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Who's Rubin?
I work for Virb. I help pick all the features and help out the Virb community.
Let me know if I can ever help, questions, comments, etc! Just send me a message.
I live in Silver Lake (an area in Los Angeles, California.)
I'm from Kansas and I lived in Boston where I majored in photography.
I like music, movies, photography.
I try to post photos to Flickr a lot.
Here are some older photos I've taken here
I love to recommend things. It's called Rubin Recommends.
aim: thisisthematt
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The Weekly Check In - with Jim Bauer 53 mins ago
(This is the Weekly Check In here on Rubin Recommends. With everyone being so busy, it's fun to get a quick update from them and what they've been up to... short and sweet.)
JIm Bauer is the art director / team manager at Odyssey BMX. He travels a lot and is always building SOMETHING out of something. He will someday build me a super bike and I look forward to that...
Meeting Jim was probably one of the best happy accident friend meetings I have had in Los Angeles or ever. I shot a photo of Michael Ardelean for DIG BMX. The week after Mike was in my neighborhood and wanted to get food with his friend and me. Cue Jim B. (that ended up living 4 houses up from me.) That's the good stuff ladies and gentleman. Best dude ever.
(side note: Check out this interview about Bauer's Death Gap. Really awesome pictures of it too.)
RR: What are you currently working on or just finished that you're excited about?
Bauer: We just sold out our latest feature length video, Odyssey Electronical, and I am really excited about that. In this day and age, selling DVD's is nearly impossible, but we still put 100% into this one and it shows. We never thought we would sell through the copies we had, not to mention sell out so fast and need to re-order. The summer is approaching which means full tilt catalog mode. We have some really good ideas this year, so we may have an award winning piece again.
RR: Where have you traveled so far this month?
Bauer: I just returned from Sao Paolo/Bahia, Brazil. I went for the Brasil X Games, and a little vacation with the lady. Lots of beach, pool and sleeping. very relaxing.
RR: What's your favorite music right now?
Bauer: Throw me the Statue, The Bronx, and Dethclok have been getting heavy rotation.
RR: Best food you've had in your neighborhood lately or while you were traveling?
Bauer: Well the worst food I have had while traveling was a pepperoni pizza I shared with Sharon. She got food poisoning from it all day after, hence eating nothing, recovering quickly. My body miraculously held off the poison for 20 hrs, letting me eat 2 or 3 meals filling the stomach for a potential bomb. Right before the 10hr, overnight flight I got sick. The first vomit explosion was on the plane and I FILLED up a air sickness bag. Have you ever seen anyone use one of those? Have you ever seen one filled? Have you ever had a shrimp come out of your nose? No? You are lucky.Best food was the Strawberry/Banana Jamba Juice I had after I finally arrived home in LA. It tasted like heaven.
RR: Anything Else You Want To Mention?
Bauer: I'm really sad Rubin will be moving to SF. Hopefully he doesn't start recommending hemp shirts, tevas, and bongs.
Bon Iver - New Tour Dates Posted 4 days ago
Go. Just go. I love the Bowerbirds too.
Bon Iver - 2008 Tour DatesMay 12 - ABC w/ Iron & Wine Glasgow May 14 - LEADMIL w/Iron & Wine Sheffield May 15 - THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton May 16 - THE FORUM w/Iron & Wine London May 17 - THE GREAT ESCAPE Brighton May 19 - LONDON CHESS CLUB @ SOCIAL - SOLD OUT London May 20 - SCALA w/Jens Lekman London May 22 - PAARD Den Hague May 23 - ROEPAEN Ottersum May 24 - PARADISO - UPSTAIRS Amsterdam May 27 - LA TRABENDO Paris May 29 - GENT VOORUIT Belgium May 31 - PRIMAVERA Barcelona Jun 2 - SoundTrack 08 @ CRAWDADDY Dublin Jun 4 - ST GILES London Jun 21 - ROCK THE GARDEN @ WALKER ART CENTER w/The New Pornographers Minneapolis, Minnesota Jul 20 - PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL Chicago, Illinois Jul 21 - CROFOOT BALLROOM *** Detroit, Michigan Jul 22 - LEE'S PALACE *** Toronto, Ontario