Tomorrow the day starts off early…I’ll be hitting the 6 man in Manhattan Beach Ca… then make my way to the U.S open in Huntington Beach…Afterwards… I’ll be partying till dawn at ‘Birds of  Feather’ located at the Crosby in Santa Ana Ca. Lets do it!

Important call..please be quiet.

…another important phone call…please be quiet.

After a few very important business calls, we noticed the balcony had a sick view.

Going over…

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and 3.

and OMG. . . .

After hanging in the room for a half hour we decided to go back down stairs and hit the pool. But before going down the elevator we went to check out the room where the models were getting ready…

Michelle 1.

Michelle 2.

By the way..Michelle’s the person who invited us. After hanging out in the models room we noticed that their view was also really dope! LOL…

Second balcony photo shoot…Took a few more pics then we headed  to the elevator..trying to make our way to the pool…

After the long journey of trying to make it to the pool..

We arrived…Patron in hand…not my favorite…but F-it.

Down the hatch…

whoaa..

Boom!!

We made it!

Kids from a slum area queue for their free meal at a feeding center of the World Mission Community in Manila.

The number of Filipino families suffering from severe hunger rose by 1.4 per cent in the past three months, now totaling to 780,000 families.

Will President Aquino Jr. address the poverty and hunger in his first State of the Nation Address on July 26?

In the car…

Stopped to get food…Met The King.

Arriving…

Lobby.

Admiring the view…

Dinner included a White Sangria with Red Bull…

and some hanging Shrimp : )

and another White Sangria with Red Bull…

…and another.

Woke up in the morning and headed down to the buffet…

Saw this shirt on the way to buffet. who remembers Big Dogs…LOL

: ) Yesss!

Found Andrew out side on a random Motorcycle…

Till next time… See yaaa!

If your like me and wondered how he made this video…Here it is…

GETTING RID OF ALL THE CARS

I already know what you’re thinking, so don’t send me an email asking me just yet. The secret all lies in the power of masking. If you take a series of photos of, for example, a freeway, there’s more than likely going to be places where the cars aren’t in the exact same spot.

So if you layer 10 or so images over each other in Photoshop, you can edit out all the parts where the cars aren’t. It also helps to take the shot when traffic is really light. After that, you end up with a shot like this.

Since all the shots I took were high res still images AND the camera never moved, I could simply layer the freeway parts of the image on top of my video. Here’s an image of a mask.

I combined the mask and the video in Final Cut Pro, and, since I was dealing with high res imagery, I had enough resolution to zoom and pan the shot to my liking.

Running on Empty from Ross Ching

However like most places, I insist you go for for lunch due to the lower prices, smaller crowds and more “bang for your buck”.

Toast with Artisanal cheese, both of cows milk candied pecans and organic honey.

Under “Unusual”.
This is an appetizer consisting of fresh, warm dungeness crab with avocado salad, cream, warm chipotle mayo, served with rich mango sorbet. Going into this course, I had a preconceived notion that the sorbet’s sweetness would be odd and cloying. Yet the richness and tropical flavor of the sorbet added the perfect bit of acid and sweetness needed to balance out the rich, meatiness of the fresh dungness meat with avocado. Being a chef is all about balancing flavors, with the multitude of components. You had spicy- jalapeno, salty- avocado, crab shell, umami-(earth flavor) Crab meat – sweet and tart- mango sorbet. The sorbet had the slight touch needed to take a good, solid dish to the exceptional level.

TAGINE OF MERGUEZ / NOUVELLE CALEDONIE SHRIMP / ROCK SHRIMP- chermoula, raisins, lemon confit, almonds, harissa, mint emulsion, apricot, medjool dates, ras el hanout spice

PS- Ras el Hanout is a Moroccan spice mixture rumoured to contain a Spanish fly. For you Top Chef fans, remember when Richard used Ras el Hanout to smoke crabcakes in a plastic bag to win his round over a very good chef.

