20Apr

Night Fever – Bee Gees Tribute Band – April 19, 2013

 

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Gracie Marie is a pug that I take care of once in a while :)  Her dad is in a band called Night Fever – Bee Gees Tribute Band that is coming from Canada to Las Vegas.  They did a special performance @ Texas Station yesterday and I was asked to photograph the band.  I’m a huge Bee Gees fan so I was stoked!  What was surprising to me was the venue was completely packed (I’m not the only Bee Gee’s Fan in Las Vegas!), and this was not some small ballroom!

In any case, Gracie Marie should be proud of her dad, because Barry Gibb (aka John Acosta) freaking rocked as well as the rest of the band!   The crowd absolutely loved them and it brought back a lot of memories :)  A ton of photos below :)  Video will be added below photos after it finishes uploading, but I want to apologize in advance for the quality of the video as I was not allowed to shoot with my Sony NEX-VG900 and was approved for only a handheld (Kodak Playsport – I wish I had just used my iPhone instead too).

Night Fever – Bee Gees Tribute Band – April 19, 2013 from Michael Perez on Vimeo.

10Mar

Best of the West Lacrosse Tournament 2013

Man do I miss watching lacrosse!  Growing up in Maryland, I was in the hot-bed of Lacrosse country and got to watch the Terps play, as well as several John Hopkins games each year.  Here in Vegas, not so much lacrosse, but from what I hear from Sharon and Corrine Gross, it’s steadily growing, and the fact that they hosted a tournament (it was huge!) here I guess proves them right.  The only person I knew that was playing was Corrine, so most of the photos are of her but she is also the best player on her team.  I hope no one who plays on the team reads this, I just have watch lacrosse for 20-30 years and can tell who has talent and who doesn’t.  It’s not to say the other players on her team don’t have talent.  I’ll just stop right here and say enjoy the photos below:

24Jan

PimsleurApproach.com Customer Service Review

Here’s something funny. I ordered the trial version ($10.00) of Pimsleur Approach‘s Spanish to find out the difference between it and Rosetta Stone. When I got it, it was just repeating audio from a CD so I just decided to cancel it since there were so many options like this for free on the web. I wrote them an email at their customer service email and they said (of course) that they are not able to cancel an account via email and that I would have to call their customer service department in order to cancel it.

Called their customer service number @ 1-866-204-7139 and I knew I would have to listen to the rep try to sell me on why Pimsleur was better for an additional $64 a month for three additional months. I sat patiently and listened to his sales pitch and in the end informed him that I had Rosetta Stone and didn’t need to pay an additional $64 for something I wasn’t really going to use too much. His response in a rude tone was “Well, then you’re only going to be able to speak broken Spanish!”, to which I replied, “May you tell me how you say that last sentence you just said in Spanish?”. To which he responded “I’m not trying to learn Spanish sir, you are!”, which was fine but I nailed him.

Funny how he can tell me I’ll be speaking broken Spanish when he can’t even say that one simple sentence in Spanish…ok, neither can I but still, LOL! I don’t really know if Pimsleur Approach is good or not, I just know they have at least one really sucky customer service rep.

MichaelMPerez.com - PimsleurApproach.com Customer Service Review

18Jan

Grilling Tri Tip by Chicken Adobo

Been grilling a lot lately, thanks to the guys @ BBQ Pit Boys. Today’s video is grilling tri tip steak. I drop one of them on the ground when I first put them on the grill which is pretty funny. Still ate it though! It was good!

So if you want to know how to grill tri tip steak on a grill perfectly even when it’s fallen on the ground, watch this video. In the end you see me eat the whole entire thing in about 18 seconds flat!

21Dec

Jovi and Chauncy

So I had a little free time today and decided I would annihilate both my dogs on video!  It’s always great to have them around but especially when I want to blow stuff up! Neither one of them were actually hurt making these videos, if anything they got treats for just sitting where they normally sit.  These are actual videos.  Jovi video looks like I just took a photo of him and then layered the destruction on top but he always sits still when I have a camera pointing at him.  I think he thinks I’m a bear, and if he doesn’t move, I won’t know he’s there.  You can see Chauncy’s head moving in his video, but he sits still too when I have a camera pointed at him.

Took about 30 seconds total. Happy holidays everyone!

27Nov

Sean Taylor ESPN Tribute

Man, it’s unbelievable that I can still remember the pain I felt when Sean Taylor died :(

The video below is the tribute the Redskins defense did the on the first play in the game which followed his passing….10 players rather than 11.

RIP #21 and HTTR!

23Nov

Family Celebration in Vegas 2012

Hello!  I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I’m hoping to get caught up with my blog in the next two weeks but with photo shoots and traveling to LA and eating :) , I”m sure everyone’s behind a little bit.  In any case, I posted the video above which contains all the images below on Facebook a while back but then a few relatives asked why it wasn’t on my web site so now here it is.  So all of you related to me who don’t have a Facebook account and want images of yourselves, you can get them here!

Happy holidays!!!

 

11Nov

Laura and Christopher Renewal with Elvis @ Las Vegas Sign

Wow, it’s been almost two weeks since I last posted anything on my blog.  For all 3 of  my subscribers, I apologize, LOL!

November 2, 2012…One year and 17 days after their original wedding date, my hairy nephew Christopher and his lovely wife Laura decided to do a renewal Las Vegas Sign/Elvis style!  It was actually the day everyone started to filter into Las Vegas for a big family get together.  We all met up @ the sign around 2pm.  His parents, Robert and Marlene (my sister) Douglas, Mrs. Douglas (Christopher’s grandmother on his father’s side who I thought was from Jamaica (because I’m a moron) but was actually from Trinidad), Alex (Chris’ brother) and his girlfriend Jen, and my dad were in attendance.

Best Elvis impersonator Kent Ripley was there.  If you’ve never seen him, he’s more of a super mini-sized skinny Elvis but he can damn well play the guitar and sounds just like Elvis!  Photos up above and the video below.  I walked in front of the camera a few times because well again I’m a moron.

Really great to see the family again, it’s been a while :)  For more interesting tidbits of my favorite nephew who’s name is Christopher or actually for everything on Creighton Basketball and food from around the world, visit his web site @ ChrisDouglasExperience.com!

16Sep

Billboard That I Photographed on Las Vegas Strip!

After almost waiting a year, the billboard for a client that I photographed is finally up on the strip right across the street from MGM Grand.   My beautiful friend and kick ass model Carly Ann Rose Mignano graces the front of it, along with some model who I can’t remember the name of, LOL!  That’s my 5th billboard in 2 years!

Thanks Carly for getting all the images of yourself on the billboard, bus, and cabs for me!   :)

14Sep

Fremont Street Experience :)

So after my photo session with Natalie and Scott who were awesome, I decided to stick around and walk around Fremont Street, something I hadn’t done in months.  In the video below are the best things that happened @ Fremont Street.  There was a girl rock band on the main stage that freaking rocked, there was Danny Glover who broke into a pop an lock and bowed to an asian man @ the 00:41 second mark of the video and then at the end of the video, an elderly asian gentleman was collecting those magazines with telephone numbers of escorts from the bins out in the street!  Good stuff!