On Friday I ventured to the Metreon to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. My love for the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels is well documented and I wouldn’t have missed it for all of the world. In all 30 years of my life I have never cosplayed before but I have such a strong identification [...]
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August 6, 2010
Denim Adventures
Hey everyone, Things are officially crazy. I am busy and overwhelmed in the best way possible. I have a lot of projects coming to fruition in August and balancing my work for them has become a full time job for me. Rene and I have been working with the printers and facilitators at the Levis [...]
July 24, 2010
Hipstamatic Day 4
I spent yesterday mostly blissed out on Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 and its amazing conclusion. I wasn’t unable to hit the streets because of my work schedule but I did manage to take a few Hipstamatic self-portraits before my shift began. Here are a pair of me reclining on SomArts’ infamous dressing room couch. My [...]
July 23, 2010
Tale of the Tape and other Adventures
In the last two weeks I’ve enjoyed making a couple of impromptu videos with my good friend and Chicano filmmaker Tokoztli. Our most recent adventure was a hunt to find cassette tapes in San Francisco. Tokoztli is the foremost Chicano scholar on the life and recordings of Tupac Shakur and he’s been on a quest [...]
July 22, 2010
Hipstamatic Day 3
Yesterday I woke up sick as a dog. I spent most of the day trying to recover but I did manager to schlep out of bed and go for a walk in the Mission. I shot a handful of images on 24th street between Mission and Valencia using Hipstamatic. The results are below. Abandoned food [...]
July 21, 2010
My Finest Hour
If proof were ever needed that I have the world’s coolest boss it’s that we met today at Mission Comics and Art to get Scott Pilgrim Vol. 6 together. While there I also met up with the lovely Amanda Martinez of Mission Loc@l and we shot a video for ML’s Mission Eyes segment. I gave [...]
July 21, 2010
Hipstamatic Day 2
Yesterday was a rough day for me but I did manage to get in a couple of Hipstamatic shots while riding to and from SomArts on the 27 Bryant. The photo above is of the empty interior on the 27 at night and the photo below is of an OG smoking a roach on Cesar [...]
July 19, 2010
Hipstamatic Day 1
One of my favorite experiences in art school was the day I got my first cell phone. I ran to class determined to snap a photo of my teacher and creative hero Allan Sekula. “Hey Allan, I just got a cellphone, can I take your picture with it?” I asked excitedly as he was about [...]
July 7, 2010
La Pura Cura Purikura
This past weekend I embarked on my second collaboration with the brilliant and loco por sure Guillermo Gomez-Peña (along with members of his performance troupe La Pocho Nostra). Our project is La Pura Cura Purikura. It’s an ongoing project of purikura photos costumed, performed, and decorated by Gomez-Pena, facilitated and decorated by myself. For this [...]
June 28, 2010
La Mission Mysteries Solved!
In the past four days I’ve hung out twice with actor Jeremy Ray Valdez, better known as the actor who plays Benjamin Bratt’s son in La Mission. On Thursday I spent an evening trailing him as a hired photographer at a benefit screening of La Mission. In between photographing Jeremy with attendees and donors at [...]