Jul 23 - CABARET MUSIC HALL *** Montreal, Quebec Jul 25 - SPACE GALLERY *** Portland, Maine Jul 26 - MUSEUM OF FINE ART *** Boston, Massachusetts Jul 27 - THE CAPE CINEMA *** Dennis, Massachusetts Jul 29 - BOWERY BALLROOM *** New York, New York Jul 30 - MUSIC HALL OF WILLIAMSBURG *** Brooklyn, New York Jul 31 - FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH *** Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Aug 1 - THE BLACK CAT *** Washington DC Aug 2 - REX THEATRE *** Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Aug 3 - WEXNER CENTER *** Columbus, Ohio Aug 4 - THE LAWN AT WHITE RIVER +++ Indianapolis, Indiana Aug 6 - FLORDIA THEATRE +++ Jacksonville, Florida Aug 7 - NORTH CHARLESTON PERFORMI +++ Charleston, South Carolina Aug 8 - KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE +++ Cary, North Carolina Aug 10 - PILOT LIGHT &&& Knoxville, Tennessee Aug 11 - EXIT/IN &&& Nashville, Tennessee Aug 12 - WALDRON ARTS CENTER &&& Bloomington, Indiana Aug 14 - PABST THEATER &&& Milwaukee, Wisconsin Aug 15 - FIRST AVENUE &&& Minneapolis, Minnesota Aug 24 - OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL San Francisco, California Aug 25 - THE TROUBADOUR &&& Los Angeles, California*** w/ Bowerbirds+++ w/ Wilco&&& w/ AA Bondy
My Daily Sites
The Big Noob
Little Paper Planes
Lifehacker
Stereogum
The Bargainist
Brooklyn Vegan
Vimeo
Digg
Recent Songs (VirbTunes) - see all
- Jawbreaker - Save Your Generation
- Jawbreaker - Parabola
- Jawbreaker - Pack It Up
- Jawbreaker - You don't know...
- Jawbreaker - Tour song
- Jawbreaker - Like a secret
- Jawbreaker - P.S. New York is burning
- Jawbreaker - Face Down
- Jawbreaker - Donatello
- Jawbreaker - Sleep
Top Artists (VirbTunes) - see all
- WHY? - 492
- Bon Iver - 340
- Jonquil - 331
- Lifetime - 320
- Panel Donor - 287
- Cap'n Jazz - 281
- Sufjan Stevens - 270
- Bowerbirds - 267
My Music
Favorite Movies
Home Alone, Bottlerocket, Rushmore, Dazed and Confused, Safe Men, UHF, Good Will Hunting, Better Off Dead, Sixteen Candles, Say Anything, One Crazy Summer, Snow Day, The Big Lebowski
Music
Bon Iver, Evergreen, Rain On The Parade, The Narrator, Texas is The Reason, Battery, Ida, The Promise Ring, Mandela Strikeforce, Karate, Third Eye Blind, Peter Bjorn and John, Ad Astra Per Aspera, Descendents, Ben Folds Five, Wolf Parade, Envy, Appleseed Cast, Casket Lottery, Reflector, Damien Jurado, Mineral, Silver Jews, Jawbreaker, Christie Front Drive, Samiam, Knapsack, Ordination of Aaron, Inkwell, Midlake, Mew, Indian Summer, Evergreen, Lemonheads, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Josh Rouse, Josh Ritter
Television
Lost, Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, The Office, Rescue Me, 24, The Shield. 30 Rock, Heroes, Scrubs
Zines
Comet Bus, Burn Collector, Anti-Matter, Second Nature, Skansas
Bikes
Comments - see all 170
Hi Rubin!!!!
posted Jan 11
Hey Rubin. Thanks for the add dude. I love what you guys have going here so far at Virb. Keep up the excellent work. I'm looking forward to 2.0!
posted Jan 3
Happy New Year!
posted Jan 1
Hi Rubin. Thanks for accepting my request. I bet Los Angeles is nice this time of year - I'm so jealous. Happy New Year!
posted Dec 31
thanks for ur add. hope can hear from u soon.welcome everyone visit my virb too.=)
posted Dec 28
haha. thanks for the comment about my meToday. it was like a war zone here with all kinds of trees down. its crazy. haha. so how r u doing. later, nick
posted Dec 19
so... i was logging in to my iLike account recently and look who's there in the high similar taste module... good photo btw
you don't seem to use that site though...?
posted Dec 1
remember when i saw you there? that was fun. Sat, Dec. 1st 7-10PM The Lab 101 Gallery 8530-B Washington Blvd in Culver City / 310.558.0911 "Happy Endings" one-night only group show featuring artists that the Lab 101 have shown over the years marking the closing of the Lab 101 Gallery. don't miss it, as after this, the Lab 101 will be no more .
posted Nov 27
hello there new friend :)
posted Nov 12
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Tempting But No... Productions says:
Hi Rubin, Thanks for the compliment on the video. Have I met you before with Mike Slebodnik?
posted Feb 22