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.

My niece Izzy

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

My nephew Cole

My niece Riian

Emma building a sand castle

Anne being awesome with tons of sand on her face

Izzy walking with grandma

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

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.

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

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. 

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.

View from the house

Surfers walking down the street

Alissa playing in the ocean

Sayulita at night

Gang on the rock

Alissa and Michelle walking to the beach

Old man playing guitar on the beach

Kihan reading a book

Road to Playa de los muertos

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.

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.