My younger brother, Nathan, was in town last week. Among other things, he was doing the interview portion of the application process to get into the school that I am currently attending. Hopefully, in a years time, he will be going there also.

A video of a pixel abstraction, taking as it’s source, a static digital photograph of my good friend, and reoccurring subject matter, Amy. Click on the above image for the video, or click here.

While I love the song, what interests me more about this is the video as snapshot of a particular time, both artistically and politically. I love it.

I have a really bad addiction. And that is to fonts. I can spend hours going through and installing new fonts. Right now, I have about 500+ installed, with about an equal number backed up for safe keeping. For what, I’m not sure, because I really don’t end up using them all that much; more than some, less than others. But still, it’s a very comforting feeling for me to know that when I need it, when Lucida Grande is just not cutting it, that one specific font will be there for me.

It’s all really disgusting, really.

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I went to Russian River this weekend with a bunch of friends, and got incredibly sunburned. But a sunburn is a small price to pay for a really fun weekend canoeing and camping with friends. Read the rest of this entry »