Lampooned

Last night I shot the red carpet arrivals for the premiere of National Lampoons' “One, Two, Many” at the Arclight here in Hollywood. Everything was pretty normal until the Kardashian girls showed up. The photographers simply went ape-s#*t. The shooter next to me got all ocd and yelled KIM, OVER HERE probably 50 times.

KIM, OVER HERE- KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-KIM, OVER HERE-

At one point Kris Jenner watched him with a perplexed face then looked at me and we shared a shrug

Mother-Daughter moment

Other arrivals:

Playmate, Sandra Taylor

Nancy O’Dell

Music man, Kevin Eubanks

David Faustino

1985 Bond Girl, Tanya Roberts

Party for the Planet

The Family Affair organization threw a fun party in Beverly Hills raising money for the 11th Hour Action Campaign. A silent auction and ticket sales supported efforts to sustain the earth sponsored by The Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation.

Mad Men & Women

Where are my Mad Men Fans at? On Monday the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented "Inside... Mad Men," honoring the AMC series. I shot the cast arriving at the Television Academy in North Hollywood and both men and women were looking pretty good.

To see all the pictures from the evening I shot for FilmMagic, click the link below:
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Presents An Evening with "Mad Men"

January Jones

On the left, Jon Hamm

Christina Hendricks

Vincent Kartheiser

Elizabeth Moss

Jennifer Westfeldt

HD Expo at The Beverly Hilton Hotel

On Thursday I shot stills for HD Expo at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills. Industry leaders and vendors got together for a day of promotion and education in the latest HD technology.

Kristin Petrovich, founder and CEO of HD Expo introduces Ted Schilowitz of RED One

Filmmaker Joseph Toman (right)

Francoise Bourdonnec of Intel and David Cohen of Variety

Panasonic HD camera demonstration

The boys from Reel Data Inc, Joe Lewis, Jeff Spalla and Jay Coley, corporate partner and President of Editware

From USC's School of Cinematic Arts Richard Wirth, Lee Harwell and from Goal Productions Griff Parington, Robert Ballo

the Tech Art catalog Wins

The Tech Art catalog won an honorable mention in the HOW Magazine In-House Design Awards. Congrats to everyone who made this book a winner.

Click the link below to see the live page:

http://www.howdesign.com/2007InHOWsedesignawardwinners_nonprofit

HD Expo @ Panavision

My friends at HD Expo hired me on Saturday to shoot their HD Technology workshop at Panavision Studios in Woodland Hills. Examples of the latest hardware and cutting edge workflows were on hand for working professionals to play with. In the main theater instructors demonstrated the latest HD software.

Shot-Tini

It has been a while since I blogged. Lot's been going on, just haven't taken the time to add new entries. I sit here now after a few days off enjoying life-- anxious to share. First off, see below my new invention. If you want to experience what the perfect martini in a shot glass tastes like, see me after class. I give you the Shot-Tini:


Aside from inventing elixirs, I've been shooting events for FilmMagic and
Getty Images. I was hoping to blog them as I shot but time got away from me. To see the short list click the link below. They include red carpet arrivals, parties and pre Oscar events.

Getty Images | Vince Gonzales

Folkhlore

I shot my first movie poster!!! My bud David Freeman wrote, directed and starred in his gothic vampire movie "Folkhlore." I shot him in full armor posing from a scene in the script. Later he got with the talented layout artist Jaimie to finalize the official poster. The last image is of David proudly posing with his piece.

Happy 2008

Even though we are at the end of January, I wanted to wish everyone the best for 2008. Much to blog about so I thought I better get on it. At the beginning of the month we went away for D's birthday to Palm Desert for a few days. But before we did anything we kept to our yearly traditional ceremony of petting a goat and prank calling Carl Rove. It seems to always bring us luck.



Just kidding... Here you see Donna on the phone getting birthday wishes from our good friend Sue while visiting a petting zoo at the Living Desert Animal Park. Here are some more African animals enjoying the California desert climate.

Nicotine addicts give each other comfort.

Let sleeping hyenas lie.

Goat speak

Enjoying the view.

We finished up our trip with a refreshing hike into the desert.

Desert Queen.

Goodbye 2007

As it is in my life, the sun rises and sets over my beautiful wife. So it would seem fitting that my last image that I post for 07 is of her. We were on a walk in the neighborhood and I was playing around with my new Nikon D300. We stopped in front of a large hedge that had white Christmas lights all throughout. Donna walked by as I shot using a slow shutter speed creating a series of surreal images. This is my favorite.

We wish everyone a blessed 2008.

Happy Holidays 2007

O-Tay!

For those of you who like to expose yourself to Pulitzer Prize caliber journalism… check out my photo in the November 12th issue of OK Weekly Magazine. It’s the one with Tom-Kat on the cover!!! Page 85 features the shot I took of Joel Madden and JC Chasez at the Guitar Hero III launch party at Best Buy back in October.

Tjade

It’s always fun to shoot musicians. On Tuesday night Donna and I were at the The Aqua Lounge in Beverly Hills to see my good friend Marabina Jaimes’ band, Tjade. Their sound of jazz and latin fusion had everyone on their feet by the end of the night. Marabina’s infectious stage presence and the bands' smooth sound is impossible to catch on film so I highly recommend you visit their site and seek out an upcoming show.



Tjade Latin Jazz Ensemble

Holiday Sale '07

On Sunday December 9th from 12-5pm, Eiko Battle and I will be hosting a holiday sale at Makespace Gallery in Downtown LA. Eiko will be showing her line of hand made fine jewelry and I will be showing my line of clothing for toddlers and kids as well as canvas tote bags with hand printed designs.

The Makespace Gallery has plenty of street parking and ample structure parking just next door. The Gallery entrance is in the driveway to the right.

Hope to see you there. If you have questions, give us a call.
Vince Gonzales: 323.707.7789
Eiko Battle: 310.600.1568
See the map below for location.


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