The world at Large

The world. Ever complex and forever changing. I saw this page of current articles. Just too much.

The Meaning of Life

Life sucks. Life gives you shit and then gives you seconds. This policy only applies when you ignore the good. Everything is a learning experience and an opportunity to better yourself. I sounds like a motivational speaker. But seriously. I was forced to move from my place. I enjoy living here. My roommate is cool and the location is perfect. I am within walking distance of everything from vons to target to denny's. But now I must move on. I could call this a bad luck experience and be depressed. However instead I realized that this an opportunity to move into a bigger room and possibly pay a lower rent. Isn't a lower cost worth more than convenience sometimes? Convenience is overrated. Convenience is convenient. There's no question. However it eliminates the time you are experiencing the world. A wise man once said "Life is what happens to you when you're making plans for something else." That means that when you go to the supermarket and you get a flat tire. Then a guy stops to help you. You chat with him over the situation and become friends after that. That situation would never happen if you ordered your groceries online because it's more convenient. Everyone has a story like that. Hopefully you have more than that. By skateboarding with a friend at a school that you hate to skate, you spot a dodge ball. Within a few minutes no one is skating and everyone is running around the school playing an enhanced game of dodgeball. Your favorite skatepark is conveniently down the street but you went to this bullshit skate spot instead and life took it's course. Share your stories. Give me a life story. Leave a comment and let me hear another. I could go on for days. Life happens and life gives you shit. Keep your pace forward and evade the obstacles.

New Year

Happy 8. I was a little dissapointed this morning. When I awoke and looked outside there were no flying cars, no aliens amongst us and food was not in pill form. The future is supposed to be all those things and more. I feel ripped off. Better luck next year.

A few New Years photos.

Our government hard at work

Dick Cheney prevented green laws to be passed because they were supposedly unnecessary. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2231965,00.html

No Brainer

Here is an interesting article from the Guardian. No Brainer Also check out a brief bit by Patton Oswalt, "America, The Retarded Trust Fund Kid"

Condom Fashion Show

This is as creative as it gets. There are outfits for this fashion show made entirely of condoms. They can get away with it in China but in the states I'm sure some soccer mom or gree peace would have some ridiculous complaint about it. Anyways check out this link

Go Green!

As some of you may know I have a new job installing counters because business is slow. I did it 5 years ago so it's not completely new. While doing this I get to see lots of people houses around the county. I even go out to Indio and Palm Springs. Everyday I am at at least one new house so I get to see a lot of homes.
The other day I went out to Portrero. Way the fuck out in the booneys. It was a retired woman that lived there with her husband. After they retired they decided to build a log cabin. It was a dream house kind of thing. It was pretty frickin cool. Solid logs. I was asking her about how she found information on it and what it's like and everything. She said it's so much better than an ordinary, 2x4's and drywall, house. It is more energy efficient because the logs retain temperature for hours upon hours.
I started thinking about how efficient that is. The sun warms the logs during the day and release it slowly all night. It's a very environmentally friendly house. But what about the logs.
The logs shrink 6 inches as the house settles. That means after you mount the doors and windows and interior walls and stairs and so on, they all have to be adjusted as the logs shrink. This process takes about 6 years! Plus as the wood dries and shrinks it cracks. Not a big deal because it gives the house character without loosing the integrity of the house. Of course that is only for the inside. Outside the cracks need to be filled so they don't fill with water or snow and the water will push the seam apart every winter. The cracks must be filled every year.
She believed that her house was efficient and ecologically friendly but after all of that it doesn't seam to start being efficient for years. That's a lot of solid logs to make the exterior structure of the house.
She was told it was efficient and given reasons that were incomplete thoughts. Does this happen a lot? This woman believes she is good to the environment in her log house but in contrary is quite the opposite. If this example were so obvious in my short encounter with this woman, where else are we being given incomplete reasoning to prove a point that is opposite to the truth? Don't believe everything you hear. It might be just a profit to another

Shaun White

If you do a google search for Rocky Dennis you will get a picture of Shaun White. They look so similar. Go to
this link

to find the link. Click the "digg it" button. You will have to create an account on digg.com. If we can get enough people to digg it they will do a podcast on it. Let's do it.

Story

I went to see Shrek 3 a little while ago. I was waiting in the theater before the movie and the commercials were on. One of them was movie trivia. It would give a quote and asked who said it in what movie. The quote was "I'm a black Rambo." So logically a guy yells out "Bruce Willis!"

I started thinking about the scenario that would incur.
Bruce Willis: I'm a black Rambo
Sidekick: You're white
Bruce: I'm a white Rambo
Sidekick: Rambo is white
Bruce: I'm Rambo
: and then something blows up

Keep on Truckin

This has been a long 3 months. The monetary drought is approaching the end. Like with any drought, the first few drops will quickly be absorbed and have little immediate effect. However eventually when the ground is saturated and ground zero starts to float, life will begin to grow again. It has been a long while since I was able to bring the ideas that haunt my thoughts to life. In a few months I can finally create the images that are locked inside my head. I have not created a photo shoot of my own ideas in over a year. It's long over due.

Repossessed

I have been out of work for 3 months now and the tolls are building up. My truck was repossessed last night. I am now immobile.

Happy November.......................

Links

Just an update. If you click on the title of any blog, it will link you to the rest of the pictures from that shoot. Scroll over any blog title (except this one) and you'll see that it is a link.
Peace!

no pictures

just to let everyone know, my laptop was stolen in Vegas over the weekend. i didn't lose everything but i did lose a few photos and documents. i should have a desktop computer by tuesday so after i reinstall most of my software i should have a better idea of what i lost. goodnight to all and to all a goodnight