january

01.31.05

infinitecat is a strange concept. but i guess strange concepts are what the internet is all about.

the more i read and see things about a scanner darkly, the less jaded i get about it; i'm beginning to really look forward to this. i wish i could draw because linklatter is hiring artists.

i think that this hungarian ad is for sausages, but i can't focus so well when i'm laughing this hard. (link via steve)

01.29.05

when i first moved to san francisco, i used to own this giant friggin' rabbit. i called him bass, 'cause he thumped. josh called him bitey. back then, i learned that rabbits, being prey animals, can commit suicide by kicking so hard that it breaks their spine. it turns out that someone has been drawing cartoons of more clever ways of rabbit suicide.

01.27.05

is there anything that google can't do? apparently not - now you can search for videos on line.

what an awesome fetish: women in spacesuits (link via wayneco)

salon reviews the revolution that failed - a book that sounds pretty interesting about the big time indie directors of the 90's. sounds like a book that might be a good pairing with easy riders, raging bulls.

01.26.05

hear ye, hear ye. the society of rockets will be playing at hotel utah (4th & bryant) this friday, january 28th! admission is a mere $6.00. check out the show poster that josh drew and then buy the theremin player a drink.

on the origami front: i'm working on a large scale origami exhibit! i don't have pictures yet, but i'll be sure to let you folks know where to check it out.

01.25.05

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01.24.05

i've gotten two great links from steve today, and humorously enough, they were both specific to january 24th.

on january 24th, 21 years ago, steve jobs introduces the macintosh

and hopefully unrelated, january 24th has been calculated to be the most depressing day of the year.

oedipus gets another good blurb. if you happen to be in new york, los angeles, san francisco, san jose, denver, rhode island or manchester, you should try to check out one of the screenings that are going to be happening near you.

01.22.05

mike (former shimmer kids drummer) sent me this link to a video clip of the theremin bra. it's a wacky idea... but she's a really bad theremin player.

01.20.05

sorry, haven't been able to update lately. we've been having problems with our internets at home. i knew i should have bought more.

my favorite word from the spelling bee: azygophrenia (n) the psychoneurosis of everyday unmarried life.

i finally got to catch a glimpse of the 2005 ladies of fnf calendar. it turns out that i'm ms. january! ah - once again, i prove that i'll pretty much do anything for the sake of comedy. buy a calendar! it's good for you.

01.17.05

brian sent out this link of some beautiful photography of hong kong hive architecture.

now, before you start accusing me, i'll be the first to say that yes, i am now obsessed with any and all life aquatic. ben forwarded me this link to weird fishes found near new zealand and australia. i particularly like the squid that can camoflauge itself by emitting light and the giant rattail fishes with the 'drum machine on their swim bladder that is used to attract females.'

01.16.05

last night i competed in an (unnamed) local bar's stoned spelling bee with about 30 other contestants. they 'prepped' us in the green room (hah) and then made us spell in front of a full audience. it was like the gong show, but with more consonants. i was the first one up with 'prophylactic' and lasted three more rounds but wound up losing at fifth place. ah well, c'est la vie. win or lose, it doesn't matter, 'cause it's things like these that make me realize that i love san francisco.

pitchfork reviewed sunset homes and they loved it! i like their description of my theremin playing as a 'satisfyingly precocious wobble" mainly because i think that's what my everyday existence feels like.

as long as we're on the subject of recordings, i've been digitizing all my old radio shows from college. six freaking years of it! anyway, i was researching the difference between 16/24/32 bit and found this informative article demystifying some of the mystery.

01.14.05

i went to go see kid beyond perform in bright river last night. each time i see him, i'm totally blown away by his beatboxing and this was no exception, especially since he did all the sound design for the play right there on stage. tim barsky, the writer and actor performing the piece also plays a mean beatboxing flute. think roland kirk, but more percussion (and less coke).

you've probably already heard, but eric idle has turned monty python's holy grail into a musical. at first i was skeptical, but then found out that it's directed by mike nichols and stars hank azaria, tim curry and david hyde pierce. now i'm sold.

this sounds like a monty python sketch, or at the very least, an onion article, but no - it's from the new scientist! here's wacky chemical warfare ideas from the pentagon! (link via rusty)

01.13.05

i heart borat. (thanks to rusty & jory for the link)

i saw life aquatic again the other night. it was even better the second time around. the teaser trailer to hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy was attached to it and for some reason it made me nervous. i think the main fact that it's a disney movie gives me the sinking feeling that it might be bad. cup of tea?

gizella has a new photoblog. i love the idea of posting a photo a day - i've really enjoyed watching her skills as a photographer develop over the years and am looking forward to seeing her site evolve over time.

