1) taking large-format photographs over Griffith Park with Erica. 2) playing with props in the stage. 3) re-telling horrors stories to Vu and Lan. 4) maeby suddenly got a terrible leg-cramp that lasted hours… she couldn’t walk, and kept crying when we tried to help her… poor thing. 5) finding out my grandmother had passed away… 6) driving back to my uncle Kevin’s house in Indiana. 7) going through things at my Grandmother’s house with family…

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photo by Mike Ambs - fix FToM wind scene: check! both @vubui and @manda had suggested a different set of shots were needed when talking about @crazyunclelarry and the winds east of glacier national park - today I finally fixed the scene! the answer was right in front of my face the whole time, I just needed to swap two shots that were about two minutes apart on the timeline.
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photo by Mike Ambs - fix FToM wind scene: check! both @vubui and @manda had suggested a different set of shots were needed when talking about @crazyunclelarry and the winds east of glacier national park - today I finally fixed the scene! the answer was right in front of my face the whole time, I just needed to swap two shots that were about two minutes apart on the timeline.

1) Still going through everything in the garage - moving is a mess. 2) On set at work. 3) Typing out thank you letters for another batch of 52hz mixtapes. 4) Breaker going crazy with a piece of plastic… oh, to be a cat. 5) Out to dinner with Erica on a after-work date. 6) Eating lunch between filming at the Santa Monica pier. 7) Vu and Lydia arriving at the house. 

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1) Pestering Erica as she does her best to draw Maeby on our new to-do board. 2) Off to see a movie at the Arclight. 3) Lan and Vu just getting back from traveling / working in Europe. 4) Erica looking at her large-format portrait of Xander for the first time - and being quite excited about it. 5) Taking down the xmas tree at the office with Whit and Zadi. 6) Maeby is a strange, strange dog. 7) So much hair *

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1) Awkwardly wrapping up the bicycle we got for Xander. 2) Dropping Vu off at the busstop on xmas morning - following this footage, I decided to wander through the woods above the highway… and almost got stabbed near a tent city. 3) opening up presents! 4) Erica showing off her dancing skills and Xander being unimpressed :P 5) Racing each other at the Long Beach arcade. 6) Taking 4x5 portraits near ABC studios. 7) This seal spent *forever* playing with these kids - every time they tossed up their little plastic ring it followed along with its nose against the glass.

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Filed under: this time last year. 

Last year Erica and I road-tripped it from Los Angeles to SXSW. I had decided - last year, when going through all the footage at home - that I would split the trip into 3 parts: the drive out, SXSW itself, and the drive home. For whatever reason, I just found the leftover footage from our long drive back home sitting on my drive - having never been edited or shared. So, to right that wrong, and finish what I started, here’s the last part of SXSW 2011… late, but still.

Vu joined us for the drive home - and we spent most of our time listening to podcast and taking photos on the side of the road.

pt 1 of 3, pt 2 of 3, photos + post about south-by @ tagged/sxsw

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1st spotted via pile:

Do More With Your DSLR: Working with Available Light via Vimeo Video School

This in-depth tutorial shows you how to make the most of the lighting conditions in your shooting environment. For anyone wondering about white balance, in search of ISO info, or freaked out by f-stops, this one’s for you.

Learning dSLRs has never been so much fun! Also, the day that someone animates me after the stylings of Mega Man… is the day I can die happy. 

1) Breaker curled up with me in the morning. 2) Erica showing off her Solid Gold Dancer pants! 3) Playing classic arcades at work. 4) Vu taking our blood pressure with his fancy iPhone app. 5) Driving back home down the 101. 6) Wrapping up Erica’s xmas present infront of her… but it’s okay, she helped me pick it out. 7) Fancy raincoat is fancy.

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via The Bui Brothers - Vimeo Video School: Do more with your DSLR

YAY!!! Finally we get to show a bit of what we did with Vimeo that Nikon sponsored!!! At the end of last year Nikon and Vimeo asked Vu and I to come to NYC and do some educational content for the Vimeo Video School… 

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via ftom film: photo and caption via Vu Bui Watched mike’s film rough cut For Thousands of Miles. Made notes but wow great stuff!!! Lan and Vu talked me - aka, peer pressured me - into playing the current edit of FToM. Vu had just purchased a brand new Moleskin journal, I guess he had never owned one before, and this page of notes on the film was the first thing he decided to write down. This brings the total number of people who seen a fairly close-to-final edit to: 7. I’ve received some really terrific feedback from these small mostly one-on-one screenings and I’m excited to make a handful of changes to the timeline before opening up screenings to other people. 
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via ftom film:

photo and caption via Vu Bui

Watched mike’s film rough cut For Thousands of Miles. Made notes but wow great stuff!!!

Lan and Vu talked me - aka, peer pressured me - into playing the current edit of FToM. Vu had just purchased a brand new Moleskin journal, I guess he had never owned one before, and this page of notes on the film was the first thing he decided to write down. This brings the total number of people who seen a fairly close-to-final edit to: 7. I’ve received some really terrific feedback from these small mostly one-on-one screenings and I’m excited to make a handful of changes to the timeline before opening up screenings to other people. 

photo by Mike Ambs - vu gave erica this awesome #polaroid button camera as an early xmas gift! so, as a stocking stuffer, I ran to burbank and found three boxes of #impossibleproject film :) she’s saving all the polaroid taking for when xander arrives later today and opens all his gifts. I’m really glad vu got her this though, I didn’t think of it till now, but last year, our 1st xmas in LA, we took *a lot* of polaroids of gift-opening with her old SX70 - I think we’re making it a bit of a tradition. merry xmas everyone!
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photo by Mike Ambs - vu gave erica this awesome #polaroid button camera as an early xmas gift! so, as a stocking stuffer, I ran to burbank and found three boxes of #impossibleproject film :) she’s saving all the polaroid taking for when xander arrives later today and opens all his gifts. I’m really glad vu got her this though, I didn’t think of it till now, but last year, our 1st xmas in LA, we took *a lot* of polaroids of gift-opening with her old SX70 - I think we’re making it a bit of a tradition. merry xmas everyone!

1) Driving past the Hollywood Bowl underneath my favorite tunnel of trees while listening to some Miike Snow. 2) Surprising Vu - or so we thought, he had uncovered our surprise-plot before arriving - at the Stinking Rose for his birthday. 3) Taking Rachel and Aaron to the Griffith Park Observatory to watch the magical planetarium show. 4) Getting some work done in the conference room. 5) Just returned from picking Mandy up at LAX, Nick and Erika had drove into town just a few hours earlier and were waiting back at the apartment. 6) Someone needed a jump at the North Hollywood Ralph’s. 7) Taking photos with the family infront of the Hollywood sign. The plan was to hike all the way to the top of the sign, but due to the extreme heat and that three of us were still suffering from sunburns we skipped the hike up in lieu of Menchie’s frozen yogurt. 

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