sea of shoes

YSL cage heels, seaofshoes

I don't follow any blogs except a couple of my friends'; reading blogs isn't part of my daily online regimen. Only if I'm looking for some music and the search result shows some blogs, sure. But every once in a while I'll spend a couple hours looking at a few fashion blogs. I'm not really trendy or anything; I just like to wear whatever's comfortable and looks ok, not trying to really stand out. I enjoy looking at fashion blogs (again, only every so often) because of the beauty and art in the pieces and might find some inspiration for outfits for when I ever do need to dress up.

If you haven't heard of Sea of Shoes before, (you're late! =P jk) it's this super-popular blog by 17-year-old Jane Aldrige from Texas. RICH white kid with awesome taste in shoes and fashion (influenced greatly by her mother, also quite fashionable). Since her blog's rise in the fashion blogosphere, she's been featured in magazines, invited to photoshoots, and has finished a capsule collection with Urban Outfitters. One whole wall of her room is her shelf of shoes.

Okay, I'm done blogging about another blog for today. Don't have much else to say, you can go look at fashion blogs for yourself. =T

mike shinoda :: glorious excess (dies)

tabloid wall (above), the good life 1 (below)

at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

virtual tour, mike shinoda's blog, flickr set of the exhibition (100 photos)

Glorious Excess (Dies) got a glowing review by world-class art collector and critic, Ronnie Pirovino today. Here's what he had to say:
"LA’s Japanese American National Museum is now hosting a prodigious art exhibition by Mike Shinoda entitled Glorious Excess (Dies). The massive creative effort is a pivotal point in the career of the young artist, as he establishes himself outside of his work in music. Shinoda’s adroit use of all types of media to channel his voice is remarkable. The show signals the artist’s ability to create his vision in a plethora of mediums, including digital platforms. It’s clear that the concept of the exhibition has been thoughtfully embedded into each rendition. It’s not too early to opine that Glorious Excess (Dies) provides one the year’s most memorable moments. On view until October 4."

Mélancolie

Nice little tatt, but a little too sad. =[

garancedoré

I WANNA BIKE IN AMSTERDAM.

"Ramona (not the girl pictured above) was my guardian angel during these few wonderful days in Amsterdam. She was the one who glued me to my bike for the first half hour. She was also the one that taught me these :

– When you park your bike in the middle of the 350 other bikes all clustered together in each spot, if you knock them all over, IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. It’s the owners’ fault who poorly parked them. “Even if you make ALL of them fall, Ramona?” “Yes, Garance. As long as yours is standing tall, you can leave with your head up. No one will say a thing.” Duly noted. And more than once.

– You can do everything on your bike… Talk on the phone, Google a restaurant, eat a sandwich, hold an umbrella in the rain (EVERYONE does that. It’s impressive.), CHANGE YOUR SHOES WHILE PEDDLING, TAKE A NAP. You can even do some streetstyle on them. The proof is right above with Elza. When we found her, we were riding our bikes. We followed her for a bit, like true crazies on bikes."

garancedoré

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I want a road bike. I was close to buying one. a nice vintage/classic 1979 UK Free Spirit off craigslist, but it was too big for me. =[ If only I were a couple inches taller..

bay bridge update

The 300 foot section of the temporary roadway on the Bay Bridge nears completion as the gap is slowly closed, meeting the new decks as seen from Yerba Buena Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday September 5, 2009.

Photo: Michael Macor / The Chronicle

Wow, empty Bay Bridge!

"On Saturday night, crews completed the monumental task of maneuvering a new section of the bridge into place, making the span whole once again and capping two days of a nail-biting operation never tried before." [more: Crack in span may delay Bay Bridge opening]

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Popscene was fun Friday night. Think I liked the music at blowup the week before more, though. Anyhow, time for a different venue for the next event I go to.

Oh, and I met Aaron Axelsen! He took a picture of me at the entrance. (maybe he takes pics of everyone who goes in?) But I didn't think to get a picture with him. Next time.

human interaction

Multiple exposure, Felica with yellow filter and Fuji Reala dev in Tetenal Colortech C-41

popscenesf:: The Twelves

myspace.com/thetwelves
myspace.com/tenderlionsej

POPSCENEsf

bay bridge closure

A 300-foot double-deck section of the Bay Bridge east of Yerba Buena Island Tunnel left will be cut and slid away on Labor Day weekend. The new temporary replacement right will be slid into place allowing for the removal of the old span. The new detour will be a slightly different drive as the roadway curves to the south, requiring drivers to slow down while approaching or leaving the tunnel.

