WHOOP THIS!

2009-11-30T22:40:00.001-08:00

Thanksgiving 11/26/09

2009-11-27T09:08:00.000-08:00

Woah... Just woke up from Thanksgiving. Kinda crashed as soon as I got home, slept well though. Hope everyone's Thanksgiving was meaningful, I know mine was...

I didn't have a normal Thanksgiving this year... I had more of a Thanksgiving adventure. There's tons of stuff I'm truly thankful for, I felt like it was my duty to help out others since I wouldn't be where I am today without the help that was offered to me.

Ok, I'm done with the mushy stuff... So I woke up way early in the morning to donate tons of food and to volunteer my time. I love how I always end up at a club no matter what I plan on doing. This all took place at The Echo in Silver Lake, it was a bit odd being there during the day.

There was also a dj there. I was grooving pretty hard while preparing food, lol!

Overall, it was a great experience. It was awesome seeing so many people involved with helping others.

Then it was time for Thanksgiving dinner at my place.

My brother was ready to eat...

It was fun times listening to the family have a conversation. There would be time where they would talk so loudly that I couldn't tell if they were arguing or not... They weren't though..

After having dinner at my place, I had another dinner to attend at Lauren's place.

Ron was excited!

Lauren knows how to make the dogs feel good... eew. lol!

It was all fun. Good times.

L.A. talento agency party 11/22/09

2009-11-23T10:15:00.000-08:00

I don't really like to go out on Sundays to be honest. Tonight was an exception, actually I'm reeeaaally glad I went out. It was my good friend's(Danny) party. Danny runs a talent agency called TalentoLA, he usually lets me edit in the office in Downtown LA and I'm kinda like his go-to tech guy for the agency(it became official at the party, lol). The night was filled with tons of people and a variety of great personalities all around...

The event was taken place at the Talento office in DTLA. Super nice views all around.

Talent was everywhere! I felt kinda weird because everyone was an actor, it's ok, I use to be one but those days are over... or not? *hint hint*

I was a bit cruel to Lauren... The jacuzzi wasn't hot at all and they were freeeezing.

Check out the flickr set for this photoshoot.

Danny and Jamie

Patra(far right) is awesome! Super hilarious! She's from England too(I think that's what she told me)!

Patra was even nice enough to show me some fly Bollywood moves.

Photoshoots all around.

Rony was in the house playing by himself with the kitty. Really, I caught him sitting in the back of the room playing with the kitty.

Dance!

Gino.

BFFs.

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

Major lazer -- keep it goin' louder v.2

2009-11-21T14:13:00.000-08:00

Check out Major Lazer's 2nd video to Keep it Goin' Louder featuring Nina Sky and Ricky Blaze. Loving the visuals on this, but I can't decided if I like the first version or the second version better. Which ones do you guys like the most?

Keep It Goin' Louder

Major Lazer | MySpace Music Videos

Rusko at the avalon 11/20/09

2009-11-21T10:04:00.000-08:00

Woah. I've been to a bunch of dubstep shows all around town, this was probably the most insane one yet. I headed out to the Avalon to see 12th Planet and Rusko perform. It was craaazy getting in because of the rowdy line. Eventually(20 min of waiting), I was in...

12th Planet's set was ridiculous! He caused an epic moshpit where everyone was getting destroyed.

This was actually my second time seeing Rusko. The first time was at Nocturnal a couple of months back. It was great seeing him kill it again, dude has so much energy. On a geek-note, he uses a pc... which kinda shocked me, but it's chill. Also, Rusko uses Traktor, which is really cool... never seen a dj use that before.

Diplo was in the house for a bit.

It was all fun.

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

I want!

2009-11-20T12:09:00.000-08:00

I want this DIY arcade button midi controller. Don't know if I should buy it, or just wait for Christmas.... Click image below for more info!

Editing some katy 11/19/09

2009-11-20T11:16:00.000-08:00

Sorry for not blogging in a while, there's a lot of new/fun stuff heading my way that's been keeping me busy. But with this little time I have now, Imma tell you about my night yesterday...

This is Rony's kitty, Zelda Obama. She's the first black kitty President of the United Kitties of America... Says Rony.

He's kinda kitty crazy...

I was over at Rony's place doing some editing of Katy Perry. Random, right?

We dropped by Gino's pad and I did some Whooptagging on his desk...

After tagging and playing with kitties, it was back to Katy.

Sunday with chris

2009-11-16T12:45:00.000-08:00

There's nothing like being lazy on a nice Sunday. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get to lay in bed all day with my computer. Instead of being a lazy bum, I met up with Chris. About a month back I told Chris about a project I wanted to work on(more on that later), a month later we decided to do some tests to see if my idea was realistic...

Not too long ago, Chris was actually living in NY performing in a musical on Broadway. He was gone a couple of years, but now he's back in LA. We went to random spots in the Westchester area to shoot around and got some pretty decent footy.

Once we got back from shooting, Chris hit the drawing board and I was on the computer. We had some pretty positive results, way better than I expected. Now it's time for some animation.

Freeze tag

2009-11-16T01:09:00.000-08:00

This was random

2009-11-14T10:17:00.000-08:00

The other day I got a text from Rony about how Busy P posted a quick edit I made of the Oizo show. I didn't really believe him until I saw it for myself...

