About Gallery
My life, my pursuits, my passions, my desire, my hard work and relentless pursuit of a vision to achieve and accomplish the goals in my life have created opportunities and situations to meet, work and hangout with many of the people that I have looked up to and admired as well as just some cool people!!
Brian Brannon (part 2)
Reunion with Brian Brannon singer of JFA and all around total and complete RAD dude. Caught up with Brian at the Shred Fest / the last time we hung out was to interview him back in 2007 for the Pioneers of Punk project
Christian Hosoi
What – no way / Yes way – the original one and only Air master of the 80’s – Christian Hosoi – the creator of the “Christ Air” – one of the most legendary and talented Skateboarders of all time. So cool to catch up meet and hang out with Christian at the Shred Fest held at the legendary Pink Motel from the famed 80′ skate movie “thrashin” – JFA and Dr. Know performed
Joe Wood
This is a big one for me. This last summer I had the honor of hosting, promoting and producing a small live show for one of my all time favorite Artists – Joe Wood – Joe of course is / was the lead singer for the 80’s Punk / Rock and Roll band TSOL – he was the man behind the albums” “Change Today / Revenge / Hit and Run / Strangelove / TSOL – LIVE. He of course has an earlier punk history pre TSOL and then many great songs Post TSOL as Joe Wood and the Lonely Ones and now tours as “Change Today” – Safe to say that undoubtedly TSOL – “Revenge” album is the background to my Youth – I have worn that record out 10x over!! I consider Joe Wood to be one of the greatest Singer Songwriters of all time!! This was an absolute honor!! As a bonus my youngest daughter Jaylen and I co-designed a Limited Lithograph and Tshirt for Change Today – (you can see it in the store on the ebay link) we have a few left – this is a mash up of old TSOL Strangelove album art with other TSOL and Joe Wood imagery combined!! Just totally Rad shit!!
Billy Duffy
Hanging back stage with Billy Duffy from the legendary band “The Cult” – Billy, The Cult and his White Falcon Gretsch rank top in my fav bands!!
Body
When I was about 22 years old I Art Directed the live portion of a very ground breaking computer based Video game called “The 11th hour” – it was the first game to introduce live film with computer animation – here’s a Fun cool Polaroid from the set, this is my Body bag that I dressed out.
Brian JFA
Fuckin what!! Hanging with Brian Brannon – legend in my book. Grew up rocking and skating to his Jams and then interviewed him 20 years later for a project that I did titled “The Pioneers of Punk”
Bruce Campbell the B movie horror god
Bruce is a friend and a professional colleague of mine, Bruce made his film “My Name is Bruce “ in my Indy Film Studio. Bruce also mentored me on an Indy film project that has yet to go to screen…
Channel 3
Some of the nicest coolest most genuine guys you will ever meet in punk rock!!
Corbin
The early years, one of my first Assistant Prop Master jobs on a movie filmed in Portland Oregon starring Corbin Bernson and Shelly Long (look em up kids) I was living in LA but took the job as a local for the opportunity, I slept in my car for the first 4 weeks during filming and showered in the public water park – until the lead PA took me in and gave me a couch.
Dabums
Just a couple of cats that I hung around with at Land Mind – didn’t say much but they had a peaceful vibe.
Dan Russell
Watched Dan wrestle back in the late 80’s in high school – he is one of the greatest wrestlers and competitors in modern history – only come to find out 28 years later that we are cousins!!
Edward Colver
His photos of the punk rock scene in the 80’s helped me create and mold my vision that lended to my personal style, they let me dream, visualize and live through his lens. He directed my daughter to take this photo. A very, very cool meeting and moment!!
Frozen Bill
A couple of young and super green dudes, Bill Clark is the guy in the white, he was a PA intern on this job, now he is a producer in LA for all of Quentin Tarentino’s movies!! Total bad ass and someone I am proud to call a brother!!
Frusciante
This moment for me reinforced “manifest destiny” I was a JAF guy from Mothers Milk on and his solo shit spoke my language!! Hung with JAF all night backstage and then on his tour bus talking LIFE!!
