RELUCTANCE

Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?

BIPOLAR BEARS

SCARLETS

Did a poster and cover art/design

for friends cool band.

Album coming soon. 

More info later. 

RAINDEER SIGHTINGS

Blair's in town. (Old photo from my old Elementary School, Tracyton. Blasting over kiddie table snagged from Washboards. Taken w/ older Pentax Asahi.)

Apparently, so is this guy. Can't remember his name tho. CrewBocka? (Taken with the Old Mans nicer Pentax.)

Wonder if these dudes'll show up and get ill. (Canon Beach O.G. Skatepark circa '89. You can't see the single glove action...)

SOUND ADVICE

Ha..............ha.

Attempted humor. Presently watching "Funny People." Good film about the curse and blessing of our individual sense (s?) of humor. And I ponder my limitations, in humor translating over mediums. Attempted honesty. (enter dick joke here...?)

KNOW THY BEAST...

There is more dark than light, in the cosmos. But that is all relative to mass vs. energy, apparently. I say, smoke a Cuban, and be honest about what lurks in the hearts of Men...

SPONTANEOUS MURAL

It was a single-line drawing that I liked at the time. Prolly shoulda asked Ma before I forcefully (masked as an Xmas present, I think) painted it on the wall of the downstairs bathroom at their place. I say Ma because Pa couldn't give a rip. Kids get away with anything, even when they're 22.  It's still there....

CATS EYES

Mandela has the best smile. Learn it.

MY COWS ALWAYS SPEAK THE TRUTH.

Relearning FLASH.

Needed moral support.

ASK HIM A QUESTION AND CLICK.

A KIND MESSAGE FROM THE KATS

GIMME BABY ROBOTS AUCTION @ SPACECRAFT

BIG ART AUCTION, COOL PEOPLE.

BIG ART SHOW, LOCAL TALENT.

Some good stuff. Favorites were EGO, Jose Rodriguez, and SOLACE.

HIDE

JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE PARANOID, DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT AFTER YOU...



(made from this series)

 

 

QUEST10N

WISH I HAD SEEN THIS

‘Cause We Could All Use a Laugh: Robbery Foiled by Shoe-Wielding Victim

December 2, 2009

in 911, News

SPD:

On November 28th at around 1:20 a.m., a 16-year-old male suspect and a 22-year-old male victim were at a Metro bus stop near Rainier Avenue S and S Henderson Street.  The suspect grabbed the victim’s cell phone and began running.
The victim gave chase, armed with a soccer shoe.
The victim was faster than the suspect and began liberally applying his shoe to the would-be robber.  The suspect, deciding that arrest was a better option, ran to a passing patrol car for assistance.
The suspect was subsequently arrested and booked into into the Youth Service Center for Investigation of Robbery.

DOG VS. SLOPE

This dog and his owner live in OR. Dog has skied all but four months of his seven years.

Skateboarding is what planners and architects have sometimes referred to as an "urban pathology."

The Poetics of Security: Skateboarding, Urban Design, and the New Public Space

by Ocean Howell

Abstract:
Skateboarding is a thorn in the side of landscape architects, planners, and building owners; so much so that there are now design workshops that teach a series of defensive architectural tactics for deterring the activity. The type of skateboarding that plagues these architects and the spaces they create, "street skating," has only existed for about 15 years, and in fact was born out of the barren, defensive spaces created by redevelopment. Viewed in this light, it is clear that street skating is not only an impetus for defensive architecture, but also a symptom of defensive architecture. Recognizing that redevelopment spaces fostered pathologies, cities and corporations have begun to build more friendly spaces in the past couple of decades. But they have been careful to ensure that the spaces are only friendly to a select subset of the public, namely office workers and consumers. To create such spaces requires knowledge of the minutest details of undesirable behaviors—a knowledge that can only be gleaned through surveillance. Because the resultant spaces appear open but exclude the vast majority of the citizenry, they represent a restrictive discourse of publicness. Although the destructive effects of skateboarding have been exaggerated, the purpose of this essay is not to argue that skateboarding should be permitted in public space. It is by virtue of its status as a misuse of these spaces—and because it is a symptom of defensive design—that skateboarding is exceptionally good at drawing attention to the quietly exclusionary nature of the new public space. Ultimately, skateboarding affords an observer glimpses of the larger processes of surveillance and simulation by which public space, both physical and cultural, is produced.


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