Today was more or less a catchup day, from last week. I spent a good portion of the weekend working on a collaborative project, and today was mostly spent replying to emails, doing laundry, cooking dinner, etc. Busy few days, albeit fun ones. This is the downfall of trying to maintain a daily blog: when…
Today Justin and I met up with Chris to check out Jen Stark’s work;/a>, on display at Heaven Gallery. I’ve mentioned her work before, and was reminded of her when Liz and I went to check out Brian Dettmer’s books, a few weeks back. I was pretty excited to get a chance to see her…
Another evening of events! Tonight, Justin and I headed down to Pilsen for the Pilsen Art Walk. I’d never been to Pilsen before, so this was a first for me. We went to dinner at a place called Skylark. I had a pretty fantastic burger (splurging again), and really liked the interior of the place….
Justin came to town yesterday, and tonight we met up for dinner before heading out to a book opening at the Hideout. Our friend Rob did the illustration work for Jonathan Messinger’s book… appropriately titled, Hiding Out. We stepped in to Hachi’s Kitchen, a sushi place right up the street from my apartment. I’ve long…
The Bravia TV ads (their San Francisco bouncy balls ad made the rounds back in 2006 and helped launch the career of José González) are back again – this time with a ton of bunnies (and two tons of plasticine). It’s only a teaser, but MAN does it look good. I can’t wait to see…
Hotel Chevalier is a mini-film prequel to Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited. And the best thing is that it’s a free download on iTunes. [via]
Manifold is a fun (and fluid) Flash game, where you try to get to the exit. The controls are a bit tricky, but you get the hang of it after a little while. [via]
After seeing my post about the mysterious “International Friend” I saw last week (along with his numerous, well-armed bodyguards), my friend Juliet got curious and started digging around. Having a Librarian background (and being just all-around good with research), she found this mention of Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan’s visit to the US. From her…
A few days ago, Liz and I went to the Vic to check out Polite in Public. Looks like they just got done batching many of the evening’s photos, and have posted many of them on their site. My scans didn’t do the original shots justice. Here are some more accurate versions of the photos…
Chris came by last night, and all three of us watched Willow. Since I didn’t take any photos from the evening, I thought I’d include a few links about the lead actor, Warwick Davis. He got his start playing Wicket the Ewok, from Return of the Jedi, and has since gone on to star in…
A little after lunch, Mike called me on my work phone. He’s downstairs, in front of the building, standing next to a row of black cars… and a bunch of CIA-looking guys. So I grab my camera, and head down. On stepping out the door, this is what I see: lots of big guys in…
After getting our photos taken by Polite in Public, Liz and I swung over to the Empty Bottle to catch DaveDave’s show. Dave, opening things up with a solo. Group shot of the band. As the set progressed, I think things just got stronger and stronger. There were several points throughout the night where I…
My friend Jamie (aka rypunked) passed me a link to Polite in Public a while back… and I found out that they were in town tonight, for an event over at the Vic. Here’s how the photobooth works: at various venues, they show up with a custom background/backdrop. It’s a small room/enclosure, and everyone poses…
My friend Kevin (who I last saw when visiting San Francisco) was in town today, doing a cool thing for his cool job: setting up shop at Buddy Guy’s Legends to do a video shoot for Pandora’s Podcast (he is, incidentally, the host). They’re doing a few video shoots, focusing primarily on specific venues across…
The quest for the Pingmaster Trophy continued today, as Phil and I battled it out. He and I are both playing in the bottom tier of the bracket, with one loss apiece. Basically, loser of this match is out of the tourney. To see how I got here, check out my quick match with Kashif….