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#PEZfail

doc — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:09:53 +0000

I wrote a short blog on Laughing Squid about PEZ Inc (makers of candies and candy dispensers) suing The Museum of PEZ Memorabilia in Burlingame, CA. I know that companies like to protect their copyrights, but why sue someone who is dedicated themselves to promoting your brand?

I was emailing my friend, and Laughing Squid’s main tentacle, Scott Bealle about it and he said “I just picture all those little Pez dispensers with sad faces.”. I sketched a version of a pissed of PEZ and posted it to the #PEZfail flickr group. If you’d like to contribute an image, just post it to flickr and add it to the group. Invest in pink armbands, my friends… I smell a PEZ revolution coming!

Here is my friend Mike’s #PEZfail:

Nerdcore Fan-art

doc — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:32:10 +0000

I’ve recently come across two pieces of Drown Radio/Doctor Popular fan art. The first is by Beefy, one of my favorite nerd rappers, :

The second piece was a fan request that was posted on to Deviant Art by sketchheavy. This piece was apparently done in trade for a guy named Lance, who requested a picture of himself with a bunch of his favoritest rappers:
Lance with Nerd Core by ~sketchheavy on deviant ART

The artists in this sketch (from left to right) are Jesse Dangerously, Doctor Popular, Beefy, Lance, Frontalot (lower), mc chris (lower right), and I don’t recognize the upper two (possibly Dualcore?).

New nerdy mural on Mission

doc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:51:31 +0000

I’m usually saddened to find one of my favorite murals getting painted over, but this is an exception. First off, most of the guys doing the painting had worked on the original mural. Secondly, they were creating a new superhero themed piece in it’s place.

If you live in San Francisco, you can see this piece at the corner of Mission St and 19th. BTW, the original mural was predominantly featured in our Vlog Deathmatch music video… we should totally shoot a new video when this wall is finished.

update: added pics of the finished mural to my Super Mural flickr set. Check them out!

Gobblegobble

doc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:15:43 +0000

I spent Father’s Day with Erica and her parents in Lafayette. There property is usually littered with wildlife. Hummingbirds, deer, coyotes, penguins.. oh wait, not penguins.
While I was there, I shot this pic of a family of wild turkeys.
The added text was created with the TypeDrawing app for the iPhone. Non-text version here.

Making signs make more sense

doc — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:52:26 +0000

If you ride SF Muni very often, you may have noticed a slew of new ads featuring men holding signs. Usually these signs say things like “I like to be kissed” and “I share needles”. I believe these signs are meant to encourage men to get tested, or possibly just to be more open in talking about STDs, but I’m not exactly sure how… luckily some genius with a sharpie has helped better express what the signs could mean:

Photo of Voltaire and Unwoman in New Orleans

doc — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:58:58 +0000

Voltaire At Pravda bar in New Orleans with Erica Mulkey, originally uploaded by voltairenyc.

I love this photo of Voltaire and Unwoman.

Some pictures from RoboGames

doc — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:34:57 +0000

Some shots snapped at the RoboGames gala from last night.

How not to use Twitter

doc — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:57:35 +0000

@morganCHRIS knows how not to use Twitter.

For the record, Aes doesn’t often use Twitter to solicit. This is the only time I’ve seen, and it was to raise money for a reasonably good cause.

Don’t mess with the KnifeTank!

doc — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:46:20 +0000

A few days ago I told my friend and co-worker Mike Hales the story of The KnifeTank. The next day Mike created one of the most bad-ass illustrations ever created in the history of both knifes and tanks. Somebody needs to get this tattooed onto themselves! To read the origin of the KnifeTank, check out the comments on Mike’s flickr page.

I would totally get this as a tattoo myself, but I’ve already got plans for my next tattoo. I’m going to get a tattoo on my lower back of a dolphin with a tattoo of a butterfly on it’s back… The butterfly’s wings will totally have tribal patterns too!

Giving away tickets to RoboGames

doc — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:06:45 +0000

Hey, guess what… I have some extra tickets to this weekend’s RoboGames, so I’m giving them away. Inspired by the awesome Guess Where SF flickr group, I’ve posted several photos taken in various Bay Area businesses on my flickr set. For today only, I’ll be giving tickets away to the first person to leave the correct name of the venue IN THE FLICKR COMMENTS of the image. Do not leave comments here if you want a ticket! One ticket per picture.

Again, I’m giving tickets away for the comments posted today (June 9th) and I’ll be mailing the tickets to the winners tomorrow (so they will hopefully arrive before the weekend). If you have an unfair advantage (ie, you where there when I took the photo [Mer!]) please don’t spoil the comments.