When will I finally be able to catch up with blogging??? I’ve been pretty blessed for these last few months of summer with a bunch of projects I’m excited to share with you all! For instance last weekend I went out with Bakitwhy to cover BTVfam‘s Featured Acoustic Playlist (FAP) 2.0 in sunny San Diego. There [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been working with Victor Vaquez with the promotional images for Hamlet. Victor, if you remember, is a colleague of mine in the Drama Department at UCI. From what I can tell you he’s has been working hard on directing this prestigious theater piece for his Honor in Directing. Victor Vazquez is [...]
Thursday night Scott Roeder and I shot the ASUCI presented Common, B.O.B, and the Cool Kids concert held at the Bren Events Center. These performances were… SICK! Good job ASUCI for booking all this talent. There’s nothing better than outrageously energetic artists with colored lights. Lupe Fiasco is that you?
I love shooting live performances! and “The Herbert Siguenza Project” was no different. Friend, Victor V., co-directed this play and asked me to photograph the actors during a performance. I have to hand it to UCI’s drama though, our students sure can act!
The UCI Bookstore’s fourth annual music competition, Antstock, did fabulous this year. Marketing and promotion attracted a good amount of anteaters into Crystal Cove, where the nights festivities would occur. Melodic sounds and vocals were were performed by six different competing bands. I have to say, they were all good. Because the live performances were [...]
Hosted at Bren Center and Mesa Road was the wild and crazy concert combined with UCI Althletics Midnight Magic, annual nationwide kickoff to the basketball season. The night-time event completely shut down Mesa Road to host booths and an outdoor stage (later the area would turn into a road fit for ravers). Bboys Anonymous MCIA [...]
BHere is a campaign that is pursuit of raising awareness of hepatitis B and its impact on the Asian American community. Currently, 1 in 10 Asian Americans is living with chronic hepatitis B. And without appropriate monitoring or treatment, 1 in 4 could die from liver cancer or liver failure. On Monday, October 5 Bhere’s [...]
Saturday night I went out to the Glass House in Pomona, CA to photograph Moostache playing live. Fresh out of Huntington Beach, Moostache is a indie rock band composed of brothers Brian, Patrick, and Sean Wardell with Scott Zchomler. The boys have recently returned to perform in Southern California, after touring the states. – Ps. [...]
“Aldrich Park After Dark” is a concert put on by ASUCI at the University of California, Irvine. The concert marks the end of our short, but memorable summer and kicks starts the upcoming fall quarter! The Jakes, Rootbeer, and Shiny Toy Guns were featured at the venus. The Jakes DJ GEO-D Peter of My Ninja! [...]
Dan Davis and I recently got recruited as photographers for http://www.bakitwhy.com, our first assignment was to cover 18th Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture in San Pedro, CA. It was nice to see familar faces like again as well as being surrounded by FilAm culture and music. Day 1 Sheroes Kaba Modern Supreme Soul [...]
Over the last two days I had the honor of covering “AJ Rafael Presents: Music Speaks”, a benefit concert for Autism Speaks. The 2-day event, presented by AJ Rafael, showcased a music’s upcoming and rising talents. It was quite a blessing to see so much talent among my peers. Look likes wing man Dan Davis [...]