This was a amazingly complex course, with a positively intriguing interaction between sweet and earth savory. I really appreciated the rich gameness of the earth flavors, the staple substantiation of the two kinds of shrimp, while the mint really helped uplift this very aggressively flavored dish. In fact, the whole amalgamation reminded myself of award-winning chili. What I liked about this dish, it had familiar flavors in the cumen and arabic spice blend but it was reworked in a new way as so to introduce me to a completely unique dish! Well done.

After my first trip, I had to go back.

FARM TARTE (La Querica)- Fennel pollen, speck ham, coppa salami, guanciale, lardo, Di Stefano burrata, wild roquette, huile d’olive d’Espagne

Amazingly there are four types of pork in this tarte which resembles more of an upper crust NY pizza than a savory tart. We’re talking guanciale (unsmoked jowl bacon),speck (juniper-smoked ham), coppa (neck/shoulder Neapolitan-Italian cold cut (salume) made from pork shoulder or neck, and dry-cured whole), and lardo (cured backfat). This cured meats come from La Quercia, one of the most renowned names in cured meats here in the US, so how could I resist this tart, made with no less than four types of pork? The play on the hint of creamy burrata cheese, bitter rocket was enhanced and balanced by the soulful, savory, yet briny salume. The crust was divine, too.

Foie gras with Torchon and pineapple- I truly enjoyed this dish although some people say other wise. The pineapple brings a lovely sense of tart, yet sweet tropical flavor that balances out the richness of the foie gras. Although some would opt for some more traditional food pairings, I tend to disagree.

Secret courses. Can you guess?

International Support of struggle for freedom is clearly presented by the imagery.

Some of the images are artistic and represent a totally different picture and the message behind it…

What you have seen above is a reelection and a deep look into Belfast artistic expression about their struggle and their history.

Your thoughts?

One of the Cars was the Ferrari F430. T he Ferrari F430 was a sports car produced by the Italian automaker Ferrari from 2004 to 2009, as a successor to the 360. It debuted at the 2004 Paris Motor Show. Its replacement, the Ferrari 458 Italia, was unveiled on 28 July 2009 and is expected to go on sale in Spring 2010

You can not pass by LHR without noticing Harrods. It is an Icons for shoppers…

There were other cars, Bentley, MBZ, and the Audi R8

The Audi R8 looks slick with engine in he back…

And here is the Bentley…

Let me know which car do you like….

Send me the money and I will buy you the Loto….

Featuring:

Delicious Vinyl
Joy Rich
Civil Clothing LA
Rojas
Dime Piece
L.A. RAP!
213 Jump Street
Mindy Lebrock”Electrocute”
Hello Drama jewelery
Beat Swapmeet
Barracuda
Dim Mak
Miss Mars
+more tba

B-boys, Super air bouncers, and a lounge section.

Artists from Delicious Vinyl as will be in the house.

This  going to be a on going event through out the summer time. The first installation will be on 6/13/10 (this Sunday) and starts @ 2pm; ends @ 8pm.

Featuring:

Summer Street Sale this Sunday, June 13th. Fashion, music, art galore!!!
With special guest Dj sets, drinks, dancing and shopping shopping shopping!!

There will be a Bouncer to jump around in, ice cream truck, gourmet organic food truck, cotton candy, snow cones as well as all the fashion for your summer wardrobe. “vintage and new”

This is a free event!
spread the word and come join us!!!

Joe Jackson couldn’t be happier. The man who famously plugged his record company on national TV only a day after his son died, stood next to the mayor of Gary, Indiana as he announced the city would build a $300M museum to honor Michael Jackson.  And no, they are not stopping there: along with the museum, the city is also planning a performing arts center, restaurants, hotels and more. Could you exploit the name of a deceased person anymore than that? jeez. Performing arts center, okay. Hotels? My guess is that an amusement part would be next.

But, Joe Jackson still needs to get clearance from the Jackson Family Foundation. Their lawyer announced that the foundation was already planning an honorary museum, particularly not one in Gary. The foundation also maintains the rights to MJ’s name and estate, for benefit of his children. Can’t wait to see what good old Joe has up his sleeve. Get rich or die tryin’.