Thanks Jay...

For introducing me to this music. And thanks to Aaron for letting me know that 2008 called and want's it's music back. Apparently these two have been around for a bit. Must have missed because I was a bar until ONE IN THE MORNING again. Sigh, never been know for my concrete self control.

Saturday night....

Ben, I think it was either before you got here or after you left, but last thurs I invited you guys to see Charlie Parr this saturday night. Kris' co-worker (Jeff K...)puts on grass-roots basement shows. $10.00, byob, but he has amazing baked goods! Oh yeah, he lives four houses from you :).

in the cross-hairs...

If you have ever been in the veterans museum, there is a periscope. I held my camera up to it and came out with this. Sorry to get political.

Good old DK

Swiped from Delete Yourself.

I like this video...

From Cro Customs.

Speaking of bugs...

A baja beetle is the coolest car you can drive on the road. I will attempt to offer proof of this with the following reasoning. Please check my math and let me know if I've made any errors:

Status symbols are not cool. Some cars may be cool other than their status value, but any percieved status value definitely hurts, not helps. The VW beetle was too cheap and common for far too long to ever be a status symbol.

A baja bug is both a historically important link to european rear-engined boxer design like Tatras and Porsches, and a specifically american style of customized vehicle at the same time.

It may have started as a well designed and interesting little hippy car--er, wait, nazi car. Whatever. With some modifications, herbie turns into a Steve McQueen-mobile. It's light enough to do real offroad with a little suspension lift, without being too high to take corners on the road at a sporting pace. The engines can be tuned to an extremely surprising degree, but will always sound like a cross between a kit plane and a vintage sports car engine--maybe for obvious reasons. A baja bug is pure machismo, sprung from the bud of flower power. Now tell me what's cooler and I believe I'll be able to refute.

Large operator

with ammo can panniers.

99 duc 900 ss...
found here, somewhere in the bowels of icons vast photo archive...

Getting to work

I always wanted a Bug. Maybe it's time.

Dos Piston Rojo

in 45 years...

proper triumph...

this is what motorcycles are meant for. awesomenes.....

Pier 18 from Hammarhead Industries on Vimeo.

higher education...

dumping some old animations on vimeo.

i did it... from tom on Vimeo.

words of wizdom

All parts should go together without forcing. Therefore, if you can't get them together, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer. -IBM maintenance manual, 1925-

two seconds from suicide

nothing exciting, I'm just dying of cabin fever that's all. Don't even remember when I shot this, I think late summer, but the grass is green. Seems like a gazillion miles away.

Just so you know

if you look real close...

you may recognize a couple of people...

Firecracker Studio show @ La Mestiza, Feb 3, 2011 from tom on Vimeo.

trying my hand at imovie, it's pretty decent for cut and paste vid software, but I still love after effects....

Die young stay pretty

Every once in a while I fall back in love with Debbie Harry.

Madtown to Houstown...

No pressure...only about 500 bones and you could probably find it cheaper. This weather should be enough to twist your arm a little too...

Speaking of shooting left handed...

snagged from le container

Bye Punky

Punkin of Erdmania
2000/10/31-2011/2/1

You were an AWESOME dog. I'm glad you're not hurting anymore.