07.31.07

So today was finally the launch of the new triumvir website that was set up by the 530 media lab. I recently shot their look book that should be out in a few weeks. You can see some samples of the photos I shot for them through out the site. It's going to be awesome! I've worked with triumvir quite a bit in the past, but this was the first time I got to work with the 530 Media Lab guys, and its been really cool. So cool in fact that we are currently working a new project that has really pushed both of us as business people as well as artists, I think the results will be stunning.

07.30.07

Today I drove out to Burbank to meet up with Fez and to check out some of the filming of the new Ya Boy music video, for his song Barbershop. He's currently on the top 3 most requested by Power 106. The gals from the group Dollhouse also stopped by which made the video shoot alot more fun to watch. The shoot was at the barbershop In the Cut which was pretty cool.

After getting lost a bunch of times, I finally found it. And I was actally pretty excited to find this little gem of a taco shop right next to it. now I have to admit, the tacos wern't really that great. It was the tables that they had out that were really awesome. I really have no idea where they would find these. Every table was the same to. Simply incredible!

07.29.07

so, normally I would have a ton of pictures posted up here of all the things I'm up to, but I decided to ditch the Bum Squad Djz yacht party to head down to the San Diego Comic Convention. So Brad from Skullcandy needed a camera to take pics of the party so I gave him my little one that I normally take around with me in my pocket, so it kind of sucks I don't have too many pics from the Con, but I am really glad that I went, because I had a really great time. It took forever for me to drive out from OC, but it was really cool, because when I arrived I just happened to run into Krk Ryden and hid brother Mark Ryden . KRK and Mark are both incredible artists. I've known KRK for quite some time and it was really great seeing him there. He actually has a show coming up in a couple of months in So. Cal that sounds pretty impressive and should have some pretty awesome special guests in attendance.

After my brief meeting with KRK and Mark I met up with Jeremy Kove of Munson Industries and Mars-1 . I've been familiar with Mars's work for a while now, but I've never met him before, so it was really cool of Jeremy to introduce us. After a while we went out to grab lunch with Gary from destructo where I ended up grabbing a ten dollar grilled cheese sandwich that was actually worth ten dollars, yeah it was that good.

Well after that I went over to the Con and wandered around for a bit. I found James Kyson Lee after his Heroes panel discussion signing autographs for fans. I dropped off a print for him of the photo I shot for Altra a while back and then went back to wandering. I found some pretty great things out at the Con and spoke with tons of rad people. I met up with artist Mark Nagata at his booth for Max toy co his new toy company. It's pretty rad. I love talking with Mark. He is such a rad and positive guy. it's guys like him that make me think that some day there will be new Jumbo Machinder toys that will be released, and done right. Not like those lame oversized vinyl monstrosities that people try to pass off as jumbos. But anyway Mark has tons of amazing things going on for him coming up soon. I still remember the first time I met Mark, it was a couple of years ago at Comic Con, it was when he was over at Super 7 and it was there first year at the Con. I was a subscriber from the very beginning, and loved the mag. Mark and I sat an talked about toys for far too long, and by the end of the conversation he had sold me a pretty sweet Kanegon painting that I didn't pay enough for,a rad Gurion figure, and a Red Baron bootleg that I really wanted. This year, I didn't bring as much loot with me, but so I had to be much more conservative with my shopping.

I went over to meet with James Kyson Lee after his Heroes panel to find him swarmed by fans. Kids were really tripping out it was awesome. . I dropped off a bunch of the images I shot of him from the Altra magazine photoshoot then bounced out so he could do his thing.

I was rolling around checking out a bunch of stuff when I came across the Lasp Gasp booth, then it dawned on me why Mark and KRK were at the con. Mark was doing a signing for his latest release Bunnies and Bees micro portfolio set 3.











The set is pretty amazing and has fourteen prints in it. It was a pretty good deal, so I had to pick one up.


Charles Burns has to be one of my favorite artists. I've been looking for some of his work for a very long time. I've got a few of his book plates as well as a few other nick knacks here and there. So wandering the show I happened to stumbled upon this little gem at over at Picture Box Inc. booth. That I was really happy to pickup along with a Mignola Hellboy print right before I left Comic Con was really awesome and I had a really good time checking out all the stuff and meeting up with everyone. Being out there makes me think about all the rad stuff out there. So many great artists and great artwork. I'm going to have start saving for next year. After the Con I went out and met up with Brad from Skullcandy who decided to be too cool for Comic Con went out on the Bum Squad Djz yacht party. If Brad could have his way, he would only eat Inn and Out and ice cream... seriously

07.27.07

Here is a sample I did recently with Sammy over at Triumvir that I was pretty into. I was pretty reluctant to do it at first, because I was really busy, but I am really glad I did it, because I really liked the results. If it isn't obvious, I just got back from watching Harry Potter. Although I haven't seen it yet, I think there was also a little Hairspray mixed in there too. I'm not sure why they needed to make a new one, because I thought I thought the John Waters one was pretty genius.

It was pretty lame that I wasn't able to make it out to Detroit this week to shoot the Warped tour and Matt Gordan for RVCA due to some technical things, but things kind of worked out for the better. I was able to go over and visit Marsea and the New Image Art Gallery and head over to the Bum Squad DJ Reunion to go over and represent Skullcandy. On top of doing all that, I was able to do it wearing my new favorite shirt by Dmote for RVCA.


I haven't been over to the Gallery for quite some time, and had to get over there, because I was picking up a piece of art that Caroline Hwang left there for me, I also really wanted to see the new Herbert Baglione show that went up on the 13th. The show was really great and was almost sold out. The piece that Caroline left for me was really amazing. I can't wait to move into a new place, so that I'll have room to put it up along with a bunch of other artwork I have. Caroline's work is so good, I really dig it. It was really great being able to hang out at the gallery, I really miss it. Marsea always has som much rad stuff to show me, and on top of that, she just got in a bunch of books from the Burning House show she just put on. That book is really really good, I totally recommend it for anyone that is a Faile / Swoon / or David Ellis fan... well I take that back, I really recommend it to anyone. It also comes with a pretty awesome poster as well.
The Bum Squad DJ event was pretty crazy. I was really glad we had Derek and Octavia there to really keep things cool. The event was really great, everyone was really into all the Skullcandy stuff. We met up with tons of guys but I was really glad I got to meet up with Papoose,DJ Ski, Nina Nine from XM radio, and Yeah Boy.

On top of meeting everyone today, I got a chance to play with one of the new Skullcandy audio packs, which are pretty nice, I also got a chance to mess with a new Zune Player thanks Cl and the guys over at Digiwaxx. I've never been able to really play with a Zune player till now, and I can honestly say that it really surprised me. I really got to liking its controls after a while.

07.26.07

I'm pretty excited that this Saturday I'll be able to attend the San Diego Comic Con. Comic con is really one of my favorite things I attend each year. I always end up spending too much money buying random things from there.

Anyway while ago I shot actor James Kyson Lee for Altra Magazine who invited me out to see him and the cast of Heroes do a guest panel and see a few sneak peeks of season two of the show at the con. James was a really great sport during the shoot, we had a really long day but I think we really walked with a great product. I really have to thank RVCA , paul frank , creative recreation , torsion , and endovanera for coming through for me last minute and suppling the wardrobe for this one.





















I really dug this series of photos so much I actually worked on a special comic book cover version of one of the photos with Hagimoomoo a friend of mine that I work on various projects with. So any way I really hope I don't end up spending as much money as I usually do at the comic con, because I don't really think my wallet can handle it.

07.17.07

So I'm out today with Skullcandy and LRG for LRG's annual photoshoot/party in NYC. It was pretty nuts. I was also excited today, because I got to pull out some new kicks I got from my pal Colin Bickley over at Pony .
They are pretty sweet, and pretty much one of my favorite pairs that I have gotten this year. Any way, I met up with Brad and Ben from Skullcandy over at some club down town where we met up Roxy Cottentail tell her about the LRG party. After a while of chilling at the club I had to get a bite to eat so I went over to the Ray's Pizza off of Broadway, to grab a slice and I happened to run into The Decemberists, which was pretty awesome as well as being random. Anyway, the next day, I first went over to LRG's NYC office to pick up some loot and then went to the location of where the shoot was, which was this pretty incredible 3 story penthouse with a pool on the top floor. I have no idea how many people were their, but all I know was that it was pretty packed, with about 200 people on the ground floor just trying to get in. Photographer Michael Greenberg shot this pretty funny pic of me that was on display on his wall of Polaroids. while I was there I got to hang out with some pretty rad guys like DJ Jazzy Jeff, Just Blaze, and Sirus radio dj, Lil' Shaun.




































I'm not sure if I've ever had a larger craving for chocolate

07.14..07

One of my favorite shops, The Commissary in Costa Mesa debuted their collab today with Bounty Hunter. I cruised down to the shop today and hung out for a bit, shot a few pics and had a few slices of a pretty lousy pizza. But other than that I had a pretty good day.

