Our first anniversary


This weekend was a bit of a blur, but in a great way. Sunday was our very first wedding anniversary, yup September 19th. We cannot believe it’s been a year since that day. It’s been great. We decided to go spend the weekend at Newport to just relax and enjoy the great weather. We left Friday morning, then drove back for Saturday morning to go to the CBUdesign underwater event (which was awesome), and then drove back for the rest of that day and Sunday. It was funny to drive all the way back to Riverside for a few hours but we both had a great time all weekend.

Eventful and relaxing — perfect.

Defy Gravity Photoshoot at CBUdesign

CBUdesign did a photo shoot this past weekend to give the students some hands-on experience in a studio setting shooting for a real client. This really was an awesome event and I’m not only glad to have been a part of it, but I’m excited for future events as well!

Here is my contribution, what do you think?

Thanks for looking!

Everyone loves succulents!

So we’ve got a great little garden out front that the Love’s did for us while Megan and I were on our honeymoon. It’s been struggling to survive in the bad dirt but some of them are doing well. I thought I would take some photos of the stuff because everyone loves photos of succulents! Although the second to last picture I think is not a succulent at all, but it looks good in this set. I like the last one the best.

Bouncing liquids photoshoot

Ian and I decided to have a little fun shooting some strange things. We set up a flat plastic plate that we could vibrate at any frequency we wanted. All we needed was an iPhone app, an amplifier, and an old subwoofer. Just lying around right? Welcome to the shop. We got some pretty interesting shots, the white fluid is just some car wax and water, and the silver stuff is mercury.

Don’t play with mercury, fair warning!

Enjoy and let me know if you think these are cool or lame!










Extendo Bikes

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  • Back in the day we made some crazy bikes out of other bikes. At first we did it just for fun but after it caught on we started making them so that we could ride manathons with them. I think so far we have done three marathons, first the Los Angeles Marathon in 2004, then the 2004 Long Beach Marathon, and finally the 2005 Long Beach Marathon. We had a great time at all of them but the Long Beach Marathon is way more fun course wise. So here is a quick look at the crazy X-INfERNO.com Exteno Bikes.

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DJ Cabinet

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  • Here at the X-INfERNO we like to jam. As anyone with a garage band may know, there is a lot of equipment involved with making all this happen. We have guitars, drums, vocal mics, instrument mics, effects processors, recorders, players, amps and cords galore and they all need to be connected together by some physical means to get everyone outputting and sounding or recording right. Well since a lot of these things are 19″ rack mount, I thought it would be great to have a cabinet on wheels to organise everything in. It would be easier to move around and take to gigs and such. So that’s how this project started.

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Calculus Movie Poster

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  • It’s been a few years since we released Ian and Thomas’ Excellent Calculus Adventure, but I thought it would be a great time to come up with a rockin poster and DVD case for it so we can re-release it.  I also thought it would be fun to document the creative process for it so here we go!

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