Bali Adventure 2009
January 29th, 2010
iPhone 3GS Video Paris in Las Vegas
December 27th, 2009Avatar IMAX 3-D
December 18th, 2009Wow just saw Avatar in IMAX 3-D and it was awesome
Back in Maui
November 6th, 2009Well here we are back home in Maui after a trip to California & Florida.
Saw some awesome 3-D rides at Universal Studios (Spiderman) and (Shrek) as well as a wild rollercoaster ride which I wl post soon since I bought a DVD of the experience.
Disneyworld on Nov. 1 enjoyed Mickey’s not so scarry Halloween party as well a shooting a cool parade and experienced several rides (Haunted Mansion 3-D) Splash Mountain & Railroad in Frontierland.
West Fest Golden Gate Park
October 25th, 2009Attraction: 42 bands, 3 stages and 26 poster artists. Solar domes, Alternative vehicles, Electric bikes, Native American Tipi Village, Sustainable Living Road Show, Conscious Art Gallery, Light Temple, Holistic Healing Section, Hooper Heaven, Rock’n Green Kids Zone and Eco Village vendors. Narada Michael Walden featuring Vernon Ice Black leading 3,000 guitar players and closing the show with the Hendrix Experience reenactment and Superstar Jam
West Fest in Golden Gate Park was a one day music festival in tribute to the Woodstock Music Festival 40 years ago.
Check out some of the videos in our Twitter feed on your right
The Art Of Collaboration
October 23rd, 2009
An interdisciplinary symposium investigating collaboration as a key concept in a contemporary art & creative production Thursday-Friday 22-23 Oct 2009 at the new Digital Arts Research Center University of California, Santa Cruz
DARC
Digital Arts Research Center
October 23rd, 2009
Yesterday I was invited to the Digital Arts Research Center at UCSC.
This was the first day the building was open to the public and so the open house for the Digital Arts & New Media MFA Program took place.
There was a keynote speech by Grant Kester, introductory remarks by, David Yager Dean Arts Division UCSC and numerous student project presentations, some of which will be presented via the Twitter feed on the right of this web page soon.
The Pixar Story
October 23rd, 2009
Last night I was invited to watch the documentary film “The Pixar Story”, by Leslie Iwerks.
The movie touched a sentimental chord in my heart since they were using lots of SGI hardware at Pixar & I had been a research partner with SGI and it was a sweet time.
Santa Cruz Celebrates Pixar
October 22nd, 2009Here in Santa Cruz California where UC Santa Cruz is celebrating Pixar with a series of events that are action packed, educational & downright fun to attend.
A lecture and film retrospective is taking place Oct 20-23, 2009. Last night I saw a presentation by Mark Henne animation specialist at Pixar on “The Making of Toy Story”, where a sold out crowd learned the whole process of how Pixar Creates their masterpieces.
Balinese Wedding
September 17th, 2009Today Ellen & I drove with our friend Zanzan up to the highest temple in Bali, met with the temple priest meditated, did yoga, chanted, met one of Bali’s holiest priests, received purification and got married at Arma Museum & Resort.
