Photog Showcase #2 * Greg Byers *

They say it takes on to know one...

Let me tell you my friends, I've partied with the best of em and one thing is for certain, capturing the essence of a good party in a picture and actually evoking the feeling of being there is straight up one of the hardest things to do!  Sure anyone can take their point and shoot and take dirty photos of chicks making out, guidos flexing their delts, and innocent bystanders shunning their children's' eyes in disbelief as wild party goers do things they may or may not regret the next morning.  But to actually capture a real moment in time, a millisecond of pure ecstasy, or a debacuherous blip in this universe is truly something that not many people behind a lens can do, let alone perfect!  Fist pumping, foot stomping, beer drinking, red bull vod chugging, and party aficionados alike looking to put the pieces of a wild night back together, search no more!  I have found your next photog, he goes by the name of Greg Byers and he came to party, he came to rock!  

Putting a label on a photographer/artist is like saying Soup Plantation only has La Creme de Sum Yung Gui soup, when in reality, photographers and artists alike have no limitations to what they are capable of!  So when I say Greg is a party photographer, keep in mind that party photos and the lifestyle within that realm are just one style and genre of photography/art that he excels in.  He's also got plenty of amazing, enticing, and mind expanding landscape, lifestyle, urban, commercial, model, entertainment and countless other genre photos!  But for now lets focus on a few of the epic photos that he sent me.  

The pictures he sent me have a magical way of capturing a moment that strongly elicit an eerie feeling of party lifestyle nostalgia (at least in my mind).  I can't help but stare and ponder at these pics as a feeling of "those were the days" rushes across my mind as I remember the days of innocent youth going wild in the streets and FIDLARing (Fuck It Dawg Life's A Risk) all over the place!  The pictures make me feel like a care free rebellious adolescent grom again!  It's almost as if Greg Byers has found the only key to the fountain of youth and consistently unlocks the magic through his lens!      

Greg Byers Website

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Photog Showcase #1 - Owl Bundy -

Anyone can take pictures right?  All you have to do is put your eye through a hole, aim, and fire!  Yeah and anyone can do the same damn thing by going to a fawkin glory hole on a Friday night!  Much like any art form, with photography, there's much more than meets the eye (trust me, I've tried several times to pick it up and have gotten nothing but blurry drunken images of what look like nipples but couldn't be further from such goodness).  I'm no expert on photography but it really gets me running in circles of confusion when I try to figure out how good photographers take pictures of something within reality and are then some how able to transform that reality into dream like images which elicit emotions and evoke imagination?  They must have been given some kind of key at birth which I apparently missed out on...

Anyways, to show my appreciation for one of the many arts that I have yet to figure out, I thought I'd bring you into the realm of photography by showcasing some of my most favorite photographers in the entire World (who also just so happen to be good friends of mine).  I've asked these photographers to do the impossible and send me a few of their favorite pics (a task that I'm sure could easily be related to picking your favorite wave in the World, choosing which Playboy bunny to root, or deciding what your favorite Rolling Stones song is).  Eventually, after much nail biting and brow furrowing they've sent me their beauties and now I'm sending em to you!  So hold on tight for the rest of the week, cause I've got some photos that belong in a whole other world that will surely blow your mind!   

   

Photog #1 - Owl Bundy -

To start things off, I'd like to introduce the oh so steezy images that belong to the eye of my good buddy Owl Bundy aka Snarf McMeoskers aka Camilo Lara Jr.

Camilo is a creative virtuoso and a multi-media visionary who paints "a dark world bright with cinematic insight".  Whether he's draped in his infamous pho-trog disguise snappin wild electro party pics, lurking behind a bush at Pipe getting the next cover shot, or shooting look book pics for a legendary hat company, Owl Bundy is most certainly a force to be reckoned with!  But don't take my word for it, check out his photos, and surely the pictures will speak for themselves...   

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I Will Come Back To You

Crap Agenda

No, I'm not gonna give you my shitting schedule, (that would be much too easy) I'm talking about Crap Eyewear at Agenda takin ova and havin a good time!  

See for yourself strawberry shortkook!

CRAP EYEWEAR @ AGENDA '10 from Crap Eyewear on Vimeo.

If you don't know by now, Crap is da sickest sunglass fade shade company out there!  So go get yo self some Crap and see how much ass you get the second you put those puppies on your face!  Poseidon knows it worked for these people I bumped into while out in Hawaii:

SAH's Triple Crown Wrap Up @ Pipe

Wazzzzappp humans!?

Been a while since we last met I suppose eh?  My dearest apologies for no recent updates but I've been pretty busy focusing on several other aspects of the creative arts.  This whole last week I was busy gathering a plethora of fist pumping/mouth frothing electrohell tunes for people to froth on.  Eventually I took all these tunes, threw em in a sack, plugged in my makeshift mixer to some speakers, and frothed an opening DJ set at the Fish Co Enterprise in Santa Monica.  To my surprise, the house didn't melt down, people didn't boo us off stage, I didn't actually play any Shakira, and Party Sauce managed to pull off its first lil DJ set in front of real life humans!  Thanks to all those who made it and for those of you looking to hear some more synth heavy face melting foot stomping party tunes, drop us a line at PartySauced@gmail.com.

