| Being an action figure ain't all it's cracked up to be. |
[Mar. 17th, 2005|08:27 pm] |
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jwz's recent post about his collage hack had a link from jaykayess to one his automatic collages. I liked it so much I tried doing one myself. Here's a link to my post in the flickr Technique group on how I did it.
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| War Machines |
[Jan. 7th, 2005|07:32 pm] |
To welcome fgmr to livejournal I thought I'd post some more old-fashioned high-tech. This time, from the USS Pampanito, a World War II era diesel submarine which is now a museum at Pier 45 in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the pics of the crypto machine came out all blurry. It was on the far side of a dark room behind plexiglas. At that distance it just looked like a typewriter anyway.
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| Why are they named after shoes? |
[Dec. 6th, 2004|08:15 pm] |
I visited the Nike missile site in Marin yesterday and took lots of pictures of assorted 1950's high tech gadgets, blinkenlights, an analog computer and things that make mushroom clouds in the night. Supply your own Strangelove quote.
It was actually a very interesting place. The site is owned by the National Park Service but a lot of the work and funding at the museum is provided by volunteers. Docents are mostly Army vets who worked on Nike missiles so they know what they're talking about and are pretty interesting to talk with.
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| Art Isn't Easy |
[Nov. 24th, 2004|12:37 am] |
The art installation at the Adobe Bookshop right now is the store itself. The shelves are still labeled by subject, but the books are arranged by color, like a rainbow. Surprisingly, this turns out to be a pretty cool way to shop. If you're there to look for a specific book, then you're probably SOL. But if you're just there to browse then having the books be in random order makes you see books and make associations that you never would have noticed before.
The show ends Dec 12 but it would be cool if the store stayed like this. (not that I ever shop there)
Adobe Bookshop is on 16th between Tokyo Go Go and Ti Couz, near dmose. More at SFGate and NPR.
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| Wave Your Organ |
[Nov. 4th, 2004|11:22 pm] |
For all you goths, geeks, freaks, hipsters and nerds who still haven't visted the wave organ because you can't find it, well now you can. Here's a map.
I managed to make it there at high tide last month and finally got to hear something. And guess what? It sounds like... (drumroll please) ... it sounds like water sloshing around in a plastic pipe. Imagine that! I'd hardly describe it as a 'hypnotic Aeolian harp'. Its more like a wave didgeridoo.
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| Stormy Weather |
[Oct. 31st, 2004|01:57 pm] |
There were high surf advisories on the 19th and 20th so I went to the coast to check out the surf. It looks a lot calmer in these photos than I remember it. I think the waves were at about 10 or 15 ft. Apparently the photogenic ones were smaller.
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| ArtCar Fest |
[Oct. 3rd, 2004|11:44 pm] |
Here are some of my pictures from the ArtCar Fest in San Jose, September 18, 2004. These pictures are all are closeups. This guy actually photographed entire cars and paid attention to their names. (Never mind his dig at Netscape 6. That's not Mitchell is it?)
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| Seven Whiskey Foxtrot |
[Oct. 3rd, 2004|11:18 pm] |
Lohphat is working on his commercial pilot's license and let me tag along on one of his flights. We flew from Palo Alto up to San Francisco, over dmose's, by the golden gate, past Mount Diablo and down to Harris Ranch for dinner. Each leg of the flight had to be 2 hours long so the air traffic controller was a bit confused as to why we went home via Stockton. We were putzing along pretty slowly. I think a car or two may have passed us on I-5. This was my first time in a private plane and I thought it might be scary but it wasn't at all. I guess it helped a lot that there was no turbulence.
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| Photo Moto |
[Sep. 17th, 2004|12:15 am] |
You may remember Pierre Saslawsky as the joker who saved Mozilla's sanitized comments for posterity and made the really-bad-attitude cd. He also shot the first known photograph of bugzilla in the wild. In 2002 he quit Netscape to travel around the world on a motorcycle with his girlfriend. I just noticed he has a web site documenting the trip at photobiker.com. Both Pierre and Merritt are great photographers and they have an amazing collection of pictures. Read their blogs too. So far they've ridden the length of Africa and a good part of South America.
 Bugzilla
 flying without wings
 field of zebras
 Bolivian salt flat
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