Photo: Lance Iversen / The Chronicle

baybridgeinfo.org

bart info—overnight service thru Labor Day weekend

brick sidewalk

City and shoes, by Liza Prins

so my "music-blog" has temporarily turned into a "repost flickr pics" photography blog.

I'm gonna try some multiple exposure shots.

b&w holga sf transamerica

by Elongovan on flickr

Jag är trött. Heute habe ich eine Holga Kamera gekauft und mein Haar geschitten (zu kurz, ich denke =T ) Hoffungsvoll morgen werde ich mit ein Freund zu SF gehen und Fotos machen.

Joskus tycker ich, dass Niemand kümmert sich wirklich um mich.

Holgaroid

Holgaroid and viva photos

Holga

jp house by daviddesign

F—k me I'm buying a Holga.

Looking at these pictures is too much for me.

The Best Holga Photos from Flickr April 2009, holgablog

I still think that Armin van Buuren is super cute. =D

Armin van Buuren with BT and Dubfire @Southwest4 Festival in London.

Follow Armin on twitter, twitpic.

BLOW UP SF, designer drugs

Finally, I will go clubbing. At a hella tight electro-indie nightclub in SF (as opposed to at a typical boring hip-hop sleazerish club). Would have gone to seen Designer Drugs at the Subsonic Tent at BFD earlier in June if the Offspring hadn't been headlining at the main stage at the same time. I was pleasantly surprised that the Offspring was so fun.

BLOWUPSF

designer drugs

Civilized City Contest

flashbrella, guangzhou

One 20-year-old college student who was serving as a crosswalk guard in downtown Guangzhou said his parents, who work for the government, forced him to volunteer for the duty. He looked embarrassed and bored as he stood on the curb wearing a yellow sash and carrying a matching flag that said, "Please wait for the green light."

"I don't really understand this 'Civilized City' campaign. It seems so silly," said the student, who only gave his surname, Chen, because he feared he would run afoul of the government and his parents. "Every year we do this stuff for a few weeks, and when the inspection is over, things go back to normal. People continue jaywalking and littering. It's just a show."

Gritty Chinese city seeks to shed 'spitting' image

By William Foreman, AP

Glad I didn't go to Guangzhou the two times I've visited China. Had the chance though, but extremely hot weather, and the danger of being pickpocketed.. so didn't go.

pano;; wallet

Work was dismal today. No one wants sushi on a (relatively) cold Monday? Monday nights are usually good. Mehh.

Reading Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami. Checked out Jack Kerouac's On The Road from the BPL today.

80spurple warehouse 30-70% off sale started today. Ughh I hate it when I buy stuff that was on sale, but then later check back to see it's marked further down. x[ Oh wells.

Adding to my 80spurple purchases: a Nixon black leather bifold wallet.

I've been wanting a guystyle wallet for a while.

Packing for home after summer session, I forgot to put my bottle of clear nail polish in my suitcase, so I put it haphazardly in my backpack, in the section where I put lots of junk including my scientific calculator that I've mostly used just to calculate my test scores (ex. 38 / 45 = ...?) and my deck of death cards and my wallet.

In the plane getting up to leave the aircraft, waiting in cue, I opened up that section of my backpack to retrieve my cell phone, and yes.. the absolutely noticeably smell of nail polish. Great. and it had gotten on my black Volcom girl fake leather large checkbook style wallet. I've only had that wallet for a year. Of course it's still usable, but because it's got all these sections, I put hecka crap in there including 4 slides of my art from AP studio art last last year and concert tickets and receipts and cards I don't use.

Glad I'm finally getting a guystyle wallet. Won't fit in my jeans' back pocket, but.. yay! Wallets are definitely another item I strongly prefer guystyle than girls.

Also got new clear nail polish.

On another note, I just checked the cell phone bill for the month.

My mom used 771 minutes.

