Pano Pic from a River stroll.

St. Johns by the river

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Took this a few weeks back and started working on the post the other day. It's 13 images stick together. Started to hail about 5 minutes after this was taken and it was very dark under that bridge.

Wachella Falls

hiking

 

Shot on a hike in Wachella Falls here in Portland. Posting this more as a test to see what images look like in this format.

 

While I like what I have going on now, I do not know if I care for how many pages there are. So I playing with ideas to consolidate things. I just don't know if I like the idea of images sharing a page with blog postings. Comments are on to see how much spam I collect.

  Update Code is all screwy and comments give me a fatal error anyways. Keeping them off.

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In Praise of Boredom

[Paleopsych] Joseph Brodsky: Listening to Boredom

Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your window on time's infinity. Once this window opens, don't try to shut it; on the contrary, throw it wide open. For boredom speaks the language of time, and it teaches you the most valuable lesson of your life: the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. "You are finite," time tells you in the voice of boredom, "and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile." As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of the limited significance of even your best, most ardent actions, is better than the illusion of their consequences and the attendant self-aggrandizement.

Savor your boredom

Titles return

Changing all sorts of stuff around here and now it looks like titles shall be making a return to the blog. It looked clean with the last template, but I feel this one holds up nicely with titles.

So there you have it.

Other new items of note is that I have a nice Profoto rig now which should make my life easier. But as of now I need to finish the band shoot from last Sunday and get that posted before I have pissed off Grindcore people beating on my door.

Shoot from last Sunday

superbad
 So I posted a pic from a shoot I did last Sunday and I am messing around with the layout here, so I figured I should see how this looks.

LET IT DIE: Rushkoff on the economy | ARTHUR MAGAZINE - WE FOUND THE OTHERS

Speculators aren’t buying homes in which to live—they are buying houses to flip. Speculators aren’t buying corn to eat or oil to burn, but bushels to hoard and tankers to park off shore until prices rise. The fact that the speculative economy for cash and commodities accounts for over 95% of economic transactions, while people actually using money and consuming commodities constitute less than 5% tells us something important. Real supply and demand have almost nothing to do with prices. We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

California's Inland Empire - Los Angeles Times

We drove through streets of boarded-up bungalows, the neighborhoods of old California now turning back to wild oats and silvery foxtails so high the windows were obscured. Men wandered the potholed streets looking like something out of a current-day Steinbeck novel.

To say we might lose "community" is too simple. We are already more isolated and urbanized than in the past. But to lose the community on my street, the street I've lived on for 22 years, breaks my heart.

Yikes....

Random note 35426:

If you have a black background and white text on your website, you are in fact, an asshole. Thanks for making me see lines everywhere I look for the next ten minutes.

Skull master - Pay your respects to Mr Vernon Courtlandt Johnson - Lifelounge - Daily Goodness

There are very few artists that can claim that their artwork has helped to define an entire subculture and era. Vernan Courtlandt Johnson (VCJ) can easliy stand by that claim as his iconic illustrations shaped and represented one the of the most influential skateboard brands of the 80s, Powell Peralta. Still to this day, his illustrations are out of this world and in terms of illustrative skulls, he's still number one in my book. Mad respect for you VCJ.

In search of the click track « Music Machinery

I’ve always been curious about which drummers use a click track and which don’t, so I thought it might be fun to try to build a click track detector using the Echo Nest remix SDK ( remix is a Python library that allows you to analyze and manipulate music). In my first attempt, I used remix to analyze a track and then I just printed out the duration of each beat in a song and used gnuplot to plot the data. The results weren’t so good - the plot was rather noisy. It turns out there’s quite a bit of variation from beat to beat. In my second attempt I averaged the beat durations over a short window, and the resulting plot was quite good.

at some point you just say fuck it, throw the oars in the river, open the last beer and float downstream. see what the god damn river has in mind for you because you don't have a fucking clue.