01.11.05

we're living the life aquatic here in california right now. san francisco was hit with a pretty intense rainstorm last night and southern california is going underwater. it's the apocalypse under the guise of global warming. here's some crazy footage of some kid surfing in topanga canyon. it's a little disconcerting considering that i used to drive through topanga canyon every day when i was commuting from the valley to the west side oh so long ago. (link via monty luke)

01.10.05

i'm having a little bit of trouble playing this wmv on my mac, but here's a link to jory showing off the oqo at last week's ces.

i just stumbled upon brent's photos of the stop motion birthday party which dave d. & i had back in november (thanks for taking the pics, brent!).

totally gorgeous microscopy photography. (link via brian)

01.09.05

the state of independent theaters in san francisco isn't as depressing as i once thought it was. the sf bay guardian gives a brief update on the castro and the four star. humorously enough, the castro makes me happy about dystopia.

i forgot to mention that one of my highlights of going back home for christmas was that my mom had a bout of filipino food guilt. since she doesn't cook, we haven't had filipino food in years. instead of attempting to cook on her own, she brought us to the super fancy yi cuisine restaurant. it was really good. who would have possibly thought that haute filipino food existed???

01.07.05

whatever's been going around has finally gotten to me. i'm at home, sick, surfing the web, as opposed to at work, healthy, surfing the web.

in my woozy haze, i finished reading jonathan lethem's men and cartoons. great short stories and a good way to spend some woozy time. his story, the dystopian, has a nice haruki murakami touch to it.

i didn't know how anyone was going to do a feature film of a scanner darkly. first off, it's a tough book to interpret to film. second off, can't we leave pkd books alone? i mean, yeah, he was a genius, but i'd love some original content from studios sometime. despite my griping, these images from linklatter look pretty good. (link via dave i.)

it's storming outside right now in san francisco and i'm bedbound. this means you get more to read. after driving through pennsylvania and visiting niagara falls, i stopped off in rochester, new york, which has the kodak-eastman international museum of photography and film.

01.06.05

more frame by frame fun: steve forwarded me this link to a bunch of eastern european stop motion animation.

possibly not work safe, but really, really funny: the saga of bloodninja. when cybersex gets pranked. (link via miss meliss)

damnit, my robosapien is already a thing of the past. jon sent me this link to the robosapien v2. as jon says "of course yours is already an outdated model that will join you in the future to save you from impending doom as the new models seek to destroy you." i better learn how to arm my robot sometime pretty soon.

01.04.05

one of the coolest things about christmas is that my sister got me a robosapien. i brought it into work today and now i'm trying to figure out how to make it operate the avid. if i could figure out something like homer did with the little drinking bird toy, then i'll be living on easy street.

dave i. found this 'name that tune' site where you can try to guess the correct shimmer kids tune. you can actually do it with any band, but it was good to know that i could identify all our songs. i hope i passed the audition.

happy birthday, merin! your last year was particularly awesome. i hope this next year gets even better!

01.03.05

i thought something funny was happening last year. salon writes about satire in 2004.

note to self: when driving, don't wear the snake.

01.02.05

happy new year, everyone! welcome to double aught five. i used to make all these jokes about how it was going to be hard to write the new year on all my checks. now that joke is dated (dated. get it?) 'cause i do all my banking with these here newfangled computers. i'll need to come up with a new new year's punch line in this futuristic sci-fi age.

speaking of the futuristic sci-fi age - here's a flying car photo album. (link via memepool)

not a flying car, but hybrid-electric - an honda insight is featured at the end of the 'be cool' trailer. admittedly, the movie looks like it's going to be bad, but i love the line about how "if you're important, people will wait..." when you choose efficiency over speed.

8 reasons i think i should get a raise that my boss doesn't agree with.

fallingwater sort of tripped me out. i spent the night in pittsburgh and then headed north towards the water falling at niagara falls.