Gibby
Growing up in the 80’s punk rock scene the Butthole Surfers were a fav on rotation!! Gibby cameo’d on the movie Dead Man and let’s just say it wasn’t by accident that I wore my butthole surfers hat that day!!
Head
Come on – Brian “Head” Welch / KORN – Brian and I go way back to before KORN – he played lead guitars on one of my best friends album before Korn, they were nobodys’ by society’s standards in Bakersfield – Surprised my girls with a secret sushi dinner and VIP pass to the show!! How we do it!!
HR – Legendary!!
The one and only HR from Bad Brains, spent about 5 hours with him in the hotel after watching and recording the show live at berbatis pan in Porltand. Grew up slamming out to Bad Brains and then to have the op to get insight into his views on punk rock and personal identity was flat out amazing!!
Jamesbond
James is a long time friend and current founder and owner of UNDEFEATED. James and I go back to the early 90’s in LA, we have some stories!! So stoked for this cat, nothing short of hard work and hard vision have lead to his success!!
Jim Bridges
Ok all you 80’s babies remember the legendary line “what chew talking bout Willis!!” from the beloved show Arnold starring Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges – this is Todd’s older brother Jim and he was my neighbor in North Hollywood for a few years, he was a pro bowler and had a nice career in film as well. He prop assisted for me on a few projects on his down time.
Johnny Depp
Me and the man Johnny Depp – I had the privilege and honor of working side by side with Johnny on the Indy film Dead Man for about 4 months. It was hands down one of the most amazing creative experiences ever!! In this photo he is wearing my first little beanie hat design I made – “Positive Vibes”
Keith Morris
Circle fuckin Jerks lead singer Keith Morris!! Bad to the bone!! Coolest guy ever!!
Mario Lopez
Mario Lopez, back when I prop mastered this “after school special” titled “Big Boys Don’t Cry” – Mario was famous for “Saved by the Bell” – not “Extra” good times and another great creative experience from my days as an Art Guy in Hollywood.
Mark Schultz
Pretty much anyone who wrestled in the 80’s knew of the Schultz brothers, especially if you wrestled in Southern Oregon. When Dave got murdered by John DuPont it shook the wrestling world, we were honored to have Mark stop by our practice and drop some knowledge on the boys.
Martial Marshall
18 years old in 1988, my very first movie production ever!! It was called Martial Marshall and I was an electrical trainee – I instantly knew “The Biz” was for me!!
Nardcore
The legends of Nardcore were on tour and stopped in the studio to grab some sleep and skate the half pipe. Larry White the self-professed “nardcore drum slut” is a hardcore bro of mine and took me in and taught me up in Hollywood. Some serious legends in this photo!!
Norman
Had to take the youngest baby to hang VIP with Norman – she is a die hard Walking Dead Fan.
Page Helmet
Page Hamilton founder and brainchild of seminal 90’s rock band Helmet!! I produced his first show back home in his actual music career in Medford Oregon!! A good time was had by all.
Palm
Legend!! Ironically in 1988 me and my crew fucked around and joined the high school air band and chose to do Agent Oranges song Bloodstains , we skated daily to Agent Orange – 20 years later I interview Mike at 3 am in the Days Inn in Ventura for my Pioneers of Punk project. Cool as Fuck.
POD
Hangin with the Southtown Crew Sony, Wuv and Traa – POD is in the house and flat rock the house!!
Portrait
Made a stop by Kamp Grizzly in Portland to check up on my bro Danny Portrait owner and Founder of Kamp Grizzly!! They do cool ass shit – look em up!!
Red Monkey
Me and my long time brother Torry Pendergrass – we met when I was Art Directing and he was Talent in a Sony Trade show project about 25 years ago, Torry is the founder and creator of Red Monkey Custom Designs, he built it from the ground up in his garage and is an absolute amazing artist, I have been inspired by his talent and work ethic for a lot of years, He has done custom guitar straps for the most amazing musicians in the industry.
Robert Pine
70’s legend!! Did you grow up on “CHiPs” the 70’s cop show about two motorcycle cops in Los Angeles……. well I did and loved every damn episode as a young boy. Then 20 years later prop mastered a movie and got to work with Sgt. Getraer.
