I spent the morning last Sunday with the Palo Alto Camera Club shooting the San Francisco Carnaval. We got up there at 8:30am, well before the parade started, and mingled around the staging area. It was much more interesting watching people prepare for the parade that watching them walk down the street. It was just as much of a party atmosphere as the actual parade – bands and DJs were playing, people were dancing, and you could get a contact high just walking around. Here are a few of my favorite shots…

Makeup Before the Parade

Orange All Over

Blue on Top

Tagging tags.

In the bathroom of a Barne’s & Noble Books in Burbank, CA.

Trino is the result of two quarters worth of work by one of my student teams at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center (ETC). It’s a wonderfully fun game for the XBOX, and you can download it from XBOX Community Games.

Everyone on the team is graduating this Sunday, and we’re going to miss them a lot. All of them were out here in Silicon Valley for two semesters, some of them for three, so we all got to know each other really well. That cliche about ‘learning more from your students than they learn from you’ comes from having students like these.

Please check out the game!

Here’s the trailer: