November 2010
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chair chillin'
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October 2010
1 post
sam's first extreme croquet outing
Sifting through the flotsam and jetsam in my image folders, I stumbled across some pics that Daryn had taken several weeks ago of a recent extreme croquet outing. I liked the little guy’s happy-calm expression in this one, and subjected it to a bit of digital playing-around (as I am wont to do). As I was working on that particular day (“weekend?” what is this...
tinkerbell's very bad day
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September 2010
2 posts
crazy kite
i’m totally enamored of this shot that daryn took a few days ago. a breezy afternoon out at the dog park, we came across an impressive array of kites, but this blue meany-esque customer was the standout. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
July 2010
2 posts
it's the beard, man. the BEARD tells me what notes...
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oakland california, corner of william and san...
took sam for a walk, and saw this paper mask on the corner near my apartment building.i was struck (read: saddened, angered, offended) at the face of an innocent victim having been co-opted by a coward for the purpose of hiding their identity. Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
June 2010
6 posts
big baby / li'l peanut
an eventful 24 hours for sam, and undoubtedly for his overjoyed two daddies as well, as all three of us embrace a new routine. he seems to have taken a shine to (and a snooze on) us, but he’s pretty wagtastic about anyone and everyone he meets from what we’ve seen so far. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment » ...
imPEARment
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sam-i-am, he is
sam has taken swimmingly to his trip to his forever, two-daddy home today.he’s well on his way, per early indicators, to a lifetime of having affection showered upon him at all times and from all quarters. he’s done great with other dogs, and, well, with us. of course he’s still figuring us out, so while he shows signs of trepidation here and there (he needed a bit of help...
photo phun with my phat new phriend
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new toy ... pinch me!
This here gorgeous beast is a 1954 Hohner President tenor saxophone, a (Max) Keilwerth stencil, and quite possibly out of the same German factory in which my alto would be made 12 years following the manufacture of this one. Just this afternoon I made my way into the Inner Sunset, where I traded in a pair of unused instruments along with a not-too-painful sum of cash in exchange for this wonderful...
something's abuzz / drawing day
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May 2010
4 posts
yosemite sampling
Jeez Louise. I’ve lived in the Bay Area for just shy of a decade, and it took me until just yesterday to make my way to Yosemite National Park to get an eyeful for myself. Long overdue but terrific day trip for Daryn and me. In spite of it being a moist Monday, there was still plenty of activity, although thankfully it was a far cry from the parking lot-esque traffic jams that I’ve...
rainbow redux
here’s another take on last night’s spectacle. i like the backs-of-heads action here. original image followed by a trio of edits. again, mad props to my intrepid keychain toy cam, and to the image processing software that rode shotgun. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
consolation prize
If there is a silver lining to what should be uninterrupted nice San Francisco Bay Area weather having taken a sudden turn to the chilly and intermittently moist (not to mention to a job with irretrievably strange and unavoidably variable hours), it is the occasional moment such as this. I tweeted earlier this evening about a spectacular rainbow that made its presence known over the bay at around...
With apologies to William Hughes Means
Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who had no hair He had no hair again today Perhaps, tomorrow: a toupee Original image, subsequently altered by yours truly, by Horia Varlan / Flickr Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
dust buddies
Can’t find a damn thing, but thank goodness our cake toppers are at the ready. Moving residence is such a gargantuan pain in the ass. The potential for the strange, perhaps even mildly amusing, to visit at any moment runs high. It’s hard to think of what, apart from a chaos-inducing move could be responsible for the following actually-observed assemblage of items: potting soil, brown...
April 2010
6 posts
is that a pig?
pic by daryn earlier today, altered by yours truly just now.this is my scoping out one of the finer points of the new pad we’re moving into at the end of the month: indeed, there’s a pig in the sink. other nuggets of niftyness: patio / courtyard access, free zipcar membership included with the lease, nice community gym / pool, the development is LEED certified (silver. not shabby),...
night wedge
The original image was actually captured pretty close to high noon, but as I tweaked it, the picture ended up evoking sense for nightfall.Not exactly sure what a ‘night wedge’ is or if one size fits all or what country produces the most of them, but the phrase just popped in as I monkeyed about, and I liked it. Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
domo redux
This was actually one of the very first pictures I took with my toy cam the afternoon I bought it. Here are three fresh tweaks of it from last night. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
wheels
My inner environmentalist and my inner fan of bad ass vintage rides, somehow, have established some sort of detente. As a town, somehow I am big enough for the two of them after all. Big old American cars are ghastly, clattering anachronisms. Ecological scourges. And, somehow, super friggin’ sweet. ( shrug. )Anyhow, there’s a really nice old Camaro that I see around the block from...
the 10 dollar keychain camera strikes again
My optical trinket continues to amuse me beyond belief. Daryn rolled his eyes a bit when I first brought this thing home from the drug store a couple months back, but he’s since come around. If I ever decide to do anything with a selection of the better images that I’ve captured with my toy digital camera, I might be tempted to name the collection “A Picture is Worth a Thousand...
March 2010
4 posts
spring in step in spring
Original image, found here at Cute Overload (one of my primary not-in-the-least-bit-guilty pleasures when trolling online), provided still more four-star fodder for fauxtoshop. Results totally reflective of the matter currently at hand: taking different approaches the question of how to achieve the desired added spring in my step as I continue to step into spring. See and download the full...
some still standing, others gone missing
In reviewing my post from yesterday, I realized that while I described a duo of newspaper vending boxes, the altered image skewed a bit dark, leaving the darker green one harder to pick out. Thought that I’d come back with the original shot as well as a smattering of supplementary altered versions. Happy to report that my sentinels continue their vigilant watch for at least another day, but...
i got the news
yes dear how did you know can’t you see our love will grow Just another bit of keychain toy digital camera fun. Snapped the unadulterated image on my three block walk from home to Whole Foods for my pre-work caffeine infusion. I remain a huge fan of the newspaper, while I know full well that it’s a weakening medium. These two vending machines, I’ve noticed, haven’t been...
