Happy Halloween. I did all my partying last night. Tonight I just hung out with my sister Michelle and her friend Arloa. We carved pumpkins and made spiced wine.
Last night there was a big party that my nieghbors and I through. actaully my nieghbors had it at thier pad since I really wasn't in the mood to have a lot of people over. We have the most interesting people show up sometimes. Christopher Lloyd showed up at the party. I don't know who he came with or what, but the real Doc Brown from back to the future was hanging in my back yard.

The last night of fashion week. I feel bad because I actaully got mad at Janet tonight. It wasn't totally her fault.... anyway.. we started out at smashbox studios where we shot a designer and her show. At the show we got interviews with Kathy Griffin and Paula Abdul (pictured). I had the understanding that we would be finished by 7:00 at the latest, so i scheduled a date, with someone i already had to postpone becuase of a mun2 shoot with Janet. It turns out we had to get to another event that didn't even start until 9:30. I got pissed. Sorry Janet for taking it out on you.

So no shoots today. I took the day off and watched T.V. while my nieghbor Julie came over to use the internet. I saw the documentary on the democratic runoffs by Alexandra Polossi, in it, one of the candidates had to eat a deep fried twinkie. I got the craving, and since i didn't have anything to do, i was on the hunt. I finally found one in west L.A. at a place called, LuLu's blue plate cafe. It followed a bacon cheeseburger and Pabst blue ribbon. LuLu's and the twinkie get a thumbs up.

Holy afterparty Batman! This time at the Santa Monica airport in Hanger #8. Actually pretty cool. It was the GenArt, new and upcoming designer show. Janet and I started off backstage interviewing designers, make-up, hair and models. When the show started i got into a verbal disagreement with another photographer. He decided to position himself in the front row, center, and refused to kneel or sit. infact he actually stood on a riser and took up a lot of usuable space alocated to the media.a very selfish and uncurtous move to other photographers. The 4 or 5 photogs behind him were young and inexperienced, so they didn't say anything. But I did. It wasn't my battle so I dropped it, after telling the guy how rude he was. After the shows were over all 4 bars were open and it's was afterparty time.

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It's fashion week in L.A. So I spent all day at Smashbox studios in Culver city where Mercedes Benz holds it's portion of fashion week. It's kind of an interesting place. first of all Culver City does not give the appearance of a fashion mecca. Smashbox studios is located in a business park/ warehouse type district. The studios are enlarged by several huge white tents that hold much of the events. There are like 3 or 4 different runway studios and the huge main tent. I started off the day shooting an interview with designer Custo Barcelona. Got to hang out back stage before the show and watch as the models got made up and hair done. His show was real good. Later I stuck around and shot a couple other shows. In the evening my shoot consisted of following a semi-famous stylist as he smooozed with industry professionals and then watched the "Single show" the pictures are from that show. I finnished up the day around 8 PM but it was raining like crazy and I was parked 3 blocks away. That was no problem. I just hung out in the main tent and partied with models, designers and the open bar. One thing that i must add though. I just don't get the "high fashion look", I've never been fond of 6' tall pre-pubecent looking girls, with no breast! Give me a curvy latina any day.

There is no street parking in Century city! It totally sucks. Veronica Castro and I went to the Century plaza hotel today to interview Olympic silver medalist in gymnastics, Ania Hatch. We didn't want to go to valet parking because the show this shoot was for is totally cheap and they won't reinbuse us for it. So we had to park at the shopping center down the street. In this picture Ania and her training are helping Veronica do a hand stand.

