More Stay-cation fun - TROLLS

 July 27, 2026  South Coast Botanic Garden

Summer be damned!  It was warm but we dragged ourselves out anyway to see the Trolls.

The troll was demanding your phone.  There was a kid around 10 years old with his mother and asked her what these were - they were flip phones!  He asked how you could text and mom tried to explain but he was lost.  So funny how technology has advanced in such a short time.

This was my favorite, a slumbering troll on a hot afternoon.

Let the Staycation Begin....

 We had to put off our vacation for a few months so I still took time off of work and we're doing our "stay-cation" thing.  Today was hot - 93 degrees in Los Feliz but a cool 75 and breezy in Ventura.

We hopped in the car and were on the road by 9:00 a.m.  We drove to Ventura and visited the Ventura Botanical Garden (which is free on Fridays!) then drove to the ocean and had a delish lunch at Eric Ericsson's Fish House, took a walk along the pier before heading home.  It was a five hour extravaganza that got us out of the heat and it truly felt like we were on vacation.    Stay-cations are fun.

Beating the Heat with Nikki Moore

 More beating the heat....the studio is the best place to cool down...

With Nikki Moore recording Relationship Rehab #4.  Yup, our fourth short.  Nikki does all of the voices and sings.  Wow!  Super talented.

July is made for recording....

 It's hot out.  Time to go indoors and record Abla Hamza's demo.  We had a blast recording it, next I meet with Peter for sfx design.  Such a fun reason to leave the office!

Happy campers...

July 4th

 A lovely day started with a gorgeous sunrise, coffee on the couch and then making a couple of sauces that I'm obsessed with - cilantro lime sauce and a Thai p-nut sauce.  Both are so spicy and yummy.  They taste good on everything.

Breakfast with the boys at Mess Hall to start us off right and then we headed to The Broad Museum for the Yoko Ono Exhibit, which I have to say was really wonderful.  I was very touched by the whole event.

This film was so intense.

I was reminded of what a true artist Yoko Ono is.

After watching this film we went to the playful blue room where there are blue markers and visitors are encouraged to write on the piece.

A couple of movies that Vince shot:

This was the Half Room

This is me dreaming...

This was the "Mom" room where you wrote a note to your mom and taped it to the walls.

I happened to be in the Mom room when my mom called me.  My note is the second one,

It was quite emotional writing to your mother.  You could feel the pain of loss in many of the notes.

I love this Basquiat.  It's always fun to visit.

Mic Drop & Mingle

Last night was one of those times when I'm just so damn happy about my career because its filled with the nicest, warm, caring people that I always wished I'd be involved with.

It all started with this lady - Rebecca Davis.  She had a great idea to get vo people together and to leave our usual solitary lives and MINGLE!  Such a good idea!

Marabina Jaimes - a longtime friend and vo actor from Santo Bugito (that's the show we worked on together).  It's so cute that Vince knows Marabina too (way before I met her).  She's like family.

This photo struck me for a few reasons - the guy on the left is Marc Hawes.  I've known him for years but this was the first time we met "in person."  The lovely lady, Tracy Rooney is a vo actress in one of my classes and she knew both of the guys.  In fact, her and Richard Tatum have a longtime friendship.  Small world, we're all connected.  What I love is that Marc and Richard and I all do similar jobs yet there's not competition.  Just friendship and creative endeavors.  There's room enough for all of us :)

And check out these cuties/vo actors - Skyler Holt, Adam Johnson-Ruiz and Sarah Henzler.  All of these people have so much talent to offer the world.  Time to get animated!

Vote and hike

 Had a lovely day voting and hiking and eating and enjoying the beauty all around us....

Sunday Mornings

 I love our Sunday mornings...