Fish and Chips + Sawtelle times.

Fried and fried. Fish and Chips gr/eats. Beer battered cod, so it's actually light and crisp. The malt vinegar is a nice touch, and I ate this entirely with my hands. We've been running this special lately and it's been quite fun to have. I can't eat this one too often, but it's good and filling.

Anne Matsushima and Alex Chiu doing the gr/eats. They do a bunch of indie projects, zines, art, and are making a collective of artist on the westside of LA. Motivated! They also dig doughnuts.

It's that season. Cherry Blossoms on Sawtelle. It's awesome how pink they are. I'd get out to the street this weekend to check on them.

A ton of images of Patchwork show at gr2. Tons of great art by great folks.

Crying crying. Babies crying. Wah wah wah... "I'm so hurt! Carry me. I'm not getting what I want! Where's my toys. I'm so tired. I want what that guy has in his hand, even though I don't know what it is. I just took a crap and it's running down my leg! Where's my mom? I'm hungry, where's my candy? I'm special though cuz I eat veggies! Who are you taking my photo?"

"Ok, mother fucker. That's enough! I'll remember you when I get big.

I'll crush your skull, while you fart dust."

Fruits of Labor? The Giant Robot Car

So this is all I can show of the car right now. It's the custom Scion art car. I won't get into the concept, so you'll have to wait on that one, but this is the Giant Robot car that I designed. In the end, I'd say to concept is tight, and it's not just a Pimp My Ride car, there's a meaning and backbone to this. You'll see when it's done. I'm proud of it and it's still a work in progress.

Here's the fruit part. I show up to the shop, and there's fruit. People are so obsessed with truck food. This too is a truck. Is it any less valid?

That's Len holding a coconut. Drink the juice, then they'll cut up the fruit... I prefer a coconut bra, but oh well.

It's on like Donkey Kong!

The Hundreds

When times are tough, it's great when a package of love shows up. Bobby Hundreds asked me for my sizes, and just a week later comes a box of goodies. First an apology. These are the worst shots possible. I didn't do it on purpose, but my camera battery was dying and I rushed through it. Three shots and it died. The Michael Lau figure above is awesome. I never thought I'd get one of these. I thought they were gone by now! The plastic on the hands are still on there. I guess you can call it Chinese Opera version.

I got three T shirts. I'm trippin on the middle one. The detail of their spoofs are insane. What fun it would be to design that shirt. I'll wear that one. The logo one is a no brainer. I think I have 3 or 4 of these now.

To sort of quote a song by the Untouchables. I Spy for the FBI.

one for when you go out, and another for everywhere you go.

Again apologies for the bad photo. These shoes are a lot nicer than these shots. I need some new shoes for when my Vans keel over. These are perfect.

Film Fest and Yoshi's in SF

Terence Yin and Daniel Wu have the sunglass thing going on near the Japantown Plaza. Terence Yin and Eugenia Yuan are in a film called Fog. I didn't get to see the film yet, but it showed in SF for the film festival. This year, I wasn't there for an official project as in the past, but instead, there was plenty more to do. Visits to GRSF, hanging out with tons of folks who are friends or who have helped GR, and more. I didn't see any film festival folks however, I didn't know where they were. At the same time, I feel like GR and the fest are far apart these days. Maybe we'll close the gap one day.


Here's an example of Automator's music and towards the end there's Emily Wells singing. She's quite great and is part of a future project together.

Eugenia Yuan holding a pooch.

Patrick Lee doing the AnD merch section at Yoshi's. Big smiles, and he should have one.

Game Over! SF.

The Game Over 3 show features some great art. Check out this Team Macho cartridge! It's carved from wood, and painted in the coolest way. There's three versions and if you're a true game fan or game executive, this is a must have. There's plenty of great art on the wall at GRSF and the fans and friends from GDC were there in force.

I dig the pencil sketch mature Mario by the guy pictured: Jake Gillespie!

Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall

Petri, a game maker from Europe!

LA in the house. Souris Hustler of Culture, Lulu, and Silvio Porretta, game maker and artist, and their friend Wayne.

Aww blurrrr. Can't recognize them? Han Wang, Melissa Hung, and Vincent Pham.

filmmakers Jessica Sanders and Suzi Yoonessi

Goh Nakamura and Joe To

More game art

More Team Macho art!

The best BBQ marathon ever?

Backyard BBQs are usually about hot dog, hamburgers, and maybe chicken. That's what you do on the bare minimum. Sho from Yoshi's in San Francisco does things differently when food is involved. He goes all out. It's not an event to miss. Here's Sams hands making toro sushi. It's obviously amazing. Look at the pink color. Sushi was being made inside the house while a BBQ of amazing flavors happened outside.

Look at the rich orange color of this uni from Hokkaido. The label is below. The package it came in still had the shipping labels from Japan. Uni is usually a lighter orange, this one possessed a deep, rich color and tasted that way too.

The kitchen arena

The ikura was also a deeper orange than what you typically see.

Sam dealing with the ikura

Miles Nakamura and Daniel Wu. What kind of kicks are those?

Sho with the straw hat holding a bag of marinated tongue which was amazing.

Dan Automator on left, Sam the sushi man and friends

Intestines in two flavors and organic chicken.

a larger crew

Dan and Dan

The uni