4/7- Bra Boys Movie Premiere

I braved my first red carpet for the Bra Boys premiere (tight documentary about an Australia surf gang) with around 25 other photographers all yelling and competing for the celeb's attention. Luckily since I was shooting for Berkela Films they brought me inside for the after-party with just a couple other photogs (one for Wire Image and one for Variety) and it settled down a lot. Overall a sweet event and the documentary looks amazing. It comes out Friday if anybody wants to roll. Slide show:

4/4 Kenter Canyon Auction

I decided to help Janelle raise some money for her school by donating my photography and a photo booth to their annual auction. Good times!

4/3- Royal Warhol Event, Main Street Store

Straight from Palm Springs to the Andy Warhol event at the new Royal Elastics store on Main Street. With some slick music from KCRW DJ Garth Trinidad and free drinks all night long it was another fun event and definitely worth the trip back into town. Slide show:

4/1 Assisting Stephen Wilkes @ Palm Spring's Photo Festival

Here is a slide show of my photos documenting Stephen Wilkes' workshop in Palm Springs (when I had a free second to snap some shots). The assisting experience overall was amazing, learning and helping out a true master in the field and meeting a bunch of up and coming photographers as well. Photos taken at Salton Sea and Salvation Mountain (above).

Spring Update- Photo News

I have been lucky enough to pick up some sweet new clients in the last few months, most notably: The Orange County Museum of Art (image on right), K-Swiss, NAMCO and Nintendo Wii (check the new Wii Ski box for one of my photos!) and Royal Elastics shoes.

Next week I will be helping out Stephen Wilkes with his 5 day workshop at the Palm Springs Photo Festival and hanging with some awesome photographers. After that is the music tour with Raining Jane (see below) so I'm off for most of April but will check back in soon with more updates!
Photo: Stephen Wilkes

Spring Update- Editorial

ISM Magazine's spring issue is coming out on March 29th! They're having a magazine release party complete with a photo booth and gallery, and you can buy a copy of the mag w/ a bunch of my photos (nick from Torsion fabrics featured above). Check the website for details.

Other recent photos of mine have been published in The L.A. Times, Scion Magazine, and Juxtapoz Magazine, along with a classic 30 ft billboard by USC with Josh Temkin's design and Seth Brown's ad slogan for Conquest Housing.

Spring Update- Music

Spring Music News-
Raining Jane's new CD is out! We shot this CD cover in my studio a while back and it's great to see it come out along w/ the beautiful music inside. You can pick up a copy here: I will be heading back out on tour w/ Raining Jane, Sara Bareilles and Rachael Yamagata in mid April so keep an eye out for those photos.

San Diego based bill just dropped a sweet album as well. You can buy it on their website and see a slide show of photos from our recent promo shoot wandering around the city.

3/8 Scion Art Gallery- Nomadz

Here is a slide show of art, artists and guests at the latest Scion Art Installation. If you didn't make it out see what you missed, and if you were there you just might find somebody familiar in the slide show.

3/5 Scion Metal- 3 Inches of Blood

Check the slide show (coming soon) of images from the latest metal concert sponsored by Scion and Vice Magazine.

3/2 Engagement Photos- Sabrina and Chris

We headed to Griffith Park for Chris and Sabrina's engagement photos along with a gentle horse and their ridiculously cute dog. We definitely had fun and the animals were well behaved. Look for wedding photos in Sept!

3/1 School Fundraiser

After the Iditarod I raced over to a nearby hotel to shoot a nice fundraiser for Craig and 575 Productions. It was somewhat tame in comparison to the Iditarod, but still good times.

3/1 L.A. Urban Iditarod

L.A. Urban Iditarod 2008! It was a ridiculous, out of control, full on party and pub crawl and police magnet. For more info and my slide show, check out their myspace page. To see more photos and buy prints go here (password: Urb)

2/16 Scion Art Gallery_Love...

This Scion Space gallery was packed with art, so much that I wasn't able to come close to photographing it all before the people started streaming in. Slide show for the "Love Will Bring us Apart Again" opening here:

2/16 ISM Editorial Portrait- Will

Here are editorial portraits of The Bagavagabond's William Overby, a filmmaker and graphic designer. We shot some photos at Will's pad and you can see the short article in next month's issue of ISM Magazine:

2/12 Hope and Danielle model in OC

I photographed this fashion/editorial test shoot with Hope (on the left) and we ended up adding her friend Danielle (who came along to watch) into the mix as well. Slide show

2/12 bill promo shoot in SD

One of many portraits of the San Diego band bill shot for their new album release, 'End of The Hits.' Slide show:

2/5 Scion House Party: Hot Chip

Hot Chip performing at the latest Scion House Party at The Viper Room. More photos.

2/3 Oprah rally @ UCLA

In an emotional Obama rally at Pauley Pavilion in UCLA, Caroline Kennedy gave opening remarks, followed by a great speech by Oprah, some powerful words by Michelle Obama, and surprise appearances by Stevie Wonder and Maria Shriver who both received thunderous applause. Janelle and I volunteered for the campaign and I took these photos while there.

2/2 OCMA gallery opening

The Orange County Museum of Art had a really cool gallery open Saturday called "Disorderly Conduct." Friend (and ISM editor) Kevin Staniec works for them now and I am hopefully going to shoot their next two openings as well. Slide Show:

1/31 Royal Elastic's Party

After wrapping up a 5 day production job on for a Lord and Taylor ad campaign I drove straight to Main Street for the grand opening of Royal Elastic shoes. Obama even made an appearance at this party! Slide show: