Electric Daisy Carnival Part 1

Well finally I'm writing about this.
While it has been a week since this event pop off as a huge sucess here in Vegas. There is still tons of content hitting the internet from pictures to video. To just people thoughts and articles good and bad alike. EDC exploded and took over Las Vegas last week and I can't thank Auggie and JessFunk of Sound Factory Systems for letting me tag along and work for them that weekend. It was great to see all the guys again, only thing that would have made it better was if we were sessionin ourselves. Haha.
But here you go. Some night one treats. Out of the 450+ photos that I took I threw a shit ton out. Either the lights got ahold of them and were to bright or dark. Or I didn't focus up right as most of the time I was shooting in a manual focus state. Other times I just didn't want to take pictures or there were to many people on stage. Or I was off in the corner just dancing to my own groove..

But on to the pictures and me shuttin up....



One of the many setups put together!

Circuit Grounds before the storm


Wippenberg





Half of Crystal Method!


Christopher Lawrence


Nigel Ficke ( I died laughing everytime this dude hit the stage. And man was his supporting class hot!)

Roger Sanchez





Cosmic Gate





Calvin Harris



Steve Aoki






Steve Aoki & Diplo plankin like a Boss!



Autoerotique




The crowd shots are basically a time lapse of the night as you can see the crowd really growing and diminishing there at the end. Some of the shots though really can't even translate the mass amounts of people there at certain points. And yes that is the sun coming up there at the end. What a night one, with all those huge names gracing the stage and personally hearing some again and some for the first time, just an amazing eargasm. Even though I had been up for some umting fuckin hours as I went to my real job during that day as well. It was some good rest that I got in the middle day on that Saturday. Tomorrow I should have night 2's ready. Not as many but more of a story to tell on that one.

Oh yeah and the top photo.. Self explanatory, that would be the gang.
EDC 2011 LV Dj Tech's.
Show did not go down with us puttin in work behind the scenes.

Weekend Trip to Nor Cal

Well honestly I can say that this will probably either be a four or three part series depending on how much that I break everything up. That and I believe that some of these things just are important enough that they deserve there own lime light. With so many emotions and going threw my mind at the moment I’m just going to put down as much as I can in this power hour I would consider this flight back to Vegas.

First off I really need to get better at carrying around my camera when I go on these things and just snapping pictures. But I guess I really don’t do it because I want them to be all professional and shit. But honestly it doesn’t even matter because no one really reads this. Like an open journal and shit. Funny thing is I took a look at my hit counter and I think March was my biggest hit month, which was like 15. LOL. Anyways lets get into this Weekend

Well it started on Thursday evening actually. Flew down into Long Beach and was greeted by my little little brother Kevin. We then headed back towards the house but needed to make a stop at Mens Wharehouse first to pick up his tux for prom.
(pic of Prom Night)

Other then that I called it an early night as to finally hoping to sleep, which I’m doing horrible at doing as of late. Also to get ready to drive up to Nor Cal on Friday with the mother unit as well. But we weren’t leaving till about noonish so that gave me the morning to run some errands that I needed to do in the local area. Well lets just be honest here, when you don’t have a car. You don’t get around I finally got my little brother up at like 11:30ish and then we headed down to G-spot to take a look at the coche. Here I’ll let the pictures do the talking.

But we did do a couple things we finalized the color as well as all the work left to be done. So I’m super happy about all of that and I can’t wait. Two weeks and then she should be out. So well see, then time to hide her till I get new wheels as well.

And then it was off to Nor Cal with ma.



We hit some traffic along the way and it wouldn't have been a trip with my mom anywere without some Geocaching a little along the way. We finally got in around 9:30, and got some dinner with Nick and Missy before calling it night. Seeing how everyone knew Saturday was going to be a big day for sure.
Well it was the big day for the family and espeically Nick seeing how he as graduationg from Sac State. But of corse like any good fashion everyone was running late with getting the cake and blah blah blah. Funny thing is that Nick and i were just chillin at his house playing video games.. Until mom called and started screaming that we hadn't left yet. But we waited for Ben to arive and then we took off with him and Rachel. I would say more about the ceremony and what not but there was this family behind me with an anoying ass child. I wanted to say something but you know them there cultural difference or boundaries, so I said nothing but.. I did snap a couple pictures.
















After that we went to go eat as a giant bunch. Haven't had a family dinner or whatever you want to call it like that in a very long time. Thank god we got there when we did, because we basically took the place over. I mean we started with our indoor voices but after a while we just got louder and louder. It was good to finally hear some other stories about my father as well at that table. But really it was a celebration for my brother and celebrate we did. Because after dinner the youngsers of the group took off and went to the club. First off thanks Rachel for being the DD, but damn I had a blast, and need to do that that more often with my brother.

Sunday was more a relaxed day as we went to SF and walked around for a bit.
Good day ate some crab and bread. Geocahed a little and saw the strangest shit ever in a park. Had to be this weird play on evolution in the park. I mean I'm actually speechless about how to explain it. I mean they were on stilts and just all over the place, I mean the music was like someone just banging on the keyboard and other random instruments.
Overall it was a really good weekend highlighted by a great accomplishment by my brother.



About time I press enter

Juan Lemus. a years thought

Before going any further I would like you to just a take 10 seconds and think about a year. What a year means. 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours..
Now think about how fast it takes to stop it…
One year ago I lost a part of my extended family. Someone, that don’t get me wrong, we didn’t hang out all that much. But we did bullshit and talk online everyday at least. I turned to for advice and inspiration in a portion of my life that I hold close to my heart because what it means to me.
Juan you will be missed but we celebrate your life by us growing upon our paths till the day we rejoin to drive again.





Rev Run Wisom
“Promise me u'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, & stronger than you seem, & smarter than you think.

Congratulations Nick!

Lets talk about he most important issue to me and that would be my little big brothers graduation from Sacramento State University with a Bachelor in Business Marketing. Of course I’m upset that he beat me but I couldn’t be ay more proud of the guy. He has to be the biggest person that I miss in my life living in Las Vegas as he now finishes up living in that Nor Cal area…. Maybe. But you never know were your going to go from here. I mean you closed one chapter f you life and now you opened up a whole new exciting book in your life. You get to finally go out there and throw your ideas at the world and see what you can create. You have always been very gifted with placement of words and ideas. Especially the way that something should look and should be put in its place.

I would have remembered a couple of quotes from your graduation but there was a fucking Quickie Mart behind me and I couldn’t hear shit past there fucking chatter and annoying ass kid. I do know for a fact though that I haven’t seen moms eye glow with emotion like that in a very long time and I’m so happy that you gave her back this gift. While you won’t look at it like that she couldn’t stop saying how proud of you she was. And I think that is a shared feeling across the board in this family.

Lastly Nick I’m going to end this I held you the day you were born. Of course with a little supervision because you were already a big person and I was only three. And I have had the privilege of being with you for most of your life. But over these last three years as you got be get out of So Cal and off on your own. You have grown. Not necessary any taller then the six foot four that you already are. But as a person, your maturity and your creativity with ideas has only become more enlightening and entertaining. I’m very upset with myself for not visiting you more and making a true effect to come up there and hang out with you. I love you and always will. I’m so proud of you.
Love you and Congrats!

Some Old, Some New, But Living Changes Daily

Finally

Well Finally I'm going to sit down and do this again..
Get back into the swing of things and get in touch with how I'm doing as a person and maybe some one will learn something along the way. So lets break some things down since the last time that I wrote something about nothing. AKA the last time that I went back to Cali.. So I'll try and beak it down as what has happened in the last month.

- I bought a Cherokee
- My car is still in the shop
- Work is still workin and I've been working
- I'm playing soccer again
- I got a couple of new shoes
- Lastly I think would be that fact that I got back to writing in my best place. What I call the porcelain throne.


But really I just haven't taken the time to sit down and reflect as to what is goin on in my life and were I am. Funny how I started working on this the day the Jesus was resurrected.. What a great day to make a come back. So I guess I'll break down the quick notes of everything I just listed on top.

The Cherokee, well as you all know I went down on my "daily" ride in January and have been relying on the sol to take on both duties for a while now. Longer then I wanted, I was in the market for a truck. But that just kept falling threw, either I didn't like what I saw or it was just not the piece for me. Anyways I was perusing the net like I always do and came upon a '92 Cherokee. Well its easier to just this..
Say Hello Ruby


This would Ruby the GhettoBlaster.
Haha. And I know your all going in your minds. I wonder what he is going to do with this?
Well yes those of you that are wondering if she will stay stock. NOPE!
It's going to take time of course, and she comes second to the sol. But she will have things done to her overtime.


Speaking of the sol.
Engine is out and bay is being shaved. For those that don't understand, its one of them there things better understood with pictures. Those will not be released until the 15 of May. Then there will be flood of them. Well hopefully it turns enough heads to be a flood of them.


But I guess lastly really I haven't sat down, read a bit, listened to my sermons (Beauty and the Beast Podcast), and just taken a look as to what the fuck am I doing. And while I don't owe it to anyone to write anything or do anything, I feel bad when i don't put together a piece or say my morning "Hello's" to the Sol owners and FB kiddo's. Lets just say it was a month of ups and downs very neutral when I break it all down. I should have done in some categories like always. Taking that extra step to wish people good fortune on there days of birth and other special moments. But really I'm kickin myself because I know I can do more but I'm just being a total lazy ass and just not pulling the trigger with things that I want and need to do.
But enough of my fuckin pitty party.
I'm looking forward to this month to come and I hope that I have alot to share. Good things are coming up in my family, and I should be taking my first vacation in what 2 years.. God damn! So all I can really say is that I hope change is around the corner



Of corse i can't leave you with some weekly shit though

Video's:
Epic Meal Time
Baby Say Fish?
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's 'Star Wars'


Music:
I'm still stuck on Dr. Dre's - I need a Dr.
Secondly Lupe Fiasco's - The Show Must Go On
and like always
iClub Mashed and EDM. If you still havn't checked them out. Seriously you need to

Reading
Joey Diaz's blog




Oh yeah the Shoes as I said..
No I did not buy them all in the last month I had some pairs on the way, but I realized I hadn't posted pictures of them I got them.. So I decided to finally share..



And if you ever wondered if I ever wore them..



Till next time