tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-319887612012-01-16T23:40:23.975-08:00I started a blog so I wouldn't have to write the same email to everyone I know. But nobody reads it so it's more like a test run for future conversation. That's okay, I'm used to that. Thanks for visiting.msgr33http://www.blogger.com/profile/11227309467524097553noreply@blogger.comBlogger2041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31988761.post-31600298272858627212012-01-16T23:38:00.000-08:002012-01-16T23:40:23.987-08:00

"A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look at thousands of working people displaced from their jobs, with reduced income as a result of automation, while the profits of the employers remain intact and say, "This is not just." It will look across the oceans and see individual capitalists of the West

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Would have appreciated a spreadsheet, but all this writeup at My Family's Money is pretty interesting. I like that it adds a valuation of time, which my own analysis did not since I am not nearly so rational about it sometimes (how much would I pay for an extra 20 minutes of sleep while I'm in bed and it's raining outside at 6:30am? Probably a lot more than I would pay to get home 20 minutes

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It's possible I have too many bikes of the same make in my stable right now, but at least it's a good one. Just traded a very nice Kelly Benefit Strategies Lemond Triomphe team frame for this Deutsche Telekom Merckx Corsa Extra. There are certainly arguments on both sides, but I think we're both coming out well on this one. I guess I should go to the bike expo and find a good rear wheel for this

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Finally got a replacement point and shoot camera, a Lumix LX5 to replace the LX3 I forgot to take out of the seatback pocket a few months ago. What's up with people not returning things they find? I had my name and my phone number on it, I reported it to the Southwest folks immediately and still nothing. Things like this make me disappointed in humanity. But such are my problems, I finally had a

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Such a beautiful video. Despite the decay (or maybe in a way because of it), it feels like freedom, like endless potential waiting to be explored.

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I realize that, living in the Bay Area, I'm surrounded by the vanguard of food politics so real, unprocessed food straight from the farm, tinged with dirt and bacteria is not such an odd idea whereas it might seem very [insert dirty hippie insult here] to many inhabitants of this continent who buy their food wrapped in plastic and ready to drop in the frying pan. I mean, heck, most of my meals

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Josh Simpson, a good buddy and photographer, recently posted a photo of me in the middle of a few other folks from a lighting test a while back. The link to my website reminds me that I should probably update my website.

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So I'm sitting down to edit another hotel video which is will consist almost entirely of what would be considered b-roll and I come across this video. They disabled embedding so click through, it's worth it (no rickrolling).

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My buddy Rich and I got together one day and made this video for Goh Nakamura. It's one of the tracks from Goh's movie, Surrogate Valentine, that was used for the trailer but didn't make it into the actual film. Rich and I also made the video for the title track a few months ago. Musicians, befriend us, especially if you have video ideas that can be done in a day while we're trying to avoid going

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I don't know much about fashion and I only heard of this brand today, but I like a lot of what this guy is saying. I don't consider myself an artist, mostly because I don't think my work qualifies as art, but I would still consider myself a creative person and I suffer certain failings of that type, namely poor planning for retirement; his last sentiment is perhaps a more successful person's take

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Just finished the first week of shooting for Yes, We're Open, a feature film written by H.P. Mendoza and directed by Rich Wong (of Colma: The Musical and Fruit Fly) and starring Lynn Chen and Parry Shen. Even though I've worked with Rich and HP on a few other films, it's a bit of new terrain for all of us since there are no musical numbers and this time I'm in the director of photography role.

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I just watched a guy steal a girl’s laptop on the BART train. Saw a guy. Watched a guy. I don’t know what I did, but one thing is for certain: I did nothing to stop it.Let me go back a bit. I’m waiting on the platform, writing responding to email on my crackberry about an animation idea involving candy characters. Train arrives, get on the train. Like any other train. Holding my bike by the stem,

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It's taken me the better part of a week for my knee to feel back to normal after a day of parkour. So much for resting the month to let it heal. We were shooting a music video (so much for not participating in the spectacle-izing of parkour) so it was a lot more activity and a lot more impact-involved activity than I would normally do in a contained training session, but certainly not more than a

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It's an overcast day in the Bay so better get on your rain suit cuz Imma drop some names on you (let's call them shout outs). A couple weeks ago, my buddy Rich and I were bouncing around ideas for a camera test. We got together with Goh Nakamura and made a video for his song Surrogate Valentine, sort of an accompaniment to the movie of the same name (dir. David Boyle). It's being featured on

