The Los Angeles Museum of Natural History pretty much stinks as far as their diorama collection goes, but I have to give them a cornicopia of high fives for their latest “installment”. Can’t get over how well made that Dino costume is and you know everyone of those kids are having their minds collectively blown. Too much fun..

Steve Schofield’s photography is worth checking out. He takes cosplayers and puts them into everyday settings, usually posing around their house. The Star Wars photos stand out the best to be, but that’s to be expected I suppose.

Eades is doing his annual Summer Mix Series and it’s fantastic as always. Had some freetime this weekend to put together my own submission, In Heat, which you can check out over here.

I had an awesome opportunity to take set photos during the production of a PSA for the Los Angeles Youth Network. LAYN is a great organization that provides residences, support, and care to homeless teens in LA. LAYN worked with the non-profit group, Women In Film , to put the shoot together and it turned out to be a really awesome day. You can check out photos here.

My buddy, Fisher, had his 30th birthday at Boomer’s this last week. You can check out photos here.

This past Sunday we had Molly dedicated at Church and then a big lunch with family and friends afterwards. You can check photos out here.

Andrea and Jules hosted a totally rad July 4th party this weekend. Amazing food, kickball, a Cornhole tournament, fireworks, sparklers. Awesome people and overall great times. One of the best July 4th’s I’ve had. You can view photos of the day in the sun here.

Thank you, thank you Paige for this amazing video of The Showbiz Pizza Band performing Usher’s “Love In The Club”. And yes the entire thing is amazing. I can’t recall the amount of arguements I’ve had over The Showbiz Pizza Band’s superiority over Chuck E. Cheese’s band. I think they’ve finally proven their point.

Star Wars Dance Off! Darth Vader killing it with The Thriller.

Jon pointed me in the direction of a cathedral in Budapest called “The Hall of Hunting“. This is close to how I imagine my living room looking one day. The excess of it reminds me of the Sedlec Ossuary in Prague, aka “how I hope my second living room looks one day”. I kid, I kid.

There is a new site up for the proposed Los Angeles Football Stadium in the City of Industry. I gotta say I’m in love with the “built inside the earth” design.

This one goes out to Blankenship and the design nerds that get their panties in a wad over fonts. They’ve been using the wrongly-dated fonts on the Indiana Jones maps. So now it’s not the 4th movie that ruined the series, it’s the fonts!

Two photographers to check out:
Alexey Titarenko takes some flat out ghostly images, literally. Really mindblowing work.

Catherine Ledner. She’s killing it on the animal portraits. Colorful, whimsical, well composed, thought out backgrounds. She has a massive gallery of every animal you can imagine. Definitely worth your time.

This photo from Eades gets my motor running.

And lastly, I had the chance to see Big Trouble In Little China on the bigscreen during the Aero theater’s John Carpenter festival. They had a 300+ crowd and it was hands down one of the best movie going experiences of my life. Awesome night with one of my all time favorite films.

The best part of seeing the new Indiana Jones was getting to see the teaser trailer for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. And it’s finally online.