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Also… A joke for Tim

Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor?

THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM!

Free Pangram

You know those sentences that they use to show you fonts, the ones that have all the letters of the alphabet in them so you can preview your letter forms all at once? Well, I got a freebie font from Adobe for registering some software, so I made up a pangram to test it out. Works great! Feel free to use it yourself.

A big, fat, xenophobic, quick-drying dog ate my zitty kid’s camera and took a crap in my little 1973 Jetta VW, dammit!

Legalize LA

Today while driving home from work, I thought I had missed the march, that the heavy traffic through downtown was just the tail end. I came home and went about my business, but later when I turned on the TV, I learned that the American Apparel marchers were heading down Alameda. The news reporter called them “a splinter group” that had illegally marched without a permit off the planned route. I guess she didn’t recognize their Legalize LA t-shirts and it didn’t occur to her that they were probably just heading back to work at the factory. I had the sudden urge to join them. They were at Alameda and 1st. I looked for my sign from the march in 2006, grabbed my phone, my ID, debit card and keys, (what else could I need?) and ran out the door. I got to the corner of Alameda and third just as the group was passing through the intersection. I stood at the corner short of breath, holding my sign as high as I could. I got some stares, a few honks and some glares from the numerous cops. Once they passed through the intersection, I ran across the street to join them. I asked one woman holding her child, “Vamos a American Apparel?” after she looked confused when I asked in English. She smiled and said “yes” and I kept walking. Soon a young guy ran up to me and asked if could talk to me. He said he is writing for the American Apparel blog. He was shocked and thrilled to see a white person amongst them. I told him my story and reasons for being there, that I was told that my great-grandmother came here on a fake passport. Who knows if it is completely accurate, but regardless she left Eastern Europe in search of a better life – how is that any different? We agreed this is not a Latino issue, it is an American issue and that South and Central America are still America. Wilmer gave me a bottle of water and recorded a sound bite for his blog. He took my number and we talked the whole rest of the way to the factory. At the gate I shook his hand, although he invited me in for tacos, I had to get back to work. Thanks Wilmer!

Fluids: a happening by Allan Kaprow

This past Saturday Jerri Allyn and I coordinated the recreation of Fluids: A Happening by Allan Kaprow. In conjunction with the exhibition Allan Kaprow – Art as Life at MOCA, LACMA organized this recreation at several sites throughout the LA area. The project was supported in part by an in-kind donation from the Union Ice Company (which rocks!) and by generous support from the Getty Foundation. The original happening occurred in 1967 as part of Kaprow’s exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of Art. Our recreation at the Westchester Park was completed in just over 2 hours and lasted untill about 2:50 when the west facing wall fell. The whole structure collapsed shortly after 3:30, just as the LA Art Girls were placing ice from Fluids sites at the Getty, Rios Clementi Hale Studios/notNeutral and A Place Called Home. See more photos here.

Music mix maker

Hey – if you have not yet seen Muxtape, a nice little website for making mixes, check it the hell out. It has a great looking interface, and I made a lovely mix for you to listen to on it.

Lovely lovely mix here.

Orrin made one too.

GO make one, then send me a link, OK?

RECOVERED Premiere

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This Friday the documentary RECOVERED Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back premieres at the PDC in West Hollywood. I hear the 380 seat theater is sold out! We at Rise are very excited to say the least.

this is pretty cool

A visual search engine based on the way Apple’s Leopard and iTunes interface. The search itself is not as good as Google, but I bet this company is hoping to be another Google acquisition… Search for something using SearchMe.

Some Posters

Some posters I have designed over the past year or so. The Imagination one is older, and it won me a crazy-big old school video game controller in an online contest.

See our Flickr page for larger images. I may do a print run of some of these, we’ll see.

This new house

I just flickrd photos of a house addition we are building over at PMA, which I designed with my boss Pablo.