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I finally finished the parkour piece for Hyphen, only took me a few months. It was definitely a learning experience, from realizing that shooting video and stills at the same time on the same camera was a pain in the butt and resulted in a very low percentage of useable footage to figuring out a workflow for uncontrolled location sound. It's always repeated that audiences will forgive just about

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So if I make any new year's resolution, it may be to update my blog more often. Sometimes, it seems like so much is going on that I don't have time to update, but I guess they point is that a blog is imperfect, unedited, even rawwwwwwwww. Okay, I wouldn't go that far. But I have been busy working and creating, it's a good thing, the best kind of stress to have, trying to balance the financially

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Damon Winter shows once again that it's not about the capture device.http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/finding-the-right-tool-to-tell-a-war-story/?hp

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One of the things I really like about YouTube is that it often saves me from having to search an entire movie to get to that one scene or sequence that I actually want to watch repeatedly without having to search through the whole movie. I suppose that statement may be offensive to some filmmakers, but hey, if I wrote an entire concept album that only had a couple really good songs on it, would

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This is a couple days old, but pretty funny ideas from one of the toughest guys in the peleton.

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I wish I could have played like this when I was thirteen. Actually, I wish I could play like this now. Sure, she is covering this tune and perhaps just copying it hit for hit, but it's still pretty awesome. When I was at this age, I was spending probably 95+% of the time I spend playing along to a recording trying to duplicate what I heard exactly, almost no time making up my own parts. There are

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Bridge tolls went up today. Most notable for me and many others, carpooling during rush hour is no longer toll free. Below is the spreadsheet I made to calculate the options I typically use- bicycle, bart, motorcycle and car. This has changed from my previous spreadsheet in that 1) I now drive a car that is less fuel-efficient (bought a new-to-me car after another driver drove into my stopped

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Rode down to Pigeon Point a few weekends ago. I think the Pescadero>Skyline>Woodside>RWC return was nicer than the way down which was Daly City>Skyline>92>HMB/HWY1. Maybe it was because the return was also shorter (about 25 miles instead of a little under 50) or maybe because it eschewed the less interesting flat stuff. Not too tough of a ride, especially since I wasn't in a hurry, decent amount

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In the interest of using this blog for self-promotion, I am pleased to announce that Bulldozer was awarded third place by Audience Choice at the Aurora Picture Show's Extremely Shorts festival in Houston. Woo-hoo!

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Today was national bike to work day, so I hope you made the right choice, like this biker:

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How can bicycles be as important as automobiles? Bikes only carry one person at a time. Oh, wait a second.Thanks, Ray LaHood and the Department of Transportation for finally staking some ground for bicycles, bicyclists and livability in general. It's rather unfortunate that Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio) has to posture with some polarizing soundbites when he has supported bike paths in the past.

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Dude is so right on so many things. Srsly, couples, srsly.

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It's almost Spring and, aside from watching the green grass of the Bay Area transform into golden fire hazard, it means film festival time. SFIAAFF seems like a lovely memory and I'm looking forward to the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Including the Bulldozer video (left in the dust for the popular vote but won the judges decision for SFIAAFF!), two short films I worked on will be

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Because he didn't have a resume that listed a lot of experience, this dude built an electric motorcycle to prove his ability to learn and innovate. And through it all, still doin' it for the kids.

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My grandmother saved plastic bags for decades. I wonder if they loved her this much.

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Does anyone else read this sticker as, "Art. Eh."? Or as the kids say, meh. Certainly, it appeals to some understanding that both art and the Earth are important, but otherwise what is the link between the two?

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Not quite as well executed as the Charlie Brooker news piece, but still entertaining. NOt exactly subtle, but then again, I guess it's not shining a light on subtlety, either.

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Just got word that our music video was awarded the jury prize for the SFIAAFF/KSW/Locus Arts DIY video contest. What does that mean? Since Toyota sponsored it, I think we will get to choose between a new 2010 Toyota automobile or a Toyota Matrix t-shirt, only if we decide to take the car, we have to chance whether it's pre- or post-recall. Oh, and the video will be screened at the festival forum

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Via BBC via Tea with Teresa.

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I shot this music video a couple weeks ago and it's finally up and ready for voting. Please check out "Bulldozer" by The Invisible Cities, directed by Melissa Hung, on the Center for Asian American Media contest page.It's the last video in the list so please scroll down. Voting is done by views so while I would normally encourage you to view all the other videos, support the bands and filmmakers

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Have you ever wondered just how far a Norwegian in full scuba gear could run on dry land? I know I have, and like all other pieces of arcane knowledge, Google knows the answer.

