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state fair 2005

i don’t think i ever posted this but here are some pictures from ken’s and my first trip to the ca state fair back in ’05: the fair, in a nutshell TEH STAIT FAR WELCOMS U livestock nursery we got to hold baby piggies at the nursery. well actually the same baby piggy. ken tends […]

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skiing at boreal

i think this was boreal anyway. 2007. see, i’m working on these things little by little. this reminds me of an x-files episode– terma i think? where the ufo rose up out of the ice? boreal does night skiing. it rocked 🙂 we even saw a bear.

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a g-g-g-g-g-ghost!

so i don’t normally believe in this paranormal crap but i get the funniest feeling there’s something… off about my scanner. like something… or someone rather, i guess… is haunting it. i took these pictures using a special camera and was blown away by the results! i think i even know the guy; did a […]

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2 SHIRTZ

something nobody will understand until i explain it to them, probably: (by ken) close-up detail (also by ken) i had to handpaint some of this, especially the red lettering, *with a paperclip* but don’t go thinking that’s anywhere near amazing because the truth is i was forced to since i tend to make really crappy […]

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love in the time of depression (jan 07)

less than a month after gidget died, ken had to go visit his family. i didn’t want to be alone for the weekend, so i decided to go inflict myself upon sara and karl and fluffy, who are good enough friends that i usually feel 200 times better in their presence. at chinese. i think […]

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xmas 2006

eh, better late than never. these images are sort of emotionally charged for me, i guess. so it took me a while to get around to being motivated to work on them. gidget at the rest stop, somewhere in california. we liked to let her out at them whenever we traveled; she was pretty old […]

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adam savage at the maker faire

part of what made the maker faire in san mateo so awesome for me this year was a talk adam savage of mythbusters fame gave about failure. rather than try to push some tired aphorisms we’ve all heard, he simply recounted some of his most depressing failures in the engineering industry. one of them, in […]

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kit-kit-kit-kitsune

we just got a new cat, named kitsune. here are some quick preliminary photos of her the first night. kit is TINY. i hope you can imagine how she got her name:

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new arts new arts new arts

i’m doing a short a week. here’s the first one, shorter and dumber than usual to account for the shorter and dumber “week.” it took about 12 hours to film and edit, and was wholly inspired by something silly ken said after we watched saw v: SawFly (or How to Build a Better Fruitfly Trap) […]

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The Room

a movie about courage. a movie about mysteries. a movie about shaving cream. a movie so epically long that i had to split it into two parts to upload it to youtube. ladies and gents and everything in between, i present to you: The Room. Part One Part Two

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