Endings and new beginingsJune 15, 2009 If you haven't noticed already I have not posted any new blogs for a few weeks and I could name 101 reasons why this is. First off, I would like to say that not only have we been attending bunches of new events each week, but we have had multiple booths as well. On top of all that fun and entertainment I am at the end of my high school years and graduating tomorrow afternoon. Times have been weird these past few months and I think Above is actually becoming something. From attending 4 events in one weekend to having clothing booths and photo booths on the same night. I would have never seen this happening to the company in a hundred years. As I graduate I am given a very large burden of responsibilities and new tasks at hand. This summer should be filled with tons of events as well as a new t-shirt line that we all have been largely anticipating. During the summer I am also creating the new site for Above Events, on top of attempting to host an event or two of our own by the end of the summer. Thankfully, this is only the beginning of a great summer and there will be many more adventures and stories told through this blog. For all of you that read these I hope your summer is starting off greatl, and that I see you at this years EDC. Memorial Day WeekendMay 21, 2009One of the craziest weekends I have ever had, this Memorial Day weekend has set a new record in my book for fun. Surviving off nearly an hour of sleep for 48 hours, and driving over 1,000 while partying all at the same time would be putting this weekend into a few words you could say.  Friday night was Euphora Mania. With lots of last minute preperations and last mintue decisionss, this night was bound for disaster at the start. But as the night went on, things turned out to be all right and what seemed to be the start of an uncertain weekend led to an amazing one. Just after leaving Euphora Mania, Talya and I left for San Franisisco together for etd. POP. With a destination of over 400 miles away from home and an event only 10 hours away, we had no time to waste. So off we went on a journey to the wonderful city of San Fran.  With this last mintue choice to go to San Fransisco, Talya and I didn't think too much about food. At least the was the case up until we reached around 200 miles of coutinuous plains of grass and farm land when the bordem and hunger hit us. Making signs to wave at drivers beside us, anything to pass the time seemed to have been entertaining. Being taunted by other drivers with food was however depressing and made the hunger that much worse. The trip only took around 5 hours in my car as I tried to stop as little as possible and drive as fast as possible, keeping the speeds under a safe100 miles an hour. ;]  
However, I think it's safe to say this was by far the best event I have attended to date. I was so wiped out from the lack of sleep, I was not energetic enough to take a good amount of photos, or even dance to some of the best performances I have seen. Fortunetely for the both of us, I filmed a few of these amazing acts, so I could revist the expierence later on when I was a little more awake. I suggest you watch them in HQ, and hope you enjoy them as much as I have. Not only did above attended "etd. POP" on Saturday but we were also lucky enough to attend "Dance Sensation" as well. All photos from these events are now up on the events page. This weekend coming up we have "PAINT" and "METROPLEX (featuring BASSHUNTER)." It is easy to see that summer is approaching. With the amount of events coming up I am amazed that we will be attending as many as we are. All I can say is to live your life to the fullest and enjoy every moment of it. For now this is goodbye - Above Apple vs. Deadmau5May 21, 2009Before I address today's event I would like to appologize for the lack of organization on the Bonfire we held last weekend. After arriving the beach a tad late I could only find a pit that was not either of the posted towers instead of tower 9 like I had originally planned it ended up being tower 15. The night was fun and we had around 40 people show up even with the last minute changes. I was able to dj, and it was overal a fun night. I promise our next bonfire will be mcuh better and planned out weeks in an advance :].  
