best-looking spam of 2008

i had no idea my phone could display arabic.

further proof!

that japan knows what's up:

tilted and shifty

i like photography because there's a pretty good chance you'll get a good image with far less effort than drawing or painting. i dislike the iphone because it tends to take terrible photographs. i love the iphone because you can get cheap or free applications to make iphone photography really fun. today's shining example is tiltshift...

before:

and after (click to enlarge):

BOOM! super fun.
here are my favorite iphone photo apps at the moment:
tiltshift
camerabag
panolab
night camera
EDIT: almost forgot about juxtaposer!

eye in the sky

traveling for work is pretty much the worst, but being 10 to 30 thousand feet in the air does provide the occasional photo opportunity.

tagged

melody made me do it:

five things to do before i die:
1. go to tokyo
2. make a piece of art so good i want to keep it
3. drive a ridiculously fast car ridiculously fast
4. make a movie
5. fire a sniper rifle

five things i can do
1. draw
2. fix your mac
3. see color
4. yell really loud
5. get overly enthusiastic about something

five things i can not do
1. swim
2. endure stupid people quietly
3. watch musicals
4. sing
5. fix your windoze PC

five things that attract me to my wife
1. her
2. her eyes
3. (unfit for print)
4. her creativity
5. she's constantly surprising me

five things i say most often
1. awesome
2. HAHAHAHAHAHA!
3. that's nuts
4. i don't care
5. (unfit for print)

five celebrity crushes
1. anne hathaway
2. wata (she's on the left in the video)

3. tim gunn
4. liv tyler
5. natalie portman zooey deschanel

i tag
1. you

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check out these 3D renderings inspired by 8-bit games. super cool, excellent extrapolation from the 2D worlds we know and love...

darth vader X british luxury

MATTE BLACK ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOM

don't be a jerk

buy me this for christmas:

commuting by bicycle without any dignity

BikeSnobNYC has a recurring piece on the indignities of commuting by bicycle. in honor of the snob's fantastic coverage of that harsh reality, i offer up the following anecdote regarding a cyclist commuter who is A: doing it wrong and B: blowing it for the rest of us.

the Bay Area Rapid Transit system has a reasonable set of rules for cyclists that is clearly communicated to the ridership via their website, signs in the station, signs in the trains and regular announcements over the PA. while the following gentleman wasn't technically breaking any rules, he was trampling rather heavily on generally accepted "bikes on BART" etiquette.



most cyclists hang back and let the pedestrian riders board first, he clearly chose not to. to exacerbate matters, he also chose to line up for a car that i had already been waiting at for several minutes, not exactly the most generous of gestures. you may be wondering why i'm taking such offense, as this picture obviously shows it was not a very busy day on BART anyway. you'll have to trust me when i say that there was a fair number of other commuters that simply wanted to go nowhere near him. i can only posit that this was due to A: his blatant disregard for "bikes on BART" etiquette singling him out as a weird guy and/or B: the fact that his gnarly long hair was still dripping from his shower (i hope). or perhaps it was C: the part where he pulled out his norelco and started freaking shaving right on the platform...