Chaka Khan

Artists for Peace (AFP) hosted the peace event of the year, which took place on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk. The “Never Again” Peace Concert will honor the legendary Stevie Wonder for his continuous efforts as the United Nations Messenger of Peace. The concert serves to increase awareness and create better understanding of the injustices of discrimination.

The carpet was flooded with media and the carpet should have been longer, but we all bunched up and managed to get the footage. Alot of people I know personally walked the carpet and look fabulous.

After I went inside to shoot the event. Wow what a moment in time that I got to experience first hand to have “Chaka Khan” “Stevie Wonder” “Bobby Brown” “Judith Hill” “Lalah Hathaway” “Eric Benet” “Pras Michel” “Michael Stone” and “Flora Martirosian” all on the same stage at one time. I was in the press area infront of front row at the Gibson Amphitheatre. Had my arms on the stage almost the whole concert shooting video with one hand and capturing images with my camera in the other hand. Wonder how much those seats would have been worth. I heard people could see me on the big screen from the video crew that was shooting the event.

Stevie Wonder

The evening was followed by a great after party. I got to miggle with Bobby Brown, Lalah Hathaway, Tommy Davidson, B Howard and many others. They had complimentary champaign and a full bar. They catered amazing appetizers.

Bobby Brown

Carla, whose uncle was Universal Pictures Founder Carl Laemmle, first arrived to Hollywood as a classically trained ballet dancer in 1921. Throughout her life she followed her diverse artistic passions, and appeared in a wide array of films like ‘King of Jazz’ in 1930 with George Gershwin, she was the Prima Ballerina in ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ in 1925 with Lon Chaney, and ‘Night and Day’ in 1946 with Cary Grant.

Amber Rose

As we all stood by waiting for Amber to arrive, a black SUV pulled up and riding in the passenger side was Jaime Foxx. 3 or 4 young girls got in the back of the truck. I was told it was his daughter and her friends.

As Wiz Khalifa never did arrive it appeared as if Jaime Foxx was there to more than just to support Amber in her getting the Milkshake. As rumor has it,  there was a video clip taken of them 2 kissing in the back room of the Millions of Milkshakes. Still waiting for it to surface…

Congrats Amber!

Video footage of the event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06HRBqX9fWI

3rd Annual Star Magazine Event

3rd Annual Star Magazine’s “All Hollywood” Event:

What  a spectacular event! The carpet was well packed with media from various outlets. There were more bodies than room to stand, as most of the Photographers had to stand sideways moving back and forward  just to get a shot. Others had to stand on a step stool in the second row and lean over to shoot.

Some of the guests that graced the Red Carpet were,

Taryn Manning, Carla Ortiz, Bai Ling, Brittny Gastineau, Tara Reid, Stephanie Pratt, Tatyana Ali, Gavin Dgraw, Jaimie Hilfiger, Igal Dahan, Tess Taylor, Erika Jayne, Gretchen Rossi, Hope Dworaczyk, Jason Wahler, Jayde Nicole. Jesse Bradford, Jessica Hall, and Serena Reeder. Just to name a few. 

I was one of the house photographers for the night so I went inside after the red carpet was over to see who was mingling with who and to enjoy the party.

Jose Cuervo was picking up the tab for the night. They were serving Margaritas with top shelf Tequila one after another.  Of course I even had to grab a glass for myself. They also had some sponsor passing out cool different flavored lip balms. The color and shape resembled easter eggs.  Although I am sure that wasn’t their intention even though Easter is at the end of the month. LOL. Might be a good way to market their product this month.

Gavin Degraw

I started to roam through the room, and ran into Tara Reid, so we took a couple candids. Moving my way to the front I got a few shots of  Taryn Manning doing her thing on the turn table. She was the house dj for the night. I must say I was quite impressed. And she looked like she was having a hell of a time.

Taryn Manning

Gavin DeGraw finished the night up with a few of his hit song.

 The last one he performed was  ”I Don’t Want To Be”

You can see a clip of his live performance at this link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2T43krfUXQ

He took pictures with about 100 fans. Then made his way to the milkshake stand. Aproned up he put on some plastic gloves and was excited to get started. He made 5 different milkshakes. 3 of which were called ”Breezy Teasy” 1, 2, 3. The first shake that was made was helped created by me.

Alittle boy at the end wanted a simple strawberry shake with whipcream. He was very excited.

All in all I thought it was cool to meet Terrell in person. He seemed like a nice guy.

Thanks for the “Breezy Teasy/5 Minute Photos” Milkshake Terrell.

