Flashback

The Scrapbooking Center.

Yesterday was my first time eating at Chiba. My sister has been telling me about it for a while and their pizza roll. Yesterday, I was finally able to try it. Also ate some other rolls and Chicken Teriyaki. It was so good, and for the price, you can't really beat it.


The Pizza Roll. It's alright, I think my sister hyped it up a little too much.




After that, my cousin wanted to go to ToysRus, and the only one we could find was off Morena Boulevard. That place is like a ghost town. It was pretty creepy, and it just felt weird being around that area


If Calvin is reading this and sees the following image, he knows what needs to be done soon.

Never Seen Before

"In addition to visiting Obitsu factory and original Marusan painter Goto-san, the Toypunks crew was fortunate to film with legendary punk artist Pushead as he hand-painted an array of his own original toys as well as a handful of figures by Rumble Monsters. In this unprecedented footage, Pushead shares some (but certainly not all) of his process with the camera, offering compelling insight into the nature of creating vinyl toys in both the Japanese and
modern underground tradition. Please look forward to it in Toypunks Vol 2, coming in winter 2009!"

(hand) paints

The pictures do all the talking.
L'amour Supreme 3 of 4 HP Mongolion "Oxidized Copper"





Pushead Black Unknown HSP-X Skullpirate

SDCC Recap

by the infamous toybot studios and Alex Zavaleta of S7 as your host.
Check out 11:36 onwards. It's me!

SDCC 2009 Alex Zavaleta from toybot studios on Vimeo.

New Look & The Motherload

Change is good. New look, same blog. I also have a splash page that kinds of pointless but cool.
Go to mmmdejesus.webs.com to see it.

I remember when I got pictures developed on my dad's old Pentax Asahi Spotmatic. I was so happy that it actually worked.





Now starts the ridiculous motherload post that I've been putting off for a while. I mean, we don't have school or anything, I've been working a lot, so who can blame me for not wanting to blog? I guess I'll start off with how summer is going with so far. It's been alright, I haven't took too many pictures because my Canon charger got lost. But then I just bought a new one on eBay, and then started taking pictures. I've also been using my dad's old SLR, and I'm pretty sure you'll be able to discern which pictures are from that camera. The oldest pictures I have are when me and Lawrence had a lightbox "photoshoot" with our toys. I went to Lawrence's house that day, chilled, talked about some secret projects, set up the lightbox, started flashing lights.



Then, I have these cool and embarassing pictures from people playing basketball at Breen. We ate a lot of burritos that day too I think. Can't remember.



The next set I got is whatever day we went to Del Mar Fair. All I remember from that day was one word: hustled. Even though Quang won something, we all got hustled. Funnel cakes, fried matter, bungee jumps, 25 cent foot massages that feel good on your butt, free water. The Del Mar Fair is always the same thing. I say close the fairgrounds and put a bayfront Chargers stadium on the fairgrounds.





Then theres that night where I worked scoop night, then watched the Transformers midnight premiere. Didn't really enjoy it, was probably too tired. That was horrible, but somehow, by the end of it, I was still up for a burrito.



The taco truck. Bomb ass fish tacos, and Picas for only $2.69 for a whole bag of 100 pieces. Only down south.


Then come the cousins. I swear, no one in my family told me this until the day they actually came. 2 out of 3 of them just left yesterday, and they were so sad to go. Good times with them at Disneyland, and playing whatever random board games we played. On July 4th, we went to the fair. They even made a scrapbook, and I got to design my own page. It actually came out pretty nice, who knew I was that creative. Ice cream cones out of construction paper, pure genius.












And of course, the infamous video of my cousin falling asleep at Disneyland.



And of course, whats summer without Comic Con. Some of the pictures are provided by Mr.Chit. Couldn't go preview night, and there was a Camo Zag releasing, so Lawrence bravely dared some fellow Skullbrainers on snatching one up for me. He couldn't pull through, but it was worth a shot. On Thursday, I went with Stacey, Quang, Marc, Lawrence and Daniel. The only thing really on my mind that day was the Pushead event. I remember just going back and forth from booth to booth, getting some things from Super7 and Gargamel. By the way, Quang fell asleep. Really, my mind was only on 4 o clock at the Toy Tokyo booth. It was finally around 3 o clock, I picked up me and Lawrence's pre ordered Captains. I picked my raffle number, 12, good number. Walked around, they were putting up the black cloth, which meant they were getting ready to unveil all the handpainted goodness that Pushead brought. I was able to get a Pushead HSP-x, and also got Lawrence a Sanda. The stippled captains were awfully tempting though. The best part about the HSP-x's were that they were all blind bagged. I opened it, and it was just so awesome. I put it back in the bag, and wanted to just get out of there and eat. Thanks to Pushead and Skeletal for helping me score my first HSP.








Friday at Comic-Con, failed at the Warner Bros Hall H panel, heard it was really good, so it kind of sucks that we missed it. It was also the day we decided to go to every booth starting at Aisle 100. On the way, we stopped by the Adult Swim booth where they have a hole in the wall where you put a ticket in, and they hand you something completely random. I got a hat, some people got oranges, and paper, and socks. Spotted Olivia Munn, then it was on to the L'amour signing. When he unveiled the HP Mongolions, I was in awe. Kirkland ( toybot studios) took my first pick, but I was able to pick up the Oxidized Copper. L'amour is defenitely one of the coolest artists around, and is really nice. I was also given a sweet "print" of his next upcoming Mishka shirt. So, then i was 2 for 3 on HP's. Seemed like my luck was going strong.






Saturday at Comic Con. We had to take the bus and trolley, but we made it there. Only things that day were the Monster Family signing, as well as the Flynn. The two Mummy Boys I wanted were gone after the first two in line, so my HP streak ended. But its ok, I ended up getting the secret Ghostfighter that released that day. Other than that, just roamed Comic Con, met a few SkullBrainers, artists, and rested. Weird since Saturday is the busiest day, it was actually the most calm for me. I also had a chance to play God of War 3, amazing. I'm going to be at Jeb's a lot when that game comes out. Wasn't able to go to on Sunday, dropped of my cousins at the airport.



Comic Con is full of picture opportunities, with artists, people in costumes and celebrities. But the only celebrity I took a picture with was John Heder ( Napoleon Dynamite) . Lawrence and I were very hesitant if it was him, but I finally asked and we got the picture.






Here's my haul from Comic Con. Very satisfied.


Now, this post has taken me forever, but I'm finally done. I should be updating regularly now. The cameras are functioning. Still got a month of summer left, enjoy it. Hope you liked this ultimate, super exquisite, jam packed roller coaster ride that seemed to never end, but now it just did. YEEEEE.