It was seriously a random text.

I checked it out for myself and Rony wasn't lying. I'm down. Click the picture to check out the post/vid.

'sies

2009-11-11T12:57:00.000-08:00

Win

2009-11-07T02:31:00.000-08:00

†

Between

2009-11-04T11:43:00.001-08:00

Dj seminar 11/3/09

2009-11-04T10:19:00.000-08:00

So I went out to UCLA to a DJ seminar where my homie Skeet was talking and my other homie, Lauren, who helped organize the event was there. A-trak and Destructo was also there chatting it up, here are some pics...

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

The final banana split sunday 11/1/09

2009-11-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

This Halloween weekend was bound to end eventually. I and everyone else who was with me this Sunday definitely ended their weekend with a banger. It was the last Banana Split Sunday, it was held at Bardot and everyone was ready to dedicate their energy and dance moves to DJ AM...

Funny. This is kinda how my night started. Me doing some editing in a hybrid before heading out to Hollywood. I'm forever on my laptop, always doing something.

Once we got to Bardot, there was a line that went aaallll the way down to the end of the block. Luckily, I didn't have to wait in that line. :D

So many familiar faces all around, I refuse to list everyone!

It was pretty awesome, so many people came through and showed love.

Gotcha!

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

Halloween 10/31/09

2009-11-01T09:55:00.000-08:00

Woah! Halloween was kinda craze. I'm pretty happy things went the way they did. No I didn't go to HARD, but I'm not stressing over that. Things went pretty swell... Here are some pics and a minor amount of captions...

Blunt?

banana dude.

So they were both pregnant chicks... but one didn't have a pillow under her costume... We were kinda confused about that all night.

Me! Probably the only person who didn't have a red cup/glass bottle in his hand. (3rd prsn?)

This dude stayed in character the whole night, no one knew who he was and he wouldn't talk to anyone. Props.

Deadmau5 on the left.

So, apparently this dude hopped on one of the computers that were at the house and started playing WoW. I'm definitely not surprised.... If I could, I would bring my laptop to every party/club I go to.... but I don't.

Homies of the night. Annie G and I were chatting it up most of the night, we also happened to share the same bday... weird. "Shatyz lyk3 a melodi3 in m! H3ad" <<>
Vogue?

It wouldn't be a true party if we didn't have a freestyle circle.

Halloween '09.

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

I am...

2009-10-31T21:15:00.001-07:00

That's why I made this^

Pre-halloween 10/30/09

2009-10-31T19:52:00.000-07:00

My Friday night was pretty chill. Everything was VERY last minute, I couldn't decide whether I wanted to go to HARD or the Avalon in Hollywood to see Drop the Lime and Hot Chip dj. Since I wasn't into HARD's Friday lineup(I know, Deadmau5 and 2ManyDjs are awesome!), I decided to meet up with Steph and Dolce at the Avalon...

Drop the Lime's set started pretty early, but luckily I was able to catch most of the set. The whole time I was screaming at him to play 'Set Me Free', he did... the Harvard Bass remix too!

Steph and Dolce left a little bit after Hot Chip started their set. Never seen Hot Chip dj a set before. I was pretty down.

Best costume of the night. Deamau5!

Basement jaxx - my turn(ft. lightspeed champion)

2009-10-31T12:13:00.000-07:00

Gino's art gallery 10/29/09

2009-10-30T01:58:00.000-07:00

Tonight's adventure took place in Santa Monica, off of Pico. Gino was having a live art gallery not too far from where I work, so I headed out there to meet up with some friends and to enjoy some of Gino's artwork...

The gallery was actually held at Qio.

Once I arrived, I was greeted by Ken. <3 this guy, always see him wherever I go.

I then browsed around and checked out some of Gino's pieces of work.

It was a pretty mellow scene.

A bit later two of my good homies Erica and Steph dropped by.

Erica had this baller fur-like jacket that's incredibly soft. I couldn't resist rubbing it whenever I was next to her... I got weird looks all around. Dgaf...

I then had to take it from her and wear it myself for a bit. It was hard to give it back...

Good times.

Good work, Gino!

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

Inside the trippers brain

2009-10-30T00:48:00.000-07:00

This is so fascinating to me. I really want them to do MDMA to see how that effects the brain. <3 learning about drugs(the scientific way).

Youworkforthem

2009-10-28T12:15:00.000-07:00

I got a nice package from YouWorkForThem. I don't really buy clothes anymore but getting some warm sweaters for the colder season was definitely a must...

YouWorkForThem isn't actually a clothing company, it's more of a graphic designer's paradise. They offer tons of tools for the everyday artist. They also have an awesome blog worth viewing HERE.

You've got the love (the xx remix)

2009-10-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

Meet hilton hammed

2009-10-27T02:26:00.000-07:00

The beginning of my night was AMAZING!!! I was actually in West Hollywood to kick it with some friends at Voyeour, a club off of Santa Monica, unfortunately they didn't allow cameras which sucked. But I did happen to meet a really chill guy at the Fountain Liquor & Market. Hilton Hammed is the owner of said liquor store. Once I entered his place, he greeted me with excitement. Dude is awesome and funny!

After joking around, Hilton asked if I could snap some shots of him. Without hesitating, I set the my shutter to match the lighting of the store and I snapped away.

