Beautiful Losers

I was able to catch a showing of Beautiful Losers yesterday. The director was there to host a little Q&A session but the most bangin part of it was the director, editor and Money Mark was there (he scored the film). Very awesome surprise, especially seeing Money Mark.

I liked how the director stated it was more a visual essay because it certainly isn't a documentary. It follows artists from when they seemed like they were nothing to where they are now. Mike Mills, Margart Kilgallen, Ed Templeton, Barry McGee, Chris Johanson and more (those were my favorites). The most moving part of the whole thing is seeing Margaret Kilgallen alive on screen doing her thing. I absolutely love her work.


"One of our goals with BEAUTIFUL LOSERS is to inspire people to go out and MAKE SOMETHING!"

Check it out if you can.
http://beautifullosers.com/index.html

Your face might stay that way.

You can make the funniest face in the universe! Here's what you do: With your forefingers and thumbs, pinch the corners of your eyes and mouth together. Instant funny! (or it might just be me)

This is Bryan.

Working

I'm a chaotic organizer. I've decided to let it just happen and stop fighting it with organizing tools. Google calender has helped me significantly, though I don't keep up with it too much. I don't abide by it but I allow it to recommend things that need to be done, if that makes any sense. Ideas are spread all over in singles and duplicates on my computer and on tiny to medium sized pieces of paper. And in other people's brain. Ill say something, forget what I said and have to ask. Medication needed? probably. In the end, I find multiple desks full of my crap. It all still makes sense to me though. I like physically cleaning it all up at the end. It makes everything feel wrapped up and I'm ready for the next thing.


This is stage one. I overtake the conference table.

GT Bicycles Catch and Release

GT Bicycles Catch and Release from Ryan Lee on Vimeo.


GT Bicycles Catch and Release from Ryan Lee on Vimeo.

You definitely should get one of these

This is sort of old news for techies but I just recently got one of these hard drive adapters. It takes 2.5 and 3.5 internal hard drives that you can just slide in. Benefit: internal hard drives are ridiculously cheaper (I got a 1TB drive for $100!). The base was about $60. Not a bad one time fee to save a butt load on future hard drives. I'm sure I'll eat through this disk and need another soon. So if you require lots of space, look into one of these.

Limited Dunny Kicks

So Brian asks me one night what size shoe I wear. I say 10.5 and he asks me if I want some limited dunny kicks because they don't fit him. They were given to him when he helped launch the VW and Kidrobot collaboration on the VW Rabbit. So like any sneaker nerd/Kidrobot freak would do, I got all wide eyed and eagerly screamed "give me give me give me give me!". Researching a bit, it was designed by Bill McMullen and Paul Budnitz. I'm trying to think of what to get Brian because its bad luck in most Asian cultures to receive a gift and not give anything in return.

Chris Jordan

He visualizes some quite disturbing images of how we consume. The images below is really two million plastic beverage bottles. This is the number of bottles used in the US every five minutes. Click on the link below to see his site and more of his work.





...and 426,000 retired phones a day.





http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7