Change of Venue

Ok, so from now on I won't be updating this blog anymore. Please refer to www.danielmeza.tumblr.com

for more of Daniel's fotos and stories.

Thank you!

Schwoops

Science Experiment: What will Schwoops do if you don't break up his canned food?

Lick it until it's gone. No chewing necessary.

The Police Are Fucking Up

So i was on my way to Henry's and then i saw a flash of red and blue lights. Lo and behold, a car accident involving a police car an another vehicle flipped on it's side. The police asked me who I was shooting for and i told them that i worked for the Daily Aztec. He just frowned. (i think he thought i was lying.)

Pinhole in PB

So i cruised around Pb on my bike armed with only my camera and the body cap that i cleverly poked a hole in. The results? Digital pinhole photography of course!

Hospitals at noon

My bike chained

A Lamborghini in a showroom

Birds perched at the beach

Blackballed

More birds, except these ones were hungry

The rollercoaster

Merry Go Round

Bummed

Pondering

Life is good

These are my friends + random asian lady at the bus stop

Charles



Rolo (after his boxing match with Lee)



DJ HIZ



And like I promised, random asian lady at Old Town. (Look how focused she is)

Sorry Dude

So I had to do a photo shoot for the Aztec and it was to be people at a party hooking up or whatever it is that frat boys and whorority girls do. So Zaq took me to this party and i found a girl who was willing to fake the shoot. After getting a bunch of people together, she offered to do the shoot in a back room of the house. Great! I thought, and we went along with it. After the shoot, the guy and girl were still rolling around on the bed and this guy in the blue comes in and yells "what are you guys doing in my room!" He sits down on the bed and makes this face. Luckily, my drunken fingers snap the shutter and now i'm the lucky owner of the world's best frown!!!!!!!

Unthinkable

Today we went out to surf at Black's Beach and the call was supposed to be pretty big. I brought out my Doc and let Lee ride my Rusty which i won in a raffle two years ago from the best radio station ever, FM 94/9. (Shameless)

We paddled out and sat in the lineup for a while, Dave and i were chatting as we saw Lee struggling to paddle out through the bigger sets. A big wave starts to swell up and everyone starts paddling for the peak. I stay seated and watch to see if there's another wave coming.

A perfect peak forms a fifty feet ahead and there's no one to battle with. Just me and the wave......perfect.

I paddle hard and drop in on a pretty steep face headed right. (I'm regular footed by the way). I make a bottom turn and start to head up the face to turn. Instead, it pitches hard and barrels right over me and closes out. I immediately get thrown into the spin cycle and gasp to make up to the surface. I get on my board with the biggest smile and start to paddle back out and duck dive a few waves. I see Lee in the whitewash and he's yelling my name. Then, i see my baby.

The emotional feelings that i went through could probably be best illustrated with the effects of cocaine on an average user. An extreme high that lasts for a short duration until the crash sets in. Needless to say, the average coke head goes out and buys more coke when this happens. With this in mind, i decided to paddle back out and get one more.

Tank

I recently re-watched a famous police video where someone steals a tank from an armory in San Diego. I went there the other night and took a photo of the tank that sits outside.

Black & White

This weekend I hung out with Leonard & Bri. Bri was dog sitting.




Then i asked Leonard for a portrait. He said no.



Habíamos visitado a nuestra abuela. Ella tiene mucho corazón.
Mi padre y su mamá.



While driving home from Hawthorne, we were stopped at a light and i saw this.

Mark who lives in Lakewood,
Your mom loves you very much.

Princess and Pirate Party

Adam, Katie and Melissa held party at their place in OB. Most of the pictures of the girls either turned out really bad or are too unflattering that i may get punched later. Either way, here's Adam.



And Brass Rail Murray




Bonus Photo:

Zaq

Cruising

Micro Wrestling Federation

I went with some friends to the Starting Gate in Los Alamitos. They were hosting midget wrestling as the main event of the evening.

The guy on top was named Justice. He looked like a mini-Undertaker from WWF. Here he's about to pounce on some little Filipino dude who came out only five minutes earlier dancing around and flirting with all the ladies. And yes, that's him in the trash can with his legs sticking out.

There was some dudes giving this little guy a ton of shit. These guys were shouting "Fuck you" and giving him the finger like they were really mad at him. Here's little man yelling his face off.

The guy on the left was called Meatball. He was definitely the largest midget I have ever seen. Maybe he was a dwarf? Either way he ended fighting against both of these other guys and ended up pulling his pants down and rubbing his bare ass in their faces. Here's a PG-13 preview of the mayhem that occurred.

Dead Possum

So there i was. Towering over a dead possum in the middle of the street with my camera in hand. The streetlight was out, so i used my cell phone as a light source to focus. A truck drove by and there i was.

Caught red-handed in my morbid activity.

Konnor & Trevor

Twins play in a Caprice parked in front of their house. They are eight years old.

Cut

My mom cut her leg shaving with a broken razor. My father suggested that we sue the manufacturer and then laughed.

Lately

Candice had a bouncehouse for her birthday

I played on the swings in San Clemente


Tony became an angel


and I found a spotlight that intrigued me.

Cat from Hell

Charles now lives in Mission Hills.   There's a cat down the street that just hangs out in one spot and never leaves.



Actually the cat is pretty friendly.

Recap

So it's been a very long time since I've posted anything, so I decided to do a large recap on what's been happening to me and share some photos of things i liked and things i saw.

Christina left. She went back to Germany. But before she left, I spent a lot of time at her house with Adam and Katie too.

Also before she left, we went to The Shack one last time. There was this obnoxiously drunk old guy who sat down at our table and kept saying stupid things to us. We just laughed and egged him on. Here he is enjoying his cigarette.

Seems almost sexual.

About a week ago, Ian and a couple of friends decided to ride fixed gears down to San Diego from Lakewood. They said the odometer read 99.5 miles. Here's Ian after their arrival.

Tony ended up crashing on the couch for a couple of hours from the exhaustion. I put a Cheez-it on his face to make it seem like he's an incredible fat-ass even though motherfucker just biked a distance that i never will.

So now I"m living in between Lakewood and Long Beach for the time being. Sleeping on couches and cruising around trying to enjoy my time in both places. Ian got me a job at the Pike valeting cars.



June 20th was Go Skateboarding Day. There was a barbecue put on by the Red Room in Long beach. They held it at Caruthers park and a bunch of people showed up and skated. I skated for a bit but then got my camera out cause the bowl was getting devastated by Joe among others

Log Cabin

Greg took Frank and I along with Julian to go check out the famous Log Cabin in Laurel Canyon.

Having Greg there was like having a hired tour guide just spouting off interesting facts and

rumors as we walked around on the property. Apparently, Houdini owned a house just down 

the street.

There was a giant dreamcatcher strung up in the trees.  Greg told us that Frank Zappa put it there when he owned the house at one point. 

The house is really strange inside. 

There's even a tree growing right through the roof.
Just outside and down the street is this mural.  Frank thinks that this hijacked iconoclast is meant to symbolize Rick Rubin, who owns the place next door.  I think he's right.

The entrance to Rick's mansion.  How inviting to the casual thrill seeker.