Today I attended Deadmau5's "secret" show at the Apple store in Santa Monica. From the pictures above, it is obvious to see this was no "secret," as I estimated around 700 people showed up throughout the night. I'm not sure exactly what Apple was thinking when they agreed to have an artist as big as Joel Zimmerman, play at such a small store full of Mau5 fanatics. The only people allowed inside were people who had a stamp on their hand from earlier in the day. In order to have recieved a stamp you would have had to been there sometime around 12 to 2 in the afternoon and he was'nt scheduled to play untill 7 or 8 p.m. So for the longest time I, as well as most the kids there attempted to share their stamps with one another with a combination of spit and hair spray trying to transfer the stamps from one to another. This turned out to be a worthless attempt, as they only allowed 50 people in with perfect looking stamps. So after the 50 lucky people made it inside the police shut the doors and did not let anyone else in. That is when things started to get interesting. Mango juices and sneakers flying over the crowd, distraught fans struck the apple store's sign just above the entrance. People were impatient and wanted to see the Mau5 play. Shortly after people started to bang on windows and chant angrily, the police arrived and shut the whole thing down. Too bad no one was able to even see him play, but he is playing tomorrow night in Hollywood so you didnt exactly miss your chance to see him live! Tomorrow night we have a booth at "EUPHORA MANIA" and will be taking photos as well. On Saturday it will be a mixture of Dance Sensation, and I may be driving up to San Fransisco this weekend to attend etd. POP. If I dont manage to endure the 9 hour joruney I am sure I will be attending another party closer to home and you will hear all about it. I hope everyone enjoys their Memorial day weekend and stays safe! :] Above Bonfire this saturday!May 15, 2009 This is probably one of the biggest last minute events I have personally ever done, but even still this should be fun. I plan on bringing food and tons of firewood and there is even a chance I might be able to dj at this little get together. Well that is if I can find a generator between now and then. So for all you with nothing to do this saturday or who are just plain sick of partying to much lately, stop by and chill. Rumors and Audiotistic + much moreMay 12, 2009   So much has been going on lately with the company its hard to fit all this in one blog but so lets begin...First off on Friday Chris, Andrew and I were able to attend the First Rumors event. We had a booth at this event all thanks to our great friend Joel or (Glitch Wizard) CLICK HERE TO VISIT GLITCH WIZARD'S MYSPACE PAGE. If it weren't for him we wouldn't have been able to meet all the people that night and set up a booth :]. oh...and selling waters never hurt anybody ;].   Next on last weekends schedule Above was able to attend the long awaited return of the music festival "Audiotistic." Although that night was a ton of fun, my friends and I arrived a little late causing many difficulties trying to get my cam in. Since Insomniac refuses to respond to my messages about getting in there events taking photos I was unable to take photos that night, but thankfully Bonita and a new addition to the photo team (SW1P3R) were able to bring their cameras in. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did, even though this has been the first event I was not able to take pics in almost 8 months, It was definitely a different expierence being cameraless haha.  
Not only was I able to watch the the Thrillseekers, and Above and Beyond but me and my friend were able to meet Above and Beyond and my friend had his ticket and t-shrit signed by them, to bad I did'nt have my Logo T on :[. I think from now on whenever I meet anyone famous artist I am going to have them sign my Logo T-shrit that I usually wear at all events. 
If that Is'nt enough for you all...I am working on starting a club. More details will be released shortly, but for now good day :]. Jungle RaveMay 03, 2009   For the second time now, Above has had a booth at an event. This time however things were far more successful and a lot more fun. I once again had the help of my friends Chris and Andrew, as we operated a clothing booth and photo booth right next to one another.  This was however our first photo booth and I had honestly no clue as to how to make one, so I put a large tarp up, cut a whole in it and took a lamp from home as the light behind the tarp. I did'nt take into consiteration while building this that black tarp is very reflective to flashes so it did'nt make for the best effect. The lighting at the event was not the best so this still was a very good alternative photo spot that ngiht. Hopefully next time I just do the smart thing and go rent some real photo shoot equipment. haha :D  On top of everything going on that night I made quite a few new friends, and made some valuable contacts for the future growth of Above. One of them being "Thousands" two great guys with some funky electro beats. Check out they're myspace: CLICK HERE FOR THOUSANDS MYSPACE As well as making new pals at this small but fun event I had the opportunity to meet the owners. If I play my cards right financially we will be sharing this venue In Huntington Beach for future events and a possible club hosted by Above. Up next is RUMORS this Friday where we will once again be having a clothing booth and doing roaming photos. CLICK HERE FOR RUMORS INFO 420 Festival 2009April 21, 2009  The 420 Festival, an event with a controversial name at a controversial location. Recnetly the Pharos theme and water park has recieved an over abundant amount of media regarding the Redlands community not being so happy with festivals being held there. At 420 Fest the people of the community definitely proved their point with a surprise 18+ age requirment and an over sold event; chaos was inevitable. The sad part about this, was the fact Motive claimed this to be an all ages event. So about half the people attending were underage or had no ID to prove their age. Other than that extreme complication Motive also lied about having an extrmeley large circus size tent that was supposed to have had the biggest stage inside, but we are all still very grateful they still got Klaas to show up. But enough of the bad lets talk about the good.... :]    Large crowds and large stage set ups, 420 Fest definitely made some of the best stage set ups I've sen at Pharos to date. With all the people that didn't make it in, it left extra needed room for the amount of people there that night. The dj's were amazing, and the crowds were definitley showing their appreciation. The event also had great go-go dancers and insne light set ups; everyone seemed to be having an amazing time.   With the number of people and the number of photographers I had attending the event that night, I ran out of cards fast, so my good friend Andrew, a random Samaritan, and I were forced to tear some more cards there at the event. Printing cards at home may not be the cheapest, but at least I dont run out anymore. :D I hope everyone who attended that night and actually made it inside had a wonderful time. 4th Annual Fresh AnniversaryApril 6, 2009   
CLICK HERE TO VIEW PICS FROM THE EVENT Instead of going into detail why I haven't been posting blogs I'll just spare your time and sum it up saying "I have had tons of computer problems along with working, I just haven't had time to post any new blogs until now".
