An afternoon on the Golden Gate Bridge.

I’ve started to notice these spray painted on mailboxes around San Francisco. They seem pretty new which is what surprised me. You’d think they’d have been doing this a lot more then the spill was still uncapped.

I discovered that in certain conditions (iPhone in Edge Mode) that placing my iPhone 4 under my monitor turns the screen completely black. You can see the blue power light is still on but the monitor goes out. This is pretty repeatable and makes me wonder what this thing is pushing out in Edge mode that’s powerful enough to turn a monitor off. Sorry for the poor quality of the video and no sound but I shot this at work and I’m in a big shared space with other companies and I wasn’t up for doing a V.O. on this one. I might revisit it at some point.

Can anyone else get this to replicate? The real trick was to make sure it was in Edge Mode with signal. WiFi seemed to have no effect either way. Pretty weird eh?

Shot on my iPhone 4 and post processed in Photoshop. I tried using the effects apps on the phone but nothing has really struck me yet. Hipstamatic is neat but takes too long and everyone uses it so its not really that useful. Photoshop is still the way I like to work. I just wish the phone had a save as RAW option. This was tweaked with the Channel Mixer set to B&W w/ Orange filter and a little vignette was added in the Lens Correction filter and was also cropped down by about 30%.

My traveling partners were talking about the Asians.com tag but I was transfixed by the largest lolcat in the world.

I took a walk today and turned on MotionX GPS to track my progress on my iPhone. The above pic is a screencap of the KMZ file that MotionX GPS exports via email and below are some screencaps of the info about the walk and the map inside of the app. It was a gorgeous day! Click the link below to check out the app. I will write a more in-depth review shortly but the Readers Digest version is I love it and will keep using it. The trails feature was worth the $2.99 price alone. It’s got a lot more under the hood to play with so like I said, look for a full review soon.

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Today was the big Boing Boing Picnic in San Francisco. I walked/MUNI’d over to it but embarrassingly kept getting lost in the park so by the time I got there I was exhausted. While I was lost I ran across the worlds ugliest duck. Was nice to catch up with some old friends but now I need a nap.

This is a detail from the famous Yahoo! billboard in San Francisco. With their current state of affairs I’m guessing it should be flashing Vacancy 24/7.

I’ve been in San Francisco a paltry 6 days and I already got a parking ticket for not noticing the street cleaning times on my new street. It’s $55 which is highway robbery. I’ve said it before that owning a car in San Francisco is one of the worst things you can do but I have one and I’m unfortunately stuck with it.

The photo above was from one of those annoying little meter maid cars they have here that line up in front of the Hall of Justice (across the street from my house) and swarm the city like gnats. I hate the little bastards and apparently so do a lot of people hence the need for them to put those stickers on their go karts. Even though that sticker is applicable to almost everyone who works for a living they feel the need to emphasize that assaulting an officer is a crime. I’d like to point out that assaulting ANYONE is a crime and just because these assholes can’t get a real job they shouldn’t be treated any differently than any other citizen. Instead they take their ill gotten gains to print up useless stickers for their pussified squad cars. How about you save the stickers and lower your fines?

I’ve been busy the past few months dealing with life and the randomness it brings and haven’t been all too chatty. The big news it that I’ve finally made it back to San Francisco after a solo 2500 mile drive across the country and a pit stop in LA to arrive at my new home and new office. I’m going to be working on Metricly 99% of the time out of our new offices at Kicklabs. I’m still getting settled in but it’s really weird being back here after 2 years away bouncing around the country. It’s really nice to have my own home again though. I was definitely tired of couch surfing and bumming space from friends and family. My only regret is coming back here with a car and no parking space. It’s a bit of a hassle to say the least. Anyway I finally got out of the house today with my camera for the first time in ages which was really fun but kind of boring on my own. Need to get back to shooting with other people for sure.