Ron Emory – TSOL
Ron Emory – TSOL wow this was a milestone moment for me, although the album does not feature the original singer Jack, the TSOL REVENGE album is still my absolute favorite album. I was able to interview Ron for the Pioneers of Punk project – it was like walking down the history of punk rock and life perspective in general, Ron is such an amazing guy!!
Soto
Steve Soto bass player for the legendary punk band the Adolescents, this house where I interviewed him is the same house that his mom still lives in and same garage where the legendary song “bloodstains” from Agent Orange was written and quite a bit of the “blue” album!!
Stern
The documentary “Another State of Mind” that Shawn Stern and BYO – “Better Youth Organization” was undoubtedly one a few things that impacted my very young life in the 80’s and cemented my sense for the DIY work ethic and my Punk Rock ethos – Shawn is the founder, creator and master mind behind that project that chronicled a DIY punk rock tour in 82 or 83 ish with his band Youth Brigade and Social Distortion – I interviewed him for my own Punk Rock Doc – Pioneers of Punk
Stream
Always busting style with the PR undertones!! Art Directing a commercial in Old Town in Tuscon Arizona for the Stream Machine squirt gun!! Good fucking times.
Taulbee Toby
Two of the raddest fuckers I know, Toby on your left and my right is a young artist who worked for me for 8+ years – we traveled the US together – self made bad ass artist and current owner of Tattoo 34 studio in Portland the ugly bastard on your right is a childhood old school punk rock bro of mine and responsible for most of my ink – bad ass tattoo artist, punk rock and horror enthusiast and life long dog!!
Luscious
One of my major dreams and goals was always to own and operate my own Indy Record Label – This photo documents the very first project completed in 1996 for my label “Mental Records” with the band Virus 9 – we also had Jesse Luscious from The Criminals come to guest vocal on a track!! Milestone – dreams do come true if you fkn work on them!!
Watt
The cat on the far left is my ultimate homeboy Merrill Ward – Merrill sang for SWA an early early original act on the seminal Punk Rock label SST Records that everyone knows for being the home of Black Flag – the cat in the middle is the legendary Mike Watt from the Minutemen another epic punk rock band!! We just watched him finish a solo set!!
White Porter
Larry White a chance encounter that turned into a life long friendship, Larry was a big brother and mentor to me in Hollywood in the Set Construction side of the industry, he taught me how to be rad, coincidentally larry also drummed for some of my most favorite punk bands – like Aggression!! Larry later ended up being on my Indy Label Mental Records with a band called GG ELVIS. The gal on my right is Becca Porter legendary scenester from the BYO / Hollywood punk rock scene and was also captured in Another State of Mind – I met her years later when I was booking my own Punk Rock shows and she booked for BYO records!! Cosmic!!
Wiles
– Jason Wiles, he was a young kid from Missouri who moved out to LA to become an actor, I met Jason on the set of an ABC after school special that I was prop mastering. He had a wrestling background – so did I – immediate respect and camaraderie.
Wojo
Wojciehowicz or “Wojo” from the legendary 70’s TV show “Barney Miller” – Max Gail is his real name, I set dressed a show in the 90’s called Somebodys Daughter that Max starred in – show here rockin a Dinosaur Jr. shirt and of course I have my staple Cure shirt on – working rock shirts before rock shirts were cool.
Zander
Ok two of my most influential things in my young life – REPO MAN and the Circle Jerks!! Well I got to meet and hang out with Zander Schloss all night at a CJ show- Fucking Epic!!
James and John
Photo of myself and my great friend James Higginson, this is during MadTv back in about 1994 -ish. I was the Lead man in the Art Department and James was the Prop Master. James won a daytime Emmy Award for Set Design of Pee Wee’s playhouse!! WOW!!
Andy Spliethof
RIP 2019 – My hardcore bro, artist, person, human, alien, saint brother Andy Meat Beat Manifesto Money Spliethof proudly rocks the Original Poser “Dead Rockstars” shirt. Andy was the first person to ever reach out to me back in 1996 when I started my first company, Andy saw a newspaper article the local paper did on me for a series of positive PSA’s that I was producing aimed at wayward youth!! Andy offered and built my very first website for free- because that’s how RAD he is!!
