One A Day - On This Day in 2007

Novato CA Olaf's Backyard

On this day in 2007 Olaf invited us to his house for a BBQ. It was great fun and I took this great "portrait" of Olaf.

One A Day - On This Day in 2008

San Francisco CA The Embarcadero

On this day in 2008 it was Sunday Streets! For a few Sundays during the summer they shut down a major street and people can walk, bike, skate or do whatever along the street that is closed. On this Sunday it happened to be The Embarcadero. Various businesses set up free booths to do things as well as advertised. The group had a big pile of jump ropes and you can see a giant parachute in the background. Remember playing with a parachute and a ball when you were a kid? Well I did that on this day in 2008.

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"

One A Day - On This Day in 2002

Irvine CA The Irvine Spectrum

On this day in 2002 The Scorpion King was on the shelves. It was our first original game. It had it's flaws but we worked hard and met our goal so we went to The Irvine Spectrum to celebrate by looking at it on the shelves and going to lunch.

Here we are pooring into the game store to see our accomplishment

Here we are at Dave and Busters. It was a fun tradition to all go to lunch on the day the game appeared in stores. I wasn't able to carry this tradition on at LucasArts. The teams were too big, I didn't have a budget and people tend to get let go after a game is done and before it is on the shelves. I am hoping to carry this tradition on the next place I work.

One A Day - On This Day in 2002

Irvine CA Tower Records

On this day in 2002 Steve points out that you must be this tall to see Jaws (the best movie in the universe). Not sure why Tower Records had a Jaws poster in the window in 2002 but hey it was Jaws so I had to snap a photo.