Truth in branding: doing it right
Take nondescript brown twine and duct tape separately, and any of us would be readily able to conjure up for either one of them any number of practical uses. Given their trans-usefulness, it was a bit of a surprise to discover that I had neither of them on hand, and putting aside their countless myriad applications, I had just one particular task requiring both of them: the transformation of a...
February 2010
3 posts
no complaints
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la la la la la can't hear you la la la la
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domo neurotic
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January 2010
3 posts
taking the saab story out for another spin around...
Unlike the car itself—designed by Swedes for rough winter roads—my recent story on the Saab brand being saved by dint of an 11th hour deal between GM and Dutch manufacturer Spyker got precisely zero traction. Maybe it was a bit late behind the news trends, and in comparison to any number of big things happening at home and abroad, the story itself simply got dwarfed by far more...
Santagonized
today’s found object: discovered around 2:30 this afternoon, face-up on the corner of 20th and webster in downtown oakland during my walk to BART. six hours later, words continue to fail me here. Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »
Shaken to the core
A shallow (geologically-speaking) quake of 7.0 located under land is going to wreak havoc. If that land happens to be heavily populated and urbanized, it’s bound to be disaterous.And if the urban area in question is characterized by some of the most dire, crushing poverty to be found anywhere in the western hemisphere, the sorrow becomes nearly too much to wrap a mind around. ...
December 2009
15 posts
funky crib notes podcast 2: water plus bacteria...
Philly does stormwater management the right way. Bacteria go batshat crazy in solitary confinement. Featuring the tracks “Big Bronzy Shooter” by Zero1, “DeepInHouse1” by c-sar, and “Let’s Go Outside” by St. Adam. Funky Crib Notes Vol 2 by Dave Bois Download now or listen on posterous fcn volume 2.mp3 (2861 KB) ...
there's no place laaah muh ... muh... buh whaaa...
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funky crib notes podcast 1: free association, free...
Some introductory notes and housekeeping. Thoughts on the very impressive and generous Salman Khan. A tip of the hat to deep space and all the cool stuff we’re finding of late. Featured tracks: “Vectra” by jpfm band, “One Night in BCN” by Mr. K, and “White Gummie Bear” by DJ Lucian, all courtesy of Jamendo.com Funky Crib Notes by Dave...
Penny Experiment, 78 of 100
Seriously. I’m just delighted and impressed with Jeffrey Strain’s Penny Experiment, and I am proud as hell that I’m able to participate in it.His concept is to leverage a single found penny into something bigger. Among the conceptual tricks up his sleeve to transform one cent into real change is his call out for artists to create original, postcard-sized art to donate for sale...
the penny experiment -- TERRIBLY excited about...
now THIS is cool: I’m looking for artists that would be willing to donate a bit of their time and talent for the penny experiment project. What I’m hoping to find is 100 different artists who will each create one postcard size piece of art that incorporates a number of their choosing (between 1 and 100) and a penny. In return, the artist will get (if desired) a bio on this website under the image...
coming soon ...
mp3 mixed-up melange of music and musings on myriad matters from the mundane to more meaningful.translation: podcast. i play music, i blab briefly about things that catch my attention. no big whoop. Posted via email from funkycribnotes | Comment »
now, i can simply laugh
am being revisited by the ghost of christmas past. delighted that i can look at this image and chuckle in amusement without any of the twinges of agony and dread that characterized my day to day back when i made this one a couple years back. i cannot adequately express my ongoing relief and gratitude at how this december does not find me up to my man-teats in purchase orders, following a list of...
seriously. the best $9.99 i ever spent.
I may come back later and add (for comparison’s sake) the original, unedited scan of my recent drawing from which the above was cropped and subsequently tweeked. The image was wrangled and monkeyed-with by way of the image processing software that came bundled with the digital-camera-on-a-keychain coup I scored a few weeks ago. I’ve written of this damn camera, I know. And I still...
i'm still pinching myself ...
http://www.tonic.com/article/the-k-chronicles-my-holiday-wish-list/That I get to write, and get paid for it, still feels like a huge victory even a year on. Terribly grateful for it. My delight is recently compounded in a big way by the addition to the Tonic.com line up of the comic art of Keith Knight. I have been a fan of his work for well over a decade, I think he is among today’s very...
The Google Auto-fill Alphabet
I went through this silly, letter-by-letter exercise several weeks ago, and forgot all about it until just now. For no reason apart from curiosity fortified by idle time, I went through the alphabet, entering only a single letter into the search box, and noted the first resulting searchable item that was automatically generated from each of the 26. A pretty revealing, if not altogether uplifting...
To be kind, to play: to be human
The bad news is that I continue to spend altogether too damn much time in my own head, but the good news is feels more like quality time.Will be heading out shortly for a long-overdue haircut, but am finding myself compelled to jot down a few thoughts, so I do believe that I will run with that feeling. Since my daily writing duties for Tonic.com by themselves satisfy my urge to put thought to...
a trio of Mel
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bolts in the neck
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it's pronounced: fraahnk uhn steeen
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core ghee !!
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November 2009
7 posts
yet one more: landsat image of cancun with a pair...
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still obsessing on this landsat stuff / parana...
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black hills, south dakota via landsat ... edited,...
original images via landsat / usgs / nasa. two accompanying edits by way of photoshop. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from dmboisterous | Comment »