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Not quite as good as the Phantom Menace review, but this two part Avatar review is still pretty right on.redlettermedia.com

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This is cool- I had assumed from their recordings that they did it all in the studio.(from Questlove)

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I'm glad that parkour is finally getting to a place where people are using it for content in ways other than another weak trick video.parkour motion reelby yom_Speaking of which, I'm occasionally on this site of Asian media industry people and came across the page of a martial arts stuntman in HK who also does some parkour. I know I would certainly take a second look at my "showreel" if I were a

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The Thomasson hyperart project I worked with Kearny Street Workshop and Kaya Press on a couple months ago is having a holiday/release party today. Free admission, come on down. What is a Thomasson? Watch the video and find out, or maybe just come up with more questions.

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I bet I would know this conversation well, had I a live-in gf and won bike races.This, along with the hipsters discussing cyclocross video, is some pretty genius use of text-to-speech.

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Apparently, this is a common combo purchase.

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Sure, in twenty-five minutes we're not going to get all the details of new health care, health insurance and election reforms, but I'm still pretty impressed both at Franken's ability to address the concerns of the constituents and the crowd's openness to hearing actual responses. You could attribute it to Scandinavian reservedness or funnel-cake-and-midwestern-summer-heat-induced lethargy, but

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I'm not sure what the medium is, but it kinda looks like chocolate. I hope so, because I like chocolate, even more than Metallica played on strings (I hear it's sand, not so tasty). Srsly, tho, this is pretty cool (though the YT comments show a saddening lack of education in history).

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I'm in the final throes of preparing a few photos for this show. I'm only showing 10 images but it's taken me the better part of the week to sift through what I've shot and get those into a printable state. It's made me realize a few things:- My film scans probably suck or I'm getting really used to, and preferring, the smoothness of digital. Now all the film grain looks like noise to me. There's

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The site for the Hyperart: Thomasson project I'm collaborating on is now online! As with a lot of things I'm interested in, the concept is somewhat intellectual, but unlike many dry ideas in postmodern art, I think this one, especially in its execution, makes connections that any modern city dweller can relate to. Please check out the site, submit a Thomasson near you and, if you feel so inclined

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If I had to choose, I don't know if I'd have a hard time deciding between this and the Boba Fett hoodie. It would be nice to have both just to have a better chance of matching my footwear du jour.

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I realize I may get very little sympathy about this current problem (and from the looks of recent contacts from back in the high school days this includes many men my age), but I've got way too much hair on my head right now. It's all over my apartment, it intercepts my food as I lift a utensil to my mouth, it interferes with shaving it's stunted kin on my chin. But now that I've been getting my

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Has enough time elapsed that I can enjoy Michael Jackson again without being caught in the ridiculous mass mourn? This video- not the articles about how he was a patent holder, not the stories about that time someone heard that one song or even every moment that's connected with the whole discography, not any number of articles that dissected the star quality that faded long ago- reminds me why I

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I just finished my first tomato of the season. I admit, I was a bit desperate- as you might have posited from my previous post, there hasn't been a lot of food in my place. Or more correctly, not a lot of food that is easily accessible in my pathetic bachelor way, ie if it takes more than a few cuts and a single heating tool to make it edible, I'm probably not going to eat it. So my diet has

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My thoughts as I got ready for bed tonight:I need to buy food. I need to allow myself to buy food. I must allow myself the indulgence of driving my car to the supermarket to buy food.It is okay for me to use the car once a week to go to the supermarket to buy food.Why do I need to remind myself of this? This is not healthy.Time for sleep, I can feel it in my legs even as I sat my computer. They

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I wish I had a button like this one- I can hardly think of a time when someone who asks me about my helmet non-use wasn't doing so as a thinly veiled opening for them to regale me with tales about how someone their sister's dogwalker's cousin knows was saved by one or how their brain is worth so much. Well, yes, it's true, my brain isn't worth as much as theirs and I've only been riding regularly

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Took the long way out of the Mission in search of cheaper gasoline, saw this from the road. Looked better when I was cruising by and didn't notice all the light posts and sea of cars and whatnot. Mostly, I hadn't noticed the stadium from this angle at night before- the lights showcasing the grandstands make for an odd eruption in the darkened concrete landscape.

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Dunno when this short was made, but it's lacking in social networking procrastination.I'm working on my last issue of Hyphen, just trying to push through and get my work done after putting it off for dangerously long.

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Picture message from a 650 number which is not programmed in my phonebook."That's the shot glass I bought u!"

