A Christmas Tree designed courtesy of a broken Sprite bottle outside my office.

I can close my eyes and visually remember everything about this particular day. The day I learned to skate vert. Go to the workbench. Tighten your trucks. Now follow me. That was my lesson

I was on assignment with the Los Angeles Times covering an advertorial for Vegas. Sometimes you have to shoot sharks. So I set the camera up where the best light in the aquarium was. Joseph said it's fine and I said hold on as she swam perfectly into the light and I got the shot.  Then I said, "Okay let's go".

 

  Was checking out Peter Yang's cowboys that ran in Texas Monthly  and it inspired me to go back to my cowboy imagery at Tanque Verde.

 

  The ritual complications of our courtesy, the persistence of classical Humanism, our fondness for closed poetic forms, our love for geometry, in the decorative arts and for design and composition in painting, the poverty of our Romantic art compared with the excellence of our Baroque art, the formalism of our political institutions, and, finally, our dangerous inclination toward formalism. 

Octavio Paz

 

  After hour party in DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles)

Wile E checking out my golf swing...