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I always love getting confused on the soviet era bowling entry keypad

It was a typical Bowling alley called ‘Mardi Bob Hoe Bowl‘ in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Then it got wacky

Then there was a holy war.

Warning: Some images below are not children friendly/Not safe for work/ include simulated ejaculations. Read on…

The most comprehensive exhibit of Takashi Murakami is a must-see in Los Angeles. Prints, Massive Statues, videos. (Online Exhibition Info).
Here’s some highlights. These photos were not taken by me:

Inochi!
Murakami says much of his work is autobiographical. Inochi, then, would be [...]

Baja heavens 1/4

Originally uploaded by moneydick.

When has a photo been over processed?
Nothing in baja looked like this, but if you squint down and reinvent the image, your best memory of it feels like this. If only my whole life was pre-processed. Things would look [...]

Rankin @ http://www.art-dept.com/artists/rankin

A funny thing happened on the way to La Paz. A swarm of vultures found a poor defenseless dead thing on the side of the road:Larger version hereIn fact, there were dead animals on the street, underfeet, through the door, and in the store. Took some getting used to:
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But it wasn’t all death. My [...]

Theoretical Model of a Nano bearing
The nano is within me and without you as I embark on my fourth month of research into the Gray Goo Scenario (an apocalyptic vision of nanotech popular from 1986-2001 wherin nanomachines self-replicate to no end, devouring the earth) for my senior thesis. Let’s just say I’ve done a lot [...]

update: Serenading for 2007: Serenading gone wrong
What is serenading? All YOU need to know is it’s a tradition at Vassar college when freshmen bow to seniors. Ketchup and chocolate sauce is often thrown/poured. Then there’s singing and some dorm wins a lame prize. You can get a taste of what it’s like from these 468 [...]

Sometimes I feel like I go to a rockalicious school. Friends of friends in the east tend to visit this place for their Spring break like birds fly south for the winter. The size of the campus doubles, the cafeteria is always packed, and my once close-knit community is shattered by a strange thing: new [...]