love

"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeoalright i am in love with california.
but come on we need to make this right for me to be proud of california.
please pass this video and link on to others.

hill tunes

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this music makes me look forward to hot summer nights and days spent getting lost in the hills.
thanks for the recommendations ash, loved them as usual.

make a wish

Fifty People, One Question: Brooklyn from Fifty People, One Question on Vimeo.

you'll find it again

girls night

yummy dinner at namu. delicious bottle of wine, spicy shot, miso, tempura, brussel sprouts with pork belly, fish and more fish, coconut custard in kabocha squash and good friends. a perfect way to end the week. too tired to go play darts we made it back to watch arrested development, make some popcorn and root beer floats.

better late than never

i just finished this little snowman for a very belated christmas package. i am almost always late when it comes to gift giving, especially if it includes a trip to the post office. better late than never.

watch out don draper

yep there is plenty of competition in the ad world. i found this 1974 ad for the pdx lloyd center at an estate sale this morning. crazy to think that an old german woman held on to this. i found it in a shoe box with other travel paraphernalia including this photo strip style brochure for the knott's berry farm.
i also adore this little lemon tea box that someone abandoned on the sidewalk and this lovely wine label.

mr. february

went to the rickshaw last night for hercules and love affair and it was dance party central. we showed up early in case it sold out and that meant a few drinks and time to pose in the rickshaws. phil wants a calendar of himself as a rickshaw model. we decided that it kinda looked more like a fancy wheelchair but it's still cute.

study more

picking up andrew wyeth and lucian freud books this month for inspiration. i have to stay in sketch practice, more life drawing and human studies.

collard greens, ya dig

I have been working with My Farm, digging in the dirt and discussing ways to bring this into the classroom.
I think they are rad and one of the guys i worked with today (at the farm in the pic below in the ny times) gave me a collard cutting. we both have one carefully put into a fuchsia plastic pot with volcanic ash to root itself, no soil and this is the experiment aspect. I like them and what they are doing, especially the social justice aspect.Here is a little more info.
http://www.myfarmsf.com/about-how-it-works.html
http://eatdrinkbetter.com/2008/08/22/my-farm-grows-from-san-francisco-backyards/
http://www.cityfarmer.info/my-farm-san-franscico-firm-harvests-potential-of-unused-land/
http://arieff.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/grow-your-own/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/dining/22local.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

mae shi? yes she may!

this was awesome! we just saw the mega nerd convention and then off to oakland to rock out. michael was just saw mae shi at holocene but couldn't resist a house party in oakland! it was at a warehouse/loft by the bay with a lot fixed gear bikes, cheap beer(michael had to buy it from some bloke at 2 for $5), old hooded sweatshirts, and "tight pant wearing, long haired, bike riding, living in the mission... hipsters" well that's what a neighbor said and I have to agree and so did the mae shi drummer who said tha was almost everyone their. I was outside between bands, why? well i had food poisoning from the bison burger at the science lecture. delightful, michael was happy to be vegetarian and i was wishing that mammoths would have survived extinction instead of stomach churning bison. yes i was vomiting like an inexperienced teenage drinker. michael said that we could/should go but i thought it was unfair i mean he just saw them but i didn't. we warmed up in the car guesstimating that it would take 30 minutes for the 2nd to last band to break down and mae shi to set up. we were right and by the my system had purged itself of all toxins and we rocked it. i love live music. there was so much energy and i kept thinking about all of the crusty punk oakland shows i heard about from a roommate years ago and smiled every time they screaammmmmmed. especially the local band house mouse.
here is a video of mae shi but they actually changed the words to fight for your rights in place of run to your grave.

Pleistocene Megafauna of North America discussed by modern day Meganerds of

What can I say? I freaking love stuff like this. We discovered that the bay area use to look like africa today, that the sabertooth had an adorable frown/smile action with it's mouth agape and it's skull is much bigger than i thought(michael is holding a reproduction), got to hold a wooly mammoth tooth, ahhhhh a real one that we had been warned would shatter into a million little pieces if dropped. i took a pic of it on my hat. ladies and gentlemen this is one of 16 teeth a mammoth would have. oh, giant beavers a defiantly giant as you can see in slide 4926. i nearly jumped out of my seat when i saw atlatl i mean that is a term that i will always remember from school. i love that word, it is so much fun to say. try it. the scientist also took the opportunity to make fun of sarah palin while discussing the bering land bridge.
along with political humor you may have guessed that sooner or later global warming would come up and it did. then they started the discussion of bringing back a lot of wildlife to the bay area hence the we're back closing slide with a short nosed bear, giant sloth and beaver. some professor in berkley wants to initiate this change but i do not see it happening anytime soon.
oh the adorable woman sitting in front of us was talking about radio lab and one of the episodes with wilson the entomologist that i adore. i have to get his ant book now. maybe this weekend. i love science and meganerds.