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Dangit, all my secrets revealed.

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Some guys from the local media production school interviewed me for an documentary they were doing on flow. I thought some other traceurs and traceuses were going to be in it also, but looks like it's just me (I think I recognizes one of the other locals dudes in the stills, though). And of course there were a few things I did that I were more impressive to me but I guess they didn't look as good

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After many years of production and post-production, My Movie Girl is finally making it's world premier at Dances With Films next month in LA. It's playing at Leammle's Sunset 5 on Saturday, June 6th at 10.30am. Yes, in the morning, I know, but so it goes. I've been in involved in this movie for nearly six years (some producing, some grip and electric, some art department and even a bit of the

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If you thought Jetta ads went into murky territory dealing with race in a commercial, this definitely takes it further. Just shows you that you don't need a big budget to stir some stuff up on the airwaves. Hopefully people can get some understanding of their discomfort with their first viewing(s) and realize how genius this is.

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My schedule the last few days has been waking up at about 7am to get into the city at 8am to drive down to the South Bay and start work at about 9am. So minus the time to get out of the house, that's about 1hr45min in transit. Here are the options used so far:Motorcycletravel time to SF: 7:30-8 = 30 minround trip: 2/3 gal @ $2.199= $1.43maintenance: $2.89total: $4.32benefit: least travel time

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In case you've been living under a rock (or maybe just not checked the internets for a couple hours), Texas representative Betty Brown suggested that Asians adopt names that are "easier for Americans to deal with". I don't know who these Americans are, whether they are also perhaps of Asian descent or whatever, and I don't know how or why she is distinguishing between Americans and Chinese here (

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I have just started on this thing the kids call "Twitter". There you can follow my daily movements which are not even worth writing a blog about. Seeing as my blog posting is pretty irregular to begin with, this may be seen as a good thing for those who really, truly love me, or a way to find out just how much you really, truly love me when you get more glimpses into my mundane world that might

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After about five years, I've decided to move on from my role as director of photography at Hyphen. I am looking for a replacement to share responsibilities for the next issue in progress (not the one out in April) then take over after that (basically around mid-summer). It will be thirteen issues so maybe almost like working for a year on a monthly magazine? If anyone out there can recommend a

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It's not uncommon for me to sleep through an entire day of sunny and 70F weather, yet I actually like training in the rain. Must be the defensive specialist in me. As is often the case, I slept a bit into the afternoon so I had get up and out before the sun went down. I probably could have been a bit more focused in my training- after all, it was only about an hour and a half long- but I'm still

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Ever get something stuck in your head? This was stuck in my head for weeks until I got a chance to go back to the gym and do it.

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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.Pretty hilarious. Kinda reminded me of this:

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I don't have cable so I didn't hear about this until recently (or maybe it's because I'm surrounded by people who have lost too much of their healthy cyncism). Despite what the bumper stickers say, we haven't done anything yet.

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Sometime last spring/summer- I'm not sure when right now since I switched calendar software and I'm too lazy to boot the old one up- I went down to LA to work on a short film. Well, it turns out that not only was that film accepted to Sundance, it was featured and got some pretty serious interest. Now, I realize more and more that my role as gaffer (or "key gaffer" in this case, not sure what

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Sometimes, dreams do come true.

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It is indeed a rare instance when something is so, so bad that it circles all the way around to absolutely amazing. And for even more amazingness, please welcome... VAN HALEN!

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today:- first use of the new circular saw to build landing targets for parkour. Kinda forgot details of proper measurement and handling of wood so the cuts weren't the most precise I've made. Still have all my fingers. Quick test of the structures showed that they don't slide much on concrete given anywhere near a correct landing, may not need to shoe them with or other additional grip. Also

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Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No KeyboardI dropped into the Macworld Expo today with a friend and realized that a consumer trade show is much worse than a retailer trade show in that the people in the booths have headsets and are babbling at people in the booth or passersby. Cacophonous to be sure.Stuff of interest:- Canon 5Dmk2 video is much less handy that I had hoped. It still

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Tidying fastex buckle on existing backpack - More DIY How To Projects

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My friend Teresa interviewed me last fall for her podcast, Tea with Teresa and the interview is online now.It's about an hour long and recorded in three parts- first half hour is our initial interview, then an interlude when she attended a BApk beginner session followed by another half hour of us talking about her experience and pk in general. There's some repetition of details in the second half

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This is a cat that was hanging around our table in Morocco. My first kitler.