I even got a clip of him, he messed up on the Whoop This! plug, but it's ok!

Then some customers came in and he wanted me to record them as well... So I did.

All this happened just because I wanted to buy some gum. Awesome!

Hello Kitty 10/26/09

2009-10-26T19:36:00.000-07:00

Though I couldn't get in to the grand opening of the Hello Kitty gallery, I decided to take the second trip out to Royal T in Culver City. I was pretty excited to check out all the art in person, it looked pretty awesome(from what I saw online). Check out the pics below!

I really enjoyed the gallery. It's amazing how much work each artist put into their piece, very inspiring! Make sure to roll through to Royal T for the gallery, it ends November 15th I believe.

2009-10-26T17:11:00.000-07:00

This is something I made just because I was bored. It's a poor render, but I like it!

This is cool

2009-10-26T17:06:00.000-07:00

But this is also the beginning of something reeeaaally bad. I give it about 10-15 before we have robots walking around the city...

Thurzdayz & birthdays

2009-10-26T00:40:00.000-07:00

Everything is pretty chill in LA, the Whooplife is currently speeding up again, which means I will always be busy and staying productive... though things will be kinda hectic, I must say that I kinda like it like that...

Thurz 10/22/09 -

Thursday I was back in Downtown again in the office.

Did some work with some cool cats.

After working in downtown, I attempted to hit up the Hello Kitty event. It was kinda impossible to get in. I even had the right connects and security was still being ass' because they were at capacity. All good, I wasn't stressing it. I was kinda looking forward to the event because I bumped in to Bobby Hundreds and he was telling me how much fun it was in there. But I got to check out the pics he snapped.

I did bump into some good friends of mine.

Skeet then picked me up and we mashed down to the LBC(Long Beach).

Skeet was playing a set, I was chillin' enjoying the free shirley temples.

Happy Birthday Lauren 10/23/09 -

The next day I chilled with skeet and we took a trip down to Santa Monica.

Later on I met up with Lauren and friends to celebrate her 19th bday. It was a small little get together.

This is uuhhh... I don't actually remember her real name. Once we met, she wanted to have a Whooptype name after finding that my name was Whoopi, we agreed that her name was going to be Whoopina. I seriously called her that the whole night.

Music courtesy of my laptop. I honestly don't know what was going on with these two. Good times.

Tetris in real life

2009-10-24T11:51:00.000-07:00

Free Wednesday 10/21/09

2009-10-21T19:47:00.000-07:00

I love having a free day in the middle of the week... no work + no school = fun productiveness!!! My day started with me meeting up with my good friend Jessica. It was Jessica's birthday and I wanted to hang with her for a bit before I headed out to downtown...

I met up at Jess' place in Silverlake. She was telling me about this amazing cupcake spot not too far from her place off of Sunset. Since it was her birthday, I treated.

While snacking on our cupcakes and coffee(I NEVER drink coffee, so this was a first), we ended up having a wonderful chat about art, future projects, and my plans to move to New York. Jess' use to live in New York for a bit so I really needed to hear her opinion on my idea. I was given tons of great advice on the move, but right now, it's still up in the clouds... I'll be making that decision next year, or I could just live in Silverlake with all the people that moved from NY to LA.

After eating, we went to this cool place that had the most awesome cards. I wish I would've known about this place waaay back, so many of my friends would've gotten a card like this.

Buying herself a nice Bday gift.

Can you say Phil Lumbang?

So I accidentally left my car keys in my vehicle(this is the 3rd time this has happened). So I hung out at Jess' new place. I offered to help sort her laundry, then she said something about her underwear... I immediately walked away from the cootie-filled bag.

Once AAA came, he easily unlocked my door. I was pretty astonished to see how it was done, I even asked him if he could teach me how to do it... I wasn't told the secret... :/.

Shoutout to Enrique!!!

I finally made my way to Downtown to meet up with Rony at the agency/office/studio to start the productive side of my day.

Once I got there, I started messing around with Rony's lenses.

This is Danny, He's pretty awesome and is always on top of his game. He's a business maaaan!!

Have you met Danny's dog, Grady?...

...Now you have. Sorry for the shakyness I was testing it out on 16-35mm that was kinda hard to keep stable with one hand.

Wrd.

Brett Domino: Hip-Hop Medley - Stylophone Beatbox

2009-10-17T21:54:00.000-07:00

Can you say oizo?

2009-10-17T11:50:00.000-07:00

I miss electro music. I haven't stopped listening to it really, but I fell in love with a certain type of electro music before it got huge and watered down. Tonight was the night where my love was rekindled with electro...

After getting our ticket issue situated, we met up with some peeps. One of the peeps we ended up hanging out with was Toddla T, it was his last night in LA before he goes on with his tour, his next stop is actually Canada to do some shows out there.

It was finally time to see Mr. Oizo. If you didn't know, he's apart of Ed Banger so you know that he killed it!

The show was killer, Oizo made me remember why I'm in to this scene/music so much.

They loved him too.

Wrd.

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

Lenny kravitz - let love rule(justice remix)

2009-10-15T23:20:00.000-07:00

Saw this music video a whiiiiile back, just now getting the chance to post it though. I love how two of my top favorite artist, Lenny Kravitz and Jus†ice have teamed up together on a song. I think the concept of the music video is AMAZING. My jaw dropped when I saw where they were going with this idea. Craze!

