Earlier this month Michael David Murphy, a great photographer that should be in everyone’s flickr contact list, as an aside, pointed out the americangothic tag was worth a look. Until I met Molly I had presumed American Gothicism died with Faulker. She showed me where to look and who to read and how to see [...]

I met up today with Ben Huh, CEO of ICanHasCheezburger.com to catch up and take in some SF culture. We hit the galleries and the graf and street-style stores in the Lower Haight and then took in the finishing touches of a 3-story LOL Cat mural painted by Josh aka Jazlink .
Fifty24 Gallery

Cosco Busan street [...]

Molly and I wanted a license plate that was positive, friendly and hip. So glad all the other phrases we wanted were taken.

digg story
Huge shout to violet.blue for the idea.

Blu is a large-scale street artist. But here he has blown me away. I can’t even start to sum up how impressed I am by this stop-animation wall painting sequence.
Watch it now. Trust me.
Click here to see the video if you don’t see it below this text.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on [...]

I took and edited this footage of The Raconteurs complete performance of the Bob Dylan Hurricane-esque song Carolina Drama that’s on their new album, Consolers of the Lonely.
Carolina Drama, Raconteurs, May 4th, 2008. JazzFest, New Orleans, LA

Half the pleasure of the song is figuring out the words, and thus figuring out the drama. But [...]

At the New Orleans JazzFest this year just one of the many standout acts we happened to catch (vs. all those we didn’t) was an adorable 17 year old firecracker of a violin player named Amanda Shaw. I took some video of her and her band, The Cute Guys, simply ripping up the Fais Do [...]

Scott Beale (via twitter of naturally), pointed me to a new cartoon by Hugh MacLeod that sums up the affect twitter has had on the method of message posting on the web since the year 2000.

Blogging (née web logging) was a phenomena that took hold after the turn of this century where people would compose [...]

Ryan made a fierce video fwith Phillip Niemeyer of Double Triple for and with Spoon. It seems inspired by Harry Smith (e.g. Heaven and Earth Magic).
Whatever. It’s pretty fracking cool. Watch the video.
Don’t look at these they are just stills. Watch the video.

Here are some far too overdue map props to Anders. His The Snack Attack podcast is dedicated to
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There’s a game on Facebook called PackRat. It’s like playing Mah Jong but the tiles are icons hidden around that you can also buy are steal from your friends. I’ve never played it. It’s appears to be quite popular.
Today a friend informed me that I’m part of a themed icon set for SXSW. There [...]