http://vubui.com/blog Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:08:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lan and I hung out in the RVIP Lounge at the LA Film Festival this past Saturday with Hayden Black, Kestrin Pantera, Jonathan Grubb, Batgirl (the dog) and a few other cool people. We didn't really spend much time at the festival, and it was the day before it ended... but ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/07/02/rvip-lounge-at-the-la-film-festival/ After recently "topping off" the construction site for the $548 million, 460,000 square foot New Hospital Building... the giant crane used during construction was disassembled and trucked away this weekend. The building is set to open in 2010 and has been under construction for about 3 years already. Lan and I ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/06/22/childrens-hospital-of-los-angeles-crane-teardown/ I just called 911 for the first time in my life about a half hour ago.  I need to wake up in 3 hours to go shoot some crazy crane move at CHLA... but I thought I'd jot this down really quickly first. I was coming down the 22 East... passing ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/06/21/my-first-911-call/ When Mark and Candice Brooke contacted Lan and I about shooting a promo video for their photography website we were totally stoked. Their photography is top notch and they are definitely a force to be reckoned with amongst the wedding photographers we know. Part of our video called for some ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/05/30/mark-and-candice/ Well, the concert went off without MUCH of a hitch. We ended up starting almost a half hour late due to audio issues, but once we got started the show was awesome... and both the live and the internet viewers had a blast. After the show we went out ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/05/26/paul-dateh-live-streaming-concert/ Most of the people who know me probably also know Paul Dateh. Most people who know me also know that I am gifted with musical talent. Er... yeah. Talent. Paul Dateh, on the other hand, is blessed with ACTUAL musical talent. That's why one of his You Tube videos ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/05/25/paul-dateh-seekrit-concert-show/ I am not a designer. The being said, I'm actually pretty proud of myself for putting together the page for the new Shootsac promotion. Lan and I did the video (Lan's post work on this one was AWESOME) and I put together the page with a good deal of input ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/05/04/shootsac-lens-giveaway/ I received my new Alien Bees ABR800 ringflash last Wednesday... and have anxiously waited to have time to try it out. Finally yesterday I came over to Lan and Bonny's garage... set up some lights... and did a quick shoot. So far I really like it. I ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/04/27/bonny-pierzina-and-the-new-ring-flash/ After seeing everyone else do it... I thought I'd go ahead and try Tweetcloud, which makes a word cloud of your most used words through your Twitter posts. I have no idea how accurate this is... "going", "know", "think" and "vegan" are supposedly my most used words (minus the ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/04/16/tweetcloud-what-have-you-been-saying/ Eddie Grey is an awesome personal trainer out of Studio 1 on 1 in Venice. Keats, Lan and I shot promotional photos of him on Thursday, and here are some of my favorites. As it turns out, the body builder types we see gracing the covers of insecurity-inducing magazines at ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/04/05/eddie-grey-personal-trainer/ We went to San Luis Obispo yesterday to help a friend and aspiring wedding photographer, Bonnie Tsang, who was shooting her second wedding. We went mostly as support and to do a little second shooting... but we also took the opportunity to shoot a little video that we'll be putting ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/03/30/the-bui-brothers-at-the-madonna-inn/ This one is good for all my non-photographer friends who just like to take photos and maybe do some simple edits to them. I assume most of the photographers I know actually own a copy of Photoshop...Adobe has just released a beta of Photoshop Express... which is basically a ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/03/27/adobe-photoshop-express/ Kate and I were surprised to receive a strange looking 5 dollar bill as change at Rite Aid today. I guess it isn't taking long to get the new bills into circulation. I understand the need for better and more technologically advanced anti-counterfeit measures... but it seems as though our ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/03/25/new-5-spot/ I am deathly ill. Ok that might be a slight exaggeration... but it does feel that way. I haven't felt this sick since I had malaria... and that's saying a lot. Anyhow... besides the sickness it led to, WPPI was awesome. Shootsac did very well (which was the only ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/03/23/wppi/ Ok, so I'm not very good about keeping up with blogging. I have never been much of a blogger, I always figured that no one really cared much for what I had to say unless it was something really important. Considering, though, that I have very low readership ... http://vubui.com/blog/2008/02/09/the-bschool/ It's been a while since I've really written anything here, just a few video and photo posts, but I'd like to record a little about The Winnies. Irina Slutsky came up with the concept and started planning The Winnies, and she brought Lan, Bonny and I on as organizers to handle ... http://vubui.com/blog/2007/12/05/the-winnies/ WTF?ShareThis http://vubui.com/blog/2007/11/14/vietnam-2006-hello-lucky-boss/ Na was my favorite fruit during my stay in Vietnam in 2006. Friggin' delicious.If only I could have some Na during the next two months, veganism wouldn't seem so daunting.ShareThis http://vubui.com/blog/2007/11/14/vietnam-2006-na/ Lan, Bonny, Paul Dateh and I went to see Battlestar Gallactica Razor last night... and while waiting Paul and I walked over to the New Zealand Naturals ice cream store, where they take regular ice cream and put it through a machine that sorta turns it into soft-serve.ShareThis http://vubui.com/blog/2007/11/13/new-zealand-ice-cream/ Jay and Ryanne are East Coast transplants documenting the green and geek communities in the SF Bay Area. Both are ex-television producers and editors who were born anew into the videoblogging world in 2004. Ryanne is the Co-Author of Secrets of Videoblogging; Jay is the Co-Author of Extreme Tech: Videoblogging. ... http://vubui.com/blog/2007/11/03/jay-and-ryanne-photo-shoot/ I have a bunch of video from my Vietnam trip in 2006 that I have still not gotten through, but here is the first of what will end up being maybe 12 or so videos.Here's how they eat avocado in Vietnam... or at least one of the ways. Avocado is ... http://vubui.com/blog/2007/10/26/vietnam-2006-avocado/ I visited White Castle in Queens, NY with Action Girl... it was not good.ShareThis http://vubui.com/blog/2007/10/24/white-castle-sucks/ This is a song, by Bui Sauce, to everyone in the world except the 15 people who watched us film Noodle Scar live... which includes everyone we know except Rox and Shane.Noodle ScarShareThis http://vubui.com/blog/2007/10/11/you-missed-noodle-scar/ It is what it is...ShareThis http://vubui.com/blog/2007/10/08/gray-hair/ Paul Dateh is an amazingly talented musician and vocalist. I had the pleasure of meeting him at Pixelodeon where he played a great set, similar to the main video on his site. Awesome stuff. I can honestly say I'd never heard hip-hop violin before... and if someone ... http://vubui.com/blog/2007/09/11/paul-dateh/