Cee Lo was delivered to the carpet in a horse and carriage with 2 beautiful models.

CIROC vodka sponsored an endless supply of Cee Lo specialty drinks. The Dancing Chef was also there and provided great H’orderves including Green mashed potatoes which was the bomb. 

The night ended with a one song performance by Cee Lo of his hit song “F*CK YOU”.

The place reached capacity and many people began to congregated in the parking lot. I hung out with 40 Glocc and a few others before leaving at 3am.

Here is a video clip of the night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9eRa19j5FU

Well… I must say this was one hell of a party. Even though it was David’s birthday it sure felt like mine too! You really out did yourself David! I had such a great time taking pics of everyone. In between taking over 1000 pictures I had to stop and pose with some of the people in the crowd. I must have been in atleast 75 pics with beautiful women. I had many people coming to me calling me by my full name as I wondered how they even knew. Alot of the people I had never met before.

I dont know how many people actually showed up, but most everyone knew who I was, or had heard about me or my pictures. The place was packed.

As much as I self-promote telling everyone how famous I am, I think it is starting to rub off. I must have been introduced by atleast 100 people as the famous celebrity photographer, Travis Jourdain.
 
Even the people that talk behind my back and post things about me on others facebook pages were really nice to me.

The hugs and smiles were endless, it was so cool. I can’t say enough how much fun I had.

This was definately a billion dollar birthday party! There were so many acts and fashion lines I couldn’t even begin to name them all.

They just kept coming! As I ran back and forth trying to cover the 3 carpets they had set up on the patio while everyone posed for the camera.

Then back inside to shoot who ever was on the stage at the moment, while trying to capture all the excitement in the crowd.  I must have ran 10 miles around that place.

Everyone appeared to be having fun!

David acknowledged alot of people, and presented a few awards. One to Tony Boldi as the honorary mayor of Hollywood. Another award went to Jack Lane for his dedicated service to our country.

And ofcourse my peeps at Hollywood Broker got one too!

David was such a lucky man to have all these people there to celebrate his birthday, and be a part of his Breast Cancer Awareness cause.

I was called up to receive an award also, and next thing I know I was standing on stage with 20 people that were also being acknowledge for their dedication to David. By the time he had finished acknowledging everyone most of the crowd had cleared out and it was 1:45am.

A few of us stuck around and gathered the food and toys that were brought to be donated to the mission as part of another cause David feels strongly about.

Then we went to Mel’s Diner, and David finally presented me with my award for the “2010 Photographer of the Year” at 4:30am. Thanks David!  I hope you had as much fun as I did.

Happy Birthday!

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Jennifer Day

I must say this was a very exciting evening.  I showed up to the Beverly Hilton to attend this event for a women by the name of Jennifer Day.

Although I hadn’t heard of her before this, I must say she is an amazing performer and beautiful women. Buddy Sampson was handling the Pr for this event, and I was very impressed with the way the event was ran .

There was complimentary champaign, and alot of beautiful women there. It was like Christmas came early this year. The carpet started about 8pm and was filled with many beautiful women. Everyone was in great spirit and look amazing. The show started out as a singing dance routine.

It was not exactly burlesque although the dancing and outfits sure were sexy. This was my first time having the Jennifer Day experience, and I am glad I got to endure it. There were several other dance and singing guests along with a comedian Santa Clause to add to the memorable moment.

Can’t wait to go to the next show!

Jennifer Day! You Rock! 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2414230

London Moore

I arrived about 8:30pm and there was already a line of about 30 people waiting to get in. I went inside and headed towards the carpet. There were alot of photographers already waiting behind the ropes for the talent to arrive. I grabbed a spot at the beginning of the carpet. Shortly after the talent started pouring in. Jade Cordova, assistant to the host of the evening, London Moore. She was very pleasant as always, and did such a great job handling the red carpet.

What a great event! There were alot of people I knew and alot of new people I got to meet last night. The crowd was very fun and everyone was dressed to impress. I covered the carpet till about 10pm.

After the talent was finished posing many of the guests the attended the event were so excited to walk the carpet and have their friends take pictures of them with the backdrop. There were many people from out of town and out of the country. They all got a chance to take pics and play Hollywood for the night. I am sure they will have plenty to talk about from this event when they get back to their home town.

I roamed the crowd for a few hours taking pics of all my friends and fans. Its crazy how so many people kept coming up to me to get their picture taken, and that I didnt recognize, but it is so hard to remember everyone from every event although certain people stand out more than others.

The turn out was atleast a couple hundred people.

Keep the F.A.M.E alive.