If this little piece of wonderful imagery doesn’t get you excited for the almost near prospect of enjoying Spring outdoors. I’m not sure what will. Love it.

We took a nice long break over the holiday’s and had about 100 camera’s with us during it (duh). I got a pair of rolls developed from our trip up north back to San Francisco. Then there are a few from the day we got back when Gaelyn started her new job. I love the quality I’m getting out of my small Olympus point and shoot. I also acquired another camera from my dad while we were up north. It’s a Minolta Maxxum 600si which is a 35mm camera, however it’s pretty automatic in every sense of the word. There is little chance of exposing anything incorrectly with this thing. I haven’t yet decided it its worth lugging around rather than just use the point and shoot and embrace the poor / unreliable quality. I’d also like it if I could turn off the automatic rewind function on it so that I can work with Nate Skinner on a small project. Blurg.

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I’m excited to share this one. My dear friend Kyle Whitlow has been doing write-ups on his record collections (I made a post about this a few months ago). More recently he has finally put up pictures of his release collection of my bands, as well as written some really nice things.

As I get older one of my favorite things to do is get together with Kyle, as well as guys from the band, and many other friends that shared the common time in our lives and talk about it. Honestly we’ve done it hundreds of times, and we’ll probably do it hundreds more. It’s great to chat about the fights, the miscues, the music, the people, and of course all the great times we had as a band. As well as all the times we shared working with Kyle and Rivalry and everyone that encompassed that period of our lives.

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I know I’m about a week late on doing a “Year in Review” post. That was mostly because it took some time to get together a film about our year. What follows is iPhone photos, iPhone video’s, film photo’s, and Digital Camera photo’s, and video that spanned our year. It was fun to make and more fun to look back on a years worth of imagery.

I hope 2012 has more great experiences and times in store for us.
Hope your holiday was great, don’t let getting back to the grind, grind you down.

Well, it’s the time again. The FedEX / UPS / USPS guy is slammed and probably not off work until 10PM. Merry Christmas and happy holiday’s to you. Hope you found the holiday of whatever you celebrate relaxing and rejuvinating. We’re doing our first travel time for the holiday’s. Which meant spending time around our own tree this year was kept to a minimum. Of course we had to go out and get our tree first thing after Thanksgiving. You see, my wife she’s a bit of a Christmas-aholic. She buys, makes, swindles, trades, and creates the most presents you could ever imagine.
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In Japan they have some really cool stuff. Like really cool stuff, and even though they may not make it in a size that a Western Man can enjoy. They really do make some cool stuff.

I thought this was a pretty beautiful video of riding down one of the most fun looking roller slides I’ve ever seen. It’s insanely long… the slide, not the video.

They’re using a Merlin hand held steadicam in order to keep the image as still as possible. Either way I find the whole thing really visually stunning. Just wish it didn’t end with the guy walking up the hill and no pay off. Get an editor!

I know that it’s been posted hundred’s of times. Just one more won’t hurt a thing. Picked up “Lioness: Hidden Treasures” today. I must say that she really could bring it, and as much as the tabloids loved her collapse, and everyone wanted to bring her down during a time when she was completely broken. I still feel it’s too bad that she was taken before we got to hear more from her. I’m glad that we’ll get to hear unreleased material, and enough to make up an entire full length.
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A few years ago I started scanning a bunch of my dad’s old pictures. Pictures from when he was a kid, and when his dad and he drove across the country to live in Oregon. Pictures from my grandfathers time spent in Europe during World War two. Just a whole lot of scanning. I did this for a few years, and people at my old work in San Francisco would always ask what I was doing. I was just scanning and white balancing old photographs.

In my head I was confident that this project would turn into a film of some kind. Something that was all encompassing. Even though I don’t think that I’ll use every photo in the film. At least it gives us something tangible to hold onto for future generations to come.

I’m not trying to make this film as a complete history of my family. However, a Reassembling of artifacts, images, memories, stories, and idea’s about how this family came together and where we will most likely go from here.

Anyways, I depart on my first filming trip to Cleveland OH. Birthplace of my dad, and home to his parents for many years. We plan on having nice chats with my dad’s uncle Dick, and his cousin’s, and hopefully taking a look at some great photographs, as well as visiting with Dick and hopefully hearing some great stories about my Grandparents.

I’m excited that my dad and I were finally able to make this trip happen and it’s just as exciting that my uncles and aunt seem just as excited as I am to see this project through. That’s it for now though. Hopefully I’ll have some exciting stuff, post Cleveland, to share. If I don’t say anything before the holiday. I hope it finds you relaxed and re-energized.