Tuesday, October 19, 2010

LA and Vegas

My whole family decided to go visit my sister Shea and my Dad in Las Vegas. There were two things to celebrate, first Shea had a new baby girl (Bia) that we all needed to see. There was also the birthday of her oldest daughter Riley to celebrate. I unfortunately was on a plane while everyone else had an awesome pool party to celebrate Riley's 8th birthday. It was a very short trip for everyone, but we still had fun and ate good food.
I had purchased the Jet Blue all you can jet ticket, which allowed me to fly as much as I wanted from September 7th through October 6th. So from Las Vegas I flew to Los Angeles, to visit some friends. My trip was cut a little short, due to selling my condo and needing to move. So here are some photo's from my trip, if you would like to see more click here.

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Baby Bia

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Grandpa holding Bia

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Riley opening presents

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Izzy and Jack watching Riley open presents (not as fun as opening)

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Izzy climbing in Grandpa's tree and wearing the cutest outfit ever

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Zoe playing with her toys

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Zoe playing with uncle Justin (me) in the pool, I felt left out for missing the pool party

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Cole and Britt watching the water show at the Belagio

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Riian watching the same water show

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Bike ride from Santa Monica to Venice with Mark and Jon, these guys are the best

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Mark skating in Venice

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Random ripper at Venice park

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Chris putting his wet suit on for early surf mission, I got destroyed

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Beach down in Laguna (thanks Jon and Marley for hosting me)



Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Family Reunion

So just about every 4 or 5 years my extended family has a family reunion. Since my family is giant (my mom is one of 7 kids, and they all had lots of kids) getting together can be difficult. We had the reunion in El Centro California, if you haven't heard of it than you are lucky. Just imagine what the surface of the sun feels like, then double that and you might be getting close to how hot El Centro is. We went to El Centro because that is were my Grandma lives and she can't travel anymore. We did spend a day in San Diego at the beach which was very nice. Here are a few photo's of my younger family members playing in the pool and at the beach. Thanks Kjersti for hosting us all at your house. If you want to see more photo's I have posted them here.

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My niece Izzy

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It was so hot out the pool was 92 degrees, I'm not kidding

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My nephew Cole

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My niece Riian

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Emma building a sand castle

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Anne being awesome with tons of sand on her face

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Izzy walking with grandma

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If my eyes matched a pool like Coles do, I would be swimming in mud




Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Lucile Party

Here is a video I put together of our studio opening party. Thanks to everyone who made it to the party, we had a great time.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Nintendo shoot

About a month ago one of my partners with Lucile, Dennis Wise was hired for a two day shoot here in Seattle. Here is a video I made of the shoot

Monday, May 3, 2010

New Website

So after several months of working on it, my new website is up. I would like to thank Michelle Yang for the design of the site, and Mike Keran for building it. Please take a look around the site and let me know what you think. 


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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Birthdays in Mexico

Last year for my 30th birthday a bunch of my friends and I went to mexico to celebrate. This year my friend Maddy turned 30 and we decided to do it again. This year there were two birthdays to Celebrate. Maddy and Caroline both have the same birthday, which made for a fun night. We rented the most amazing house in Sayulita Mexico. It was this giant orange house on a hill over looking the town. It was built like a tree house, there were many different levels and about one million stairs to climb. All in all I would say the trip was a success. There were a few hiccups on the trip, first being Alissa and my room got robbed. They only took some cash so considering what they could have taken, I think we got off pretty easy. The second problem was about six people got stuck in Mexico one extra night, due to some mechanical problems with there plain. Personally I think staying an extra night would be fun, but waiting in the airport for 6 hours sounds horrible. To see more photo's from the trip click here.

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View from the house

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Surfers walking down the street

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Alissa playing in the ocean

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Sayulita at night

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Gang on the rock

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Alissa and Michelle walking to the beach

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Old man playing guitar on the beach

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Kihan reading a book

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Road to Playa de los muertos








Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Seattle Metropolitan at Lucile

Seattle Metropolitan magazine came into the studio last week to shoot with Ryan McVay at our new studio Lucile. Thomas Northcut was in the studio that day, and was nice enough to help Ryan set up. Here is a little video I made of the shoot.

Saturday, February 6, 2010

More Painting

Thommy, Ryan, and I painting more of the studio, here is another time lapse video. I will hopefully have finished photo's of the studio soon.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Painting the studio

Three photographers and myself are opening a photo studio called Lucile. We just found our studio space, and have spent the past couple days working on it. I filmed a time lapse video of the first day of painting, the battery died on the camera so you don't get to see the finished product. Check back over the next couple days to see more progress.


Painting the studio day 1

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

San Diego

Alissa and I went to San Diego over Martin Luther King weekend. We had good weather for the first couple days, but then the rain came. We hung at the beach went on a nice hike, and ate good food. Click HERE to see more photos.

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skateboard on the beach

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surfers at Wind and Sea beach

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Alissa running down the trail

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hill we hike up

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Alissa looking out over San Diego