TOMS shoes look like ninja shoes.

Hi Everybody,

This Sunday I'm going to be at this ELEMENT/TOMS event customizing TOMS shoes for anybody that stops by. The event is is Orange County (Booo!, I know, I know) at this cool shopping center called The Camp. If you're in the area on Sunday stop by and say hi.

-aaron

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GIVE: a creative collaboration Costa Mesa, CA‹ TOMS Shoes, Element, and Active will come together on Sunday August 3rd, 2008 at The Camp in Costa Mesa.

GIVE: a creative collaboration, will bring together some of Element's top artists and Advocates including Brooke Reidt, Don Pendleton, Beck Hickey, Todd Francis and Aaron Martinez ­ just to name a few ­ to customize TOMS Shoes for customers. Or, purchase a pair of TOMS and customize them yourself! All the supplies necessary will be provided.

The event will run from 3pm until 9pm and throughout the day, Ray Barbee will perform his music stylings, along with The Growlers, Will Crum and DJs Mataji Booker and Alfred Hawkins.

Each Element artist will also be creating art pieces to be auctioned live at the event. A portion of auction proceeds will benefit Friends of TOMS, a non-profit organization dedicated to bettering the life of those in the communities served by TOMS Shoes. Since 2006 TOMS has given away over 68,000 pairs of shoes to children in need around the world and plans to give an estimated 200,000 pairs of shoes over the next year. For every pair you
purchase, TOMS will give a pair of shoes to a child in need. One for One.

Special thanks to The Camp, Evocal, Red Bull, Nalu¹s, and Sambazon.

The Camp is located at The Camp, 2937 Bristol St. Costa Mesa, CA 92626. For more info, go to:

http://www.tomsshoes.com/
http://elementeden.com/
http://www.activerideshop.com/

Einstein Pickin' & Pointin' at the Griffith Observatory

Birthdays & Killers & Car Bombs

Tuesday night some of us headed over to Casa Bianca and The Chalet in Eagle Rock for a little birthday celebration for our friend Peter. WOOT, DJ LATE START! The whole wheat pizzas, mozzarella sticks, and bread were in full effect, while Mo was bouncin' off the walls rappin' & rhymin'. Haha. She is just a big energyball, that girl.




Down the street at The Chalet we all got our dranks on. Jagger shots? Bleck! Aaron "The GameKeeper" taught us this game called The Killer where you pick pieces of paper out of a hat, and whoever gets the one with the "X" on it starts killing by winking at it's victims. But the killer can't be caught winking, cuz you can call them out, but if you're wrong, well, you're dead too. I think Ellen killed most of us. It's always the quiet ones, isn't it? We also played finger-wave ...yeah, don't ask.

So, Ali & I had our very first Irish Car Bomb that night (why did you buy us drinks, Peter! It was your birthday! we should've been buying you the drinks. Ha ha. But by the looks of it, you had pleanty by the end of the night). Man, what a tasty drink. I was surprised it went down so easy when we slammed it. I felt like I had a brick in my stomach after though. I think Ali is sure to have another. :)

-Dale

Ingredients:

3/4 pint of Guinness or a similar Irish stout 1 shot consisting of half Irish whiskey (Jameson's, Bushmills, etc) and half Irish creme liquor (Baileys) 20 oz pint glass

How to Drink:

Float the creme liquor on top of the whiskey in the shot glass. Take the shot and drop it into the pint of stout ... Slam it quickly before it curdles.

Disneyland Postcards

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Found an amazing collection of Disneyland postcards over at Flickr.com. There's a lot of old ones that show some great artist renderings of the park, some hilarious and even scary-looking character costumes, and what the park used to look like back in the day too (Peoplemover, awww...). Ah, there's nothing like good ole Disneyland nostagia to make you miss the Happiest Place on Earth even more..

You can click through them all at
Disneyland Postcards' Photostream

Wall-E is Real!

Poses

Here's some pics that Sarah emailed me. So awesome! I forgot about our praying pose on Tower! Kim gets 1st prize for thinking out of the box, or really for her just being Kim. :) I love our pic we got with Donald too. I always wonder what that person inside there is really thinking or doing. Do they smile when their photo is taken too? What do they wear under their costume? Hmm. Ha ha. My mind wanders.. Aww, sigh, how much longer do we have to wait before we can go back again? -Dale