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I love watching videos of cops caught screwing up or just looking like fools! I think it’s because we’ve all seen so many video of cops busting culprits and smelling like roses. Here’s a quick offering of cops looking like renobs.

This is like a clown van! How many bodys are in there….?

It’s the same move over and over. Mix it up guy.

Not sure if this one is real, but it made me laugh.

Look both ways fail.

And worst of all…

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!

OK govy, let’s go… I mean, you’re not even trying anymore! Thought process of the USAF brass, “Alright, it’s been 8 years since 9/11 and I think people are starting to finally relax. I think it’s time for a lil reminder *evil laugh*!!” Have they no shame anymore?! Click HERE to watch the local WABC news report. Ridiculous…

This is a great example of how someone took a played out idea and executed it perfectly. The two things that work for this piece are the lighting on the car (hard to match the scene without HDRI probes) and the motion capture they did for the movement of the “robot”.



I believe this ad was created by the same company, but for a different car. The studio that created the spot is a Canadian-based firm called The Embassy Visual Effects, Inc. There is a great write-up on how they accomplished the task HERE.

You can’t animate 3D objects that well, so you have to put a guy in a wetsuit-looking thing with about 150 infrared reflectors on it whilst being recorded by special infrared cameras… NERD ALERT!

UPDATE: NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! It finally happened…. *Cue “Taps”* My iphone finally bit the dust, but I must say it went in peace. After a regular day of use and abuse I set it down on my desk after sending a text, and then…. *robot power down noise* It just went blank. I think a proper viking burial is in order, it’s the least I can do for it after all that it’s done for me!

This clip is exactly how I felt when it happened…



UPDATE: So I just opened my camera to take a pic of my puppy all passed out on the floor when I noticed that my camera was somehow in ‘disco’ mode… I can’t say for sure, but I think I might posses the ‘closest-to-busted-without-being-broken’ iPhone around! Make me a case study Apple!







I, as many are, am extremely loyal to the Apple brand. And I, as many were, was skeptical of the iPhone when it first came out. This is coming from a first gen iPod owner (which still works!) so you know it came with good reason. Now before the Apple faithful start chyming in, let me explain myself a little before the barrage starts.



Companies had been getting away with making shitty cell phones for ages before the iPhone dropped. I mean, we’re talking TERRIBLE phones! And it’s not that the technology didn’t exist, it’s just that they knew that they’d be able to continually update their hardware and release new “cutting edge” replacements to their predecessors with welcome praise from the marketplace. Queue the iPhone. Entirely touch screen, swipe – pinch – multi touch, 8 gigz of storage, full web browser(!)…. After seeing the iphone first hand at MacWorld in San Francisco, I thought, “There is no way that that little device is going to survive a SINGLE drop!” So after seeing it and reading about it, I still doubted it.

Because I believe in the Apple brand and product I knew I’d eventually get one, but I wanted to make sure that the suckers got swindled first before I jumped on. And boy did they! To think that the first people to buy an iPhone paid $600 for a devise that wouldn’t even let you create your own ringtones….? However, once the price came down and hacks came out I fell faster than a dress on prom night!



I’ve decided to post pictures of my iPhone to show the haters that there are virtually no excuses left as to why iPhones are a bad idea. This phone has been dropped, kicked, scratched, crunched, submerged, and cracked, and still works! Aside from 3G being a punter of a network, the reign of iPwn’s will live long and strong!















P.S. This is what my phone sounds like when it vibrates…. It sounds like a hooptie with a sub in the trunk, and every time the bass hits the license plate rattles. I have no idea what’s causing it, but I think it might be because the casing is super loose?….



Send me pics of your iPhone’s battle wounds and I’ll post an homage blog with all the pics in there!

Yesterday a good friend of mine Ben posted some terrible vintage commercials on his blog. Being the grizzled YouTube vet that I am, the videos inspired me to dig deep into the genre as only we y00t00bz take please in doing. About 20 minutes into my bender I came across this diamond…

Ok, let me start off by saying that what you’re about to watch is just about the most ridiculous and desperate attempt to relate to employees that I’ve ever seen. Often times in bad videos like this there are a few notable moments to call out, but this video is just bad the whole way through! I will say though that my favorite part (it was a dead heat ’till the end) are the high fives everyone gives each other at the end of the song. Check out the guys jumping and cheering in the background trying to act like they’re SOOO EXCITED ABOUT PEDDLING GREEN GIANT GREEN BEANS!!!

Per my last post, here is a live performance (by the original writer) of the theme song to Taxi. The song is called “Angela”, and is just a straight out jazz jam!



The hook might sound familiar to some who used to follow the hip hop group Souls of Mischief (the group later changed their name to Hieroglyphics).

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!