today i saw a HTTYD supergraphic!

on hotel figueroa in downtown LA, there is a HUGE ad for how to train your dragon! this is the first public advertising i've seen for it (other than the awful standees in theatres). i managed to snap the above pic on my phone while stuck in traffic on the 110. being the first movie i've ever worked on, i'm SO excited - mark your calendars, it comes out march 26!!!

update: a much better photo!

today i got my blackbird,fly pictures developed!!

technically, the film itself developed already on saturday, but since i wanted to get the image all the way to the sprockets, bel air camera had to flat bed scan them all - which ended up costing a heck of a lot, so i need to just buy my own film-enabled flat bed scanner - so i didn't get them back until today. i LOVE them. it's such a great little plastic camera and i'm having so much fun with it. i threw in a new roll of black-and-white film so i'm super excited about that as well.

pelicans in oceanside.

double exposure at venice beach.

more pictures can be found here.

today i got my vacation approved!

it's the first time i've really asked for any sort of major vacation since i started working at dreamworks animation. basically, i will be taking three and a half weeks off in mid-may through early june to go to a wedding in mexico then do a nice travelcation to japan. the approval means we can seriously start planning, and even looking much more seriously at flights and hotels and whatnot. yay!

today i learned about rocky canyon farm.

rocky canyon farm is owned and run by greg nauta and his family up in atascadero, california. they have a stand at the sunday santa monica farmers market where i learned they have 40-50 animals (cows and pigs) on their 30 acre farm. i gave up eating meat three weeks ago after learning of the horrific and pervasive nature of factory farming, but with access to this form of sustainable animal husbandry, it might be a good alternative. plus, i miss pork.

today i saw a stereo holga.

3D images from a leaky plastic camera!?!? so ridiculous, yet so cool at the same time.

today i said "goodbye" to my brother.

it was his last day working at dreamworks animation, so i went to both his farewell lunch at gordon biersch and farewell dinner-and-drinks at alibi room. i wish him the best, though i will still see him all the time considering we're roomies.

today i started reading devil in the white city.

fourth book on the nook. weeee..!

today i heard vampire weekend's contra.

i love it and its sweet beats, and now i want to drink horchata even though i've never had it.

today i saw the kings win a game!

we've gone to see the LA Kings play a few times over the past couple seasons, and we've also watched them on TV a bunch, and they always freaking lose! we were watching them play the NY Rangers tonight and yaayyy they won!

today i found out the bake sale made $5400!

 

on sunday, no cookie left behind held a bake sale for haiti called cookies without borders - with all proceeds going to doctors without borders. dan and i took his parents, and we got a few things, but it looked like a great turnout - and the baked good were pretty tasty too. a fellow dreamworker is one of the organizers and when i spoke to her today, she told me they'd made over $5,400 in the four hours of the bake sale! very awesome.

more photos can be seen here.