A very early moring today. I had to be out in Long Beach at 8:00 am. I got to shoot a yatch racing team. Watch them doing yoga on the slip and all.. It was a beautiful day out and it would have been better if I got to go out on the boat. But the producer and director went out instead. That's ok though, the team slipped me an Stella before they spli

Today it was super rainy in Los Angeles. I had a shoot with a new client, a halloween piece at a costume story on Hollywood blvd. After that we were supposed to do man-on-the-street interviews, but it was so rainy that there was no way we could get it done. So after that I had to shoot out in Santa Clarita. With no traffic it takes about 45 minutes. It was a f ew hours before the shoot, but i was close to the 405, so i decided to head up early and avoid the rush hour traffic. I got to town early and decided to walk around. I felt like a traveler or something in a small town. I found an American Legion and got a drink at t he bar. Anyway.. that night i shot a bellty dancing class. It was cool. lots of flowing colorerful scarfs and movement, and shaking.

Funny thing happened tonight. I was looking at an old web group i belonged to and i saw a travel meeting going on at a cafe in silverlake. I was about Spain and a real good group showed up. Afterwards we went to this tapas restaraunt on Hollywood blvd named cobras & matadors. Good time.. but we had to bring our own wine.

Rainy and cloudy today. This is a shot from my back patio. I was scheduled to do a shoot today but it got cancelled because of the weather. I would have been shooting a pool cleanner out in Malibu with rolling hills of luxery and blue skies. But no blue skies available.

So it was an American Legion meeting night. This shot is in the pool room. My buddie Joe and i spent a lot of time in there. At this meeting we actually had live entertainment after the meeting. We had like 4 or 5 variety acts put on by some of the members. It was fun. The American Legion Hollywood Post 43 is one of the most famous legion post. It's known as, "the post of the stars". Back in the old days this place was the most powerful club in Hollywood. Now it's a little old, but i'm working to get younger membership so we can rule again.

Today has started out as a day of rest. I've worked almost everyday for the last 2 weeks. Michelle is in Portland for the next 2 weeks so i have the apartment to myself. after staying in bed until around noon, i slowly cleaned up and went for a bite to eat at this coffee shop on Beverly blvd. called swingers. I had a b.l.t. with avacado and an arnold palmer. I don't plan on doing much today other than compter work such as finances and web page, some logging and stuff like that.

This is still at the premier of, Surviving Christmas. This is a photo of Ben Afleck. So at one point Janet was interviewing Silent Bob and Ben came over to grab Bob. Janet said something to Ben about him liking Latinas, so he went crazy talking to her in the spanish and kissed her on the cheek and stuff like that. She was way happy and everyone congratulated her for getting such a groovy interview. Ben ended up staying with the press and the fans long after the movie had started.

This is a photo of Jay and Silent Bob. They were working the press line along the red carpet of the premier of, Surviving Christmas. Silent Bob talked a lot more than Jay. Jay seemed to get bored quickly and wanted to go inside but Silent Bob kept talking about how Jay was a player to all the ladies and really liked to smoke the ganja.

First, I got a brand new reporter. Janet replaced Melissa for the entertainment reporter on the show Fuzion on the mun2 network. This was Janet's first night working for mun2 and was really nervious. She ended up doing really good. She seems like a fun chica, I look forward to working more with her in the future.

Christopher Reeve passed away the other day. I saw on the news that some people had started placing candles on his star on hollywood blvd walk of fame. I was walking to work this afternoon when i saw this shrine on the side walk. So I grabbed a shot along with the other tourist who where there.

I got a new client. This commercial production company called me from a reccomendation. They had me come in and shoot a casting session for a major cellular phone provider. The spot included Santa Clause and Elves. So I got an interesting view of a room filled with 15 Santa's. And i got to meet just about every midget actor in hollywood.

This is a picture of Jennifer Lopez, J-Lo, at some charity event for children at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. I was covering this for Melissa. This was a Friday night and the event didn't get out until like 8:30 pm or so. I had a date scheduled in Santa Monica, but had stomach problems for a while when i got to my car. I was kind of miserable on the date and it didn't go so well. I don't think i'll see her again. But we saw a real cool movie called, Motorcycle Diaries, it was about Che Guevera's motorcycle road trip around the tip of south america and into Chile, Peru and eventurally Venezuela. Real good movie, I highly recommend it.