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Here's a cd cover I did a while ago. It was fun to make. I'm going to start posting some of my work here because I guess I might as well.

I find this image delightful but am fully aware that others may not. More on the baffling things I'm up to when I have more time.

eaten alive
from my flickr

Here are some of my photos from Seoul!

http://flickr.com/photos/adject

So. Women don't smoke on the streets in Seoul. I've seen one woman smoking, on her lunch break. If you walk down the street with a cigarette AND breasts and you look asian, prepare for crazy stares from anyone over 40. Maybe even the younger ones as well, but I don't remember. Korea is probably one of the most patriarchal place I've ever been although I don't judge that. Not too much.

I have nothing to share, really, except that San Francisco is too fucking tiny. I wish Burning Man was three months long. Or just permanent. I like having the city all to myself.

automat (original title 30 year gang bang! alas, I didn't have enough time to do my entire life).

Um. I guess that's it. I have more to say, but I don't exactly know how to say it yet or even if I should bother. I don't believe in spring cleaning, but I purge everything in preparation for winter. I've got to minimalize.

In other news, I am terrifying audioscrobbler by listening to Gorgoroth (A norwegian black metal band. I can enjoy their ridiculous theatrics as well as appreciating sensitive beardcore like, uh, Iron & Wine or something. I can do that just fine thank you very much, but now I am late for going out.)

A few years ago I found out about a talk Brian Eno was going to do about the Long Now Foundation. In simple terms, the Long Now Foundation is a bunch of crazy, smart, mostly white guys talking about and attempting to plan for the future. Like, the FUTURE future, the next 10,000 years. I went to go see this talk with a friend and the line (full of hipsters, artists, science freaks, etc) extended for at least a football field.

We didn't get in. And then I forgot about it. Luckily the long now is still there. They've been having regular talks about time (and related subjects) for the past few years and ALL OF THAT SHIT IS ARCHIVED ON THE INTERNET.

How awesome is that?

vegas impersonator dudes
from my flickr

I am getting older. I can no longer count the number of people I know who are sick, dying or dead on one hand. It's just sad.

In other news, my company sent me to Vegas for a design conference. I caught up with my old boss from HOUSTON and got to see him give a fairly good talk from his book, the Universal Principles of Design. I also bonded with my coworkers, squeezed my per diem for all it was worth and gambled two dollars on the Star Wars slot machine at the airport.

So while it wasn't as earth shattering as the trip to Tokyo they sent me on in October, it was all-around a very good trip.

I am working on another show poster for Playing in Fog



I am considering reading from my awful. awful high school journal at this thing.

And I am thinking about how long it would take the human race to die out if families were restricted to having only one child. Biologically restricted I mean. I'm sure there are books on the subject somewhere. But I'm enjoying chewing it over in my head first.

There is more stuff. But time is so scarce these days.

the future is now?
from my flickr

Discovered some whipping cream from space year 2156 whilst cleaning my fridge tonight. Either that or it's made out of plastic.

Moving.

It would be all about how I use travel and neophilia as replacements for semi-permanent emotional bonds with people. It was also going to be about how that level of thinking is about two removed from my normal state of consciousness but how, even DEEPER THAN THAT, I know that death is no reason to avoid living (how often do I have to say this) and the lack of people close to me just makes me feel lonely, no matter how fantastical it is to smoke cigarettes in the rafters of a club in Paris, watching everyone and feeling nothing.

But, but, but... further beyond THAT, I could tell you that I do actually have close friends. We have fights, we have triumphs, we have misunderstandings and moments when everything clicks. I cry. A lot. I'm also in love.

So. I was going to write about all that stuff and it was going to be beautiful and touching. But instead, I give you Petra Hayden doing an acapella version of "Thriller."

"Thriller"
Michael Jackson
as sung by Petra Hayden
(I took this down because people were stealing my bandwidth. Sorry!)

Oh, and if you want to check out my APE illustrated zine pamphlet thing, please do. It's called Automat and it's on sale at Etsy. If I know you, mail me and I'll send you a copy. I was gonna make a webpage for it, but GODDAMN I hate making webpages!