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With so much happening at Lightning In A Bottle this year, I wanted to take a minute to share some final instructions for any of my friends or contacts that I haven’t been in daily touch with regarding festival details like ticketing system, emergency calls, etc.

If you’re one of these people not in daily contact with me on these issues or are but still have questions, please read on below for some final instruction. My time is uber-tight at the moment between final planning for LIB, an emergency container pack job for The Do LaB’s Portugal job/trip, the Distinctivefabric.com build-out and move into its new space, and some miscellaneous details like trying to find a new home with my girlfriend and still somehow maintaining time for the usual with my duties on the MINC board and as a Sugar Shack collective resident.

Needless to say, the last three are falling behind to varying degrees, for which those involved have my genuine apologies, but this scheduling mayhem wasn’t unforeseen, my life is what it is.

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Hello friends-

Hope everyone’s plans for LIB are coming along nicely! I’m really excited to connect with everyone on site, it’s going to be an amazing experience this year…just a few things to get out of the way and be totally clear on.

If anyone is planning to arrive at LIB before the gates open Thursday at 4pm, you will not be admitted unless you’re on the early arrival list.

If you’re not yet on an early arrival list, then most likely you don’t need to be as you plan to be there after the gates officially open. If for some reason you were planning to be on site before the gates open and are not signed up through the official volunteer channel, then please contact by 10am tomorrow (Thursday), to arrange these details.

For those speaking on a panel, please send me your preferred email to be used in conjunction with your event entry, details will be emailed to you, I believe (most likely with a link or print-out). Details on this still haven’t been made completely clear to me, so please bear with us as we’ve got a completely new system via Beticketing.com this year. I will make sure that the final details on this are made available to you as soon as possible…

If you have any final questions about entry, panel details, or any other needs, please be sure to email before this Sunday. I’ll be out on site as of this Sunday and will have limited time/Internet access to address last minute questions.

Please, please, please do your best to wrap things up in this time-frame: I want to take care of everyone’s needs and requests, but can only do so much, especially once we roll into high gear for build-out on site next week.

Also, once next Thursday night/Friday morning rolls around, I will more than likely be unable to reply to calls or text messages. If you absolutely must contact me and have already left a voicemail or text message once, please refrain from leaving others. If you’re at the gate and have a TRUE emergency (like your ticket print-out doesn’t work or for some freak reason you’re name isn’t on some list), then have someone with a radio there try to reach me, as I’ll be more likely to get a walkie call at that point.

Again, please do your best to finalize any details you’ve been putting off or were unsure of, now. I want to make both our experiences with this event from here on out as seamless as possible!

Thanks for your attention and cooperation with all of this. If you’re already receiving instructions from another Do LaB/LIB staff member, please just stick with them from here on out.

The snapshot shown here isn’t a complete picture of my life right now, but it’s pretty close.

I worked with The Do LaB at Coachella again this year, installing the now legendary “Lucent Misting Oasis”, which evolved into “Misting Oasis” for this year.

We spent 8 days down in Indio on the Empire Polo Fields toiling and playing under a beautiful sun, creating some of the most wicked-beautiful art and shade structures ever seen. Given an acre+, we erected some 35 or structures built with rattan, some metal (new to the design this year) and all the other magical bits that make the installations super dope.

We had amazing talent perform all weekend aside from Jesse of Brazilian Girls suppose fame…he sucked and in no way should have been representative of the space and magic that was flowing wildly there the rest of the time.

Aside from that, all was wonderful.

Today we’re all back in LA, finished unloading the truck and are catching up on Lightning In A Bottle work. Then later this week some of the crew will be back on the fields for Stagecoach. Then full tilt into LIB is over and done with in this, it’s 9th year (3rd year to the public).

I’ll be editing my pics as I can in the midst of all this and posting to my Tribe, Flickr and Myspace accounts, maybe elsewhere too.

Musical act highlights from Coachella for me were: Portishead (simply rocked), Aphex Twin, Yoav, and parts of Prince’s set; unfortunately I missed Roger Waters since in all the excitement no one had planned for the truck rental pick-up the following morning - so I volunteered to bounce out early with the only known ride (Jenka, who was getting back to all her great, hard work on promoting LIB). But, I hear it was legendary…will have to check in this year’s DVD. From our area: Jupiter, Sammy Bliss & Jesse Wright, and Chad Rock.

All-in-all, our area was the party for all of us I think, with a few cherries on top elsewhere through the wknd.

I was reminded by Adam Wiggins today that the annual Startup School is fast approaching.

I submitted my application this evening for the event here.

Looking forward to this and several other dot-com, marketing and startup events this spring.

Today I got confirmed for work on another event in what’s turning out to be an even busier summer of festivals than last year.

I’ll be working a job with The Do LaB for an event in Portugal this summer, so I’ll finally have a chance of seeing my sister who’s lived in Spain since 1999 (incidentally, the first time I ventured out here to Cali); we’ll also be working on some of the usual jobs this spring: Coachella and then a few weeks out from that, Lightning In A Bottle.

Then in addition to the summer Portugal trip we’ll be hitting up the 3rd annual Virgin Music Festival (great fun, our 2nd year and a great production job by Mitch Kirsch).

Then, well maybe a breather from travel and work before Burning Man or maybe I’ll just dive back into my own work, of which there’s never a short supply.

Anyway, looking forward to the camping, the team work thing, nature, travel, and all that wonderful jazz. Many pictures and stories to come as these events unfold…

The Do LaB’s annual Lightning In A Bottle is coming up fast.

This year’s website has just been launched and tickets are already on sale. Stop on by the site and check out everything in store.

It’s going to be an amazing event! And I’m not saying that cause I’ve worked on it since day one, this event has really matured into something wonderful.

Been totally down and out with the flu, the worst I’ve had in years, for the last week or so.

Right before that was The Do LaB’s now legendary Lucent L’amour event, which I helped set-up, run and then breakdown the week prior to that. Here’s a few pics:

I’ve posted more online here at Tribe.

I haven’t touched much of anything online or otherwise in the last week and will slowly be catching up over the next week.

Okay maybe Tool wasn’t there last weekend at the latest Alex Grey / CoSM fundraiser but the next best thing to that was their music and larger than life banners of Grey’s art.

The event was held downtown at Club 740, which had apparently once played host to Charlie Chaplin and Prince.

The venue itself was pretty cool; another hidden gem in the muck of downtown LA (been living and working there for far too long…). As it was moved last minute from Crash Mansion, things got started late and Alex Grey seemed (perhaps) forced to rush through his presentation, which included a slew of slides, including some great renderings of the new Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, along with his talks flavored with the concept of “Anthropocosm”.

He also played one of Tools videos (which got drowned out in bass for nearly half the vid), which was cool, but perhaps better suited for another place and time (disclaimer: I absolutely love their music but short of a live performance in public, especially in a mostly DJ-music setting, is kind of vibe-killer I think).

Anyway, gonna’ wrap this up short for now, today’s kind of low point for me and I don’t want to give the wrong impression: Any Alex Grey event is well worth attending, especially if it’s your first time. So if you get the chance, check him out.

I’ll post some pics later on, for now here’s one of Tristan later on in the evening, while waiting for Treavor to come on. We had a lot of fun with the old staircase deco and her new birthday coat from Shrine:

As tradition dictates, I rang in the 2008 new year at Green Sector’s annual NYE party.

This year’s event NEW YEARS TWO THOUSAND CREA8, was held at Crea8tivity, in Marina Del Rey, CA. The event started at 10pm and pounded on through the night until 11am the following morning: always fun, always hardcore, with their fantastic parties.

Brad of Moontribe threw down one of the better sets I’d heard in 2007. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the stamina to make it through and see Treavor (partied myself out prematurely with my birthday just two days prior), but am sure he delivered an unparalled and proper trance marathon.

