best ever!

how could i ever leave this place?

from atop mount davidson, out my front door...

...and a little hike.

if you didn't know, mount davidson is the tallest point in sf. 925 feet.

DUH.

A Bay Area couple with two kids can't make it on $50,000 a year.

i make a bit less and all i have is a cat and i can barely afford to live here.

toxic brooklyn.

it's pretty interesting that one of the hippest, most diverse neighborhoods in the country [not to mention one of the most expensive places to live] is also one of the most polluted and contaminated with toxic waste. here lives the largest environmental disaster in the history of nyc, the greenpoint oil spill. which is actually a leak from exxon mobile holding tanks that began 57 years ago; slowly letting 17 to 30 MILLION GALLONS of oil into the ground & nearby newtown creek (which empties into the east river, and then yay, into the atlantic). so not only is the oil under the ground and in the water, it is slowly making its way to the surface underneath homes in the greenpoint neighborhood, enough that residents can smell vapors coming from the ground. another really great thing about living in the willamsburg/greenpoint area is the sewage treatment plant and garbage storage facility. oh and the nuclear waste storage site. woo! let's move to williamsburg and live in a refurbished art loft and be another victim of brain and/or liver cancer!

here's a really good documentary:




the other 7 parts are here.

unnecessary quotation marks.

i always wonder what goes through people's "minds" when they use quotation marks in random instances. this blog lets me revel in making fun of people for bad punctuation.

?????

so i google my name once every day i mean couple of weeks just like everyone else in the world. and today, instead of my usual flickr photos or linkedin profile coming up, like 20 different asian sites came up, and they are featuring my designs. looks like they are blogging or just soliciting artists, but i have no clue because i don't speak asian. oops was that racist? sorry. anyway. i can't figure out how to contact the people who run these sites. they aren't listing my contact information, which kind of bugs me because maybe i could get an awesome job in osaka if it was. what's the deal?


http://www.visionunion.com/articles/200709280079.html

http://bbs.arting365.com/viewthread.php?tid=122146&extra=page%3D3

mind eff.

illusion art made from found objects and trash.

this one was done by tim noble and sue webster, called dirty white trash [with gulls]