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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Pogo

Made mostly from audio from Alice in Wonderland

Listen to some more here

Enough Said?

OK maybe just some context:
"For John" or "My Boyfriend's Rig"
Honolulu, HI
Easter 2008

World Press photos of the year

Check it. Cool photos, and some interesting interviews.



This is one of the first ever formal portraits of Putin taken by a UK photographer who calls himself Platon.

Tsai Wu!

Wear a helmet!

So, as Marshall can tell you, riding a road bike between bars is dangerous. Having the temerity that I do I disregarded this fact. I was riding down fifth street towards college. I was standing up and pedaling hard in 52x18 when I hit one of the 2"x6"x2" holes in the pavement that are so prevalent in this town and the next thing I knew I was sliding down the road. I slid long enough that I had time to think to myself "wow, I'm sliding down the pavement pretty fast on my chest".


Normally I wear a helmet on my road bike at all times, but the morning of the incident I couldn't find it and rather then search I left without it. When I endoed on the crack in the road my bike flipped around and the spiked platform pedal hit me in the back of the head. It left a 1/4" wound that bled like crazy for about 2 minutes before I stopped it with my glove.

damage:
Halfway shredded jacket, jeans, gloves, headphones, mp3 player and sunglasses.
1/2" long hole in my left palm and a small scrape on my left hip.
1/4" laceration on my head.

One of the hoods on the bars was bent from the impact, but went back into place without a problem.

All in all, I was pretty lucky, I was probably going between 20 and 30 mph when it happened and I slid around 10-15 feet on the pavement. My clothing did a good job of protecting me from the road at it's own expense.

I had had 3 pints of bud light in the 2 hours before hand so I wasn't really drunk. I had a headlight but the didn't see the hole at all before I hit it, probably because I was looking up ahead at the intersection of college and fifth.

Great Salt Lake actually really salty

So the salt lake is really salty, approximately 4x that of the ocean. Bennett got himself a hobie 18 over the weekend and we took it out sunday. Dead wind turned into the great white squall complete with the harbor patrol boat following us in.

Whatever night shift schedule, guess I'll be going to bed early tonight.

Fun with Everclear!

People were falling asleep around the campfire due to a late night the night before. Morale was low. There was a bottle of everclear that my other Utard friend James brought and a raging fire. Something needed to be done.

Fire is fun. I'm glad I didn't set my polyester shirt on fire.

Why is it that I'm the only one posting here any more? Do the rest of you have real lives that you are busy with or what?

Gas Holidy

stolen from here

"It sounds like a great plan. With the high cost of gas, let's roll back the federal gas tax for everyone over the summer to give drivers a break during the busiest travel season. McCain first proposed this plan and suggests that "Hard-working American families are suffering from higher gasoline prices. John McCain calls on Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day." After Obama came out against the plan, Hillary Clinton NOW supports it."

"On top of that, reducing the cost of gas will likely increase demand. Increasing demand will likely tighten supply. Tightening the supply will cause the price to increase somewhat thus taking back some of the $50 in tax benefits and giving them to big oil.

Finally, doing this also will cost the US treasury about $10billion dollars in money that is badly needed to maintain our highway system (remember that bridge that collapsed?)."

Sounds great. I should drive more to take advantage of it.