San Francisco Photos of Jon S

Saturday, May 3, 2008

May so soon?

Hey all,

Hi again. Work has been busy. I hit my one year mark in San Francisco on April 9th. Donna will hit her one year mark next week. We have been doing as much as we can in between working weekends. We have recently attended the De Young Museum and purchased a year pass, we went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan Town, we went to Ocean Beach for a picnic sushi lunch, we have been to many restaurants and we also downloaded an audio tour of the Barbary Coast and walked the first 3rd of it while we listened to it. Oh and I got to go play poker for the first time in about a year.

We will be attending the Indy 4 Premier and then a nice banquet here shortly. We are looking forward to that very much. We will also be attending the Maker Fair tomorrow. It will give us a chance to ride CalTrain for the first time. Oh and I also picked up a new camera. I am loving it. It's an Canon 5D. You may notice some of my pictures now have blurred backgrounds. Being able to control your aperture really helps you take better pictures. Speaking of pictures.....

A shot from the De Young

Another

A shot of Donna at Grubstake

Donna at another diner

Green

A guy had his pet bird at the park

A very brave gopher at Golden Gate Park

More at the De Young

A mirror exhibit at the De Young

Walking the Barbary Coast Trail

We listened to the audio tour we downloaded

Quite an expression

Taps at a Seafood place we went to in Northbeach

One of the many beggars in the city

2 kids eating shaved ice at the Cherry Blossom Festival

Seagulls

Corndogs!!

Very San Francisco

2 Fancy Lads at the Cherry Blossom Festival

A not very fancy lad

Hey look at me! I'm very cool!

Youths playing a collectible card game

Felted slippers being sold at the fair

A guy playing or money on the Embarcadarro
I took this with my new camera and used Adobe Lightroom to make it black and white

That's it for now. Hope you like the pictures.

Jon and Donna

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Living a carfree life

I didn't misspell that. We sold our last car the other day. We now rely on public transit and Zipcar.com. We are saving the monthly parking fee which is good and it's just easier.

I have been working a lot. We are down to the last few weeks on the game and things are coming together. It is getting very exciting. Here are some press links with videos so you can get an idea of what I am working on.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/30996.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29964.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21832.html

We were lucky enough to have a visitor a couple of week ago. Our friend Darrin came out and we had a great time running around town. Timing was great because WonderCon was going on so we were able to go to that. They like the Lucas employees so they let us in for free along with guests.

I have not taken as many pictures recently but here are the highlights.

Charles (our character TD) holds action figures based on our game at WonderCon

A comic book fan inspects his prize at WonderCon

Darrin and Donna enjoying the sites at WonderCon

A shot from the back of the F Line

A cool mirror that we saw when we ate breakfast at a fancy hotel here

Matt T ordering a burrito from the Taco Truck caterer that we get every Thursday Night at work

Donna warming her hands on a tea pot at the Sushi place Becca and Josh got us a gift certificate from for Christmas (thanks Bex and Josh)

A man on the Muni train

Hope you like em!

Jon and Donna

Saturday, January 19, 2008

January already?

My how time flies. Work has been great. We have hit some key milestones and things are coming together. I think the big media blitz will start at the end of this month. Be on the look out for Star Wars: The Force Unleashed articles.

Christmas break was great. Donna was able to take some time off and we went into tourist mode. We saw quite a few things that we hadn't had time to see. There is so little time and so much to do. We are also still eating at all kinds of different restaurants. So my last photos left off with Thanksgiving and the Lucas Family Holiday Party so that means that we haven't covered Christmas, Christmas Break or New Years. Here is what you all want. Pictures!

A very nice boat on the way to Point Reyes

A mushroom on our Point Reyes Walk

Cows that wander on Point Reyes grounds

More Mushrooms

I is a tall one

Donna and the Boys at Baker Beach

The Bridge from Baker Beach

The Bridge from the East side of the Bay

A cool chain near the yacht club

Happy New Year! We saw this on our walk New Year's Morning. I guess sometimes when you just make it home it is a victory.

This is in the Premier Theater on the LucasFilm campus. We have our team meetings there and this was playing on the big screen as we waited for the rest of the team to show up.

I Eat Crab!

Jeff and I went to a new beer place over the break. It was good!

Donna being coy at the Korean BBQ place

We went to a friend's house for a cookie cooking Christmas Party and this is a shot from his back yard.

This is EJ's Serious Cat

I found out that this form of Photography is called Street Photography. Look it up on Wikipedia!

I liked both so much I had to post both. Boredom on the Bus

She was startled when the bus started moving. I'm not sure what she was expecting...

Oh steam and manholes. Is there anything better?

Cool lighting

More cool lighting at the bar in Bobo's Steak House

I nice one of this grand city

Running through big flocks of pigeons is fun even as an adult

Ocean Beach

A cool cave at Ocean Beach

Overlooking the the Sutro Baths Ruins at Ocean Beach

Waves + Rocks = Easy Cool Picture

Merry Christmas from Jon and Donna! We didn't have enough room for a tree so we bought a wreath and decorated it.

Donna keeping Tom warm on our Christmas Day BBQ at Baker Beach

We went to Baker Beach to BBQ for Christmas. We BBQ'd for 1.5 hours, choked down cold food for 20 mins and then packed up and ran for warmth. It was fun!