But without further adu, The 4th annual Fresh Anniversary. A night to remember to say the least with great vibes awesome music, and for once at a venue I'm sure we all miss. Fresh has pulled it off again with another great event with performances by Global Deejays, Sean Tyas, Aphodite and much more. I am proud to sponsor and promote fresh and all of there events. KandyFest!January 28, 2009   Kandyfestival was one of the most anticipated mini massives of the year hands down. As soon as I walked in, I knew exactly what all the hype was over. From having moonbounces too amazing go go dancers this event had it all. A full room dedicated to kandy making as well as four mind blowing stages of great music. (loved the hardstyle room). I am looking forward to many more events hosted by the famous Jayson Jay in the near future. I hope everyone had a great time and to see you all at his next event (THE KOSMIC FESTIVAL) coming in august. I think of all the friends I have met attending all these events by far my favorite is my good photo buddy Pandaman who runs (mypurejoy.com) be sure to check it out. click, click, clickJanuary 18, 2009
 Another weekend another lovely event, it just so happens this weekend's event was Connected. I had hoped to go too Pajama Jam as well but unfortunetly did'nt arrive at Connected until very late causing me to change my mind on taking the hour long trip over to Pajama Jam. It was a last minute set up for these guys as the location was moved last minute and the addresses kept on changing when I asked around. But in the end the night ended up turning out pretty nice with good music and tons of pretty faces (more than usual haha). The Above photo teams first event together turned out great and we hope to see all of you once again at the 2nd annual KANDYFEST next saturday. :] Before I go I'd like you all to see the Above photo team :D  ispyLA  Caffeine 
Starting out I had never thought in a million years I would be working alongside other photographers at events for my company. The simple things in lifeJanuary 11, 2009 
As bad as times may appear and as tight as money may get, we will always have the simple things in life. Enjoy the things put on this earth like your friends, family and nature itself. :] Together as One photos updatedJanuary 9, 2009Hey everyone,We have been recieving tons of emails asking where all the TAO photos were and I finally just recieved greygoose's photos. So now all the TAO photos are up just go to the events page and click on the picture like usually. Sorry for the delay. hope to see you all you people real soon Together as One 2009 / New Years EveJanuary 1, 2009   New years eve..what a night to remember from the lengths of sneaking in my camera too seeing one of the best dj's in the world TAO was a lot of fun. You would think bringing in a proffesional camera would'nt be as hard as stuffing it down my pants acting as if it were my package, putting my speed light in my friends pants and then stuffing all of my flyers in my shoes so that security would'nt be a bother. I did'nt take as many photos as I would have wanted but i ran out of flyers early in the night due to the fact I wasnt able to bring my camera bag in. Fortunetley I am thrilled to announce that Above has a new photographer so I Brian owner of Above will not be the only photographer from now on. His names Gustavo and he goes by GreyGoose. His pictures of the new years event will not be up for another day or so...sorry for the extended wait. To view pictures of Together As One click this link. I hope everyone had a safe new years eve and can't wait to see all your faces at 1up on the 10th. Oh! and I almost forgot to mention the winter sale is now over but all shirts have dropped in price by 5 dollars permenently. :] Winter Fresh + Winter SaleDecember 9, 2008   Hey everyone, Winter Fresh this weekend was one of the best music festivals I have ever attended, consdidering the circumstances of the last minute location change I think me and the Winter Fresh team pulled it off pretty well. This time around I had more than enough batteries prepared for taking photos of all you lovley people but instead of running out of batteries this time, I ran out of fliers due to tha amount of photos taken (haha). I must have put my website into about 100 phones that night. For all of you here to pick up your photos, just click the EVENTS tab above. Sorry for the delay on uploading the pics, my network crashed the other night and I was'nt able to upload the photos onto my server.  Don't you just love the amount of paper wasted promoting, it makes for a nice slippery pathway to your car(haha) I hope everyone had as much fun as I did and I can't wait to see you all again at this years Together As One event this new years eve. (for more info click the EVENTS tab)  Finally, a christams sale! This is the cheapest these shirts will ever get, don't miss out on this once in a season sale. It will only be up for a few more days and this oppertunity may just slip by if you dont act fast. Enjoy :] EMF 2008November 23, 2008 This weekend has been rather interesting with many police and too many people (haha). On Friday night I had been intended on attending "Trip to Wonderland" but it was shut down very early due to lack of permits, so by the time I had arrived it was just being shut down. So I now that I had nothing to do Friday night me and a few friends decided to go to another music festival called "Thanksgiving" once again when we arrived police were everywhere and they were not letting more people into the event. Thankfully Saturday was a little more fortunate with the exciting energy going on at "Electronic Music Festival 2008". The only thing that wasn’t so great was the difficulties I was having with my camera at the event and running out of batteries and cards. Oh Well there is always the next event :]. If this is your first time visiting the site and you are looking for your pictures of last nights Music Festival click here or click the events tab "Above" (haha). I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving and I will be letting you all know of some new things going on with the company sometime this week. Busy busy busyNovember 19, 2008 This is one of the new Tees to come out in the next two months or so, this is however a mock up so small changes may be made such as size and color. This design will be printed on American Apparel off white v-necks.  