My minutes usage: 170.

lifeguard stand

1960s diana plastic camera, kodak 400UC film. sunrise on waikiki beach.
all in-camera, no photoshop. eyetwist@flickr

I hella want a Holga or a Diana camera.

I'm going to Waikiki for vacation in September.

chinatown streetfair

Alan Yan, 5, of Richmond, enjoys a cup ride at Oakland's Chinatown Streetfest, which concludes today.

Photo: Stephen Lam / The Chronicle

upright piano

backseat

I'm lagging on blogging. So I post multiple entries and backdate them.

2nd Worse Rave I've Been To

sorryimissedyourparty

The Leaf

Auf den ersten Blick schaut es zwar eher aus, wie ein langgezogenes Festnetz-Mobilteil, aber in Wirklichkeit ist es ein Konzept für ein flexibles Handy, das sich um das Handgelenk schmiegt und von der Sonne aufgeladen wird. Und wenn um den Arm geschlungen ist, wirkt es durch eine Digitalanzeige wie eine stylische Armbanduhr.

Das Design haben sich Seungkyun Woo und Junyi Heo ausgedacht. Im Standby wickelt man sich das Handy einfach ums Handgelenk, wo es sich mit Sonnenenergie auflädt. Die Idee ist ziemlich genial, denn das Handy hat man immer dabei, wenn man unterwegs ist – wieso es also nicht auch unter Sonne aufladen? Und das ewige Problem der ausgebeulten Hosentaschen erledigt sich dann auch.

"The Leaf" nennt sich das Handykonzept und orientiert sich hierbei an der Funktionsweise der Photosynthese. Auf der Oberseite sind Solarzellen zum Aufladen angebracht. Doch auch auf der Rückseite befinden sich Zellen, welche durch eine speziell angepasste Basisstation aufgeladen werden können. Somit ist auch an sonnenfreien Tagen das Aufladen an der Steckdose kein Problem.

Bleibt nur abzuwarten, wann die umweltfreundliche Idee Marktreife erhalten wird.

tech.msn.de>Gadget der Woche

Health Care Reform

Why We Need Health Care Reform, NYtimes>opinion
By BARACK OBAMA

comments:

KT

NYC

August 15th, 2009

11:00 pm

The people who oppose the health care bill are uninformed, ill-informed, or unable to think critically. They are being manipulated by the health care industry, which has paid millions of dollars to public relations firms (just as did the tobacco industry) to find the rhetoric and cliches that push buttons of people who unable to formulate questions based on the actual provisions in the proposed bill or evaluate the answers to such questions when they are raised by others and answered by, e.g., President Obama.

For example, "hands off my health care" is an absurd slogan that feeds off anti-government sentiment and does not take into account the fact that Medicare is a government program and that the insurance industry has deprived Americans of basic health care rights — i.e., either these people have little health care now, so that there is nothing for the government to take its hands off of; or, to the extent that they do have health care, that care is provided via Medicaid and Medicare, which are government programs. Moreover, if the government really took "hands off" the life of its citizens, these ninnies would not have public schools, police departments, fire departments, roads, Medicare, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a minimum wage, worker's compensation, the armed forces, public sanitation, or the swine flu vaccine (which is being developed and will be distributed by public health facilities). And so on.

I deplore and resent the stupidity that has been tapped by the health care industry to deprive me and my family of the benefits of what is, basically, a very good bill. (And yes, I've read it — and it's not really 1013 pages, because it is set in 14-point type and double-spaced — plus like most bills, much of the provisions are procedural, not substantive.) "Resent," because my professional options have been sharply limited by the fact that my insurance is not portable; I cannot do the public sector work that I would like to do, and for which I am abundantly qualified, because I would have to give up the coverage that my family needs and which is provided by my private sector employer.

The reasons that the health care bill, with the public option, may be defeated are not related to anything that is actually in the bill. those reasons are the unscrupulous, deplorable, immoral greed of the health care industry; the greed and moronic ideology of the members of Congress that take Big Health's money; and the unbelievable ignorance and malleability of an American public that could not reason its way out of a paper bag, let alone make careful decisions about a complicated issue. Re the latter, our educational system is at fault; and not only do other nations have better health care than we do, but those nations also have a more intelligent, educated populace. We will pay for our deficiencies in a 21st Century world.

