June 2008
5 posts
Imagine
Saw this down by the tracks in Berkeley, on the back wall of the sake factory.
May 2008
17 posts
"Guess we've still got a ways to go before people...
syntheticpubes: Just had a band recommended to me by a friend. Went to Hype Machine to check them out, but no luck—all tracks unplayable. Found some on YouTube, but I can’t let the whole page of search results play consecutively like on HM. Guess that means I’m going to have to find and pirate their whole goddamn discography and not feel bad about it because they backed me into this corner. ...
Another One Bites The Dust
My condolences to Subverse. I’ve heard this is the second iPod he’s killed in a span of 15 months.
“For me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment...”
– Words of wisdom from multi-billionaire and Central park speedwalker Nicolas Berggruen
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He...
It started out:Yesterday I came across a slightly mysterious website — a collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. So, naturally, I started looking through the photos. I was stunned by what I found. And continued into perhaps the most moving moment I’ve...
Flatiron Building, 1903
One of my favorite buildings, taken from a great collection of old black & white photos of NYC.
“Obama made low-key campaign stops this weekend, hitting a street festival in...”
– CNN on Obama’s (apparently) low-key gathering of 75,000 people in Portland, OR
“Half of all new college graduates now believe that self-employment is more...”
– The Next American Frontier - WSJ.com (via zachklein) (via fred-wilson)
The Sun Sets On AT & T Park
Aren’t I stoked that my low-end phone from Sprint has a camera that comes equipped with the much sought after “Monet” lens filter…? I swear, I didn’t even have to tell it to do this. It just did it. I can’t tell if it is cool or if it sucks… but I guess that’s what I call ART!
Truth In Website Logos
Props to the gang at Collegehumor for this one.
San Francisco In Ruins, May 28, 1906
I got a few compliments regarding the San Francisco in 1851 photo I posted earlier, so I thought I would share one of my other favorites in case you haven’t seen it before. Click for a bigger image. This is an aerial photo shot from about 2000 feet above the San Francisco Bay in May of 1906, just over a month after the great earthquake of 1906. Click on the photo above to get a high...
Fake Robert Johnson Gets His Own Widget
I’ve been a fan of Fake Robert Johnson ever since I was alerted to his presence on Blogger. He really drops knowledge when it comes to assessing the current peculiarities of the internet music world. Check him out, sporting his own custom MP3 Jackpot widget for his tune “Love In Vain”:
San Francisco in 1851
Click for bigger image. This is the site of Portsmouth Square, now considered to be a part of Chinatown, earning it a nickname “Heart of Chinatown.”