Sunday, January 24, 2010 [1:47 PM]

T-day last year took a new meaning for us - Tahiti-day! That's right. A week of R&R in Bora-freakin-Bora. And jeez, we needed it. It'd almost been a year since our last trip out of the country, work hours were stomping all over our souls and we were getting stir crazy. So instead of doing something drastic like quitting our jobs and moving who-knows-where, we decided to go and snuggle up with some sharks and sting rays.*

The first few days we were there was a lot like SD has been the past week, but once the clouds parted...oh man, paradise welcomed us with open arms. You know, you look at photos to get an idea of where you're going, but seeing it in person is a whole nother thing. I mean, one moment you're sitting atop this vibrant blue water, then you travel minutes away to where the ocean is glowing. GLOWING. Absolutely amazing. In our time spent there, we did actually get into the water with the sharks and sting rays, we snorkeled, kayaked, had a late night dip in the pool, sampled the Tahitian cuisine, fed the fish through a hole in our bungalow, watched the sunset, downed a bottle of spiced rum and champagne (not at once), toured the main island, Jennie lit a guy on fire (he was asking for it) and really just had an awesome time.

And then we returned home...to our long work hours and busy schedules...for now...

flickr (35 photos)
picasa set (300 photos)

*note: sting rays are much more affectionate, but I'd rather swim with the sharks.

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1 comments Monday, November 30, 2009 [9:55 PM]

From The Great Urban Race

If you happened to be downtown or in Hillcrest on October 24th, you may have noticed some 1000 folks running around wearing random costumes and bib numbers. 2 of those happened to be Team Don't stop, get it, GET IT! who also happened to finish in 2 hours and 49 minutes. Good enough for 29th. 29th outta 480. Four-eighty. Four hundred and eighty! (Yes, I'm proud. What.)

The Great Urban Race is basically a one day Amazing Race. With our partner team Neuro Fuzzy, we solved 12 clues that forced us around downtown, Little Italy and Hillcrest by foot, bus & trolley.

Next year top 10!

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We finally got to say hello to Jack in August at the ripe ol age of 4 months. The kid is awesome. Just look at his hair. Boston was as hot as usual and we saw Steve Tyler. Random.

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0 comments Wednesday, July 29, 2009 [10:29 PM]

From my 30th

Dayyyaaammm...July has been hectic. Yes, I turned 30. But c'mon, like that's gonna stop me from being carded. Anyway, like always, I try to keep my birthday low key. Not that I don't like them, I'm just not big on birthdays. So go figure that my non-birthday dinner turns out to be one of the best I've celebrated. It helped having comic con in town since that funneled a lot of folks into SD and more importantly, downtown. Dinner at the Gaslamp Strip Club was great, especially since I STILL didn't have to cook my own steak (thanks, Philly!), Whiskey Girl was as fun as always and the post-party-Rock-Band-jam-session-until-5am was beyond entertaining. If you haven't seen the photos, then you're not on Facebook, which means you should be because Raul posted some good ones there. In the meantime, I've uploaded a handful to Picasa (click the link above).

So that was this past weekend, the weekend prior Jennie surprised me with half hour ride on a motherflippin' BIPLANE.



I suppose I should've seen it coming given all our aerial adventures in the past, but regardless, it was faaaaantastic. Highly recommended. (shots from the sky are in here)

And then the weekend before THAT, Grace & Jeff came down to visit so we hit up UCSD for a trip down memory lane. Turns out that the old stomping grounds ain't so old anymore. New buildings, new sculptures and a super tech heavy Price Center had me screaming "where the heck was all this when we were going here?!" But then I remembered I was turning 30 and that our freshman year was almost 12 years ago. Oy.


(more UCSD photos in the la jolla set)

And the weekend before that??? Independence Day people! Aren't you keeping track? (see below)

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2 comments Sunday, July 05, 2009 [3:24 PM]

Jennie and I were able to score a prime spot at the Embarcadero Marina Park to watch the Big Bay Boom fireworks display last night. (Of course, showing up 7 hours before the show didn't hurt our chances.)

more fireworks photos in my downtown flickr set.

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0 comments Saturday, April 11, 2009 [6:46 PM]

If you've ever perused my photostream, you'll see lots of environments. LOTS of environments. My unofficial motto is "the world inspires me". I build environments for games and I photograph them. It's what I do.

People, on the other hand, is not what I do (in terms of photography, that is...don't be sick). Saying "this is how I see the world" is one thing. Saying "this is how I see you" is another. I guess it's a comfort level I had/have yet to achieve. But in any case, that didn't stop Katie and Dan from enlisting me for their engagement shoot. And you know what? I'm glad it didn't stop them. However, it does help when it's friends and it definitely helps when they're dressed up and rockin' some awesome makeup. (Their wedding theme is Dia de los Muertos and they wanted their engagement photos to reflect that theme, hence the makeup.)

So with Jennie aiding me as art director, we brought them to the Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve to do their shoot and the old barn and the woods there served as perfect backdrops. We didn’t really do any of the “typical” lovee-dovee-kissy-kissy stuff, but then again, this isn’t your typical couple. Plus, you know, Dan’s face was painted as a skull. You can see the results through the link below. I thought it was a great first run at this sort of thing and maybe it’s not normally what I do, but maybe that’ll change.

the flickr set

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3 comments Wednesday, February 25, 2009 [8:45 PM]

With all this extra time on my hands, I finally got around to doing one of the photo experiments I had on the backlog.

enjoy.

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3 comments Tuesday, February 24, 2009 [1:37 PM]

"Was that a score?"

"No, that was a try."

"But they got points?"

"Right. He got a try."

"He tried to score?"

"He scored points on a try."

"Well that's nice. You know...that they give points for trying."

That conversation didn't really happen, but I'm trying to illustrate the point that rugby is confusing. And by rugby rules, I get points for trying. :)

Two Sundays ago, we caught 14 matches during the second day of the USA Sevens tournament and I'm still not entirely sure how it's played. All I know is that it's fast (at least the 7s variation of rugby is), it's brutal and the USA Eagles unfairly lost to the Argencheatas. Still a fun time.

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