The Roots:

More to come here on blogging.la, eecue.com and flickr.

Lupe Fiasco:

More coming soon on blogging.la, eecue.com and flickr.

XXXL, Dino and MC Question Mark in the dome:

Make sure you zoom in on the Tesla photos, what looks like blurry lightning is actually an amazing progression of high voltage arc lines:

I plan on shooting and posting photos from Lupe Fiasco, The Coup, The Roots, Willie Nelson, and Rage here on blogging.la, eecue.com and flickr.

Ghostface Killah:

Stand by for one more set of photos tonight here on blogging.la, eecue.com and flickr.

Tom Morello’s solo project, The Nightwatchman, rocked. Here are some photos:

Stand by for more photos throughout the evening and weekend here on blogging.la, eecue.com and flickr.

Here are some shots of the crowd and Pharoahe Monch:

You can see more photos from today on eecue and flickr. I will be shooting Ghostface, Ozomatli and Red Hot Chili Peppers and uploading later.

Update: Xeni has some great Coachella live blogging coverage over on BoingBoing

You can check out a few more Coachella Friday selections here on eecue.com and here on flickr.

More photos and updates to come on here, eecue.com and flickr.

Hospitality for hundreds of artists and their guests is a huge job. Last night their fun was just beginning. You can see some more photos I took last night at Coachella here. Keep an eye out for many more coming soon from each day. My EVDO card is not getting a very good signal here and so uploads are slow… maybe I can find a better connection. I should say, in the interest of full disclosure, that I programed the Coachooser for Goldenvoice.

It seems like it takes a disaster somewhere around the country to get people to start preparing. I understand that people don’t want to think about “The Big One” or any other major calamity occurring in their city, but it is important to do so. Over the past few months, Penelope and I have been fine tuning our disaster plan and making our loft a safer place in the event of an earthquake. Here are some of the things we have done:

• Attached all of our hanging art with Monkey Hooks, which may or may not be fully earthquake safe, but are much better than what we had before, which were the wimpy little nail and hook things
• Strapped our TV with earthquake straps
• Strapped any of our furniture that is taller than it is wide with earthquake straps and affixed those straps to either studs or 90lbs drywall toggles
• Fixed all of our pottery / standing photo frames / kachinas with museum putty
• Installed childproof latches in our kitchen cupboards

We already had our emergency food and water stocked, but next weekend we are going to rotate it out and buy new MREs and bottled water. Here is what we have in our disaster home kit:

• Human / Cat Food for 10 days for 2 people and 2 cats
• Water for 10 days for 2 people and 2 cats
• First aid kit
• Flashlight (with crank)
• AM/FM Radio with Extra Batteries
• Ham Radio with Extra Batteries
• Cash
• Crowbar
• Change of Clothes
• Sturdy Shoes
• Copy of disaster plan
• Backpacks

In our cars we have the following:

• Water for 5 days
• Food for 5 days
• Sturdy shoes
• Flashlight (with crank)
• AM/FM Radios with extra batteries
• First Aid kit
• Sleeping Bag
• Backpack
• Cash
• Emergency Plan

Our emergency plan has an out of state contact number, the phone numbers of our family members and the plan of what to do if you are at home, away from home, or if home is no longer there. My wife and I are both trained in CPR and First Aid and in the next few months we will both be attending CERT training. I recommend that everyone at least gets First Aid and CRP training and if you can spare three Saturdays in May, please join DLANC and get CERT training. If you are interested in the DLAN CERT training please email me: cert@eecue.com.

I want to start this post off with a very special thank you to Eric Richardson and Cartifact for donating the excellent map for the Art Ride once again. Eric went out of his way to craft a great map for the ride and Cartifact very generously donated their wonderfully detailed Downtown map for use on the Downtown Art Ride.

The Downtown Art Ride takes place every second Thursday to coincide with the Downtown Art Walk. The ride starts at Art Murmur gallery on 6th and Main and we try to make it to all of the other galleries in Downtown. If you’re interested in joining us on the ride, just show up at 5:00pm at Art Murmur. Bring a bike, lock, and light and optionally, but highly recommended, a helmet.

I will be riding with my camera and photographing riders and artists, you can see some samples from the previous art rides here. There will also be a recent film school grad shooting a spec commercial to promote bicycling in Los Angeles for her director’s reel. Shouldn’t interfere with the ride much though. We had a really great turnout last month and I’ve already have a few people email me about this month, so it should be a fun ride. I’ll see everyone tomorrow!

Map You can download the new map here: Downtown Art Ride April 2007 Map [244KB jpg].

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I was randomly surfing the internet and I came across this website which gave me some information about my IP address. I zoomed in on the google map, and according to their data, I am blogging from a cemetery. I would have thought that the location shown would have been my ISP (Speakeasy), but I guess not. Maybe my loft was built atop an ancient burial ground and soon zombies will be rising from my pool, or lack thereof. OMG, are those Zombies&#8253

Update I missed the best part, according to their website, they are the “most accurate IP Address locator.” I would hate to see the least accurate locator.

NeoCon® Xpress L.A.. I seriously thought that this had something to do with the RNC and the Contract With On America. Seriously who thought this up? Do they live in a vacuum? To quote The IT Crowd: “Are you from the past?”

I have an undying love for junk. Growing up I spent countless hours digging through my fathers’ collection of vacuum tubes and old radios. The junk box, filled with untold thousands of assorted screws, bolts, nails and other detritus, was my playground. When I moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico and my father started working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he took me to what is arguably the world’s greatest salvage yard, The Black Hole. I ended up working at Ed Grothus’ amazing junkyard for 3 summers during my years in high school.

Recently I took a tour of APEX Electronics with the Dorkbot Socal group and shot some HDR photos of what I saw. Last week a saw an article in the LA Times about Norton Sales, and decided I had to go and shoot some HDR photos of their collection. I emailed the owner, Carlos, a link to my APEX photos and asked if I could come by and do a shoot. He was in to the idea, so on Sunday I drove up to North Hollywood and shot the following photos:

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