Re: My last post (that should be below this);

Nevermind. Just listened to their whole album and they suck. They didn't use CAKE as an influence - the Flobots totally bit their whole sound off em. It's like if you put RATM and Cake in a blender and chopped them up with a bit o' bleach mixed in, then poured your concoction out on a screen to dry and turn into a papery recycled mess.

I DID like Handlebars... but bothered to look online where they had two separate versions of videos for the song. One (before they were signed) was a cool animated/graffitied piece about revolution. The newest one (made once Universal picked them up) is a childishly (literally) made video with kids... who act like mean adults!

Yuck. I wish John McC. would strike them down with his heavenly sword...

I'm calling it now:

Flobots for the win in 2009. You heard it here first... although it sounds like they owe CAKE a bit of a shoutout.

What I did on Cinco De Mayo

Self explanitory!

Busy, Busy Night

Tonight was Mikuni's "M5" Party celebrating the Downtown Mikuni's 5th year of being open. There was fun galore to be had and I was there to photograph it:


More coming soon. I'm trying to go to sleep at a respectable hour and if I play any more with these then I'm gonna end up being a Tired Timmy tomorrow!

P.S.

Byron Allen = Yuck.

Was just thinking about this...

I do think that music helps form who you are - especially if you are exposed to it at an early age. Through your early experiences, it shapes how you perceive the world overall. I remember the first music album I ever bought/received. My mom, on a whim, bought me U2's Rattle and Hum on cassette tape from K-Mart as a gift.

I remember taking it back, still wrapped in it's protective anti-shoplifting plastic cage (they used to put the tapes in these things and YOU would have to cut it out, thank you very much), and trading it in for the soundtrack to Weird Al Yankovich's UHF.

I think that explains everything.

Getting the Ball Rolling

I hate winter for photography. It has been quite rainy around Sacramento for the last month or so and I HATE having to be wet and uncomfortable while I am in turn trying to keep my equipment toasty and dry. Even the sunny days are shitty cold and usually windy. I think I had enough of that during my newspaper photography days...

The above pictures were taken for an art show where the only rules were that you had to find the crappiest camera possible to photograph with. I found this beautiful 2 MP beauty circa 2001 and hit the street on one of the before mentioned cold/windy days. Yuck.

First Day of School 2008

Here I am keeping my student loans at bay.



This is what I do with $200 and 16 spare weeks.

I caved and made a Flickr page...

Nicole for NeoVintage Clothing
Originally uploaded by devinbruce

Here is one of the first entries I've plopped on my new Flickr page - it is fro a fashion shoot I did back in the day. I played a bit with it useing Photoshop and Voila - Nicole from NeoVintage!

Super Bingo

Get Out And Vote!

This is Kelli:

Kelli is a model I shot for a fashion shoot in 2006. She is participating in a contest to be the face of "Yes To Carrots" - a line of beauty aids that incorporate the remarkable cleaning and regenerative power of... yes, carrots.

Vote for her - she is nice and deserves to become the image I imagine when thinking about roots I can clean my hair with.



P.S. - That's my picture they are using for the contest - yeah me!

Spare Time

So I'm shuffling my way through blockbuster Video a few days ago when I see this perched on the shelf:


"Hey", I think to myself, "I was at that one shooting."

I pick the DVD up to take a look at the back and - BEHOLD:



Yes, that's right. That's ME!

I actually bought the DVD and found that it is chocked-full of me - next time you see me, be sure to ask for an autograph!


PS - I tried to find a picture of me taken by one of the other photographers there but all I found was a picture of one of the ring girls with my zoom lens sitting next to photographer Jaimee Itagaki on the bottom left (I was between her and the guy taking this picture):


Where the hell was I?!?! (Image by David Brooks/signsonsandiego.com)