Relient K - Sleigh Ride from gotee on Vimeo.

Another good video from House Of Heroes…

House of Heroes - In The Valley Of The Dying Son from giova89 on Vimeo.

The first batch of shows on Winter Wonder Slam is over.  We have a couple days at home to relax now.  The first week was a great time!  We knew some people going in to this tour but there were others we were meeting for the first time.  Family Force 5 is on the tour.  Those dudes are great!  We got to do Warped Tour with them this summer and it’s such a pleasure to be back on the road with those dudes again.  I’ll try to post photos as much as possible.  Next show…Lincoln, NE on Thursday!

I have mentioned, a few times, about a new photo project I will be involved in.  Well, I figured now would be a good time to let everyone know what it is. Some may remember my post about the photo used by Brixton Hats. Well, that post payed off because the good people at Brixton contacted me, because of that post, and want to work with me.  I have been shooting their product on a couple different people for catalogs, ads & web stuff. I am beyond excited to work with a company I already supported and loved! You have seen 2 photos in a previous post, I’ll let you in on a couple more that probably won’t be used. Brixton already chose a couple that should be appearing in print soon.  I will keep you posted on when and where my photos show up. Thanks again to David & Brixton for making amazing products and being into what I see through a camera. Be sure to check out their hats, scarves, jackets, etc…BRIXTON!!

First off…Happy Veterans Day!!  Regardless of political stance, we should all support and thank the men and women of our armed forces today. My late Grandfather, John Luck, served our country during WWII. Thanks gramps! Love and miss you!

Tonight we take off for our next tour, Winter Wonder Slam with Toby Mac and Family Force 5. I’m looking forward to this one because we get to come home every week. Between Warped Tour and our Fall tour, it will be a nice change. I mentioned, earlier, a photo project I will be involved in soon, I won’t say much yet, but check out my two new photos below that are for that project. I’m really happy with them and hope you like them too.
Also, a reminder…45 Days in stores Nov. 25th!!
 

Being from California, My Family and I did our grocery shopping mostly at Trader Joe’s. So, when we found out there was one coming to Nashville, there was a countdown timer in my brain that finally ended this morning at about 6:00am. Thats right…6AM! My Wife, our good friend and I drove over there at said time, got out of the car and decided to create the start of a “line.”  If you are attending a concert, play or speaking engagement, you usually get in a line.  If you are the first people there, you are responsible for the creation of the line.  Correct?  Well, my Wife went on a coffee run for us and while she was gone, there were a couple elderly folk wandering around the parking lot. They grabbed carts (3 hours early) and parked them against the front door, forming a pretend line. There was even a dude we met named “Skip” who said…”Hey, is this where the line starts?” We told him, “yes”. His friends began to show up and get in the real line we started by being the first ones there.

Fast forward an hour or so…
There about 20 people in our real line and this rich lady from Brentwood (insert Thurston Howell Accent) joined the pretend line. I would like to give her the benifit of the doubt…maybe she was blind. Let’s face it, she got around amazingly well for a blind woman. So, after another half hour of the not so blind lady claiming her spot in the pretend line, I decided to go to the pretend line and say…”Hello, there’s a real line over here that these 45 people are in to shop at Trader Joe’s.” The not blind lady starred blankly and this old dude said…”Thanks for the invite, we’re good!” First off…It wasn’t an invitation to a sweet party I was throwing in the real line, I was just doing a public service to the, now 65, people in the real line. Even if I was throwing a sweet party, that dude would NOT be invited!

Fast forward to when the doors open…Justice is about to be served!
The doors open and the manager, who saw we were clearly in a real line said, “Were gonna let the people who were here the earliest come in first!” Faaaace!! The not blind lady said, “Who cares? We’re all gonna get in, it doesnt matter who goes in first.” She must have thought we were deaf because she proceeded to cut off my wife with her cart…wife did not have it, she played the offense and prevailed for the win!
As tore up as we were about it, our patience payed off. Two different managers gave us free stuff for being there so early! Awesome tote bags for groceries and a free bag of goodies from Trader Joe’s!  Their customer service is outstanding. They could clearly see our passion, dedication & gratitude for what they worked so hard to set up here in the great city of Nashville. So, we got our favorite items from Trader Joe’s and made our way home while the not blind lady and her friends in the pretend line were wandering aimlessly, confused why they don’t have coupon books…TJ’s prices are always cheap so you don’t need one! Do some research when you get back to Brentwood (Insert Thurston Howell Accent). Thats all, Happy Trader Joesmas!!

Tour is over, home is amazing & we’ll do it all over again next week.  This time around though, we will be home alot more throughout the tour.  I’m also starting an exciting photo project this week too, I will let out some more info later on that.  It’s good to be home with family, friends, dogs and scooters.  Thanks again to everyone who was a part of our fall tour.  It was so good to make some new friends & see old ones.  More later.

Just a couple….See if you can guess who House Of Heroes is supposed to be…

Today is the last day of the Uncle Fest Tour here in Chicago. The last day of tour is always bitter sweet. It exciting to be going home to normal life, but it’s also a bummer to leave a ton of new friends you make. Luckily, we have one more show tomorrow with House Of Heroes but we will have to say goodbye today to This Providence and Ludo. I’m gonna miss all those dudes a ton but we established such good friendships that I know we will run into each other again. I will post some more pictures later but, for now, here is one from a shoot I did for This Providence in Cleveland, OH.

Only 5 shows left on the Uncle Fest Tour. The shows thus far have been a great time, i’m really gonna miss seeing Ludo, This Providence and House Of Heroes everyday. They are an awesome bunch of dudes to tour with. Speaking of House Of Heroes, I hit them up to do a quick photo shoot yesterday in Orlando, FL. We shot for a short time with great results, here’s a sneak peak…

Today I got to fulfill a dream of mine. You see, I have had an obsession with alligators for good while now. I have seen them up close but have never held one. Well, today I went to the Alligator Park behind the House Of Blues and my dream became a reality. I know this sounds pretty lame to most people, but I was loving life. Check it out…