Anyway, here are a few more pics, might post some others online somewhere at some point too.

Happy new year!

2007 was an amazing year of growth and change, on many levels; also, this year’s end saw my one and only Golden Birthday:

(Check out the rest of my birthday pics from at the Edison)

The year started out with a 3-week visit home after my mom broke her arm, shortly after New Years 2007. I spent almost 2-weeks at home with her to help out with her rehab, got her set up with a new Mac, and generally just spent a lot of quality time catching up with her and some of the other family members.

I then bounced down to Florida for a week-long visit with my Dad, step-mom and some old friends from the River: Tim and Doug.

Then it was back to Cali to return to work on Dianovo, but I just couldn’t get back into it or much of any other work: I was uber home-sick and caught up in the slow-pace that the East Coast so often is. So I decided to pack up my things and move back east, but first stopping back over in LA again to dump said stuff in storage and prepare my other business for my departure. But not surprisingly, I got caught back up with my friends and loved ones in LA and decided to push off my departure for a few months.

I hopped back on board hardcore with The Do LaB, for an amazing few months of work on Coachella, then Lightning In A Bottle, the Beverly Hills White Party, and then it was into summer with a 2.5 week long trip to Guatemala. My time there gave me a lot of opportunity to reflect upon what was important to me and what I wanted to pursue personally and professionally. So when I returned to LA in early June, I began in more earnest, to work on both my romantic relationship and professional path.

I continued working with The Do LaB, resumed work on Green Gurus and continued work on my relationship. Then in mid-summer I went back east again (and therein lies a constant theme for me and home) to help head up the Green Spot construction of The Do LaB’s lumi pods and towers at the Virgin Music Festival in Baltimore, followed up by another visit home.

While at home again, I heavily re-visited my passion for the outdoors as it related to my old job at Hidden River Adventures and my future plans for Rivertribe, but realized it still wasn’t time for that pursuit; I still needed something more from my investments living out West. So after some much needed time re-connecting to the river with some great kayaking trips, I headed back to LA.

One of my investments or more aptly, reasons for moving out west, was school. So the first thing I did was re-enroll in school at SMC for the fall semester. Then I headed up another gig for The Do LaB at the Future Ape festival, followed by one last get-away before the start of the school: this time back to Santa Cruz to watch my old house and base of operations for Dianovo.

Then it was a head-first dive back into school for an intense 3.5 month-long semester in computer science, design and programming; an intense and seemingly appropriate step with regards to my romantic interests; followed by a long-awaited move into the Sugar Shack, then my foray into local politics, the loss of my oldest friend Charlie, and continued work on Green Gurus.

I also worked on the last few gigs for the year with The Do LaB, at the Global Mala Project and a random job for Goldenvoice. Also during the last half of my semester, I started counseling for the first time in years, to help kind of clear some of the noise in my head from everything that year, followed by a renewed start in work on my longest running romantic relationship, through couples counseling (which has been a great decision).

Another big event of the year was my first surgery, in which I finally went in and had a lumptectomy performed to have an overly uncomfortable and ample-sized cyst removed from directly beneath my left nipple; the surgery was flawless and there was very little pain involved afterwards, thanks to the great job performed by my doctor.

While there have been countless other events and random bits of interest from this year, nothing is more noteworthy than the pending sale of my first internet venture. The sale was posted back over the summer and negotiations have been taking place on and off for the last few months with several different parties. Now it looks very close to happening, perhaps within the first month of this new year, so I have been doing a lot of work to prepare for this possibility, both for the business itself and my own well-being; it’s definitely one of the biggest, most life-changing steps I’ve had to prepare for in a long time. But I definitely believe it’s time to make this change and what better time then at the start of the new year?

So as this year starts to unfold and all the previous year’s seeds start to yield their fruits, I look forward to the work in store: for my companies, myself, my family, friends, and the world. I am going to make this my best year ever and I hope you are able to do the same!

Much love and blessings for everyone’s prosperity, health and happiness.