Marzo is a stud. Really Inspiring. Sometimes I feel, I mean everyone feels like an outsider to some extent. Talk about self-understanding, Clay or his family didn't understand him until they diagnosed him with Asperger's Syndrome.

Reading parts of this book right now, damn well written, will make you re-think about the power of walking from here to there.

I saw this film last night at the University Town Center near UCI. One of the best documentaries I've seen in a while. Really well done. Kept me laughing and thinking the entire way through. If you like street art, Shepard Fairey or Banksy (both street artists), I suggest you go see it. I sometimes have a strong dislike for artists and the pretentiousness that they bring. This film clearly documents that as it challenges you to think of what is and isn't art. I just remember seeing some jackass kid at the end talk about an artist who was "doing something new in a modern way". I remember laughing because it wasn't new at all. That artist, at the end of the film, made about a million dollars in sales because he was doing something "new". Just watch it... you'll see...

CFA portraits. I think they're coming out well...

Depersonalized, maybe. Destroyed, possibly; I think really by the power of her beauty. It is as isolating as genius, or deformity. Unlike genius, it is one of the qualities that removes you from the world, but offers no real compensation. I have always been aware of a relationship between madness and beauty. Does this help to explain some of what appear to be contradictions in my work? It’s only one part. It had nothing to do with the discipline of work, and other things, but you will find, if you look to the portraits, that connection. A possibility of failure and danger and poetry in life — and the close line.

-Richard Avedon

CASTLES IN THE SKY from Sipping Jetstreams on Vimeo.

Taylor Steeles New movie to come out. From what the trailer presents, I can only imagine an amazing film. I love the music, the shots and the nostalgia of the piece. What happens while surfing is only so small compared to the events of the before and the thereafter. I find that the colors of summer, the smell of donuts and coffee in the morning, the laughs afterward and a warm shower is a more of a larger part of why I love to surf. Thank you Taylor for always making great films.