Just finished a nice piece on our friend Francesco’s restaurant in Positano Italy. Although we just got some bad news, the restaurant has closed for the time being. I’m not sure what happened, but it seems as though they’ll be closed for this season. It was one of my favorite things during our European trip last year. I just wanted to spend the whole night in the restaurant watching all of the chaos and enjoying my time with the family at their business.

Hope you enjoy the piece my wife and I shot while overseas last year. It came out pretty great.

The Build Film is an interactive film done by a design company in Oregon. My wife forwarded this to me a few weeks ago because a good friend of ours works at the company this was produced at.

A little suggestion: You’re going to want to be on a very fast computer with a screaming internet connection. Otherwise it may be a little difficult to get the gist of the piece as a whole.

Also, be sure that you watch through the credits and take a peak at the “behind the scenes” which comes up at the end. Totally worth your watch. All chapters are around 3 minutes each, making it a very small time commitment.

let me know what you think.

www.thebuildfilm.com

I got some scan’s from my families old photo albums back. I was just thumbing through them and came across these two of my mom with her new Mazda pickup truck. Thought it was some pretty great imagery, the first one could be out of a magazine advertisement. Pretty excellent!

I was sitting at my desk thinking about how cluttered and cramped it was. How I have two monitors, but can’t seem to get away with only using one. How there are way too many boxes, and about how the small computer speakers really suck unless you really search out the good ones.

I started to think about other people around me who are doing some really interesting things, and what their work spaces look like. If they’ve got it organized and catagorized, or if there just the same as me. Sprawled out mess until they’ve gotten through the project their working on.

I asked a few buds to send me some pictures of their work spaces. The tattoo apprentace, the artist, the wood worker, the visual effects supervisor, the painter, the musician, and the editor. This is what our spaces look like.
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I guess I’m not the only one who’s always waiting out Winter. The only thing is Winter here in Los Angeles is kind of a joke. Still it’s too cold to sit on the beach and kinda windy, and kinda crappy. It’s nothing like snow… But still I’m with these guys. Waiting out winter.

Hung out with some friends from Washington State a few weeks ago. Got to work with them on a new project. I’m so psyched to have talented people like this in my life. It’s always great to see them and experience what they’ve worked so hard to put out into the world. The show was smaller than they probably would’ve liked, but I was fine with it. It was almost as if they were putting on an entire show just for me and a few others who were psyched to see them. It allowed me some freedom to move around and grab a few frames from different positions and still bang my head in excitement.

They’re definitely worth checking out if you have the time and in anyway like Rock n’ Roll.
Devotion

Click more to see some other frames from the evening:
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When I lived in San Francisco. I always made a point of heading into Sightglass coffee. Not just because their coffee is some of my favorite around, but because one of the nicest dudes I know was head roaster and if I got there before 2 or 3 I’d have a chance to say hello.

Recently I’d been reading a lot about how he was working to open his own shop across the bay in Oakland. It was going well, the build out was looking awesome, and although I haven’t been able to get into the building where his newest endeavor “Timeless Coffee” exists. I trust that he has really created something wonderful.

Though they are not roasting yet, he had always planned on getting a roaster, and making his own product under the same name. Well, that time is now, and they are currently working on fundraising in order to afford the most expensive part of the process. The Roaster.

Kickstarter: Timeless Coffee Roasters

If you have a minute, head over and read a little bit about what he’s got going on with his friends at Timeless Coffee, and see if you can make a contribution. Then, if you’re super psyched like I am, write about it, tweet it, fabook it, whatever you got to do so that we can ensure they reach their goal!!.

Who knows why I haven’t posted much about my last trip over to Europe.   It’s one of those weird things where I guess there’s just so many pictures, and so many memories, thoughts and idea’s that I am not sure how to put them all down in one place.  However, during our second layover in England we stayed down in the Shoreditch area.  It was a pretty unique experience for us, because typically we’ve been more North and/or West.  However, this time we got to experience some of the “cooler” parts of England.  I’d heard of some coffee shops that we needed to check out in this area of the world, but didn’t expect there to be as many as there were.  We probably passed like 4 or 5 just to find Shoreditch Grind which exceeded expectations.  After spending a week or so in France (where coffee leaves more to be desired).  This was a welcome taste to come back to and finish out our trip.  Don’t miss it if in the U.K.

There will be a lot of talk about this film that was just posted on the Stumptown Coffee Roasters website. This beautifully done film gives you a glimpse behind the scenes at the countries flagship resurgence of high quality coffee roasters. I had to watch multiple parts of this film over and over to take in some of the imagery. I love it when things are just done right.

Every year around this time I’ve decided to make it a tradition of posting our year in review for the previous year. I use iPhone video, photos, instagram, hipstamatic, our nice camera, any projects we shot and worked on. Just anything that we did or happened to us, or we experienced over the previous year. I found the first one we did to be really fun, and it this one is no acception. I also use a music track that came out nearly in the same year, and probably dominated our speaker systems for a long period of time. Clearly these are for personal use, and you’re just taking a look at our personal lives here.

Music is: LP “Into The Wild”