Holidays, Photos, and Festivities

Hey!

Ok... so I did, in fact, neglect November. In my defense, I was busy with Thanksgiving (family in town), my birthday, a wedding to shoot & edit, and a few other activities.

Here's some fun stuff from the last month:

Sarah & Thomas had a beautiful wedding in Pleasant Hill, CA

Congrats to Sarah & Thomas

My brother and step brother came to visit for Thanksgiving. This is the "portrait" we took for our parents.

Keith had to shoot car stills for a project, so we took this Jaguar out to Treasure Island (across from San Francisco).

Our view of San Francisco when we were done with the shoot.

Ventured in to San Fran to the Aquarium. That's just a bunch of fish over my head.

...then my birthday happened. (FYI that's artwork I created for The Family Crest. Incredible group.)

Later on my birthday, at a city professionals meeting (hence the name tag). I don't know who's idea the cake was, but thank you! I also don't know why my eyes are ridiculously blue.

And it's only December 6th! We got a whole month ahead of stuff to do (if you know me, you know how much I love Xmas time). 

It's gonna get packed, so if you want to book something, you need to do it now! I have some trips to SoCal coming up, a wedding to shoot in San Francisco, a trip to Reno, a promo shoot to do, potentially a video project, various events to make appearances at, people to see, and that doesn't even include the shoots I'll be assisting Jen Cash with.

So speak up if you need me! Happy Holidays everyone.

Vans Warped Tour 2011 - Shoreline (Mountain View)

For the San Francisco area leg of Warped Tour this year, we at theFIVE10 Radio headed out to Shoreline in Mountain View to cover the event. I was joined by my SF Weekly lens-wielding pal Jen Cash as we jumped in and out of the pits all day long, leaving our host JC and web-ninja Long backstage to talk with the bands all day.

Was hot, but a lot of fun. I'd have to say my highlight was finally getting to hang with Fred Mascherino of the band Terrible Things (formerly of Taking Back Sunday), as we have similar friends and acquaintances.

Black Veil Brides sure put on an entertaining set, as did 3OH!3. JC managed to sit and interview a number of groups on our show, including: Simple Plan, hellogoodbye, Sharks, Passafire, MC Lars, and Less Than Jake.

Here are some photos from the day!

Unwritten Law performs at Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA.

Skating at Warped Tour 2011. Mountain View, CA.

3OH!3 performs at Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA.

Shut Up and Deal performs at Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA.

Crazy dry ice drinks. Warped Tour 2011 at Shoreline.

JC interviews Simple Plan at Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA.

Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA at Shoreline.

Less Than Jake performs at Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA.

Warped Tour 2011. Mountain View, CA at Shoreline.

Fred Mascherino of Terrible Things performs at Warped Tour. Mountain View, CA.

Clay Lancaster getting a doctor checkup at Warped Tour. Photo by Jen Cash.

Clay Lancaster at Warped Tour for theFIVE10 Radio. Photo by Jen Cash.

theFIVE10 - Long Vo, JC, and Clay Lancaster. Photo by Jen Cash.

Clay Lancaster and Fred Mascherino (Terrible Things, Taking Back Sunday). Warped Tour 2011.

Chris Cornell - San Francisco, CA

Thanks to some swift-moving folks, I ended up with a couple of tickets and media passes to shoot a sold-out Chris Cornell show at the Fillmore in San Francisco on Tuesday night (May 3rd).

With Soundgarden announcing their first tour in 13 years yesterday, it was no wonder the Fillmore was packed to the brim to see Mr. Cornell strum through his vast library of music-altering songs. I was surprised... a fair amount of the selections were from his solo records, but he threw in quite a handful of Soundgarden tunes, topped off with a couple from Audioslave and even the Beatles and Michael Jackson.

All in all, my teenage self was completely satisfied. But I'm dying for the full band to make it through.

The night was also a lot of fun for me socially, as I got to shoot alongside my good friends Jen & Mike Cash of Calibree Photography, with my buddy JC from theFIVE10.com on my left gathering material for a show review, and my pals Jeff Campbell and Andy Weller (of the San Francisco band Pine and Battery) performing an acoustic set upstairs in the Poster Room in between acts.

Enjoy a couple of shots from Tuesday night!

Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performs at the Fillmore in San Francisco. May 3rd, 2011.

Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performs at the Fillmore in San Francisco. May 3rd, 2011.

Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performs at the Fillmore in San Francisco. May 3rd, 2011.

Chris Cornell of Soundgarden performs at the Fillmore in San Francisco. May 3rd, 2011.