iWatch our identificaion with civil liberties evaporate

so you can't safely engage with your neighbors for fear of swine flu [mmm factory farm food!]- well it's a good thing you only half hearted those relationships, because now they can all be suspects in your paranoid game of 'stare out the window'. this LAPD PSA looks like a sci-fi spoof on vapid reactionary consumer culture, but instead is actually catering to that demographic- they live among us. be aware everyone..

350.org global climate consciousness action day

yep that's today. get your papier mache dragons, drums, fire batons & throat singers. october 24th is your day to make a public spectacle. Richmond doesn't look very well organized or represented so far in the matter but fear not: you are the one who makes the difference after all, right?

350.org

get out there & save that planet whose gravity has been attracting you all of this time. show it some love.

skated new mini bowl with bubba martin tonight

geez loweez- this little bowl is so much fun. it has me feeling like a wheezing overweight dizzy & wobbly kid again. my now good friend adrian took me for the first time last saturday. having only taken a handful of rides, i was able to hold in the reigns & avoided slamming. to celebrate on sunday i went out and skated my little quarterpipe in chimborazo park- which i recommend despite the tininess- it's got a nice surface on it now. so now top that off tonight with a 10:30pm session back at the mini bowl with bubba & johhny from colonial heights. i feel like the aforementioned wheezing & dizzy king of the world now. i cannot beleive how many of my old friends still ride and still rip at that! [a couple old photos included of me back when i rode well- from bill pickett's collection]. good to meet the new local skate denizens too- and- really nice bowl, guys.

more images from lynn's visit

ms. crounse's handiwork speaks for itself- she makes my stuff looks soooo good. [thanks, lynn!]

of course i am going to work more of these into the website portfolio, i just had to share 'em. more to come.

amazing new images by lynn crounse

lynn came over monday morning and took better pictures than i could have imagined. my kitchen never looked so good. these are straight out of her brain [i mean camera] no cropping, light, contrast, tonal corrections- this is how she rolls..

interesting documentary on copyright

rip: a remix manifesto starts off talking about how girl talk [a fave 'music collage artist' of mine from cleveland] uses published copyrited popular music as raw material for his dope jams. it illustrates how this 23 yr. old needs to pay $4.5mil in royalities to make a typical album of his legally, and then points out how engaging new technology has made each of us the same kind of criminal, and some on a bigger scale:

http://www.hulu.com/watch/88782/rip-a-remix-manifesto?c=News-and-Information/Documentary-and-Biography

there was also reference to lawrence lessig's

creativecommons.org

as well as another old fave band negativeland- who used the term culture jamming to describe how they used commercially familiar audio out of context to sever 'normal' programmed associations as social/political commentary.

which is a great segway to adbusters magazine, though unrelated to the film.

adbusters.org

they've been a longtime fave.

peer recognition is validating- thanks to materialicious design blog for including redplumjam in the ranks. nice turn around on that too:

http://www.materialicious.com/2009/08/redplumjam.html

new arrival

alright- the new redplumjam.com site up & at 'em. thank you for the applause.

if you remember my brief corporate partnership with old friend and cabinetmaker Dave Hooke [may he be employed in peace]- High Q Woodworking LLC is no more. that mean ol' economy never gave it a chance.

i've spent a long time putting together what was supposed to be a simple one page website with some links to tearsheets- there's always something new to learn: this blog is one for instance. a ready made, recognizable, linkable, easy to update way to keep my site relevant. not a bad start- so far i haven't broken anything..

here's some relevancy: i have 4 new big collage-assemblage pieces in the works this week. also, i just painted my living room, where my good friend [and favorite photographer] Lynn Crounce is going to photograph some of my newer furniture pieces & some artwork too- hopefully the fresh work will breathe some life into my business here in Richmond. you can count on me to alert the media too- then i guess at least it will serve to entertain my fellow underemployed designer & builder friends..

excelsior! [aloha dave]

here's a picture

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wood is pretty.

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