I just added a new album layout for all photos taken at events so now it'll be a brease browsing through your photos. It’s been a long week with lots of school work and catching up to do. I haven’t had my car this whole week so it’s made the week even that much more interesting (haha). I have been talking with a few clothing and fashion sites the past few weeks and in the next few months or weeks will be featured on "Killer Bees Tees" a site being launched in January and "Us Trendy". On top of that I have been trying to get some new concepts down and a new game plan for the near future. This will consist mainly of new tees, multiple parties, and lots of raves. This weekend I will be attending Trip To Wonderland and EMF and be taking many pictures :]. I am also working on the myspace right now and trying to prepare it for launch of the street team. Which in the end means FREE MERCH! PromoNovember 14, 2008 
This week I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting the "Fresh Entertainment" family, and now am a member. Being apart of this club means I get to promote their events, as you can see here me promoting for Winter Fresh 2008. Spending countless hours going car to car and sliding these flyers under randomly awkward windshield wipers of various cars and passing these flyers to random passer Byers isn’t my cup of tea but in the end Its all for a good cause. I hope to see you all at this lovely event coming up on DECEMBER 6th. I'll be there with 2 photographers, and hopefully by the next "fresh" event i'll even have a little booth set up.
 While out and about passing out flyers I stumbled upon this sticker slap at the Westminster mall :] I love to see good old sticker slaps (haha) Nu DiskoNovember 09, 2008First off, I would like to apologize to everyone for not posting as many blog as usual, this week has been rather hectic. Now for the story of NU DISKO....
As far as the company stands right now I am trying to accomplish a lot in a short period of time. With the addition of more photographers and new designs that I am working on at this very moment I hope to only make Above grow even larger. Also new promotions, and the launch of Above Events. … I almost forgot the first Above event party coming up very shortly. These next few months will be a testament of what is to come for next year ;). keep checking back because ill be releasing some mock ups of some of the designs to come. HALLOWEENNovember 01, 2008
On top of all the fun and excitement of the day at school today, I managed to get into the sold out HARD HAUNTED MANSION last night. It was by far one of the best events I have ever attended. Unfortunately I did not have my camera since my external flash is currently in the shop being repaired from MONSTER MASSIVE from the previous weekend. I did however happen to find over a hundred dollars on the dance floor and now can buy some more fun things for the camera. I hope everyone had an amazing hallows eve, and that everyone ended the night safely.  After a long night I happened to take this on the drive home from Hard to an Amazing sunrise. Above is creating a street team as of this week for promotion, and repping the good old name. I will be giving away free merch, stickers and much more to come. On top of that we will be having a series of photoshoots (with girls this time) and are currently searching for participants. Even though I did not manage to take photos at last nights event by the time TOGETHER AS ONE comes around I will have a team of photographers. Keep checking back for updates on the street team and photgraphy info. END OF SALEOctober 29, 2008
Just wanted to let you all know that we have now officially ended the launch sale. If you missed out on this once in a long time opportunity, we are sorry. But no need to worry, there will be more sales and giveaways soon to come so keep on the lookout for any new blog posts with any new deals. MONSTER MASSIVE!!!October 27, 2008  I hope to see you all this friday once more at HARD. -PEACE! :] "I can't believe I'ts nearly Halloween"October 23, 2008   (click the picture to view the post) I am so anxious for Monster Massive and the opportunity to take thousands of photos of all of you. Even though finding me will probably be like finding Waldo, amongst the 50,000 plus attending the wonderful event. For now..."that's all folks" "I think I've got fish eye."October 21, 2008    SALE!October 16, 2008 NEW LINE OUT!October 13, 2008Five long months of development, and hours and upon hours of time invested into this new line. We have been working with amazing artists around the world, and we have put every bit of effort in us to bring you the sickest threads around. We hope you enjoy them all, as they are limited in quantity and come with goodies :] We cant wait to bring you even more amazing designs in the future.    
