camera Operator Langdon Taguiped showing me his bounty for the evening.

Great external storage system if your on a budget!

If your a photographer or anyone who needs lots of storage space on your computers hard drive. Then you understand how costly it can be and how easy all those hard drives add up and take up space. Well someone over at Newertechnology has a rad solution. The Voyager SATA I/II hard drive docking station. It kinda reminds me of ATARI 2600 from back in the day but for hard drives. The dock is a pretty simple design and is pretty much what it sounds like, a plastic docking station. The nice thing is the initial cost of buying the dock will only run you about $88.00 for Firewire 800/400, USB 2.0+eSATA or about $30.00 for USB 2.0+eSATA. You then have to purchase the 2.5 or 3.5 SATA drives to plug into the dock. Its pretty raw looking to see a SATA drive just sticking out like a video game cartridge. But if your someone who can shoot 50 to 100 gigs every time you do a photo shoot or you record music and video which I assume takes up massive amounts of hard drive space also. Then this might be a great inexpensive solution for you. I'm using mine as an off site back up storage system. I also use a drobo at home which is another great storage devise. Best place to purchase the dock is at the OWC(Other World Computing) Site. Probably the best place to get non dedicated accessories for your mac or pc. They also sell rad DIY kits if you want to build your own external drives as well as their own brand of external drives. Here is a link to the shops site http://eshop.macsales.com/ I've been a customer of OWC for about a year and haven't been disappointed yet.

GR Bienalle Art Show Closing Party!

Last night was a fun evening at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown LA for the closing party to this years Giant Robot Bienalle Art Exhibition. I actually had 10 photo's up in the show as part of the photo retrospective for 15 years of Giant Robot. I was honored and stoked to be in such good company with so many respected artists and creative people. It was great seeing friends and GR collaborators, there was also the rock band "The Binges" to end the evening with some loud guitar wailing sounds.

David Choe

Stella Lai

Jeff Soto

James Jean

Deth P. Sun

The Binges.

GR friends Ayako Fujitani, Bill Poon, and Publisher Eric Nakamura

My good friends Carlos and Angelyn De la Garza.

My good friends from Vienna and Motmot design, Anna and Steve.

Steve also does a rad comic called Cheetahs Never Win! If your in Vienna check out their store or you can check out their stuff online at http://www.motmotdesign.com/

Great Free Password App for iphone and ipod touch!

Nowadays if your on your computer or mobile devises it seems that every little thing requires a password. Well I don't know about the rest of you out there, but I pretty much suck at remembering my passwords. Because of this I recently wanted to find some kind of app. so I can make one stop and have access to my confidential information. Well I found this one created by Epicomm technologies Ltd. Its called Password Keeper and is a very simple app. I mean come on you don't need anything too technical to store passwords. Just something thats simple enough to navigate, use and store your info. Best part is that its free, for now at least!

Donny Miller's rad Vans shoe the "Slip Up"!

Here's some pics from Donny Miller's Shoe release party at Fred Segal in Santa Monica. Donny has been a great friend for a long time and is always doing something fresh, wether its doing art, writing, or designing a shoe for Vans. He also has a classic high top and slip on with his astronaut riding a shark graphic. I've been meaning to get a pair of slip ons for some time now and the "Slip Up" will be a good reason to go and get a pair.

The Donny Miller "Slip Up"! Donny also directed a commercial for his shoe that's pretty rad and ties to the graphic element of his shoe.

Donny and long time good friend and surf bro Dan Johnson.

Just in case you can't quite see the art behind Donny and Dan in the last pic. Here's The Gardener of Eden.

Friends and iPath Art Director and Web Wizard, Bret and Happy Banta.

One of the dudes responsible for a lot really cool things happening at Vans, Nate Iott and Wife Teresa.

I've Always loved this piece by Donny, I think death by saxophone would be the best way to go.

This months Random Notes in Rolling Stone

Here's a pic of mine from Yo Gabba Gabba Season 3 of the Flaming Lips that ended up on the Random Notes in this months Rolling Stone. That was one of my favorite days on set this season and getting to photograph Wayne Coyne, Steve Drozd, and Michael Ivins was something I've been trying to get to do for a while. Luckily being the on set photographer for the show allowed the band to come to me instead of me chasing them. I remember hooking the talent producer Justin Lyon to the Flaming Lips Warner Bros. guy Rick Gershon during season 1 and have been waiting patiently for this opportunity to happen and it finally did! Can't wait to see the episode with "I Can Be A Frog" on it. It looked great from where I was standing and I'm sure after the editing the footage will look just as awesome!

Open Sesame with Ray and Martin

Okay so I've had some technology burnout towards the end of 2009 and totally neglected this blog. Had lunch with my good friends Martin Wong, editor for Giant Robot and my go to person for finding out about cool stuff, and all around rad dude and legendary Pro Skater Ray Barbee. Its always nice to have friends you can talk to and find inspiration from. To make what could be a long winded blog short. Martin convinced me that I should keep up with doing this blog and try and find ways to keep it fun. So that's just what I'm gonna do, starting with this one. Thanks guys!