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Finally got my Barcelona street art photos onto flickr. Consists of photos almost entirely from walking around the Gothic District and nearby (the above was in a shopping mall on the water). I don't know the names of all the artists, though I do know that the ones I thought my be Banksy are by Dolk (thanks Banksy group moderators).

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The rain has finally started to fall which usually would signal me to get ready to go snowboarding, but since I'm not doing that I've got plenty of time to go crazy trying to kill all the critters that are beginning to take refuge in my house. Ants and mice. I remember the ants when I first moved into this place- they were coming in like crazy through the light switch by the front door. I taped

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So when the State owns the industry, it's called communism but when the industry owns the State, it's called democracy?

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So it's after Thanksgiving and I no longer have family visit as an excuse to not get work done. I got a preliminary edit of Morocco travel photos done but they're not quite ready for general consumption yet. I think this time around I'm going to put comments on each photo or at least a bunch of them instead of doing a longer writeup here like I did with previous trips to Europe, partially because

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What you may be wondering.

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It'll be a while until I get all my recent trip photos edited to a reasonable length so until then, please listen to this, even though I think anyone who might check this blog is already in the choir.

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The Princess of Nebraska, a film by Wayne Wang, premiered last week on YouTube Screening Room. I believe this is the first full-length feature to be screened there.This was my first major involvement in a CAAM project and I did enough to get credited as "gaffer" and, at least as importantly, to get called back for more projects.

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Blue Shield of California is trying to woo me today with this opener in the mail:"Now you can feel as confident about your healthcare plan as you are about following your dream."Clearly, this was written by a full-time worker in a cushy career position, possibly a civil servant with a union and total health coverage. The problem with my health insurance- I don't think it's anywhere near

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In my Civic 4dr for a shoot yesterday:(2) high roller stands(6) C-stands(4) light stands(5) Profoto 7b packs + heads(10) Profoto 7b batteries(5) magnum reflectors(1) 9' seamless(1) 12' seamless (sticking out of the trunk)(2) 18"x24" solid flags(1) bag of misc gripAll with room to spare (though not really enough room for a passenger). Kinda makes me think the only reason I'd need a new car is for

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Apparently, there wasn't a lot going on in St. Helena last week. You can see me out of focus sporting the purple Fiorentina jersey.On the other hand, shortly after that on my own shoot I was approached by a team of cops with shotguns drawn. I guess someone thought I was doing another kind of shooting from the bike bridge. For a second, I thought Berkeley was getting a little overzealous about

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Back home from my first ultimate tournament in seven years. Or maybe it's six years. Anyway, it was as good as an ultimate weekend gets- drove up 10+hrs to Corvallis, won our pool and semis on Saturday, slept under the stars (almost- between campfire and getting in the sleeping bag, it turned overcast), had a cool nature walk around L&M's place before heading to the finals game (ah, the benefits

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If loving you is wrong, I don't wanna be right.Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgersOriginally uploaded by ccaviness

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Just got off the phone with Amazon.com after trying to use a pre-loaded debit card that I'd gotten from a product rebate failed. The card was only valid through 08/08 so basically expired today and probably something inane like in the time zone in which it was issued (central) or who knows what. But what was really annoying is that I didn't get an error message so I was waiting for the Amazon.com

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It's days like today that I love being in the Bay Area, esp Berkeley, actually. Motorcycling without a jacket, outdoor gear sales (did I really spend 2hrs in REI? Am I really going to go back to the North Face store tomorrow to see if that one size medium is still there in the rack of XXLs? Am I going to use returning the jacket I bought at REI but found cheaper on eBay as an excuse to swing by?

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I bought my first new set of cleats since probably 2002. Funny to think that new cleats was something that used happened probably every year or more since 1982. I tried many of the new tech hoping for a total revelation in field footwear, but turns out I bought basically the same model as I used the last couple years of playing seriously. The store didn't have my preferred kangaroo ones, at least

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Trailer also available in HD on fruitflyfilm.com.

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Got double kongs for real outside today. Thanks, Ryan. Just wanted to note the date on that.

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This is a swap benefiting Cycles of Change, a cool bike program in Alameda which helps train kids and adults to fix bikes and of course all the good work/reward mental stuff that goes along with that.

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In a small fit of creativity spurred by emotional drama, I started on a small essay about a friend who was killed on the job as a messenger. It's intended for an upcoming for-messengers-by-messengers book and the length is supposed to be 250-300 words but I've already got around 450 and will probably need at least another 150 to finish. I'll have to send it in and see if they even like the

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