MIYASHIRO

coulda warned a brotha..........

Yesterday my Bro and his friend Mo came over and we took them on a tour of WB......they happen to be two of the biggest Young Justice fans and now that production has wrapped and the big season two secret has already aired (a 5 year time jump) Phil was finally able to show them his office.....tons of "spoiler" artwork has been hanging everywhere for months............

On the way to Phil's department, through The Brave and the Bold offices,  hallways are lined with Alex Toth artwork, and cool vintage photos of Iwao Takamoto and Hanna Barbera....

the wall of fan art compiled by the YJ crew.......yes, they do look at all the fan art....and cosplay photos too...........the door behind my Bro (with the Star Trek symbol on it) belongs to the office of the awesome Dusty Abell and Jerome K. Moore................

Phil's office......showing Bro and Mo some concept designs...............I wish you could hear all the "Daaangs", "Duuuudes", and "Sweeeets".......

walking thru the "neighborhood" to the other buildings..........

the conference/screening room...................where I got to watch the very first episode of Young Justice - Independence Day, with the crew two years ago!

celebrity sighting! he was just taking a smoke break in the hallway and was nice enough to pose with my Bro...............

it was fun seeing my Bro and Mo geek out over all the production artwork, cool toy displays, and the huge wall that everyone at the studio has drawn on - they died over Joaquim Dos Santos' Panthro and Bruce Timms Harley Quinn......we had a good time showing them around  - of course we included the Bewitched House and Friends Fountain tour....had lunch afterward at Mo's in Toluca Lake - tried to see if we could get a discount since we were with someone named Mo! didn't work.......then made a Toys R' Us run and headed home............

 I'll be posting more YJ tidbits every so often on my Instagram @tmiyashiro

one for one................

my Mom and I had a fun Mother's Day full of shopping.....the best part was we happened upon an awesome vintage sale this woman was having at her house in Crescent Heights......

she had tons of stuff and sells to designers and stylists from shows like Mad Men......we got some cool things but my regular camera is not uploading my photos right now for some reason....I'll post later...

we got some good tile ideas at Heath Ceramics......

and some awesome desserts at Jin Patisserie on Abbott Kinney........

they got a little thrashed since we carried them around to every store with us...but they still tasted great!

and when we went to Nordstrom to get Mari some Tom's for her birthday today (Happy Birthday Mari!)

we saw these awesome lights that I think would look great in my studio...they're called scraplights by Greypants............

corrugated cardboard!

off to give Zero a bath!!!

the tesseract and whatnot..........

woke up early to meet Joaquim and Sharon at the Arclight for The Avengers.....kinda the most awesome movie of all time....might go see it again next weekend......

then had the rest of the day to clean up the patio........

finally had the shade sails hung this past week...luckily CB2 brought back this furniture collection and we were able to order a couple more pieces to extend the seating area a bit....

 and this time, I remembered to order covers for each piece - that way, I can leave the cushions on and not have them take up storage space in my studio.............

spent the rest of the day organizing my studio....it's like moving all over again, except this time I'm putting more thought into what I actually need in there, how I've used my studio the last two years, and what I can change to make it better and less cluttered...I'm going to be sore tomorrow...

swans are my friends................

Friday night, Joaquim and Sharon came over to meet Zero for the first time...she loved them so much, they slept over and she slept in the living room with them! Her first slumber party....then Saturday we met back up for a hike at noon.....had luch at Coral Tree.........

went to Best Buy and Petsmart, saw Joaquim's amazing arcade for the first time.....I played Mario and Tempest and Super Mario on the old school Nintendo....

it was such a beautiful day...we ordered food and ate outside on their patio.....

their neighbor was giving away free aloe plants so Phil loaded a couple in our car before we left....

 hopefully they will survive a transplant.........then we came home and took Zero on a walk and gave her the  treats and toys we bought her.........

mr. tolson..........

back from NY.....it was fun but I'm so glad to be back in the warm sunshine! Our kitchen hardware came in while I was away, so yesterday Phil and I went to pick it up from Liz's, then had an early brunch at Joan's on Third....

spent the rest of the day leisurley unpacking and cleaning up around the house, puttering around the garden (I missed my green space!) watched J. Edgar, and slept early!

victory....I'm drawing a blank.......

from our hike the other day......

off to have Valentines Day!

honey do for me........................

Phil and I woke up early yesterday and headed to Liz's to finally pick out or kitchen cabinet hardware....we went with the simple white (2-3 wks delivery) but had fun looking at everything else.........

then we headed down the street to Maison Midi for breakfast....whole wheat pancakes and shopping at American Rag........

dust bowl.........................

spent a nice evening last night at Roy's with Dusty for his birthday........

 no birthday of his is complete without a Thor comic........

Dusty and Phil listening intently to Joaquim............

got to catch up with Judy and THE Ferb from Phineas and Ferb and just have some good food and conversation.....

had withdrawal symptoms later that night from not having a book to read before bed....I had finished The Mockingjay before we left that evening. Gotta start researching something new to read.......

 

speedy delivery..........

yesterday we went on a hike with Joaquim and Sharon, had a quick lunch, went to Ikea.........later in the evening, Phil and I took a long walk into NoHo...we ended up at the Academy courtyard and spent some time looking at all the bronze sculptures we never noticed before.......

Lucille Ball.............

Andy Griffith..............

a creepy shadow of a life-size Dick Van Dyke statue.........

and a Mister Rogers tile mosaic.............

on a side note...Young Justice won the Toonzone Award for Best Character Design for a TV Series!

 

 

yesterday....................

yesterday my Bachan turned 92!

yesterday Phil and I dropped some more of my Blossom Boxes to Hemingway and Pickett and then headed off to Little Tokyo to do some shopping.....

it was gloomy and drizzly all day - Phil in his new jacket my Mom and I got him last week.....we had a couple of siphoned coffees at Demitasse to warm us up........

then Paul met us for lunch - we walked to the ramen place in the shopping center, went to Kinokuniya, and just took a bunch of pics of the sky........

since Paul is moving to NY in a couple of weeks, Phil wanted to take him out for a drink - we tried Seven Grand and The Library Bar, both open at 7p and it was only 4:30p....off to the rooftop of The Standard......

it was weirdly warm and drizzly with the perfect views and firepits....we ordered lobster corndogs, wild mushroom taquitos, and fries...........

called it an early night, then Phil and I came home and watched Kick-Ass for the first time.......