Photography

I have a small but (hopefully) growing collection of Bay Bridge iconography, including a poster from Bay Bridge Coffee. On eBay I found some neat stuff, including a stamp that I just bought:

This photo captures the perfect transitory nature of taco trucks in the night. [via Houstonist]

I just found this link to the SFPL online photo archive, courtesy of Telstar Logistics. After spending the better part of an hour perusing the collection, here are my six favorite pics: 1952 Dec. 8. Written on back: “The beach sand dunes at the foot of the Sunset District was the dumping ground for outmoded horse and cable cars at the turn of the century. They were much in demand by enterprising citizens who converted the old cars into both…

My cousin Nena is visiting California for about 10 days and took this photo of me at my desk a couple days ago. The Flickr version has notes, detailing what’s on my desk right now. That is all. Carry on.

So I tried to go check out the LeRoy Grannis (Alan Wiig‘s grandfather) show at the M+B Sidebar at the Brentwood Country Mart today. However, despite the fact that the gallery claims it’s open Tuesday-Saturday 10-6, it wasn’t open today at all. I guess I’ll have to settle for the images online. Bummer. I’ll be back in Oaktown tomorrow eve.

Nick Freilich, aka Epicte, has re-mixed my photo of Meta-Che to advertise his new CD:

I’m about to check out of my Yotel, and have spent the last hour killing time by uploading all the rest of my photos from Estonia and Berlin. And with that, my friends, I leave you this photo that I took of an image painted on the Berlin Wall near Warschauer Strasse — one I’m calling “Meta Che.” See you on the other side!

Wednesday: Linnar Viik‘s Skype van: turns out, he also loves windsurfing, and apparently needed a vehicle big enough to carry his and his buddies’ gear to reach the best spots. So what did he do? He bought a big, fuck-off SWEDISH MILITARY TRANSPORT vehicle at auction, from a colleague who bought it at auction. (Thanks to Siim Teller from Skype for setting me straight!) Oh, and it has on-board CDMA/WiFi, and power outlets, naturally. Wednesday: There’s this neighborhood on the…