Space Strawberries
May 17, 2006
Things to do this weekend in California:
The third weekend in May used to be a weird time of the year for me. Usually there are a barrage of events tend to fall on this weekend that I would like to attend forcing me to drive all over the place and try to see as much as possible in as little time. The past three years Holly and I usually end up in Pasadena and Oxnard for the two events below.
JPL Open House: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/oh.cfm
Dude- go to this. Working at Casa Pacifica- one tends to forget that not all children have emotional scars. Here you get to chance to meet kids who are smarter than you will ever be. It is also the place to go to if you think the 21st century is a tad disappointing. While the flying cars are absent- the robots and supercomputers are there. Even teleportation is being experimented on these days although I do not know if JPL is involved with that. Probably not- it is also a place of go especially if you are interested in the final frontier and to see how we are going where no man has gone before. I am especially intrigued by the oceans of Europa. With discoveries on this planet that prove sunlight is not dependent for life, will we find critters in Europa’s briny deep? If you do go, do not pass up the chance to venture into Mission Control. It is totally cool.
(PS: Casa Pacifica recently did some restructuring which led to at least one person that I knew when I was there to be laid off who so totally did not deserve to be. To that I say-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Oxnard Strawberry Festival: http://www.strawberry-fest.org
I used to live behind this. It was hell trying to get out of the house because of all the traffic. But I got free parking if I wanted to go. I never tried the strawberry wine or the strawberry beer and thus never ended up strawberry drunk. The arts and crafts were okay and the other food was decent. I used to go because b-list bands like Big Mountain, The Rembrants and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy used to play there. Not these days. Nowadays you get an eighties cover band at best if you are lucky. But it is still fun to go people watch and see what concoctions people come up with that involve strawberries. And it is always nice to return to ‘the Nard’ every now and then, and bask in the California Sun and the Pacific breeze and maybe go to Leo Carrillo State Beach after and look at weird creatures in the tide pools. And since Holly’s birthday usually falls close to this, we would often go to the Outlets and just let her go crazy.
At least there are Outlets here to, so at least we can keep up that tradition. Yes, my little bear, you may go crazy.
Oh, and by the way (Gene Generation is the latest entry into movies that to be nice- borrow heavily from the Matrix. The difference between this one and the others? Ronan Harris of VNV Nation is doing the score and other good industrial/electro bands like Combichrist feature heavily in it. Plus the director is really into the industrial/electro scene, Parry Shen from Better Luck Tomorrow and the ever present Bai Ling are in it and it seems to be very fan friendly as evidenced below. Hope it is a good flick and hope that the score is to be made available commercially. The director also seems like a nice guy):
WHO WANTS TO BE IN THE GENE GENERATION?
Well, since the movie has been shot as we're almost done with post production, here's a chance if you want to be in the movie
1) Bands / Clubs / Promoters - We'll stick posters all over the city of The Gene Generation. If you are a band or club or promoter, send us any material and we'll plug it in our city. We're doing VFX now so now's a good time. Try not to put a date in it as this movie has no time in which it exists in. BE WARNED - the posters will be textured to make it look dirty and all. Some of them might be scraps of paper on the floor as well :P
2) Individuals - Got a mug shot? Got a picture that might look great as a missing person's profile? Yeah, we cannot get enough of that all over our city of The Gene Generation. Send them to us, and be officially missing or arrested in The Gene Generation.
3) Fetish Models / Mistress - Got a picture you want up as posters on The Gene Generation? Maybe as a Neon Sign or advertisement. Send them to us and we'll plug you in. If you have any videos (professional videos), we can put them up on the plasma screens around the city as well. Males welcome as well.
*NOTE: PLEASE HAVE ALL IMAGES CLEARED WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ANY OTHER COPYRIGHT HOLDERS. YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN A FORM TO CLEAR US OF THE RIGHTS TO USE IT
Please submit all materials to Myspace@genegeneration.com Please note we will begin texturizing the city in 2 weeks, so our submissions will be closed then. Alternatively, you can mail it to
The Gene Generation
Producer / VFX Department
4121 Redwood Ave
Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90066
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
Things to do this weekend in California:
The third weekend in May used to be a weird time of the year for me. Usually there are a barrage of events tend to fall on this weekend that I would like to attend forcing me to drive all over the place and try to see as much as possible in as little time. The past three years Holly and I usually end up in Pasadena and Oxnard for the two events below.
