Vidvideo

Shot and edited this for work (well, shot some of it). I chose the first song and shot and edited all the footage in the first song/second song. I edited the third song part, of YMCA National footage or footage from local video extraordinaire, Dave Haycox (Most of the footage in the third song is Canon 5D).

Romney, on weed

A sweet photo series on California pools here.

Oh, take me back... to THE GRIND!

2012

Is this the end blogger? 

Awe, Hell.

Today, on Facebook, I saw a super sweet status update.

"Why do people who don't believe in God celebrate Christmas? Just saying..."

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Hubert Sumlin

Get you some! RIP Hubert Sumlin.

R.E.M. rocker

I was never a huge fan of R.E.M. (and am still not really) but this song always got my attention. So fucking awesome in so many ways.

Dolphin jetpack!

via Kottke

Spotify and Facebook. Please just stop.

"Let's go back to music: It is meaningful if I tell you that I really like the avant-garde music by Olivier Messiaen. It's also meaningful to confess that I sometimes relax by listening to Pink Floyd. But if this kind of communication is replaced by a constant pipeline of what's queued up in Spotify, it all becomes meaningless. There's no "sharing" at all. Frictionless sharing isn't better sharing; it's the absence of sharing. There's something about the friction, the need to work, the one-on-one contact, that makes the sharing real, not just some cyber phenomenon. If you want to tell me what you listen to, I care. But if it's just a feed in some social application that's constantly updated without your volition, why do I care? It's just another form of spam, particularly if I'm also receiving thousands of updates every day from hundreds of other friends." 

—Mike Loudkes, as seen here.

Falcon

Amazing. via Mike Holland

Sitting down is freaking me out

This topic is the scariest one out there for me right now. I hate thinking about this shit! *While much of the facts may be hard to measure, it's not an arguable point that we are all sitting down much longer than we did just 10 years ago. Ugh.
Via: Medical Billing And Coding

RA on Letterman webcast

If you are a Ryan Adams fan, you will LOVE this. If you are not then you probably won't, but this is the best performance of his I have seen in a long time (read: he plays really, really awesome older songs).

The Groove is King

Image is nothing.

Skiing, awesome?

Thanks to Templeton for sharing this clip.

Politics, in general, is for the rich...

"The staggering economic inequality that has led Americans across the country to take to the streets in protest is no accident. It has been fueled to a large extent by the GOP's all-out war on behalf of the rich. Since Republicans rededicated themselves to slashing taxes for the wealthy in 1997, the average annual income of the 400 richest Americans has more than tripled, to $345 million – while their share of the tax burden has plunged by 40 percent. Today, a billionaire in the top 400 pays less than 17 percent of his income in taxes – five percentage points less than a bus driver earning $26,000 a year. "Most Americans got none of the growth of the preceding dozen years," says Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. "All the gains went to the top percentage points."       —More here.

I feel like people are bored with politics and no one wants to really talk about it.

INTERNETZ

Lytro

Initial reaction: I think this thing is stupid.

duh

Antlers

So, I have found out about ALOT of good music lately. It's always a good feeling.