CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-05-25 07:28:56 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

pies and friends forever

reggie watts, michael cera--mix well and enjoy. 99% of you will think this is exceedingly un-funny. 

2013-05-25 02:31:26 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

le freak c'est chic
freak out! is anyone else's stream all skinny and wonky? just started since i returned from my walk. ?!?!?!

2013-05-24 01:51:32 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 9 +1s)

oracular synaptic

and a crop with +Max Rubenacker in mind.

go full screen--do it for the children!

2013-05-24 01:32:30 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

walk this way

arboreal archway in redwood regional park in oakland.

four frame animation (the old way).

h/t marty feldman

2013-05-24 02:21:16 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

final flash

this little blue bolt of lightning had come to an end before we met, but through his passing i learned of his hidden beauty.

2013-05-21 06:22:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

shiny objects

the new user interface over at flickr is making me consider spending some time over there again. 

h/t +Israel M. Vinuya 

2013-05-21 04:13:22 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

free drugs

a creative little gift i gave to my friend for finishing with school. more fun with sea glass.

2013-05-19 07:25:10 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

cloud atlas

just finished reading the book and then watched the film right after. the book was good until it wasn't (roughly 2/3 through, basically once the sonmi story wrapped; literary history's longest-ever denouement). the stitching back had no payoff. the film was terrible. if you didn't read the book it would make little sense. if you did read the book you'd realize that the book and the film are as related as baseball is to cricket--bats, balls, dudes running around. acting also awful. train wreck. #plotsploitation  

[image from the window of my brief schöneberg residence, before i moved to kreuzberg. 2009]

2013-05-18 04:50:12 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

lost and found

huge raptor feather and i met along our journeys. 8.5X11 sheet of paper. 

2013-05-18 04:09:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

freeway jam

junky cruisin' through the macarthur maze, diggin' the altocumulus lenticularis scattered about the bay yesterday.

Freeway Jam (Live) by Jeff Beck

2013-05-17 08:31:09 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

frutti di mare

a fraction (though admittedly some of the more unique pieces) of the haul from today's beach glass gather. #ifuckinghaveglass  

2013-05-13 21:47:22 (21 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

parser

if, at the end of time, i had to choose between dragonflies and you ...

2013-05-13 05:32:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

reflecting
on my time in the mission.

waiting with junky to see a play at the marsh.

2013-05-11 18:25:19 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

weeee baby bivalves
(comma optional after weeee; your semantic choice)

found a whole bunch of these little fellas the other day when i was ambling down the beach in alameda. no slobber, no hair, no destroyed furniture--my kind of pets.

becoming more convinced that cheap manual extension tubes plus entry-level dslr (i still love you d40, don't be sad) equals meh-cros. 

let the records show, that today, may 11, 2013, james nathan kalin invented the term mehcro photography. veritatis cave canem quintillibus.

#mehcrophotography  

2013-05-09 07:29:35 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

junky goes to the beach (a different one)
pt. 2

"ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny." well, not exactly, and not exactly, but it is fun to look at a micro-version of grand geological processes.

2013-05-09 07:24:59 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

junky goes to the beach (a different one)

down on the island today (alameda), instead of over at ocean beach. for non-locals, all this means is that i was within the bounds of san francisco bay, rather than out on the pacific. for me it just meant no waves, a bit stinkier, but still plenty o' wiiiiiind.

this shot is another attempt at humble homage to +Suzanne Levine's delightful landscapes.

2013-05-09 06:11:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

dfw committed suicide

just a little public service announcement while we're all swimming in the trending water.

btw, infinite jest is one of my top five all-time faves, and i have incredible respect for dfw (and i struggle with depression). i am merely pointing out a factoid that might color your viewing of the video (possibly even in a reinforcing/good way).

that is all.

2013-05-06 01:53:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

foggy sunday chill

(since i didn't get to see bonobo friday night.)

2013-05-05 08:18:11 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

get thee back to hay-ell

so i'm standing in the kitchen when freakin' mothra decides to smack into the window. blammo! god bless you romans, for inventing glass windows, because this dude was on a mission to get at my fake moon. huge, and moving very rapidly. it looked like a hummingbird. so i grabbed my camera, knowing he was moving wayyy too fast. eventually he settled up under the rafters. then all i had to do was coax my stupid nikon into dealing with the very sub-optimal conditions. you should've seen me messing with flash, and flashlights, and settings, and leaning out windows. 

i think it's a hyles lineata aka white-lined sphinx (which incidentally some sources are calling a hummingbird moth, but i'm not convinced that's correct). 

+Chris Mallory, two one-hundredths of one dollar?

2013-05-04 05:29:20 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

boom

nice when a vague idea creeps in, ferments, and then comes together the way you imagined it.

steamed asparagus, sugar snap peas, and zucchini (which i threw in later than the first two, damn i'm smart), then ice bath. dressing of olive oil, apple cider vinegar (bragg ftw!), hing (also called asafoetida; it's a substitute for garlic and has a nice pungency to it), honey, thyme, basil, ground coriander, salt. some canned tuna, and a bit of veganaise (vegan mayo; inb4 you tell me tuna isn't vegan). topped with farmer's market local olives. 

just the way i wanted it.

looking at the picture, the olives look a bit like almonds, which would've been great too.

