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I was lucky enough to tag along on a photo shoot of the band, The French Semester with O.Hem last Sunday. I held a reflector, cracked some jokes (which everybody laughed at because I am friggin hilarious) and than snapped a photo or two between takes. Olivia got the perfect shots - look for them as well as music from the French Semester in a store near you. My photos are graining and blown out and covered in dust and hair, but I like em. Cause they were fun to take. And someTimez the imperfections are intaresting.

Please go to the TAR Productions web site and then hire Tim Ryan for all your video, film, editing and creative needs.

His website is a work in progress (sorry Tim, we will finish it up one day), but his work is fine tuned. They also have some nuts creativity coming out there office. In fact there was so much creativity overflowing from the TAR Productions offices Kobe Bryant and Ryan Sheckler decided to steal a bit to use on their own commercials.

Also, Tim is pretty funny. He sent me an inappropriate Viagra ad that I opened up at work in front of my boss yesterday. Thanks Tim!

Tim is also the only person that reads this blog so I can rant on here about him for hours and nobody would know.

Tim stop reading now.

What seems like ages ago I had the pleasure of sharing a photography class with Collin Erie. At the time we had very different approaches to the art of photography, I sucked and Collin was a master of the technical and could bring abstract ideas, emotion and whatever to his work in all the clarity you would expect from a master of his craft. I remember a specific project Collin worked on where he shot a local surfboard shaper fine tuning a board. The photos were amazing and while this particular shaper is pretty mediocre I wanted to buy the board being shaped - it just looked so white! I think this ability to shoot photos that are so realistic yet at the same time push the envelope of what the whimsical mind can perceive is a rare trait in a photographer. This rare quality has proven to be very desirable in the market place and Collin is now doing very well shooting photos of some of the largest music acts around, but duh, I knew Collin would be a master from that first class. Check out Collin Erie's photography website.

Why is T. "Lil Todd" Glaser the best surf photographer alive?

1. He has an eye for beauty in unique and unconventional settings. Just check out Todd's latest cover of SURFER Mag featuring Greg Long to see an example of this altered perspective. The typical 15mm fisheye rule of being within 2.5 feet or less of the surfer is thrown out the window leaving a large warped view of a majestically blue wave that seems to curl forever. Greg Long, the surfer in the photo becomes garnish and the meat of the photo is clearly the wave itself. Oh, yeah - I almost forgot - where the F*%$K is this cavernous beast of a wave? Probably some frigid shark infested outpost that required an all night drive and a short prayer before reaching. This is definitely not your picturesque swimming hole with cold beer and medical attention in close proximity. Call me weird but I am not the kinda chum that finds swimming in locations like this fun - or normal.

2. Todd loves photography. I often question how many surf photographers actually like their job. Todd dispelled all my doubts about his love for photography one morning around 3:30am while in Las Vegas by reciting a detailed lists of his photography heroes, inspirations, like and dislikes, technical frustrations, inventive work a rounds, and creative approaches to the art of photography. The boys and I had to stop him mid sentence and remind him that we were in Vegas and there were free drinks, scantily dressed hookers who hate there fathers and life in general, unforeseen riches and all you can eat bacon buffets to be had. I guess what I am saying is that if you love what you do you throw everything into it. For Todd he is passionate about photography and thus spends hours, days or quite possibly every waking moment obsessing over how to be a better photographer.

3. As mentioned above T. Diddy is not afraid to share. While you are not going to get any secret surf spots out of the guy, even though he did tell a good friend of mind a certain spot we had been looking into in Africa is easier to get to them we think (fuck you Surfing Magazine - I had been looking at that wave for years and you didn't even invite me on your trip. Oh yeah, i suck at surfing. OK sorry). Any question about surf photography or photography in general Todd is quick to answer and share his vast knowledge with all. For this reason other more experienced photographers are likely to extend this same courtesy to Todd. In the end all photographers and the art of photography benefits.

There are a bunch of other reasons why Todd Glaser is the best surf photographer alive but I am tired of writing and starting to feel a bit like Chris Cote(A Hype Machine) so I will stop here and leave you with a couplle links to Todd's work I found on Google. Todd Glaser's Photography Website | A Short Todd Glaser video bio | Video Part 2

Ah, Memories. Andrew has moved to Hawaii and Tim is chasing some surfer dudes around Panama or something. I have not surfed in San Diego for over a month.

More photos from the hard drive...This Nate Wilson my other roomy. Nate has a heart of gold and the devilish good looks of, well, the devil. So if any of you lovely ladies wanna take a crack at Nate; one of the most eligible bachelors in Venice step right up. Oh shit, correction, Nate has a girlfriend. Sorry ladies sit back down and cool off with these way cool photos of Nate.

If you just read the post below you are probably significantly confused and saying, "ok, Bryce thanks for the random photos and short sentimnetal blurb about one of your friends. So, what's the point?"

Well, the point is...drum roll please...rat-a-tat-tat! I am looking though a couple old hard drives and finding a bunch of photos that make me happy because they are of some of the raddest people in my life. The next rad dude who's photos I stumbled across is Brenden my Australian room-MATE-goo-day and LA Socialite of new. This guy is taking this town by storm - trust me when I say it won't be long before you see him kicking the poop out of Russel crow in some action blockbuster movie with historical undertones. Actually, you are more likely to see Brenden receiving a Tony award for staring in some Broadway play. To bad Theater is stupid...singing, dancing and over acting is meant for drunkin nights at the bar not to be put on display on a stage. Oh, sorry the world is a stage.

I just wanted to take a moment to share these photos of Jackie Hall as well as say what a rad person Jackie is. I never see Jackie anymore - even though I call her every time I come back into San Diego (Bitter). Still when I stumbled across a couple photos that she posed for on a slow Sunday afternoon a few years back I couldn't help but get warm and fuzzy memories of my tiny little friend of old. Jackie if you are reading this let's go get way more food than are stomachs can handle, wash the food down with a glass of wine and than be lazy.

I surf Seaside! I grew up surfing Seaside! my mom grew up surfing Seaside! My uncle surfs Seaside! All my friends surf Seaside!

A happening is a performance, event or situation meant to be considered as art. Happenings take place anywhere, are often multi-disciplinary, often lack a narrative and frequently seek to involve the audience in some way. Key elements of happenings are planned, but artists sometimes retain room for improvisation. Straight from Wikipedia

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles is bringing back "Happenings" in honor of Alan Kaprow, a key figure in the art is life/ life is art concept. Thanks to Jackie Hall for opening my eyes up to this amazing artist and art concept.

I got a bit bored at work to day so I tried a bit of interactive art myself. Thanks to all who participated in my email chain and to those who didn't participate I congratulate you on having more important things to do with your time.

Anyways, I really like how everybody's personality show through there choices of links. Dave Lewis is obviously into music. I knew that already he has a music blog called super blast that you can read if you click here. Will is a teddy bear, unless you attack him. Then he becomes mean and insulting. I also enjoyed the curiosity of Olivia. She kept asking who all the people attached to the email were.

Start Jibberish experiment now
The series is 2-1 in favor of the celtics right now, but if LA can keep up the way they're playing then right now the series will be tied....... Dude, why don't you just ask me in person I'm right next to you. (get back to work)

EDC (anyone want to go this year)
http://trance.meetup.com/58/calendar/7334541/

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This is a collage from a sushi run a couple weeks ago. Will Looks like he wants to kick me because one moment I am yelling at him to run faster so I wouldn't miss my train and the next I am telling him to stop and snapping photos of an empty parking lot.