A Tough Day at Work - The How Weird Street Festival

San Francisco CA - Downtown


We are working hard at MunkyFun to release a highly innovative game and a little extra effort is needed. We all went to work on Sunday and at noon the How Weird Street Fair started. This is a Techno/Love festival so the there were DJs playing music in many locations. Our office looks out on 2 alleys and both were blocked off for the festival so some of the guys had to hop a fence to get to work. It was fun but it was also tough to be at work with all of the fun going on around us. I took a small break and went down to take photos.

Out the back window looking down on some resting revelers

Out the front window. It was some sort of commitment ceremony or something

The flier mentioned to wear a costume

Hula Hooping for Health

Now that's a costume!

Liza?

Dude! Your hair is this big!

I documented the documentary

He wasn't asking for anything, just having a good day

Rainbow Bright!

The glasses match the top. They are both small

Ewok!

Three Wheeling!

Big hair

Lucky kid has Halo Legos.....

A cowgirl in The City

This won't end well

Everyone was having fun

Even night elf Jedi

That's it for now. See ya soon.

One A Day - On This Day in 2008

San Francisco CA LucasArts

On this day in 2008 Haden and the Star Wars: The Force Unleashed team received an award from Popular Science. It was a fun presentation and acknowledgment after working so hard on the game for so long.

One A Day - On This Day in 2004

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day in 2004 POV was decorated for Halloween. There was a very modest skeleton on the wall.

One A Day - On This Day in 2004

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day in 2004 Jon (not me) was feeling overworked so he created a system to help control the flow of work coming in.

One A Day - On This Day in 2003

Irvine CA The Old EA Building (The new ((at the time)) Point of View Building

On this day in 2003 the Old EA sign was going down and the new Point of View sign was going up. I'm not sure which sign ended up being up the longest. I think it was the Point of View sign.

One A Day - On This Day in 2005

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day in 2005 I put rubber bands on my head and took a self portrait. I'm not sure why.

One A Day - On This Day in 2003

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day Tony and Vince fixed the satellite TV at work. We had a joke around the office that you could fix anything with a level and a piece of string so we set out to use this method to fix the satellite alignment. It didn't work but we got it fixed using other tools.

One A Day - On This Day in 2004

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day in 2004 we were doing a video shoot for a video game we were making. we wanted to splash the screen with "vomit" at a certain point in the game and so we decided to shoot fake vomit against a piece of plexi-glass with a green screen behind it. It worked pretty well but we didn't end up using it or even shipping the game for that matter. Here is me with an accordion like container with fake vomit in it. I was going to shoot it through a small hole in a green screen.

Here is the aftermath of one of the shots.

Tony, Steve and Jesse discuss how to make the effect better.

Take 2. this one needs to fill the screen!

Brian likes the method behind the madness

Here I am excited about a successful "vomit"

Look What I Saw Today!

San Francisco CA First and Last Day

Today was my last day at LucasArts.

My first day in 2007. I am looking very hefty and happy.

My last day at Lucas. I am looking leaner and yet still happy. I wore my LucasArts Shirt and Hat to celebrate the event. It was a hard day for many but without change, things could never get better. I'm not saying things were bad but they can always be better. I will let you all know what the next adventure will be when I find out.

One A Day - On This Day in 2005

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day in 2005 we brought Paul Darden in for a voice over session. Paul is on the right. He is a somewhat famous poker player. John and Paul were discussing something on the couch in my office as I listened on from my desk and also took this photo.

One A Day - On This Day in 2005

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day in 2005 Bryan brought his kittens to work. They cuted it up as you would expect kittens to do.

One A Day - On This Day in 2006

Irvine CA Point of View

On this day in 2006 we were finishing up a poker video game. This is an awesome set up that allowed us to test a 6-12 players at once. Our game supported tournaments with up to 24 players (if memory serves) and we were able to test 12 players on our end and then we had a large group of testers at Crave helping us out on their end. It was a lot of fun. In the photo Jon is testing a PSP connectivity issue.

One A Day - On This Day in 2007

San Francisco CA The LucasFilm Parking Garage

On this day in 2007 we were able to get access to Darth Vader's Actual cape and take some photographs. Devin put on the cape and performed some extreme light saber moves and we took photos. We used them to tweak our cloth sim so that it would look as close to Darth Vader's cape as possible for the first level of TFU1.

One A Day - Not really on this day in 1999

Anaheim CA Disneyland The Matterhorn Bobsleds

In November of 1999 I left Disneyland for a career in the video game industry. I didn't know how it was going to work out but I was willing to take the chance. It turned out pretty good and I even got this Major Award from Gordon and Rose on my last day.

One A Day - Not really on this day

Anaheim CA Disneyland The Matterhorn

On my last day working at Disneyland I went around and took pictures with friends. This is Harold. He is one of the hardest working dudes at Disneyland. He yells at people all day and people love it. I took my picture with him.

One A Day - Not really on this day in 1999

Anaheim CA Disneyland

Apparently I didn't do anything photo worthy today so here is a photo I took on my last day when we were getting the Matterhorn Bobsleds ready to open. Part of the procedure is to cycle the sleds through the mountain a few times to get them warmed up. As they warm up the grease in the wheels heats up and becomes more efficient and the sleds speed up. When the sleds are empty and cold they don't have enough speed to make it through the lagoon so you have to catch them and push them over the final hump. This is what Dan and Steve are doing in this shot. It's a really nice and quiet time before things get hectic. This morning was particularly calm and foggy which adds to the photo.

One A Day - On This Day in 2004

Irvine CA Point of View War Room

On this day a big game of Risk was going on at Point of View in the War Room. They would play at lunch and then close up the War Room for the next day's battle.

One A Day - On This Day in 2006

Irvine CA Point of View

On this day in 2006 Tony and I called up Jeff to see if he could do some voice over work for us for the poker game. Jeff excitedly said yes. Payment was a credit in the game and lunch at Chili's. It was a good deal for everyone.

One A Day - On This Day in 2006

Los Angeles CA Keith Arem Studios

On this day we did voice recording for our poker video game. Erin Ness was one of the pros so we had to get her voice. She was a lot of fun to work with. After the session we took the obligatory "point at the screen" press photos.

One A Day - On This Day in 2005

Irvine CA Point of View Inc.

On this day we celebrated the February Birthdays. Tony was up to something that involved Sean's slice of cake. I'm not sure how this ended but I am sure there was cleanup involved.