Dubstepping at the roxy 10/14/09

2009-10-15T03:20:00.000-07:00

I haven't been out much lately, I use to be at some venue every-other night, but not so much anymore... But that will probably change soon. Last minute, I found out there was a dubstep show at the Roxy in Hollywood with 12th Planet, AppleBlim, and Toddla T. After sending out a few texts on getting in(didn't RSVP in time), I was on my way to the Roxy...

Unfortunately, I COMPLETELY missed 12th Planet's set and I caught only the ending of Appleblim's.

I wasn't there alone, there were homies all over the place!

Toddla T was wild! First time checking him out live and he didn't disappoint me.

12th Planet was down.

Craze.

Fun night.

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

Meet tito

2009-10-14T21:55:00.000-07:00

In the post below this one, I mentioned how I met a parrot yesterday. Today I went back to the spot downtown to work on some more stuff, but this time I took the time to actually meet Tito. He didn't say much because he was a bit camera shy, but he did say "hello".

Editing with rony

2009-10-13T22:39:00.000-07:00

Though the weather sucked, I still maintained to stay pretty productive today. I know I'm not the only one who enjoys being anti-social on a gloomy day(luckily I live in California so that's rare), but today wasn't the day to huddle in the corner with my computer alone. Instead of being gloomy like the weather, I met up with my friend Rony in DTLA...

I always enjoy doing work in DTLA, because most of the time it's usually in awesome penthouse lofts in random buildings.

Once I arrived in the loft/office/studio, I was greeted by Danny. Danny had this awesome parrot that had an amazing personality.

I also met a chick named Alli(son?), she likes eggs. Really! That's the first thing she told me!!!

Met a dog that dresses better than me too :/.

After meeting everyone, it was finally time to get to work. So Rony and I started working on a video collaboration for his site. If you didn't know, Rony is a pretty legit photographer. Check out his website HERE

He even has his own AMP profile.

After finishing up work for the day, I saw this on the way out. :/

See ya tomorrow DTLA.

Fact:

2009-10-12T22:22:00.000-07:00

Boycrazy

2009-10-10T11:51:00.000-07:00

I really enjoy the short films Alexia puts out. Check them out at IMBOYCRAZY

This will be my first playboy magazine

2009-10-10T10:09:00.000-07:00

To celebrate The Simpsons 20th anniversary, Marge Simpson will be celebrating by MILFing it up on the cover of the November issue of Playboy magazine. Being a huge fan of the show myself, I will make sure to get a sealed copy.

Major lazer -- keep it goin' louder

2009-10-08T00:29:00.000-07:00

Baycities 10/7/09

2009-10-07T15:50:00.000-07:00

Today I decided to take my new cam out to lunch with me in Santa Monica. I wanted to test it out because I wasn't too sure if I liked it(compared to my Nikon), but the only shooting I did was in my room. So I ended up meeting my to homies, Steph and Erica. We met up at Baycities for some much needed sandwiches.

Anyone who hasn't been to Baycities, must go! So good...

Is it me, or do all chicks always hold their BBs like this?

Delish.

Little boots.

BB addict.

Lunch was definitely satisfying(always is at Baycities).

After playing around with my Canon outside for a bit, I've decided that I <3 it waaaay more than my Nikon :D. Back to the cave I go. Wrd.

Got a new toy

2009-10-06T22:40:00.000-07:00

About a month or so, my camera was stolen from me at a Busy P x SebastiAn show in Downtown Los Angeles. It was very unfortunate that something like that would happen at a show where everyone is trying to have a good time :/... That was the past, I didn't stress it too much because it was gone and I had no lead on the person who stole my cam. After working with tons of aluminum and logic boards for a couple of weeks, I finally save up enough dough for my new camera :D...

I ended up buying the Canon T1i. I decided to make the switch to Canon just to try something new, I'm officially no longer a Nikon shooter :/... I <3 that it shoots HD video, gonna have a lot of fun with that. Check out the video I took with my cam. :D.

Also, I'm not a dog torturer... Candy Boyee(the dog) and I mess around like that all the time. Seriously.

Mobile flicks: 9/28-10/3/09

2009-10-05T09:40:00.000-07:00

The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week

Starving ourselves the last hour of Yom Kippur....

Post-Yom Kippur

Playing some UT while waiting to get my car from the shop.

I like to randomly send pictures of dead animals to Lauren, she hates me so much when I do that. But I find it hilarious... I think I'll do it now. *grabs phone*

An interesting night Venue we(BenZona) played at.

Gonna need a new wallet soon...

My car(left). Big bros car(right)

Yogurtland homegurl* pt.2

<3 Nicktoons.

The best invention ever!!! A vending machine that vends Lunchables!!

Addicted.

Miss summer

2009-10-04T13:49:00.000-07:00

So I randomly found this clip in my iPhone. It was taken on a great summer day on Sunset. Steph and I were listening to Snoop Dogg Millionaire because we were about to see Snoop Dogg and Mike Tyson(random, right?) at The House of Blue because we were lucky to get backstage/vip for some event we didn't really care much about. All we cared about was the fact that we were going to see Snoop.