2013-05-04 00:22:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

for no reason

well, actually, for a reason, but yeah. local promoter's email shows in my inbox, click, hmm, never heard, youtube, ooooh nice, playing tonight in oakland, broke as fock, still might go. reason.

dig some afrobeat, fools.

edit: also, happy jazz fest!!!

2013-04-29 22:42:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

jason collins

awesome!

2013-04-29 20:53:49 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

+Rose Le +Chris Mallory (for everyone else ... look, a bug!)

here's another angle for better i.d.

i played around with focus stacking (but it was handheld, so it's a little screwy--foot echoes!).

2013-04-29 08:23:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

speak to me only with your eyes

he's got german ladybug eyes.

one last one before sleepy times for #HappyBugsDayChrisMallory  

+Chris Mallory doing his best jimmy page impersonation.
Mr. Jimmy Page in his back yard!

2013-04-29 07:51:37 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

mother!!!!

adjusting to my life as a bug, i'm still not quite used to mother's return.

#HappyBugsDayChrisMallory  

2013-04-29 07:29:09 (10 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

dude be buggin'

#HappyBugsDayChrisMallory  

this cute green critter was kind enough to crawl onto my hand one fine winter morning a couple years back. and now he's here to say happy birthday to one solid plusser, mr mallory.

2013-04-28 18:49:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

transporter room

2013-04-28 18:43:02 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

happy fest y'all

when the power goes out at new orleans jazz and heritage festival, the party keeps on rolling. 

2013-04-28 06:28:52 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

archer

i don't always like crass humor, but when i do ...

2013-04-26 06:53:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

shilling for schillings
(i'm actually shilling for free, but there's a germanic connection--stick with me.)

my good friend +Mark Harrison, who i know from my time in berlin, is launching a new peer-to-peer boat rental business in fort lauderdale, florida, called cruzin.com, basically the boat analog of the p2p car and housing rental gigs. so if you're in berlin, it's cold, snowy and your boat options are like this dredging barge i shot below. but if you're in south florida (or likely lots of other places once the pilot program is established), and you want to rent a sweet yacht for the day, then check out cruzin.com, and "getcho boat on, fool." (mark, that solid gold catch phrase is gonna cost you.)

2013-04-23 06:41:40 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

junky goes to the beach

surf day. dolphins (and a whale). sun. sand. rinse. repeat.

2013-04-22 05:54:16 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

not even the bare minimum

while heading into berkeley yesterday, i was driving behind a woman smoking a cigarette. the nerve calming effects apparently weren't working, as she couldn't stop fidgeting with it--flicking flicking flicking flicking the ashes--which is partly why i noticed at all. i then noticed a sticker on the rear window that said IAFF. it looked familiar. i got close enough to see that it was the logo for the international association of fire fighters.

launch!

yep, there goes the still burning cigarette, right out the window. you're already a huge loser for littering, but you've got a fire fighter sticker on your window too?! and just to tie it all neatly together, said launch occurred on tunnel road, which is right where the 1991 firestorm took place (25 lives, 3300 homes, $1.5 billion). i placed a large blue "X" on... more »

2013-04-21 06:24:06 (18 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

stitches

i've recently been described here as a connector. thank you to those who have said so. it's nice to be seen. i do feel at home when i'm synthesizing ideas. oftentimes i see larger arcs coming together, but sometimes it's nice simply to have a loose thread come back around and be integrated. 

the image below is from october when i was playing around with my emerging steel concept. (http://bit.ly/15vSeCx) i wondered at the time what the red wildflower was (i pretty much call every red, spiky wildflower indian paintbrush, knowing full well what that one actually looks like). today, when i was at the native plant show, i was looking at seeds and saw an image of mimulus cardinalis. i thought, hmm, maybe that's what i saw back in october, especially given how much mimulus aurantiacus there is around here. but i didn't think much more of it.
more »

2013-04-21 00:52:01 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

the natives

went to the native plant sale at the regional parks botanic garden in berkeley. i had hoped to score a hummingbird sage plant--it smells crazy good--but they were all gone by the time i arrived. fortunately, there were seeds. grabbed a couple others that looked fun too. wish me luck.

when they grow up (hopefully):
hummingbird sage -- http://bit.ly/13oeCtw
shooting stars -- http://bit.ly/13oeIkH
humboldt lily -- http://bit.ly/13oeJoR
and one that i didn't get, but that looked fun
calico monkeyflower -- http://bit.ly/13oeOJ4

perfectly timed, too, for #seedurday  +Seedurday with +Kathryn Brown.

2013-04-20 23:30:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

blame the turkish tea

it's just what my brain does. 

2013-04-19 17:37:49 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

get on your bikes and ride

happy 70th bicycle day.

2013-04-18 19:47:18 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

ROOTS!

