TwentyFortyOne Blog

Wow, how long has it been since my last post?! I really don’t have any excuse for my absence other than the fact that I’ve just been so creatively unmotivated lately. That said, I thought I’d make my resurgence felt with a mega photo post! Over the last 7 years I’ve tried to collect as many photos of as many different things as possible. Here is a small collection of the notable ones:


This is where I lived in San Francisco! Ridiculous house with a ridiculous view.


So if this is true, then why don’t cops get tickets when they park by a fire hydrant?…


A good friend of mine (Dailey you know who you are) was taking a class in college that required they make a CD cover… My phone rang…


One of the coolest driving experiences of my life! I got to drive a Porsche Cayman S around P.I.R. during an even that I was hired to video.


One of my favorite college passtimes, beer-bonging. However, the gem of this photo is my shirt!


My Brither-In-Law broke his leg so badly that the surgeons had to graft this metal brace to his bones with something like 1000 screws.


Driving to Portland from San Francisco one weekend, my fiance and I rolled up on this accident.


Never leave a puppy alone with the cover off a couch cushion…


Is that my dog or a sewer rat?


My favorite taqerilla in San Francisco had a malfunction one day. Fortunately I was too amused by this sign to be pissed.


Diamond studded SL 500… The worst part about this is that it might not be the ugliest SL in this post.


Go to the barber, tell him you’re tire of looking like an ass hole.


My good mate Danger Diggles looks like he just fell 50 feet off of the wagon.


Got bored one day at Nike so I decided to lay down a bitch’n mural on the light table.


Decorated Elk head…..


So as I was being escorted out of Intel by a mega nerd, I happened to look down and snap this blurry picture of his computer bag. For those who don’t recognize the logo, it says ENRON! haha, what a pecker.


I went to a party at a friends house one night where the status quo was shoes off. After following suit and mingling for a while, I looked over and laughed at how out of place my boots were.


Mix in a trailer.


Somehow the world got it right with this one right!


Because I CAN


This dude was just chillin at a bus stop in LA lookin like it was perfectly normal to be wearing a skin tight polo with pink hair…


The Halo 3 gamers american dream!


“it’s official. IT’S A DANCE OFF!”


What’s hotter than a sexy chick on a limited Italian motorcycle?


Consideration FAIL


Kit, cummon man…


These are Kobe Bryant’s Beijing Olympic Hyperdunks that I helped design.


Big air, big falls.


Dailey suxz at BMX’ing


A few years ago I went to the MotoGP race at Laguna Seca in California, and who’d have thought that this guy woulda been there?


Probably my most prized possession. Not only did I help design these, but to get one of only 3,000 pairs ever made, AND get them autographed by LeBron heself… Priceless.


How does worthless get even more worthless?.. Do this to it.


Easily the most comfortable shoes I’ve EVER owned


Don’t put hard boiled eggs in the microwave.


Who thinks of these titles?… Dailey?…


I dunno, I think it looks good.


This was me at the beginning of the night on my birthday…


This was me by the end.


One night at one of the lamest bars in Portland (Gypsy) this sign was pointed out to me. I remember taking a picture of it and thinking, “I’ll have to put this on my blog some day..”


Who comes up with the ideas for shit like this?! The license plate reads, “BMX SUX”. Awful.


Could someone please describe a better pairing than Taquitos, Mountain Dew and Halo?!…. I dare you to try.


Andy found this sign on the side of the street by Powell’s Books. I think I’d be too scared to give this girl money!


I mean, really?.. This set was out on display at Macy’s, FOR EVERYONE TO SEE! Who in this frickin world would walk by and go, “ooooooo, I want that.” ?!?! Ok maybe in like Kansas or something, but not Portland. Especially not the Washington Square Macy’s!


This was my office in San Francisco; a nerds cream dream.


See above description…


I guess wen you’ve got a tig welder, an old school suburban, and a grip of kids this is what you do..?


Unless you’re sponsored by them, don’t rock the mudflaps.


I’d like to shake the hand of the owner of this van. To you sir, my hats off.


This was the brain child of Cam and Andy. It’s still to this day one of my favorite art projects I’ve ever been involved with!


This already was the lamest model year of Corvette’s, but to go and do these tragic ‘upgrades‘ to it is just criminal. NOTE the owner walking out to it! haha, what a darsh!

Kind of like with the animated shorts post, from time to time I’m going to showcase photographers who catch my eye.

Often times when a new photo style catches on, I buy into it for a while but eventually chalk it up to trend. That however is not the case with HDR photos! Once the tutorials started hitting the the web, a lot of attempts to pull off the style fell flat (including my own). It’s for that specific reason that good HDR photos are even more impressive to me.

Great times were had by all during the good ‘ole days back in the Hood, especially with my great friend Sean Stiegemeier. For an entire summer we’d ride our bikes down the hill to McDonald’s for a quarter pounder value meal, then back up to his house for an afternoon of playing Beavis and Butt-head on his computer. It was during these summers that we both developed individually unique passions for film and photo. Even though we were only in middle school, we still made legitimate attempts at making our own indy films.

Our first pass at motion picture fame was a short called “Tag Ripper-Offers”. The story was simple, our underground mattress tag-ripping ring was being surveilled by the Fed’s and was on the brink of getting clipped.

The second film we tackled was called “Bicycle Bounty Hunters”. A movie that was deeply inspired by our devotion to a little known 80’s movie called RAD. If you can imagine a mixture of RAD and the tv shows Taxi and Dog the Bounty Hunter, you’ve got our film!



Our run of McD’s and indy films was cut short when Sean moved to Park City Utah when we were 14, but we still stayed in touch and promised to eventually work together.

Fast-forwarding to today, we’ve both been successful in our own fields and still keep the collaboration alive by helping each other out with various things that are in the others wheel house. Most recently I’ve helped him with some motion graphic elements, and he’s been super generous me using his photography for my website background (one of them).

All that said, Sean’s an EXTREMELY talented photographer/director of photography with a very fruitful career ahead of him. Check out some of his photography HERE, and keep the inspiration alive!