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We were invited to be official photographers at the Asian Rock Festival at the Rockit Room in San Francisco two Saturdays ago! (w00t!)

We had a killer time with full access to the venue. There were two bars, an entire staging band area upstairs, and TVs downstairs to catch the NBA Playoffs. We meet up with Jack Tung, Lions Riding Horses, (we heard of much, but never saw them play live) and United High and Johnny Hi Fi whom we shot at last year’s ARF at Slim’s.

Rockit Room
406 Clement Street
San Francisco, CA 94118-2318
(415) 387-6343

At this event, one can order drinks, food, and listen to the 4 amazing bands play! In addition to that, located at Clement Street in San Francisco, with plenty of access to food, and desserts afterwords made it very very worthwhile!

We even had a chance to stage the bands in our own private photobooth session at the end of the festival.

2+ hours of great music, awesome venues and a fabulous turn out. What more can you ask for? Special thanks to Stephanie Watanabe and Johnny Hi-Fi for setting this all up! We hope to shoot again next year. For now, enjoy the pictures.

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The awesome Rock It Room venue in San Francisco.

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Kyle from United High DJying before the show starts

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Pre show interviews with Pacific Rim Video

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Jack Tung starting things off with his hypnotic sounds.

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Samie, Cliff and Reina of United High

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Lions riding Horses rocking the RockIt Room (pun totally intended!)

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Johnnie Hi Fi ending the night out with a bang!

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Our favorite artistic picture of the night!

Last, but not least, the photobooth pictures!

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We will see you next year at the Asian Rock Festival!

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P.S. If there is any dog fans out there, stay tuned. Our next blog post will be about Cola, our new puppy!

We had a chance to enjoy the wonderful celebrations during the Cinco De Mayo parade in San Jose earlier in May. It was filled with colors, low riders and our favorites, the horse and solider. According to wikipedia:

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a holiday held on May 5 that commemorates the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. It is celebrated primarily in the state of Puebla and in the United States.

It was awesome to shoot this event as we had full access to run around and shoot the spectators. Enjoy the pictures and let us know if there are other events to shoot around the bay!

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A woman stands proud holding the Mexico Flag

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A boy with riding his lowrider bike

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Jumping through the lasso rope!

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A group of people posing with their horses

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ROTC marching along.

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Low rider flexes it struts

P.S. We recently got a dog and will be posting pictures of her soon!

It has been a while since we posted, but we missed you guys!

We are back into blogging our events. This last week at Yahoo! we celebrated Holi - The Festival of Colors. It was the first time we attended something like this, but we saw a glimpse of this festival from the movie called Outsourced that we watched on Netflix . (fun movie to watch for the some slight India culture reference)

Granted, we were super excited to see all the color powder fly and participants literally covered with color splashes! Wow!

Next time, we want to get in on the fun, (although our camera would not be too happy to hear that.)

Have a glimpse at some of the action from the event.

You have been warned! (notice the little specs of purple on the left hand side)
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A kid gets in on the action. YahooHoli10-45

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Sequence shots.. looks like a innocent group pose right?YahooHoli10-19

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The guy in the back is gonna get these guys. They are too clean! YahooHoli10-6

This picture pretty much quantifies what Holi embodies! Great vibes and great fun!YahooHoli10-35

If you like to see more pictures, please stop by our flickr album entitled Yahoo! Holi Festival of Colors 2010 .

Aloha,
Wilson and Lelan

P.S. We love shooting colorful objects and people. If you have a colorful idea, please drop us a note.

P.S.S. Wilson had an orange colored car before!