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Windy Hill and Burritos, 06/15/2009

October 9, 2009 |

Galleries and Photography

Clearing out more of my backlog, here’s a small set from the last time I was in California. I think these were all taken with my beloved 85mm. I just love the texture it imparts, the beautiful edge blurring, the extremely shallow depth of field, and the way it distorts things when used wide open on subjects that have lots of depth, a field of thistles, for example.

Here’s the whole set. I couldn’t be bothered setting up a page for only 14 photos.

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Yum. Burritos.

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Christina’s Graduation from University of Oregon, 6/13/2009

October 9, 2009 |

Galleries and Photography

Here are a few of the photos I took while in Oregon. They are mostly uninspired I think, but some of them are nice. I don’t know, I guess I just wasn’t on those days. I really just wanted to get these up since they’ve been sitting on my computer since June.

Here’s the whole gallery.

Christina’s Graduation, Eugene, OR Gallery – 6/13/2009

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I have arrived.

October 7, 2009 |

Thoughts

If you had to think about it, and I mean, really, what is the most important qualification for a blog to be considered worthwhile? That it gets spam? No. Your grandma gets spam. It’s that you have a troll. Well guess what?! The Black Laser has had it’s first troll!

Apparently, a young person didn’t like what I had to say about Hyper Crush the other day. Here, let me quote it for you.

oneup fuckyou@gmail.com
Submitted on 2009/10/07 at 7:25pm

hyper crush is the truth! i was listening to what you had to say until you put up uffie and whatever else trainwreck wanna be atari teenage riot bullshit.

uffie is the worst lyracist[sic] ever. literally.

but i guess thats why no one reads this blog and i guess thats why i wont either!

The editorial [sic] is mine. Also, please note the inappropriate use of “literally”.

Here’s what I wrote back.

The Wizard
Submitted on 2009/10/07 at 7:27pm

Haha! Thanks for visiting! How’s Irvine this time of year, fuckyou@gmail.com? I’m surprised they let you register that e-mail address! I guess you showed them!

Wasn’t that fun? And really, isn’t even discussing this whole thing just SO postmodern?

One extra, just because he was such a fan of Agoraphobic Nosebleed, here’s some more!

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Agoraphobic Nosebleed, the heaviest band on earth with no drummer

October 1, 2009 |

About Music and Music

anbwa0

And, indeed, probably one of the heaviest bands on earth including those with drummers. I’m not exaggerating. Here, have some sample tracks.

[audio:anb-living_lolita_blowjob.mp3|titles=Living Lolita Blowjob|artists=Agoraphobic Nosebleed] [audio:anb-opening_to_personals_ad.mp3|titles=Opening to Personals Ad by Richard Johnson|artists=Agoraphobic Nosebleed] [audio:anb-shotgun_funeral.mp3|titles=Shotgun Funeral|artists=Agoraphobic Nosebleed] [audio:anb-tough_guy_bullshit.mp3|titles=Tough Guy Bullshit|artists=Agoraphobic Nosebleed]

See? These guys are fucking nutso, in the most adorable, heart-warming way possible. Shit, I don’t even have anything all that clever to say. Just listen to the music. Scott Hull kicks fucking ass. Is there anything that dude makes that isn’t awesome?

> Continue reading...Agoraphobic Nosebleed, the heaviest band on earth with no drummer

The inner workings of my brain are a mysterious thing

September 24, 2009 |

Thoughts

It occurred to me last night that what I was talking about the other day was ROI—Return On Investment. Except that I’m not looking for monetary return, but a body of creative work to share and distribute. I don’t know why that term has never come up inside my head in all the years I’ve been using the same method of evaluating purchases. It’s not like I didn’t know it either.

Have a drawing of a unicorn.

unicorn2

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An inspired triptych.

September 24, 2009 |

About Photography and Photography

While in Minnesota, I was looking out at the hazy expanse of seemingly endless water on Lake Superior and I was reminded of Sugimoto Hiroshi’s Seascapes. Standing on the edge of the inland sea there I thought I should probably see if I can create something like I remembered them to be. I ended up taking three photos, all of Lake Superior, at different places and times of day. I am going to get them printed and put them on my wall which I think will be nice, but I am having a hard time deciding which ones I like more, color or black and white.

Here are the color ones.

Here are the black and white ones.

They will hang in this order, left to right, on the wall as 12″ square prints. I highly recommend clicking on the photos for a closer look or even going to Flickr to look at the 2K sized ones.

My only hesitation is that the last time I printed black and white photos for the wall, I ended up hating them. But that might be because that was a whole lot less thought out than this. Anyway, I’d love your comments.

> Continue reading...An inspired triptych.