When In Doubt

I was actually planning on buying one of these (they retailed for about $120) but then I noticed they had been discontinued. Damn. You can buy them on eBay et al., used, for about $500, but I'm not going to do that.

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Peas out.

Two Thieves (A True Story)

Two Thieves (A True Story)

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I think you're an engineer--an electrical engineer, or computer science, something like that.

I think you went to Berkeley, and I think I wanted to show you goodwill--a Berkeley man and a Stanford man. I think I wanted to show you I thought the rivalry was foolish, and I think you would have agreed.

I think you're older than me--I'm nearly sure, actually. I think you're not thirty yet, but damn close.

I said to you: “Au Voleur, Au Voleur!” I struck your shoulder with the back of my open hand to get your attention, and I said it again: “Au Voleur!”

“You're fucked up?,” you replied.

I wasn't; I was cleanblooded as hell, and I think you were also. In your defense, it was loud, loud as hell.

I think you didn't hear me warn you, but I think--I think you'll find out, if you don't know. And I think you don't know, not in January, not today.

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Peas out.

Two Frames, One Symmetrical

Here are two "bleak" frames. We need to reach a decision on which is bleaker (like the street). Click to view larger.
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We seek out symmetry; we like to look at objects with visible lines or planes of symmetry. If you show someone a scene, they'll first look for human faces, then for motion, then for symmetry. This man was sitting alone on the edge of a fountain outside the Louvre, and had positioned himself right between two tall cans of beer. If you look carefully, you can see tabs sticking up above the rims of both cans; both are open. I wonder if he was careful to drink them at the same rate, such that similar amounts of beer remained in each can at any given time.
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This man was wearing a shirt with the phrase "I Love Men" corrected to "I Love Me." In my mind, this is equivalent to wearing a shirt with the phrase "I Am Homosexual" with the word "Homosexual" crossed out and replaced with "Narcissistic." This seems fairly offensive, insofar as it could be seen as carrying the message "Gay men are narcissistic." Quite bizarre.
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Peas Out. Enjoy 2012. I've the impression that 2011 was rough--not on me in particular, but for most people I know. I'm a bit of a h8r, but still I don't enjoy watching my generation be robbed.

-L

Foreclosure (A True Story)

"Foreclosure" (A True Story)

The Art Dealer's house--
The biggest, oldest house in Oakland,
Or the oldest big house,
Or the biggest old house--
Was full of those Hanson sculptures,
Photorealistic, life-size, entirely convincing sculptures of men and women,
Unsettling enough in a gallery,
Worse by far in a home, where they'd be easy to mistake.
You walk into the living room:
"Oh, hello there, sir--do excuse me."

The bank will have it soon enough,
But he's good at dragging his feet--
Five years, it might be--
Twenty-sixteen, and I'm sorry for the man who drills out the lock.
The sculptures will be covered by dust,
Scare the Hell from him.

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Peas Out.

Sarah (A True Story)

Sarah (A True Story)

We were having our quiet time.

"You're beautiful," I told you.

"Be more specific," you demanded.

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Peas out.

new work from california

HOLIDAY PARTY 2011

WHAT DO U GUYS WANT TO DO?

I'LL BE IN IN TOWN

DOWN TO GET LOOSE

DOWN TO CHILL

best albums of 2011

best albums of 2011

1. the weekend

2. pictureplane

3. deestroyer

4. girls

5. salem

6. washed out

7. kanye

8. drake

9. lil wayne (sorry for the wait tape)

10. araabmuzik

11. action bronson

12. danny brown

13. hood internet - trillwave 2

14. lil b

- erik stinson december 8, 2011

Preview of Occupy Oakland

As y'all know, "Occupy Oakland" was basically a big fashion show.
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Click to view larger. She had hella holes in her shirt, I had to photoshop them all closed.

Peas Out / V4L

P.S. I'm "cautiously pessimistic" that "deep security" can be overcome.

Pogh-ums

http://htmlgiant.com/random/a-survey-of-90s-early-internet-love-poetry/#disqus_thread

Expertise

Bro has expertise in "general academic wrongdoing." Hmm.
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Alameda

“Alameda” (A Short Pogh-Hymn)

Champagne. No corkscrew: so, champagne.

“The most important thing about opening champagne is to do it slow and not shake it.”

“And the second most important thing is to open it upside-down and spray it all over Dale Earnhardt. Or whoever wins NASCAR.”

“That's so trashy.”

“I know.”

Alameda.

“I see it! Volvo Volkswagen!”

Instead of correcting you like the asshole I am (“It's a Volvo Station Wagon; a Volkswagen is a make of car. From the German: Volk—meaning people—and Wagen—car”), I contented myself by thinking about how a Volvo Volkswagen would come to be.

Someone's driving a Volvo on 880 North at 80 miles an hour.

Someone's driving a Volkswagen on 880 South at 80 miles an hour.

One of them swerves through a break in the median. Head-on collision at 160 miles per hour: Volvo Volkswagen. It's mine. One-of-a-kind. No one else in the world owns a Volvo Volkswagen.

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I've got to move to San Francisco, or to the East Bay. This is the first time I've felt any attachment at all to a physical place, the first time I've had any sense of home, the first time I've cared enough about where I live and the people I know that I wouldn't immediately pack up and move anywhere in the world for ten cents more an hour.

Peas out.

V4L.

Sleep Deprivation

I am severely regretting attending a liberal arts college and continuing to pursue Computer Engineering. Coding is a skill I posess and apparently it is hard for other people. All advisors / mentors / people who know stuff and things have brainwashed me into thinking that a well rounded liberal arts education and a complete knowledge of the entire computer system is important to being employable. For the kind of work I want to do it is completely unnecessary.

Minus meeting a lovely girlfriend I wish I had gone to some nerd school to nerd out with nerds and stuff.

My partner for an embedded systems class is a good salesman. We had a cigarette and I asked him about splitting the workload for a project. He told me that his girlfriend of four years left him last week and now not only does he have to raise his seven year old daughter alone, but he also has to take care of her stupid cat for a couple weeks. I did the project on my own.

Provocative Saturday night coming soon...

MC1R Double Recessive

I've recently been shooting with a Hasselblad 500 C/M, a 1957 medium-format camera. It takes 120 film, which is somewhat similar to IMAX 65mm film except it's reel-to-reel. IMAX has little sprocket holes on the sides like 35mm stock, while 120 doesn't.

This was at the SF bluegrass festival. Bro had inserted a quartz crystal into the brim of his hat so that he could simultaneously shade his eyes and utilize the mystic powers of the crystal.

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Peas out.