07.11.07

I've been talking to the guys over at 530 media lab for quite some time now. We are currently working on a pretty large scale project right now for my pals over at triumvir which should be coming out pretty soon now. Triumvir has these shirts coming out with some images that pin up artist Gil Elgren did which is pretty cool. I thought it was really cool of those guys to actually go get a license to reproduce his work than stealing the images that other people produce like alot of companies do. I've always loved Elgren's work, a really awesome girl I dated a long time ago turned me onto his work. She was really into it, she even worked at Ruby's Diner and drove a really cool old car.

Any way, 530 and I have been talking about alot of cool possibilites for the future and hopefully we'll be working alot more together.

I did some photos last week of Dingo, Home Wreck, Eero Neimela, and Bozung of the Neff Headware, Snow team that are going to be part of their next ad campaign. I believe that these are getting run in the next issue of Transworld . The shoot went really well dispite it being super hot. Dingo was really good sport about being all wrapped up in a hoody and mask for the shoot in all of the heat. I even got a few shots of Neff and Bozung together during the shoot that were pretty funny. This next campaign with them is going to be pretty crazy and they are pulling in some pretty rad people in for the next shoot.

In the latest issue of Vapors I've got that image of Jeremy Kove that I shot a while back which is pretty cool. I really dig what they do over at that mag, and Maurice the editor is a pretty cool guy. We've met a number of times, but have never really been able to do anything together, but I happened to meet Jeremy at an art show through Kelsey Brookes , who asked if I would shoot him for the mag. It's kind of weird how things work out like that

07.10.07

Do you know who Kurt Soto is? He's pretty much a rockstar among rockstars. Kurt is the guys that handles all the music stuff over at Vans and has been in the racket forever. I remember having to get stuff from him over at their old office when I was rolling around with The Aquabats. So anyway, he was rad enough to hook me up with with a pretty sweet pair on new Vans.

Anyway, I'm back in Cali now, I had to come home and do a shoot for LRG for their up and coming spring line. Things are looking pretty sweet over there. DJ Hoppa, Irie, and Cootie came by for some of the shoot. I haven't seen Irie since we were in Miami for the winter music conference. He was in town for the Espy's so it was pretty cool of him to stop by for the shoot. I also got some pretty funny pics of their skate team manger Tyrone rocking his frogskins. I remeber slinging pizzas talking about Star Wars and listening to Decendents records with him back in the day. Please let him know how lovely you think he is by emailing him at tyrone@l-r-g.com .

I've seen these phone pouches and laptop cases floating around the LRG office for quite sometime and haven't been able to get my hands on one of these till now. It was pretty nice of Jonas and Tyrone for the hook up.


I recently did a promo photoshoot for this cable show that should start shooting soon for VH1 called The Passenger, it was a really long shoot, but I am really happy with the product. My assitant Min-Hsu shot this pic of me at the shoot, I'm really excited for this shoot and I can't wait till the show comes out, my friends Christina Martin and Tanya Thayer are a pretty big part of the show and I'm sure it's going to be crazy.

7.09.07

Well, Summer's here, the Warped Tour has begun, and I am busier than ever. I've been out with the Skullcandy mixed tent on the tour and it's pretty awesome. Brad and the Skullcandy crew put together this pretty awesome tent for the tour with acts participating like comedian Jimmy Mar, The Street Drum Corps, as well as the break dancing troupe the Massive Monkeys.


everything is was going on really well, until we hit our Salt Lake City date and I got super sick. Too much sun I suppose. I was pretty stoked that I got to meet the guys over at Zuriick Clothing . On top of being awesome dudes, they also hooked me up with a bunch of loot, one tee in particular has to be one of my favorite tees right now Another good thing about being in Salt Lake was that I got to meet all of the Skullcandy Crew which was pretty rad. They are all a pretty cool bunch, I actually think I got a bunch of stuff done while I was there the first day, the second not so much, they had a super cute temp receptionist come in that day... quite distracting.

RVCA recently put up a bunch of photos I shot on their website from their SAKURABAGOMI event on their site. The nite was really fun and its always good to see the gals from Mod Rocket when they are in town. I believe Lemonade Magazine is going to publish some of the photos which is pretty rad.

The RVCA San Fransisco store should be opening up soon, I'm really excited to see what it's like. Rich Jacobs moved up there recently, so that in itself is a prtty good reason to go up to the bay on top of the fact that RVCA is opening up a shop there.