white with foam

Okay, so now that Dave’s got me all strapped in, this mofo goes out for a spin around the neighborhood, right? Isn’t that how it works? Blog template: insert political opinion-slash-thing that fills me with outscaled anger here. Please agree with me on this or your comment will be deleted.

The COCODER holds up its Fresnel mirror and reflects a world of glossy, super-saturated surfaces. It is to color what the vocoder is to the voice: a removal of doubt, a squaring off of each decision, an excessive improvement. The technique is old-skool paint by numbers, not simply a pass with the Poster Edges filter. [...]

In which the niggling doubts and throwaway thoughts one has throughout the day are raised to heroic proportion, or at least suffused into the city’s skyline. The polymath Stan Mastalerz hatched this one, and I’m proud to have worked in true collaboration with him. The life of this eight-foot-tall paper lantern was brief: displayed at [...]

Photo by Bootsy Holler In February 2001, a snake-oil salesman by the name of Peter Lowe filled up Key Arena with a seminar called “Success 2001.” Outside the building, about a dozen of us staged a tongue-in-cheek protest just as they were leaving. We had a march and rally, and handed out free misfortune cookies [...]

A long time ago, I gathered a small crew and built a two-foot-wide mylar UFO to launch out over I-5 one night. Why? Youthful indiscretion, probably, or an urge to poke closed-mindedness and chicanery in the eye. I was a wee downy lad of 35. The night was imperfect. My friends and I brought the [...]