Typical Night at Suppenkuche

Rusty is now a bartender at Suppenkuche, which means everyone's lives have become infinitely better.

Oh and my sister was in town! There's a great sequence where it looks like Rusty is trying to pick her up. Oh Rusty...

























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Ocean Beaching

Just a nice day at Ocean Beach with my extremely photogenic friends.

I mean, even Nick was looking good in that lighting...















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Stove's Birthday at Hanabi

"Supplies!"

Happy belated birthday, the Stove.

And for the record, it is extremely difficult unclasping a friend's front-clasp bra with only one hand after many sips of sake and time pressures and ogling eyes...

Yes, I failed. But it was a valiant attempt, nonetheless.











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Patsy's Butt in Dolores Park

When I am in town and the weather is nice, Dolores Park has been the go to scene for early afternoons.

Patsy and her butt are huge fans as well.

I am so looking forward to the summer in SF...







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More Views of SF

Jesse took me on a bike ride around the city a month ago and we ended up at a hill I've never even heard of before (how romantic, no?).

Jesse what was the name again?

Somewhere near the Castro.

Not a bad view at all (and I'm not just talking about the photo of my manly chest).









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Swinging in Billy Goat Hill

Once again, my favorite spot in the city is Billy Goat Hill. Rope swing. View. Friends. You can't beat that, no?

The last shot is over at Glen Park Canyon (by far the most under-appreciated park in the city of SF).









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Photokay

I am still alive.
Just been traveling way too much.

First to Dallas. Then to the Grand Canyon. Then to Tahoe.

I am happy to be back in SF for the weekend, seeing friends, bumming around Golden Gate Park, going to free open bar art show gallery hops in Lower Haight. Yeah!

And... I have finally gotten around to uploading a ton of photos from my killer new camera. Stay tuned for a bunch of posts...

SF Freeze!

Despite the rain (and all of my "friends" bailing on me) I participated in the first ever SF Freeze this past Saturday.

Basically, we were trying to recreate the now legendary Frozen Grand Central event that the Improv Everywhere kids threw last month in NYC.

The SF version took place on Powell Street (where the trolley car turns around). I'd say about 100 people showed up, and we froze about 5 times over a 15 minute period. Apparently there was some meta-prankster who brought an extra air gun (which signified the start and stop times) and caused a bit of confusion (not cool, bro...).

A pretty fun affair! I'd love to do it again. But next time indoors, because the rain and wind sure made it hard to really freeze.

Here's a video someone shot of one of the freezes:

My favorite quotes of passerbyers included, "Must be Scientologists" and "What is wrong with people! Why can't they just MOVE?!".

Happy Valentine's Day?

We'll see about that...

In the meantime, here are my three favorite Valentine's Day 2008 videos on YouTube! Sigh.

Eat Your Heart Out (Great Song):


PostSecret Valentine Video (Touching):


For Amy, Heart Adam (Cute):

Pug Screen Clean

Your screen is dirty.
Please allow my little friend to help you with that problem...

Thanks to Robin for sending this my way!

UPDATE:
Wow it looks like the original link went down due to too much traffic and 15,000 votes from Digg (which has gotta be a new record). I have had 500 people visit my site in the last few days, most from Googling "pug screen clean"... I am happy I am so search engine optimized these days! Especially for a little personal blog. Regardless, here is a mirror link to that cute little pug cleaning your screen with his little pug tongue.

Top 10 Fun and Easy Photo Projects I Will Complete Someday

So I've been keeping a mental catalog of fun and relatively easy digital photo projects I would like to do sometime soon. I though I'd finally share!

Please let me know if you have any more to add to the list...

1. Jowlers: You basically have your friend loosen her cheeks and shake her head real fast... Capture the chaos with a real fast shutter speed.
2. Sheet Jump Ghosts: Throw a sheet on a friend, have her jump up in the air and tuck in her legs... Instant ghost!
3. Long Exposure Sex: Um... Kind of speaks for itself. Be sure your partner is willing! The linked photo looks like missionary... I would recommend switching it up a bit.
4. Flying: Basically, lay down on the floor and make like Superman.
5. Digital Picasso: This one recquires multiple digital point-and-shoots... Snap large photos of pieces of your face and use the screen shots to replace the real deal.
   
6. Long Awkward Pose: You've probably done this countless times unintentionally... Essentially, tell your friend you are taking a still photo, but secretly make a short film.
   
7. Photo-A-Day: Dammit! 2008 was going to be my year of doing this project. Now I have to wait another 11 months or so (I want to do a full calendar year of self portraits).
   
8. Frame Up: Fun for parties... Have a picture frame on hand, and have guests hold it up while you take their photo. How meta...
9. DIY Photobooth: Okay so this one is not "easy", but how cool would it be to have a photobooth in your apartment? Especially one that auto-uploaded to Flickr...
10. Inspiration: Give a friend an adjective or a situation (gross ones involving sex and their parents usually work well)... Photograph the madness that ensues. Howard Schatz has been doing this for a while now with famous actors, but he stole it from me.