DunkXchange.October 11, 2008It's been a long day for Chris, Andrew and I at today's DunkXchange in fullerton. Waking up at around 7 to fold hundreds of shirts and having boxes pilled on top of us in my small compact, it made it very hard to drive my stick shift. (haha) The event gallery and the gallery pages will be up shortly. As well as the official "Above" myspace completed. Heres a bit of a run down of the day....
Wonderful start to the weekend.October 10, 2008After picking up the shirts today a few friends and I decided to go sticker slapping around town. I think in all we probably threw up about 30 stickers, but hope one day to have every single stop sign in my city tagged by one of our stickers. Hope that doesn’t make the cops to angry haha, witch reminds me the last one I slapped up happened to be on a stop sign at the local police station :0! Sneak Peak!October 09, 2008I left school a little early today just to see if the new shirts had arrived and as I was driving down my street I could see a UPS truck approaching my house and for one moment it reminded me of being seven years old and being in line for the opening of Legoland. I was so out of it my mom was yelling at me telling me the shirts had already arrived. I sat in my car to only watch the UPS truck drive by my parked car, then I realized what she was saying. After ripping the boxes open in only a few seconds I ran to get my camera, took a quick snap shot and then left with the boxes to get the inner and outer back tags printed :] I'll be picking everything up tomorrow night and we shall see you all at Dunkxchange this Saturday. Also I will be doing the photo shoots for all the new shirts on Saturday. I expect sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday morning all the shirts will be up for purchasing.
Happy happy birthday!October 08, 2008Today is my (Brian owner of Above) 18th birthday. As i come to a close on my adolesence it saddens me immensely but at the same time I dont see it as a negative thing. In fact, now I can finally get a lot more legal things done for the company and also attend more events. I think my true birthday present is arriving tomorrow with a label on it for "Above" ;) ill be sure to upload some pics later tomorrow to give you all a sneek peak.
Handled with careOctober 06, 2008Starting off strong with a staggering amount of orders, considering only one t-shirt is out at the moment. We cant wait to see all of your reactions to the three other shirts we have in store for you. Hopefully we will have everything in order, and all the shirts are out for the upcoming DunkXchange this Saturday. (for more info go to our events page)
Release date???October 04, 2008If you haven’t already noticed, or if this is your first time to our site. We want to let you all know that we regretfully apologize for the delay on the launch of the new line. The site still has some small kinks to work out and the other final 3 designs are being shipped to us as i write this very blog. They were held up on being shipped to us because of some technical and weather issues over in Florida. We plan to have these shirts available next Saturday and trust me they are all worth the wait ;)
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Earlier today I happened to be on Hollywood blvd, and snapped this picture, I still wish I had the chance to take more pics while being down there (haha).
Three consecutive weekends of going to raves, I think this schedule might end up being routine for me. Since I am now trying to take more pics while attending events, as I will also be having more photographers join the Above team soon. Unfortunately however Nu Disko was one of the shortest and most disappointing events I have ever attended. It literally shut down an hour after I showed up, not to mention I had to bribe the security guard with a little tip just to bring my camera in.
After Nu Disko I really needed to relax and what better way to do so by driving alone at 2 in the morning when no one is out with a slight drizzle, my windows rolled down and blaring Tycho on my way home.