I'll kill her

2009-10-03T21:30:00.001-07:00

Not an official vid. <3 Soko

Mobile flicks: 9/20-27/09

2009-09-28T01:46:00.000-07:00

The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week

Randomly kicking it with LMFAO, because they rock the beat and rock the show.

Bruin Bashing.

Yogurtland homie.

Karma <3s me waaaay too much.

asian fish, white fish, black fish?

Club crush, with eyes wide open.

Candy boyee

Lola dog.

pre-itis

We have the same specs!

I've been doing this for years.

Like home.

Woodstock!

The drive to San Bernadino for Nocturnal.

You will never see me with candies on my arm.

Backstage watching DJ Falcon kill it!

Can't remember who was DJing, I think it was SKREAM! who dropped an epic Hold the Line rmx.

Zinastar dancing her heart out to some dubstep.

AerObama! Tons of ravers chanting Obama, AWESOME!

The morning after. Dead, exhausted, and trying to remember the night before...

Linux?

Don't trust anyone you meet online

2009-09-25T23:46:00.000-07:00

Whoop rant: i'm a procrastitextor...

2009-09-23T05:03:00.001-07:00

I'm a chronic texter(aren't we all?), actually... I'm a chronic mobile device user. I go to sleep with my iPhone under my pillow and I have a morning routine of checking my emails, texts, Facebook, and my Twitter all on my phone before I even get out of my bed. Let's just say that I like the feeling of always being "connected".

CLICK to read more after the jump...

Last week for some reason, a couple of my friends were kinda upset with me because I didn't reply back to their texts right away. They would send me a message to my phone and I wouldn't reply... big whoop. But, since I'm connected to every social network EVER, they saw that I would tweet(or change my facebook status) right after they sent mentioned text.

After being called out by friends asking why I've been ignoring their texts all day and random assumptions that I was upset with them, I came up with a pretty decent reason of why I haven't replied. Well, It's not that I'm not down to chat or gossip. But I finally noticed that I may be a habitual procrastitextor. I would read texts and then I would tell myself "Oh, I can text them back later" or "Hmm... I'll answer that when I'm done doing ____". I then explained to my friends that I wasn't ignoring them but I was just procrastinating on replying back to them. Luckily they understood the whole situation.

I don't usually get upset when people ignore my texts/online messages(unless I'm in a textargument and I'm expecting a reply)... I just assume that the person is busy or they'll get back to me whenever. I've grown to the realization that if you want a true reply from someone in an instant, then you better call them or see them in person.

Look at what I got in the mail today

2009-09-23T00:15:00.000-07:00

A couple of months back I posted that I saw a picture of DJ Mehdi with the perfect shirt for me. During that time, I had no idea where to get that shirt and I posted that if anyone knows where I can get it, to please contact me...

Several emails/tweets/comments from the lurkers of Whoop This! later and I was able to get the shirt shipped out to me from the UK. It took about 3 weeks, but it was worth it! Whoop Whoop! Thanks again guys!

Thanks to Annie Mac for making such an amazing shirt!

Benzona artwork

2009-09-21T10:10:00.000-07:00

As you guys may not know, Your Only Friends and I DJ together and has formed a duo called BenZona. Lately we've been doing house/loft/cafe parties all around LA. We just received our artwork back from Royale designer/illustrator, Kyle Smith. Check them out below!

Mobile flicks: 9/13-19/09

2009-09-20T02:00:00.001-07:00

The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week

DogTownLA.

Lunch with Jess.

Random trip to the O.C.

Class work :/.

Veggie burger.. Mmmm...

Teamwork is the best work.

Cancer?

Pop champagne!

Uhhh... ?

Mmmm.. PURPLE!

Gotta get the moms something nice.

Dinner with Switch and friends.

Sup Dawg!

Children wake up...

Hold your mistake up.

With my lighnin’ bolts a glowin’...

I can see where I am goin’.

Oct. 16th

Gelato = Night ender.

Pop up

2009-09-18T01:14:00.000-07:00

Wish this was my dog

2009-09-14T01:59:00.001-07:00

Mobile flicks: 9/6-12/09

2009-09-14T01:23:00.001-07:00

The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week

Reading is fundamental?

Pacman warrior.

Plan-B.

While working, I like to hide in boxes and randomly pop out and scare people. <3 .

A-trak @ 999.

PBW.

Whoop This!: End of Summer Mix coming soon...

Dead tired...

DJing in downtown can get kinda craze...

Never growing up.

Zimstern - leaves

2009-09-13T18:48:00.000-07:00

J*davey - end of your world

2009-09-12T15:48:00.000-07:00

My life... 24/7

2009-09-11T00:56:00.000-07:00

Ep04 -- love triangle

2009-09-11T00:25:00.000-07:00

Mobile flick: 8/30-9/5/09

2009-09-07T12:37:00.000-07:00

The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week

First day of school... H8 school.

Rooftop view.

<3 my friends. I'm one step closer to Entourage character Ashley Brooks :D.

Sup Houdini.

Received some trouble in the mail.

Sasha's last night in LA before she heads back to NY for school. She's going to hate that I took such a bad picture of her. Sorry, see you in NY.

First night back in the 'scene.'

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Creeeepster...

Olympic & Sawtelle.

Korean BBQ FTW!!

Carolina and here tats. Dress shopping is NOT tight...

Traffic on Lincoln...

Corrugated Heart.

This is what happens when you fall asleep first.

