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My boy Patrick's art is being featured at one of downtown Los Angeles' best artist collectives, CATALYST - artist collective, this month!

They are having an awesome Dub/Electronica Art Party tonight from 10pm - 2am, and it's only $10 ($15 if you come after 11:30pm).

Patrick has 7 pieces hanging in the show, and it's happening here:

CATALYST – artist collective
2079 e 15th St
unit 330
LA 90021 CA

3 blocks West of Santa Fe, building runs from 14th to 15th Street

You may follow this link into your web browser for a google map:
http://www.google.com/maps?q=1941+Santa+Clara+St,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90021,+USA&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr&om=1

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Directions from Westside:

10 East thru downtown
exit Santa Fe - South
Take Right on Santa Fe
Take 1st Right after Olympic on 11th St (ignore sign that says 12th St)
At end of Street Take Left on Santa Clara (you can only go Left)
park on Left side across from huge brick building
use door next to “sec C” under the address
go to 3rd floor & knock on metal door at head of stairs

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Directions from Hollywood or the Valley:

101 South past downtown
Exit 7th St
Take Right on 7th St
Go over bridge & Take Left onto Santa Fe
Take 1st Right after Olympic on 11th St (ignore sign that says 12th St)
At end of Street Take Left on Santa Clara (you can only go Left)
park on Left side across from huge brick building
use door next to “sec C” under the address
go to 3rd floor & knock on metal door at head of stairs

Note: Just to confuse you the building has a second address – 1941 Santa Clara St. (same place kids but more accurate with all online maps & navigation systems).

As we continue to organize all this media, I have been doing a fair amount of web clean up. Today, as I was looking for a better way to display our photos, I found a really cool (free) photo app called PictoBrowser for displaying photos from Flickr. You can alter the sizes, sets, and color of the photo tool, and embed in your site. I made the following, and added it to our home page, and have been spending all day organizing and labelling photos in Flickr. Check out some of these highlights:

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So we have a few 750 GB Maxtor drives we've been storing video on, but had lost one of the power adapters. This makes it nearly useless. We were swapping with another drive, which means unmounting drives, powering down, switching cables, missing media, etc, etc. Let's just say it's a huge hassle. Nirvan and I called Seagate/Maxtor the other day and told them we lost it. The phone call was strange, I think we were expecting some type of resistance, as these customer service calls often go. Alas, THEY SENT A NEW ONE FOR FREE, NO QUESTIONS ASKED (except for our serial number)! We were so suspicious on phone too, we could barely get out a proper name or address. They ended up shipping it to a non-existent person. Today it arrived and I've been cleaning up our media situation, so we can organized for the long haul. It's refreshing to get such amazing customer service these days. They've definetly kept us as a loyal customer.

another online video clip, this one for a web show called Connected Life. I like this guy's voice.

Connected Life: One Second Film

Holy crap!

My improv team "Not From Chicago" hath done it again. Tonight we won our 2nd Student Cagematch at the iO WEST, which means we're going up against a team of frisky newcomers next Thursday at 10pm. Mark your calendars!

Patrick is going to be joining my group as a "guest star" to fill in for vacationers, so this will be a rare opportunity to see the two of us improvise together for the FIRST TIME EVER! Woo-hoo!

We need LOTS of friends to turn out and VOTE FOR US because.... (drumroll please).... if we win NEXT week, we become the challengers in the MAINSTAGE cagematch at the BIG theater! That is very important in Improv land. Seriously.