Posts from ‘california’
Bay Bridge Morning
This pigeon is clearly breaking the law by not standing behind the yellow line as the rules instruct.
Blue Jays: 4 Robin: 0
Well, it was fun to watch the bird cam for a few days while mama bird kept her four eggs warm, but in the end, after discovering her nest hidden cleverly in a hanging house plant, some nefarious blue jays absconded with her eggs and she was never to be seen again. The only evidence left: a disheveled nest, swinging gently in the breeze.
…Or in this case the driveway, if you’re there, let me just say that you can definitely hear it. Our house barely got a scrape, but on the easement just out back, right off the side of the patio, the neighbor’s Ford got pinned down…but it’s a solid beast and took a lickin’ and just kept on tickin’. It was windy last week, but today was relatively calm when this happened. here’s video of the tree people cutting down the rest of the tree.
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Upon arrival at home, there was a nice little surprise in the bird’s nest that our feathered friends had built over the last few days. I promplty cracked it open and made a fresh orange julius.
4.09.09 UPDATE: there are now TWO eggs in the nest!
It’s springtime, ohhh nine, and Bay area hip hop fans get a funky stimulus package with Del’s new album, Funk Man, which he’s releasing for free! It drops April 7th, but word on the street is that you can Get it Right nOW (and by word on the street I mean click on the link fool!). While you’re there, take a peak at Del’s Leak Packs (vol. 1 & 2). And check out Bukue One.
I’d take a pic of the del skate deck that I bought from Bukue, but I spent some time pulling weeds after work tonight and I’m exhausted (I’ll post a timelapse video of that tomorrow after work; it’s copying to the desktop right now…).
I was down in LA over the weekend and on Saturday, when I woke up, it was a perfect (cloudy) day. Although most of the locals were complaining it was cold. So I grabbed my camera and headed over to the Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank-Gehry. It was my first trip to this beautiful building. The grounds are open to the public and you can trapse around the building through winding walkways, nooks and crannies. I took a few polaroids and will scan them later this week.
Have an analog TV? Then bring it to the funeral (I assume you own something black). This particular service will be held at the Berkeley Art Museum, Tuesday, February 17, at 7:00 PM°
They invite you to bring your Analog TV for display; they’ll be stacking the first 40 in memoriam (the remainder will be responsibly recycled). The guests/events at the ceremony include Author & Punisher performing a funeral dirge, Stanford Professor and media scholar Paul Saffo, and author Bruce Sterling who is set “to deliver the eulogy just before the analog signal winks out for the last time and the frequency wasteland is invaded by pirate TV artists. It’s rare that the entire nation gets a specific date on which one major medium dies and is replaced by another. This event will be a scholarly and artistic reflection on the passing of one of the dominant mediums and cultural influences of the late 20th century.”
Show up early and build your own pirate TV transmitters, which may get used for the funeral ceremony. Artists from Neighborhood Public Radio will teach attendees how to build small low-wattage analog TV transmitters that can accept input from computers and VCR’s.
Presented by the Long Now Foundation, Berkeley Center for New Media & Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive.
°Congress has debated changing the official date for the switch to digital television; however the event will proceed on Feb. 17 “because we prefer to bury a fresh corpse rather than wait for the walking dead to fall over.” You can also check out the FCC’s official page on the dtv transition with all the details.
This is video found on YouTube and uploaded less then an hour ago from the frontline; all the way up to when the police car starts getting shaken down and busted up. You can hear rubber bullet fire in the background I believe.
And then there’s this video, which is interesting as it sounds like there could be some tension between a surly rioter and a videographer (or photographer?…hard to tell which) who is there shooting footage, but again it is hard to tell from the audio. Along comes a person holding a skateboard, and a quick flash gets a shot of a car window being smashed. I’m not sure who the videographer was, but they had a good perspective.
UPDATE: here’s a link to one more video, Oakland Riots; the original piece I saw on tv.