Tru fan.

I'd walk my cat too if I had one!

The best way to spend labor day

2009-09-03T14:44:00.001-07:00

~~Everyone come out! This will be my 3rd year going and it's going to be loads of fun! Great music, good food, and chill people. See you guys there!~~

*EDIT*

The Hundreds block party has been CANCELLED. Unfortunately, The Labor Day event is no longer going to happen. I was super bummed after reading the whole breakdown of the situation. I was fortunate to go to the 2nd(All Work. All Play.) and 3rd(The Payoff) annual block parties that TH threw and I had a blast! *SIGH* Time to figure out some new plans. Check out the post HERE for all the details.

Oh la la!

2009-09-01T03:16:00.000-07:00

^CLICK^

Mobile flicks: 8/23-29/09

2009-08-31T18:43:00.000-07:00

The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week

UK version of Kids, Kidulthood.

Mellow hike day in Malibu.

Moore St. homies.

Super sexy ATI Radeon video card... Kinda have a thing for technology :/.

Getting my tracking on for Corrugated Heart.

Now that's the Snow Leopard spirit.

Fiya!

New addiction.

late nighters.

Mac takeover!!!

#1 addiction.

Illustrator boredom. Wrd.

Kinda speechless...

2009-08-29T00:01:00.001-07:00

By: Them Jeans

Alexander spit -- beat for the street

2009-08-28T22:43:00.000-07:00

Tons of homies in this vid, sucks that I couldn't make it out to the video shoot. Alexander Spit is KILLING it!!!

Ep03 -- l.e.s. artistes

2009-08-24T01:09:00.000-07:00

Mobile flicks: 8/16-22/09

2009-08-24T00:40:00.000-07:00

*The flicks that are on my phone at the end of the week*

Wrkstrkrft.

Artsnkrfts.

You're standing on my neck.

Dolce's.

2am...

...4am

Never not eating.

Kings of Leon at the Forum.

That's what a hamburger's all about.

Skeet Skeet's chicken and wobbles

2009-08-22T14:37:00.000-07:00

My homie Skeet just dropped his latest mixtape full of jams and wobbles for your iTunes. He's been working hard on this mix FOREVER and it's finally out. Click the pic below to get your copy!

That party last weekend

2009-08-21T03:39:00.000-07:00

to be honest, I forgot I DJ'd last weekend. I recently found pics on Facebook from a crazy party Mike and I mixed jams for. This party(an adult party FYI) even had a moonbounce!!! Here are some pics that I didn't take.

photo credit: ©demonica orozco//www.demonicaphoto.com

UCLAradio.com

2009-08-20T00:58:00.000-07:00

So today from 4-6pm I'm going to be on UCLAradio.com ranting with my friends for two hours about a whole bunch of interesting stuff. So make sure you tune in! Click the pic below!!

*UPDATE*

The radio show went well, it was a bit hectic at times and we were distracted, but we still had fun. The video above is just me going around after I dropped the last song.

iPhone pics!

2009-08-19T03:45:00.000-07:00

Since my camera was stolen at the Sebastian X Busy P show, I've been in dire need to snap pics. Luckily, I have my handy dandy iPhone to cure that urge until I buy a new camera(thinking about getting a Canon). Here are some pics from the past couple of weeks that I have taken with my iPhone.

I have a thing for dolls.

Wingstop!!

The night my camera was stolen :/.

An adult house party I dj'd. They had a MOONBOUNCE!

Jessica and I going Macbook Pro crazy and transferring a mass amount of files around.

Some ceremony in Little Tokyo.

Homies.

homedawgs.

No food for you!!

This kid is kinda awesome

2009-08-17T00:25:00.000-07:00

Wish he could come to the store I work at so I could join him.

FYF

2009-08-14T11:52:00.000-07:00

I miss music festivals in LA. This is going to be fun!

Surrogates

2009-08-12T00:53:00.001-07:00

Got a new toy

2009-08-10T22:59:00.001-07:00

Around this time two years ago, I was working a summer job at Cold Stone Creamery being an icecream chef. I worked all summer for one thing and one thing only, a new Apple computer. Being the geek I was(and still am), I was determined to get my aluminum iMac. I saved up all summer for said computer. I got it and was the happiest geek on earth.

Two years later, and I'm back at it again. But now I work at a computer store(). Today, after working hard all summer, I finally got my Macbook Pro(it came in the mail today)!!

Today was a great day for Whoopi and technology.

I also went through the hassle of asking around what I should name my new laptop, since I named my iMac 'Bigmac'.

There were some great suggestions on Facebook.

Even asked Steve Aoki and Carles(HRO) for suggestions. Steve thought it would be cool to name it by his last name. But by then, I already agreed with my buddy, Carles, that we were going to go with 'Whoopbook Bro'.

I really like So Me

2009-08-06T00:20:00.001-07:00

I can honestly say that I 'look up' to him.

Filming with Billi 8/3/09

2009-08-05T22:20:00.000-07:00

Monday I went shooting with Billi for VJIAM.TV. We've worked together a couple time before for the same company and we were now back at it again, all the way in Ventura.

We were shooting at Ventura's City Hall. It was tons of fun. It's been a while since I've had a camera in my hands, 95% of the time I'm behind of the computer clicking away on footage.

