Jack Johnson

Videlicet: BAAAAADASSSSSS.

So many things to say about this man, but for now, i'll just say: badass.

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alaia

Alaia from Hydrodynamica on Vimeo.

Hydrodynamica

Lord Board from Hydrodynamica on Vimeo.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU

1957 BMW 507 Roadster Series II

Beauty and Elegance

Nice stance

Nice Lines...

I don't know if I would have chosen red, but it works...

The business end...

8 cylinders of fun...

Clean layout...

Dual exhaust for good measure

For a mere $850,000 it could be yours...

Skate Animation

Skateboardanimation from Tilman Singer on Vimeo.

Richard Pryor on Biography

Richard Pryor

This clip is deep...on many levels...
It shows how fast he was, how sad he was, how truthful, and how brilliant...I want to say he is funny -- and of course that goes without saying -- but really, when he is at his best, there is so much truth and sadness, sometimes i find it hard to laugh...
Throughout the "interview" -- really a cocaine-fueled monologue -- oppression, terror, self-loathing, come up again and again.  Every joke is made with an understanding of history, an awareness of how he is perceived, and how he feels as a black man in america, an understanding that he is one of few who made it -- and also how viscerally scary racism is when you know it can kill you at any minute. Almost any other person in his situation at that moment would be relaxed and happy to be there.  Why wasn't he relaxed and happy? Hadn't he achieved more than he had ever hoped?  Shouldn't he have been basking in his his success?  Well, to paraphrase Wordsworth, the world was too much with him late and soon... His past and his personality wouldn't let him enjoy it.  Drugs were just a coping mechanism for the shitty life he had to cope with growing up, for feeling the world too much, for being hyper-aware of everything instantaneously, for his self-loathing... Despite all of it, his brilliance and his humanity overcame all of the bullshit until the end.  It makes me think that one of the biggest divisions in the human race isn't skin color - or even class - it's the division between people who feel the pain of humanity and those who don't.  I think -- as it is in many things -- that it's a spectrum: at the lowest level you have sociopaths and psychopaths, and at the highest you have people like Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.  Richard was far from perfect, but in the end, he was firmly on the side of those who feel humanity's pain; but he continued to affirm humanity, and he did more than his part to keep it alive while he was here... ~J

real italian pizza (puglia)

Semiotics of the Kitchen

Air - La Femme D'Argent

Can not communicate now

George Foreman Grill

I got this at goodwill for under three bucks. I was skeptical but have been hearing rumors in the zeitgeist that like air poppers for DIY coffee roasters, this is a real must have item for DIY bread makers. So I whipped up a batch of dough. Good flour, sea salt, yeast, nothing else but warm water. And waited for it to properly rise for 10 hours. Then when the midnight munchies arrived i took a mini fist full of dough and flattened it to the size of a small dinner plate. I placed it in little Foreman and let it bake. Literally 8 minutes later i had a crenulated golden brown piece of cooked bread. I slathered it with some local butter and blackberry jam. No words describe the joy that passed to my taste buds.

Daily Find

So I walked into William Temple, my favorite thrift shop in Portland, and what do i find but this set of skateboard wheels with bones bearings in a little zip lock bag. For one dollar I decided what the heck. The wheels that came from Goodwill street board I got are as hard as rocks. My whole body was rattling as I skated down the hill several blocks to the post office last week. So i intend to mount these sometime this week and see what happens.

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B-day Today

Happy Birthday Brother Man!