theremin chronicles

it looks like iron man (the latest movie i’m working on) has gotten some great reception at this year’s comicon. here’s an ain’t it cool interview with director jon favreau – thankfully, he talks about how much he enjoys working with us.

i was cracking up over these potato peeler gloves that michael and i saw at the walgreen’s. when i later stumbled upon wired’s review of the gloves, michael noticed this rad japanese method for peeling potatoes mentioned in the comments. screw you, tatermitts!

simpsons potluck (circa ’99?) Originally uploaded by lorelei when josh, dave and i first moved to san francisco, we started a small tradition that brought a lot of friends together. every sunday night, from 1996 to 1999, we’d have a potluck at our house and invited everybody over to watch the simpsons. tonight we’re all [...]

i heart rough trade. i was so sad when they closed their san francisco shop once amoeba moved in. now they have plans for a posh new record store in the uk with all sorts of great perks (including a large vinyl section). i hope its successful so they can expand back into san francisco. [...]

DSC_0098 Originally uploaded by akay this past saturday i had the honor of officiating the wedding of alicia and alex, two very good friends of mine. it was a fantastic experience and i wish them the very, very best!!

happy 4th of july and congratulations to san jose’s joey chestnut for winning this year’s nathan’s famous hot dog eating contest!!! u.s.a!! u.s.a!!!

here’s an interesting read which follows up on the variety article about the state of visual effects. personally it depends on the movie as to whether you’re willing to kill yourself. plenty of my coworkers on transformers are damn proud of their work and it seemed totally worth it for them. i’ve worked on plenty [...]

some of you might remember the adventure i had last year with some cow-orkers where we went to a taping of the colbert report to help out george l. from marin california. well, it turns out that todd and kearsley just revealed that something even more exciting was happening on that fateful day!