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Ok one last post!

All right this blog is done. Tried it for a while. Maybe I will do a new blog someday. Something more specific and with a point. For now though I think I am going to take my journal offline, go analog, become more involved in the real world and less in the digital.

Maybe I will start fishing, or at least getting up earlier and getting in the ocean. The picture above is from Ocean Magazine an awesome publication from North San Diego. Check it out! Kiss Kiss! goodbye. Fuck off.

Amelia asked if I had been making art sometime in the middle of me complaining to her about my life. I said, "sorta." The picture above should help illustrate the 'sorta'... Now that I think about it looking at these paintings put a lot of perspective into my problems. I think the biggest problems I have right now is that Danger the dog is scared of me, I run from girls who have smiles like rainbows(Supposed to look for gold at the end of the rainbow) and I am bored. So long story short, make art even if the art sucks it is good for you. Also listen to your friends.

Here is picture of my new/old bike. I got it off craigslist a month or so ago and with a bit of love the thing has performed insane. This is by far the best purchase I have made in years. I save money cause I ride places, I am getting a wee bit healthier and I feel a sense of accomplishment when I ride to and from work.

There are so many cool people doing so many cool projects these days. The people over at Untitled Magazine seem to be a bit cooler than the rest. Except for the girl in the video below, she is hot.

I can't put my finger on it but there is just something mysterious, a bit confusing and whole lot intriguing about this Untitled Magazine and it's creators. I can't put a name to the feeling I get when I look through the pages of Untitled magazine, but I know I like it. ???? What? I don't know? Call me. What's your number? Ok, call me! I don't get it?

Stumbled across the Boutique Cycles website yesterday and thought it was pretty cool. For a bicycle novice like myself this site is a great way to peruse pictures of unique bikes and gather information from what seems to be a very knowledgeable community. The clean design of the site itself is the first sign that the Boutique site and community that supports the site put a lot of emphasis on aesthetics which is a nice change from most bike sites that focus on performance. I like most people ain't no race cyclist.(even though I am tough as fuck and would smoke all you gym types in any sorta out door activity) That being said I think that the boutique will interest a lot of people out there looking for a cool and practical craft to get you to work and back.

Went on a weird group photo walk of, I don't know where the group was from or who anyone in the group was - I just sorta crashed the party, Griffith park last Sunday. The group was cool though and it was nice environment to force a bit of creativity. Here are some of the pics. If you happen to know how to contact these girls let me cause I didn't get a chance to get there email and I want to send them these photos/ say thanks for posing in old monkey cages while a bunch of rapid photographers gawked and snapped pictures for hours. blah blah blah I a friggin over bloggin. I want to get a motorcycle and side car and travel thru Europe! Yah! However, that is not going to happen so I will settle for a Guinness at lunch.

I was lucky enough to tag along on a photo shoot of the band, The French Semester with O.Hem last Sunday. I held a reflector, cracked some jokes (which everybody laughed at because I am friggin hilarious) and than snapped a photo or two between takes. Olivia got the perfect shots - look for them as well as music from the French Semester in a store near you. My photos are graining and blown out and covered in dust and hair, but I like em. Cause they were fun to take. And someTimez the imperfections are intaresting.

Yeah, yeah, yeah it's a photo of a bunch of girls looking cute - but it's art I swear. I had an art director describe a website as a woman's body the other day and it was amazing. He is gay(not sexually attracted to women like other less evolved men who make choices on a woman's beauty based on lust -lots and lots of lust) but the fact remains, women are beautiful and art or design will always try to emulate that beauty. So check out the curves and subtle graduation of skin tones on the models above or here and than make a website that expresses the same beauty. Ok, I am not making sense - I always get nervous around pretty girls. This post is done.

Oh wait, also pay attention to the unique poses and awesome group lighting techniques.

There is so many little things to pay attention to concerning beautiful girls.

Here is another VBS video I stumbled upon profiling artist Cai Guo-Qiang. How can you not like a guy's art that is this explosive explosive - he uses gun powder to paint both on canvasses and in the sky. My favorite project of his would be 'Heads On.' It's a bunch of wolves jumping into a glass wall. I am also a big fan of his more subtle gun powder painting - wouldn't ming having one of these in my mansion some day.

Let me just start by saying, "I love web TV."

More and more often I find myself setting down my actual television remote and powering up my computer in search of what I like to call Information Relaxation - or in other words reaching a vegetative state through entertainment. Long story short I watch a lot of TV on the web now. I also tweet, search for jobs, look up recipes, check out photographers work and just generally multi-task the fuck out of my relaxation times. Sometimes I can't tell if I am relaxing, working or just processing information because that is what I have slowly been programmed to do.

This morning while I started my daily processes, cup of tea in hand, I came across a well done little video profile of Ray Kurzweil on VBS. Ray Believes that humans and machines will become completely merged by 2045.

P.S. No conclusions are ever come to at this blog - so watch the movie and come to your own conclusions.

www.learnsomethingeveryday.co.uk is a web site dedicated to cute drawings and interesting random facts that is updated daily. It's pretty cool.

I came across this awesome art work for 'Where the Wild things Are' earlier today on Behance

Terrible Yellow Eyes is a collab initiative by Corey Godbey as a tribute and collection of works inspired by the beloved classic, Where the Wild Things Are book of Maurice Sendak. Now a selected number of works are taken in to the art exhibition at Nucleus Gallery in California and THESE are the two pieces I made in a paper-cut form for the show.

A beautiful time-lapse of a destructive fire.

I snapped a couple photos of Luth, Keenan and Sherwin surfing Palisades last night while watching the sunset with my Mom - they were ripping.