Afterward, we went over to Billi's house to talk visual effects. I did some small examples of how we could easily stylize the clips to make them look cool. This was all for Corrugated Hearts, a film I'm working on with Billi, Antoine, and a group of others. More on the film coming later on in the future.

The Bloody Beetroots feat. Cool Kids "Awesome"

2009-08-04T02:00:00.000-07:00

Can't stop, won't stop 8/1-2/09

2009-08-03T01:36:00.000-07:00

Weekends ARE made for FUN...
SATURDAY -

My after-work plans were changed around a bit but all worked out. I got a chance to have a late night skate sesh, a Famima run, and some much needed Yogurtland(ftw).

A little partying here and there.

Towards the end of the night and the beginning of the morning, we thought it would be a great idea to spend the night at Riley's place and watch the sunrise. Said idea kinda failed... we did spend the night, but overcast kinda killed view of the sunrise. Staying out to 7am is kinda intense.

SUNDAY -

After an intense Saturday night/Sunday Morning, I had no plans to go out Sunday night. To tell the truth, I was a bit exhausted and all I wanted to do was finish some work for a company I'm freelancing for. My friend, Jessica, invited me to a secret Daedelus show located in DTLA. Though it wasn't my first time seeing Daedelus, I was more than down to tag along.

The event was in a super nice studio.

Ran into some homies.

After finding out some info, I found out that I was at Catch Me If You Can. Tons of dedicated bike riders supporting a great cause.

It was a fun night, Daedelus kept me moving. Wrd.

Sunset Junction

2009-08-02T15:55:00.000-07:00

I went last year and it was pretty fun. Definitely going this year.

Boredom never hurts

2009-08-01T14:08:00.000-07:00

Sup Mona.

Ep01 -- ruff night

2009-07-27T21:26:00.000-07:00

Bronques, this is amazing!
Can we all agree that Dances With White Girls part was killer?!?!?

www.lastnightsparty.tv

Djing the weekend

2009-07-27T17:10:00.000-07:00

One of my new found hobbies is DJing. No, you won't see me spinning at a club in Hollyhood or at your bestfriends wedding, but I usually end up DJing house parties or even photoshoots.

Saturday night I spun at a house party in the valley, thanks to Mike. I encountered several drunkards requesting stuff from Britney Spears to Drake. One thing that really annoyed me is when some dude claiming to be into sound production and 'knowing' how to read the waveform on the track kept begging to dj... I let him and he failed, miserably.

Sunday, we drove out to Silverwood Lake for the photoshoot. The shoot was seriously located in the middle of nowhere.

Mike's loving the manikin.

My homie, Rony, was actually doing the photoshoot. I had no idea that he was apart of this until we got to the area.

It was all fun. DJing in the middle of nowhere.

After the photoshoot was over, we headed over to the lake to chill out a bit before heading out to LA.

Gangstar for iphone

2009-07-24T01:06:00.001-07:00

If you're a fan of GTA and you have an iPhone/iPod touch, then I would definitely check this out!

The goods: live hard, sell hard

2009-07-22T00:16:00.001-07:00

Weekend wars 7/18-19/09

2009-07-20T14:55:00.000-07:00

Saturday 7/18 -

I'm not a huge fan of houseparties, but sometimes I make exceptions. Saturday night, I headed out to Belair for my friends birthday party. It was pretty chill, saw a lot of friends from highschool.

Sunday 7/19 -

Sunday I met up with my friend Jessica. Jessica is a motion graphics artist that I met when I was over at American Apparel. When I first met up with her in Downtown LA, she showed me around he new loft which is suuuper legit. We then headed over to Glendale so I could help her get a new Macbook Pro. While over there, she took me to this sweet ice cream truck that made AMAZING ice cream sandwiches.

My night was spent at a kickback... I didn't snap many pictures... but all kickbacks are the same right? Friends, drinks, music..etc..

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

Bpmp3 battle 7/15/09

2009-07-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

Last night was craze. LA crews went head-to-head or should I say iPod-to-iPod in the Bpmp3 battle. It was a night full of fun, even though we were all ready to demolish the opposing team. If you didn't know, I was on team Eatskeet. Surprisingly, we made it all the way to the finals. In the first round, we swooped team Deckstar away. In the next round, we were up against team From Elsewhere. From Elsewhere put up a tough match and it was a pretty close call, but we still took the win in that round. The final round was for all the Marbles. Eatskeet vs. Stones Throw. Unfortunately, Stones Throw came out with the better jams... it's all good. Stones Throw definitely killed it. We both left with great prizes.

Wrd.

Bardot 7/12/09

2009-07-13T11:40:00.000-07:00

Last night I went to Bardot in Hollywood to see two of my friends, Gomez Warren and DJ Excel(Audible Agent), spin a set.

Before the party started, I picked up two of my friends. They got their pre-game on but I was the DD.. I don't "pre-game" so it's all good.

Audible Agent had a killer set that actually surprised me. I knew they were good... but I did not know that they were THAAAAT GOOOOD.

After they were done, Gomez decided to fight people and stuff.. you know, the usual.

Wrd.

The past couple of days

2009-07-11T11:56:00.000-07:00

this week has been non-stop for me. I've been out and about more than ever! I only go home to sleep and once I wake up, I'm usually out within a couple hours. Well, here are some pics from the past couple of days batched up into once post. Enjoy.

