"I make people happy for a living..."

YES, it's about a hot dog stand. BUT the sincerity of the owner the message of the video had me tearing up a little bit.

happy new year!

just a little inspiration for the new year. if you don't know who the sartorialist is, check him out. it gives a some insight on his creative process.

here's to plenty of inspiration to all of the photographers, graphic designers and people in all the creative fields this new year.

MAD MEN

after hearing about all the emmy nominations and wins i kind of checked it out ondemand. wasn't totally into it, but i was intrigued. so i was at leia house just a few months ago and she gave me season one and i literally finished it in a day. i got the rest of the season from her and told myself that i should pace it out. so as a reward for myself i would just watch one episode a day. i knew that i was totally hooked when i looked forward to watching an episode with my breakfast. it has to be the costumes, the characters and especially the stories.

with the season finale tonight, i don't know how i'm going to fill my monday mornings when i get that message from itunes saying that i have a new episode to download. i guess i'll have to fill it with old episodes and read the blogs.

here's a video that brian williams' daughter, allison put together with the mad men theme song (by RJD2) and nature boy (by nat king cole). not bad.

F**K YOU!

yesterday was an awesome day for some star sightings in silverlake. leia and i were hanging out, pashalling around some of the stores in her hood. we stopped by intelligensia to grab a hot beverage. they have these really AMAZING oatmeal cookies filled with buttercream. so GOOD. if you love butter, you'll love these. anyways so you know we were minding our own business when we first see MAE WHITMAN from parenthood and arrested development. THEN WILL McCORMACK who played ethan on brothers and sisters. THEN we see DANNY PUDI from community or maybe you saw him on a verizon commercial butt dailing. THEN we see JESSE TYLER FERGUSON from modern family!

what a day.

we're driving, and we don't see anymore people, but we hear this awesome song called "forget you" by ceelo green. leia tells me that it's actually called "F**K YOU." check it out. kinda makes you want to dance doesn't it?

SUSTAINABILITY

it's been some time since i've been at gensler, but this is one project that i worked on while it was there. it's a new cabin type that is going to be used at the boy scouts camp in catalina.

it's made from two shipping containers with a stretched fabric roof. the design has been refined since i last worked on it, but it still gets it's point across, sustainability.

read more about it here.

SONG OF THE DAY

SO GOOD SO GOOD!!!

happy friday everyone!

PSA: H1N1

this is pretty awesome

washington d.c.

here's a cool little series that the washington post put up showing different areas in d.c. great images and it gives a peek into the cool vibe the the city has. click on the image below.

Song of the Day

just on the side...

just a little something that i've been working on on the side...

HAPPY FRIDAY!

maybe you don't watch SYTYCD, but Jeanine Mason won the title of AMERICA'S FAVORITE DANCER. she was recently on Regis and Kelly, but Ashton Kutcher was co-hosting.

you got kelly and jeanine, how could you go wrong? happy friday!!

i <3 architecture

this is a short film about one of the projects at SPF:a (Studio Pali Fekete Architects), an architecture firm in culver city that i used to intern for. the ideas of having music bridge people together and having the building become an experience are not new, but it's so interesting to see how designers and architects interpret that idea.

i am to say the least, inspired...

Sequencer from Studio Pali Fekete Architects on Vimeo.

i think we've got a WEINER!!!

it's a late night, probably b/c mando and jackie came over to the house and we ate at paco's with the parentals at like 10pm. i've been catching up with late night with jimmy fallon (specifically 7th floor west) and stumbled upon this. ENJOY! especially leia!!!

love hurts...

incubus on jimmy fallon!

happy friday everyone!

not sure where lester got this from, but he gave it to cile and she passed it on to me and it really just made my day! here's to a great weekend!

TOP CHEF MASTERS

just in case you missed it here's this weeks episode, with who else than... NPH, and they're at the magic castle. to top it all off, the other diners include David Burtka (a lucky bastard), and Ed Alonzo ("Maxx" the chef from The Maxx in Saved by the Bell). pretty awesome!

fast forward to 25:00 to dine with NPH, David, Ed and the rest of the guests and judges.





btw, is it me or does chef mark peel sound like kevin spacey? you decide...

BEERGARDEN BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT!!!

what do you get when you put four july babies, all their friends, feed them sausages and beer and have them dress up in german outfits??

THE BEST 4TH OF JULY WEEKEND EVER!!!!

this past weekend gwen, kay, joe and i celebrated at the MINERVA BEERGARDEN. the whole backyard was decked out with canopies, long table, tents, german decor and of course sausages and beer!!! and to make it complete, we all dressed up in german outfits!!!

here's a video that gwennie put together to highlight the events of the day.

BEERFEST09 from gwen78 on Vimeo.

enjoy!

PLINKO!!!

this is pretty awesome. plinko was definitely one of my favorite games on the price is right, but they barely played it! now you can all you want!

Fish

just something relaxing to do...