JPL Open House: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/pso/oh.cfm
Dude- go to this. Working at Casa Pacifica- one tends to forget that not all children have emotional scars. Here you get to chance to meet kids who are smarter than you will ever be. It is also the place to go to if you think the 21st century is a tad disappointing. While the flying cars are absent- the robots and supercomputers are there. Even teleportation is being experimented on these days although I do not know if JPL is involved with that. Probably not- it is also a place of go especially if you are interested in the final frontier and to see how we are going where no man has gone before. I am especially intrigued by the oceans of Europa. With discoveries on this planet that prove sunlight is not dependent for life, will we find critters in Europa’s briny deep? If you do go, do not pass up the chance to venture into Mission Control. It is totally cool.
(PS: Casa Pacifica recently did some restructuring which led to at least one person that I knew when I was there to be laid off who so totally did not deserve to be. To that I say-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Oxnard Strawberry Festival: http://www.strawberry-fest.org
I used to live behind this. It was hell trying to get out of the house because of all the traffic. But I got free parking if I wanted to go. I never tried the strawberry wine or the strawberry beer and thus never ended up strawberry drunk. The arts and crafts were okay and the other food was decent. I used to go because b-list bands like Big Mountain, The Rembrants and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy used to play there. Not these days. Nowadays you get an eighties cover band at best if you are lucky. But it is still fun to go people watch and see what concoctions people come up with that involve strawberries. And it is always nice to return to ‘the Nard’ every now and then, and bask in the California Sun and the Pacific breeze and maybe go to Leo Carrillo State Beach after and look at weird creatures in the tide pools. And since Holly’s birthday usually falls close to this, we would often go to the Outlets and just let her go crazy.
At least there are Outlets here to, so at least we can keep up that tradition. Yes, my little bear, you may go crazy.
Oh, and by the way (Gene Generation is the latest entry into movies that to be nice- borrow heavily from the Matrix. The difference between this one and the others? Ronan Harris of VNV Nation is doing the score and other good industrial/electro bands like Combichrist feature heavily in it. Plus the director is really into the industrial/electro scene, Parry Shen from Better Luck Tomorrow and the ever present Bai Ling are in it and it seems to be very fan friendly as evidenced below. Hope it is a good flick and hope that the score is to be made available commercially. The director also seems like a nice guy):
WHO WANTS TO BE IN THE GENE GENERATION?
Well, since the movie has been shot as we're almost done with post production, here's a chance if you want to be in the movie
1) Bands / Clubs / Promoters - We'll stick posters all over the city of The Gene Generation. If you are a band or club or promoter, send us any material and we'll plug it in our city. We're doing VFX now so now's a good time. Try not to put a date in it as this movie has no time in which it exists in. BE WARNED - the posters will be textured to make it look dirty and all. Some of them might be scraps of paper on the floor as well :P
2) Individuals - Got a mug shot? Got a picture that might look great as a missing person's profile? Yeah, we cannot get enough of that all over our city of The Gene Generation. Send them to us, and be officially missing or arrested in The Gene Generation.
3) Fetish Models / Mistress - Got a picture you want up as posters on The Gene Generation? Maybe as a Neon Sign or advertisement. Send them to us and we'll plug you in. If you have any videos (professional videos), we can put them up on the plasma screens around the city as well. Males welcome as well.
*NOTE: PLEASE HAVE ALL IMAGES CLEARED WITH PHOTOGRAPHERS AND ANY OTHER COPYRIGHT HOLDERS. YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO SIGN A FORM TO CLEAR US OF THE RIGHTS TO USE IT
Please submit all materials to Myspace@genegeneration.com Please note we will begin texturizing the city in 2 weeks, so our submissions will be closed then. Alternatively, you can mail it to
The Gene Generation
Producer / VFX Department
4121 Redwood Ave
Suite 104
Los Angeles, CA 90066
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
posted by Catterpillarboy at 9:57 AM
1 Comments:
And speaking of barbecue- it's also national barbecue month! Nevemnd that it's also Asian American Heritage Month- them slanty eyed persons never did anything for us anyway...
Oh, well...hope the SF gets a record low attendance this year then...
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