DUBSTEPPING AT THE ROXY 7/8/09 -

On Wednesday night I headed out to the Roxy with Sasha and Steph for a dubstep show. When we got to the venue, there was a huge line. Luckily for us, our friend Kosta got us in within seconds. Major wobbles throughout the night.

After the show, Steph and I headed over to a friend, Alex, kickback. This was actually Alex's last night in L.A. for a couple of weeks, she's heading out to Israel for a bit.

SASHA'S LAST NIGHT IN LA 7/9/09 -

Since Sasha is heading out of the country to Europe and Argentina, we grouped up to spend our last night with her before she flew out the next day. It was a pretty simple night. We dropped by to club/venues and ended the night with some food at In-N-Out.

HIKING DURING THE DAY//PARTYING AT NIGHT 7/10/09 -

My Saturday started off with a great hike in Malibu with 3 of my friends. The hike was a lot tougher than I thought, but it was still a lot of fun.

Hours after hiking, we headed out to a surprise party and an apartment party in UCLA. Tons of people everywhere, but nothing that I'm not use to. Overall, it was loads of fun.

Praise

2009-07-11T10:07:00.000-07:00

Bpmp3 battle!!!

2009-07-10T12:17:00.000-07:00

Me and the Eatskeet crew are battling against 7 other LA crews in the BPMp3 battle!!!! Make sure you come through and support!!! Click the picture to RSVP

District 9

2009-07-09T08:45:00.001-07:00

So excited!

Monday!!! 7/6/09

2009-07-07T22:01:00.000-07:00

So lately I've been bundled with work, parties, freelance work, and receiving small amounts of rest. It's all good, as long as I don't crash from it. Well, this Monday was pretty chill... I had a meeting with a company at the Santa Monica Studios that I'm freelancing for and all is well over there, but I'm never not busy...

After a successful meeting in Santa Monica, I zoomed over to the Hollywood side to meet up with Skeet. We went over to Caffé ETC. to grab some much needed food. I didn't actually get anything to eat, but I did grab a strawberry-banana smoothie that was BEYOND amazing!

We then walked across the street to Space1520 to check out Cotrell Guidry’s new project the Abc’s of LA. In his project, Cotrell interviews talent in L.A. and have them perform live. It was a great event with tons of chill people and great performances by Imprint, U-N-I, and Rob Roy.

After the event at Space15twenty, we headed over to temp. spaces for some fun. It was a great night with tons of heads there. Thanks to The Bangz who came through!

Also, I wanted to put it out there that me(Whoopi) and Dj Skeet Skeet are giving away a pair of tickets to HARD summer music fest which has an AMAZING lineup!! If you're interested, go to www.eatskeet.com for details!

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

The runner

2009-07-01T10:34:00.000-07:00

The Runner -Exploit yourself- from BLR_VFX on Vimeo.

MSTRKRFT – heartbreaker ft. John Legend

2009-06-28T06:39:00.000-07:00

Definitely my favorite song on Fist of God.

LMFAO & zoe kravitz 6/23/09

2009-06-24T16:38:00.000-07:00

Tuesday was a great one. Not only was I still living it up off of 3 hours of sleep(with no drugs in my body), but I was going to see my celeb crush!! JOY!!!!

To start the night, I rolled through to Sasha's house. We then headed over to the House of Blues to meet up with Steph and to see LMFAO.

This dude was randomly dancing near me... Had to snap him.

Boredom.

The LMFAO show was all good. So many tweens and bright neon colors.

After the show, we drove down the street to see Elevator Fight at the Roxy. Let's just say that the lead singer is my Highschool crush from NY.

YUP YUP!!! Zoe Kravitz(Lenny Kravitz daughter) is the lead vocalist. It was a pretty magical moment that I was glad to be apart of. Super thanks to Sasha for having her manager help get us in! :D

I also have a new friend, you may remember him from the 1st season of True Blood. Anyways, he's my homie.

<3 u. See ya in NY

To see more pictures, check out the set on my flickr.

2012

2009-06-24T11:28:00.000-07:00

I was invited to the private screening for this film... Can't believe I missed it.

Burton's 'Wonderland'

2009-06-22T11:55:00.001-07:00

The USA Today just posted an article on Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. In the article, it shows some first looks of the wonderland. It looks amazing.

Check out the article HERE

I got a new toy

2009-06-19T20:16:00.000-07:00

Being a huge techie, I never really buy myself neat little gadgets anymore, mostly because I have one that does EVERYTHING!!!

Today I bought myself a new gadget, the iPhone 3gS :D.

I bought mine this morning around 5am and I must say that it's AWESOME!!! So fast/powerful.

ALSO!!! I discovered this sweet game today called Dinosmash. DinoSmash is the first fast-paced online multiplayer shoot'em up for the iPhone and iPod. it's only 99cents and it has that SSB style to it! It's currently my favorite game on the iphone, so buy it and play against me ...then get PWN'D!!!

Sorry, I'm not selling any of my iPhones.

This is a mountain dew commercial?

2009-06-18T01:31:00.001-07:00

Can I please shadow the peeps who worked on this?!?!!?

Major lazer!!!

2009-06-18T00:32:00.000-07:00

Pon De Whoopi remix coming soon!! ....I wish.