Los Angeles - Corpse Flower

I went to see that blooming Corpse Flower at the Huntington Library. Unfortunately the flower was already closing.

Los Angeles - New Apartment

I'm moving into a new apartment.

Los Angeles - Supercross

I went to the first Supercross of the season last night in Anaheim.

James Stewart chasing Ryan Dungey

While I was there I tried shooting some slow-motion footage using my Casio EX-FC100 camera. This is James Stewart chasing Ryan Dungey about half a lap before Stewart makes the pass to move into 1st place.

Los Angeles - Halloween Pumpkins

Every year I like to carve a couple of pumpkins for Halloween, here's my two pumpkins from this year.

Los Angeles - My Halloween Costume

My Halloween Costume.

Los Angeles - Pumpkin Time Lapse

How to carve two Halloween pumpkins in 20 seconds. Actually this is a time lapse of me carving my Halloween pumpkins. In real time it took about 2 hours to clean and carve the two pumpkins.

California - Halloween in West Hollywood

The West Hollywood Halloween Carnival is supposed to be the largest Halloween event in the the country with over 400,000 people attending. I've wanted to go the last couple of years, but this was the first year that I actually went. A section of Santa Monica Blvd. is closed for the event and stages and food vendors are set up. The event was a lot of fun, the stages had a variety of different bands and performers. But the reason most people go it to see all of the other people in strange costumes. Here's a bunch of photo I took of some of the interesting costumes.

Los Angeles - Halloween Horror Night

Halloween Horror Night at Universal Studios Hollywood.

USA - I'm back in Los Angeles

I've returned to Los Angeles. But I still have a ton of photos to post from Japan, so I'll keep posting those and I'll start posting about some of the hopefully interesting things I'm doing here.

Los Angeles Sunrise

Los Angeles - Trash at Disneyland

Here's something you don't see everyday. I went to the Anaheim Disneyland and Disney California Adventures last week. Normally Disney is famous for how clean and neat they keep everything, but for some reason the trash was overflowing the trash cans in the line for Toy Story Midway Mania! at California Adventures.

Los Angeles - Long Beach Fireworks

For the 4th of July I went down to Long Beach to check out the fireworks.

California - Moving

While I was back in Los Angeles, I decided to move out of my apartment and put all of my stuff into storage. I was on a month to month lease and had been wanting to move for a while, but hadn't had time to search for a new apartment. So it really didn't make sense for me to keep renting the apartment if I was going to be in Japan for the next couple of months. And this forces me to get off my butt and find a new apartment once I return to Los Angeles.

Packing up and moving my stuff turned out to be a lot bigger job then I thought it would. It was pretty amazing how much stuff I've accumulated. I barely finished before heading back to Tokyo. I actually took the last load of stuff to storage as I was driving to the airport.

California - Long Beach Airport

For my trip to Salt Lake City I flew out of the Long Beach airport for the first time. This has to be the dinkiest airport I've ever been to.

California - Back in the US

I'm back in the US for about two weeks to go on a ski trip to Salt Lake City that I do every year with a bunch of friends.

California - My going away cake at work