Anyways bradas, we all know that I disappeared for a good 2 months and took a magical journey out to the land better known as the North Shore of Oahu.  Ever since I've been back people wanna know what the hell happened to me out there?  Well words can't really describe the entire experience I had out there and I'm sick of telling the story of how the real surf ambassador put me in my place by making me crawl the boardwalk covered in tar and white feathers chanting slanderous things that shall never be repeated.  But that is neither here nor there.  Anyways, instead of retelling all of the classic stories and shenanigans  that I experienced out there, I figured I'd collect some footage and let the video speak for itself.  After a month of being lazy and finally making this video, I present to you Surf Ambassador Hendo's Triple Crown Wrap Up at Pipe, enjoy:

...Lost's "What Really Went Wrong?" Video Premiere TONIGHT in Venice

...Lost's "What Really Went Wrong?" Video Premiere is goin down TONIGHT in Venice. Froth it fools!

There's A Mole Among Us, Show Yourself!

Mole bowl hiding in a mole hole!

I'd first like to wish everyone a Happy and Frothy New Year! Get some! 

Anyways, I swear dude, 

all my life there has been a secret mole amongst me and my peers.  Call me crazy, call me paranoid, call me what ever the hell you want but I'm starting to get creeped the fuck out and pissed!  What am I talking about?  Take a seat and listen to the absurdities that have happened over the ages and you tell me if they're coincidence or if there is indeed a mole among us reeping the benefits off of my crew and our unique bizarreness. 

Example A:  

Long before my Electro Dome section was around I did a post entitled "Muse-Ick?" which featured a list of songs that I loved to froth to on my iPod at the time.  Within that list existed the song entitled "Death" by White Lies (an all time favorite and in constant rotation).  At the time I really wanted to use this song for a video part but didn't have the footage to make it happen.  So what happened in less than a month later?  Kelly Slater's 9th World title highlight reel comes out and guess what song they used for said vid? Non other than the song Death by White Lies!  

Strike one, I'll let it slide...

  

Example B:  

I am certain that in 10th grade I coined the idea of Blue Cheetos.  In theory, they would be blue colored cheetos that taste nothing like blue berries, they taste like cheetos  The other day I google that shit and some bizarre ass video pops up that's even weirder than my original idea of Blue Cheetos!  WTF?  This is starting to get weird...

Example C:

Me and my boo, Prom 2002 dawg!

Senior year of High School, bored as fuck and dumb as fuck!  I started growing some pubicles and some facial hair and my five o'clock shadow began to slowly lurk on me, so what did I do?  I decided to grow a mutha fuckin "half beard".  I was sick and tired of shaving my face every 3 days so I decided to spice things up a bit and let a stubbly beard grow out for a week and then shave half of my face off thus leaving the other half clean as a bay-bay's arse!  10 years later still haunted by the 5 O'clock shadow but remembering the good ol' days with the half beard, I google that shit and what comes up?  All of this BULL SHIT! 

Seems to me like they've started a lil Half Beard contest without notifying the founder, thanks a lot assholes!  Starting to get pissed! 

Example D:

A while back I wrote a post entitled "Panamaniacs 2008".   This post was a lovely lil beast that talked about a trip that some of my buddies experienced.   Within this post I featured a video that I worked long and hard to freaking edit (all the footage was shot to shit so it seirously took me about a week but an epic vid nonetheless).  A year or so later as I scan through a TransworldSURF mag what do my little eyes land upon this time?  Oh GREAT a trip section entitled "Pana-mutha-fuckin-Maniacs!".  PANAMANIACS!  I can't find the article at this moment but here's a lil pic from the trip they put on their site, as you can see they've slaughtered my word to bits and pieces using it over and over again.  THANKS!     

Example E:

I did a post a while back while the 2009 Hurley Pro was going down at trestles.  The post was entitled "The Oracle Of Faith Never Lies...".  On this post I took a picture of Bart Simpson and superimposed him writing "Dane Will Own The Hurley Pro" on the chalkboard.  I did such visual magicery by using Mac's Preview program cause I still don't have Photo Shop (Santa where art thou?).  So today, as I was so freakishly lurking on the internet, I decided to see what kind of party and booby pics my good friend The Cobra Snake has been snapping.  As I arrived at his home page, low and behold there it was!  Like a brick in the face, like a tuba up uranus, and like a sock puppet watching you sleep; I saw that same damn picture of Bart Simpson writing on his chalk board!  This time he wasn't writing about Dane, he was writing "I Will Not Take Photos of Fun Parties All Over The World".  Here's the pic:

The list of mole-ness goes on my friends but I would hate to bore you with such freakishness.  So instead I ask of your assistance in helping me smell out this rat, this mole, and this perpetrator who is making scrilla off of the only ideas that actually survive the flood of alcohol and other such debauchery!  The hunt for the red mole-tober is on!  Get out yer stompin sticks, it's mole huntin time!