(with all apologies to alex haley and lt cmdr geordi laforge.)

2013-04-17 18:01:02 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

baby makin'

dozens of cute tiny spiders outside my window.



i'm starting to get the feeling that a nikon d40 with manual extension tubes just ain't gonna cut it. :( 
the experimenting will continue, however.

2013-04-17 04:25:22 (19 comments, 3 reshares, 12 +1s)

teaching a stone to talk
for +Detlef Cordes +Shell Rummel +Suzanne Levine (and the rest of you that rock)

i found this small rock over ten years ago, on the north-eastern shore of lake tahoe. i was drawn to it because its shape speaks of its history, each step of formation and reformation. i keep it and love it because having it speaks of where our histories intersected. 

last week i was house-sitting for a couple who are family friends. the man was a colleague of my father, before i was even born. (i just learned a story that he was being mistakenly congratulated at the seminary for the birth of his son the day i was born--our family names rhyme.) she was off to illinois for the week, with the grandkids; he, sadly, has been confined by parkinsons and alzheimers (or just plain old, garden variety dementia?) to a nursing home for several years. so part of myres... more »

2013-04-15 06:19:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

ron swanson!

printable mask. joyness.
http://cdn2.tauntr.com/sites/default/files/RonSwanson-Mask.pdf

via +Kimberly Chapman 
[her cool discovery: http://www.superpunch.net/2011/10/dozens-of-downloadable-masks.html]

2013-04-15 00:37:04 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

annie dillard says

“I am no scientist. I explore the neighborhood. An infant who has just learned to hold up his head has a frank and forthright way of gazing about him in bewilderment. He hasn’t the faintest clue where he is, and he aims to find out. In a couple of years, what he will have learned instead is how to fake it: he’ll have the cocksure air of a squatter who has come to feel he owns the place. Some unwonted, taught pride diverts us from our original intent, which is to explore the neighborhood, view the landscape, to discover at least where it is that we have been so startlingly set down, if we can’t learn why.”

[image from a bus stop in san francisco's sunset district; taken while exploring the neighborhood during a recent house-sit.]

2013-04-14 01:01:32 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

the beetings will continue ...

playing around with beets today: in the kitchen; in front of the lens.

a few ideas might get more work. stay tuned.

2013-04-13 00:20:54 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

three if by sea

clearly these manual extension tube thingies are going to be a bit of a challenge. but here are my three favorite little rock bits from the beach from a few weeks ago that i promised i'd take a better crack at than just with junky.

so many variables--body, lens, extension tubes, post. both equipment quality and the guy behind the curtain are suspect. meh.

2013-04-11 20:26:37 (6 comments, 4 reshares, 16 +1s)

taste this rainbow, suckahs

(inspired by +Mehdi Pieloor's posting of thugkitchen.com, which you should go check out, now dammit!)

kinda fried rice thingy, but with leftover quinoa instead of rice. soy, ginger, sesame, and then just corn, carrots, peas, quinoa. warm tasty grounding on a breezy spring day.

2013-04-10 21:37:21 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

just add hat

the engineer's view, on the rail towards schloss wartin, northeast of berlin. may 2010. bug splatter comes free with every purchase.

for +Detlef Cordes.

2013-04-10 06:31:25 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

various golds

i went on an adventure today to get spring water (you know, like, from a spring, not a grocery store). the guy who owns the land, john livermore, just passed away last month. apparently he and his family are a huge part of california history. thank you, mr livermore, for providing me with this wonderful natural gift. the things you learn. and i thought i was just getting water.

interesting article about his life:
http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/John-Livermore-noted-geologist-dies-4349442.php

2013-04-09 17:24:06 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

dear google plus

fuck you. the whole reason i was excited about plus at the beginning was that we truly we able to craft our experience. but you continue to chip away at that sovereignty. stream chronology is just absurd. so then you say that individual circles still have proper time stamps. even that's not true any more. too, we can't even get all the content from a given stream, only "more," since you took away the sliders. lame.

i can't count how many times i have stood in conversation with friends and strangers telling them how much i appreciate google plus. i have been a strong advocate for your brand. this will not happen going forward. i will continue to interact and collaborate with the wonderful people i have met here (decreasingly so), but when you continue to prove that we apparently don't know what we want in terms of content, then i... more »

2013-04-08 21:43:34 (22 comments, 2 reshares, 19 +1s)

snap your wingers

okay +Chris Mallory, your task is eased a bit (?), since this time i have visual evidence. different one from last week. the sound is about five fast clicks at the front end of a roughly .75 sec cycle.

they're crafty suckers, very aware of my presence, both in terms of not talking when i'm around, and constantly shifting to the side of the branch away from me.

for the rest of you, enjoy a california cicada. theyz diffrnt.

also, this time i'm in san rafael, ca, for the record books, ya know.

2013-04-07 18:14:27 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

the answer

do you ever find yourself out and about, at the market, say, smiling and flirting, and then you come home and look in the mirror? yeah, that's why.

2013-04-04 09:55:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

perfunctory