i love nerds!

I love nerds.
but lets all not be mistaken.
there are two kinds of nerds.
there are nerds that hidden geniuses with creativity and humour and are just so damn cool because of there nerdiness.
and then there are nerds that are true blue nerds that are boring and not innovative with the smarts they have.
I don't know how else to describe the difference between the two.... but i know, you know what i'm talking about right?

speaking of cool interesting nerds, i went to see one of my favourite djs last night at the commodore ballroom. mike relm. discovered him years ago when i went to see another concert and he opened, and well i've become a true fan since then. not only does he scratch records and manipulate sounds, but he simultaneously adds visual stimulation via similarly manipulated video footage. mike relm scratches and mixes a variety of music as well as scratches dvds. taking pieces of sounds to create brilliant beats and rhythms matching up with the music. this also creates an inventive imagery. one big hilarious, amazing multimedia mash of sight and sound that will put your brain into a bit of a whirl! he is quick with his cuts and cleaver and funny with the footage he chooses. I usually dance and laugh my ass off all night, every time!

anyways some footage from the concert last night.... footage never gives the real live stuff the justice of how it was, but it's a nice taste. Ah good times. good memories.



and old footage of a set cut into one, just to get a flava...

a sunny day. care to sit on a lilly pad, you and me?

a rainy foggy day in vancouver. care to go for a swim?

my plastic monster

so I have a friend that is the queen of recycling. she has found a plant in our city that will accept all the plastics that don't go into the blue box. so i collect most of the plastic at my work. here is a few weeks worth of plastic waste that will now be recycled.
ladies and gentlemen this is my plastic monster....

some interesting art

Kazue Taguchi.
a japanese artist that uses mirrors and reflective materials to create a complex interplay of reflections and shadows.
very VERY cool.

http://www.kazuetaguchi.com/english/index.html





Kazue Taguchi: “Like sound, feeling, imagination and memory, light is invisible and intangible, but its effect on our live is profound. My interest in creating works with light is in experiencing the phenomenon of their visual qualities as well as in the creation of a relaxing and sublime space.”

i love you miso

Miso (みそ or 味噌?) is a traditional Japanese food produced by fermenting rice, barley and/or soybeans, with salt and the fungus kōjikin (麹菌?) (the most typical miso is made with soy). The typical result is a thick paste used for sauces and spreads, pickling vegetables or meats, and mixing with dashi soup stock to serve as miso soup called Misoshiru (味噌汁?), a Japanese culinary staple. High in protein and rich in vitamins and minerals, miso played an important nutritional role in feudal Japan. Miso is still very widely used in Japan, both in traditional and modern cooking, and has been gaining world-wide interest. Miso is typically salty, but its flavor and aroma depend on various factors in the ingredients and fermentation process. Different varieties of miso have been described as salty, sweet, earthy, fruity, and savoury, and there is an extremely wide variety of miso available.

for all you m.c. escher fans

four winged dinosaur from china

the other night on the discovery channel, i learned about a four winged dinosaur discovered in china.




A stunning set of six fossils discovered in China could rewrite our understanding of how and why birds first took to the sky. The fossils clearly show a small dinosaur that had flight feathers covering its legs, as well as tail and arms, forming an extra pair of wings never before seen by palaeontologists.

wanna meet?

spiritualizeddddD

Forgot to mention that i went and saw Spiritualized at the Commodore Ballroom, Saturday Sept13.
Good show. Actually GREAT show! LOUD frickin' show! So frickin loud i could feel my jeans vibrating outside my legs! Thank the lord for earplugs! I know that sounds like an old person comment, but the way i see it. I love music and love going to shows and I want to be able to hear many things into my ripe old age... so there!
Surprisingly very uplifting. An uplifting ROCK an roll show with backup singers! Love, LOVED the back up singers. They were pretty damn cool. Uplifting, intense, LOUD rock and roll with back up singers! Yep that was the show.

another obsession

two songs i can't stop listening to.... they've been around for awhile, but lately they've just been stuck in my groove...
so it takes a minute to load. wait for it..... wwwwwaiiit ffor iiittt..............

Caaakke mmmmmmm

So I've been addicted to watching the food network, and lately i've been watching a lot of extreme cake challenges! It's insane some of these cakes they make! INSANE, my friend.
Well anyways.... i couldn't find any pictures of the crazy cakes from the show... which are TEN times more unbelievable than these that i am going to post. But man! these are pretttty cool.
I tells ya, the next make i bake a cake it's going to be COOL! .... well, maybe.




Mmmmmm taco cake!

A wonderful day to go kayaking in Deep Cove

Today is my mom's birthday!

Happy Birthday mom!

MOtown is YOtown!

Dancing to motown..... love it! Who knew?! Just doing the shuffle around the dance floor.... dancing like nerds, but nerds are cool! I can and did got down with it! yeah baby! I've got some nerd moves! just wiggle and wiggle some more....

building rocks and space

this is filmed and then played backwards. looks pretty neat



http://view.break.com/139800 - Watch more free videos

some cool things

this link to rice art
http://coolthingsinrandomplaces.com/rice-field-art/

and living in a mango tree with mr singh

the wall

why can't people get along? i just wish people could get along...instead of making the extra effort to be rude to an innocent stranger and make snide comments for whatever the case is, just step back and look, receive it, reflect.... "ah yes perhaps that is helpful OR maybe no i don't agree, but i appreciate you showing me a different perspective" and then leave it on the curb.
is this too ridiculous to preceive or am i stupid and naive?

drummers

you've got to watch the drummer in the background. Hilarious! I must get style like this guy! He's feeling it baby! he's feeling it and loving it!

talented kids....so lucky

Sungha Jung.... so damn cute. You are my hero

the set up

we're in a dark bar.
a semi classy old bar.
nah it's a dingy old bar, but it's a great bar. a bar that you will always know someone there and all the working staff. the home away from home, where we can go to tell your stories.
the room has tables with little white candles on them. 
there's a guy playing a piano in the background. you know the vision, with the big wine glass on it, and maybe a five dollar bill in it.
so, we pan to the bar. and there sits mable. an older lady, with a raspy voice, smoking a cigarette and drinking some scotch.
mable sits with her friend delorous. these two old friends periodically meet, and chat about everything and anything.....
(in that raspy voice, mable takes a hull of her cigarette) "so I says to her, darling! Darling! you can't possibly believe that the dog is really smoking your cigarettes when you're not home...."

(delorous, brings her cigarette up to the hole in her neck and takes a pull with a little cough)
"un huh, uh huh"

a gentleman sitting beside them at the bar, his name is clancy.  he also frequents this bar and is engaged in mable and delorous's conversation.  
clancy: "Aaoow, yah don't sshhay.... hhey? Well go ooon..."