Recommend Recommended by 736 Readers

aix1825

Marco Island, FL

August 16th, 2009

12:29 am

As a US citizen, a medical doctor currently living in Germany, a country where health care is universally available for its residents at affordable rates, I might have some perspectives on this debate you haven't yet run across.

What I find most astounding about our US health care system is not only how many people don’t have coverage (some 46 million, and going up). But rather, how fragile and precarious health care coverage is for so many people who think they are well insured.

How does our US health care system compare? Let's go through some important points in the universal health care system in Germany, which I'm very familiar with:

Here in Germany you are mandated to have standard comprehensive health insurance:
your employer pays half the monthly family premium, you pay the other half,
•you don't get rejected because of any previous condition,
•you don't pay more or less working for a large or small business,
•you don’t pay more or less if you are male or female, black or white, German or foreign born, gay or straight,
•the rates don't go up if someone in the small (or large) business gets sick,
•health insurance is not a consideration when changing jobs or careers because you take the policy with you,
•you don’t lose your policy if you get sick, if you become unemployed, or even if your employer goes out of business,
•you won’t be billed for “out of network” services in hospitals or elsewhere - these services are part of your coverage, no matter which hospital or team of doctors treats you,
•you don’t have annual, lifetime, disease-related, or disease-recurrence caps,
•you won’t be billed at 20%, 30% or more for expensive medications (“price-tiered” pharmaceuticals), because there is no "tiering", legally approved pharmaceuticals are fully covered when you need them, even if they're very expensive,
•nor will you ever go bankrupt due to unpaid and unaffordable medical bills piling up, - that simply doesn't happen – you enjoy completely comprehensive coverage.
•Also, forget expensive copays ($40/year max. for doctor visits @$10 per quarter, a few dollars per prescription, a minimal meals expense during a hospital stay.
•Forget too the denials, the constant slog of endless 0800 calls (yours and your doctor’s) to your insurance company for requests for coverage or adjustments, wasting huge amounts of people's time, energy, and productive capacity every business day - this doesn't happen in Germany, because this is a comprehensive coverage system (which is an important reason why it's so efficient).

I might add that Germany is a democratic country with a freely elected government; its residents are free people – this is not "Russia". In fact, this is the country with long stretches of Autobahn without speed limits, right? (Here, it’s your responsibility to drive safely, and most do.) People here freely change jobs, careers, and locations without any regard for health insurance, and they are free of the fear of going bankrupt or losing their homes or life’s savings if they were to get seriously ill, because their comprehensive insurance protects them from that!

Germany and its residents are not going broke paying for this, either. On the contrary, this fair, efficiently run health care system costs roughly a third less per person that the US system - that's right, about 1/3 less per capita – despite (or because?) everyone being on board and receiving comprehensive health care.

That figure doesn’t come from rationing, long waits to see a doctor, or long waiting lists to get an operation, either—that doesn’t happen here. What that figure does reflect, however, is just how much waste, duplication, and gouging of consumers must be taking place in the US health care system every day.

My point in describing the German health care system is not to encourage you all to move to Germany, but to prove to you, that for one-third less money than you currently already spend, you should be getting comprehensive, universal health care, like every resident of Germany does (yes, including all immigrants!). But you're not.

May I humbly suggest: advocate, and work with your friends and neighbors for health care reform now, absolutely including a strong public plan, which is the lynchpin for any meaningful reform.

Don't let the lobbyists, their surrogates on TV, or their gun-toting mobs and pre-organized advocates at town hall meetings, scare you, confuse you, or drown out your voices yet again.

It is time to face up to this national challenge as adults, and finally join the peoples of the 17 (seventeen!) other advanced democracies (not "Russia", but, yes indeed, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Norway, Australia, Japan, S. Korea and even Taiwan!) around the world, who already enjoy the benefits of universal, comprehensive, and affordable health care.

We absolutely can grab this bull by the horns, and get this job done this year!!!

Dr. med. Frederick B. Lacey Jr.
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Eugenia Mandzhieva

Model: Eugenia Mandzhieva (Trump)
Editorial: Last Train Home
Magazine: Issue One Magazine #5, Spring 2009 (UK)
Photographer: Norman Watson
Fashion Editor: Paulus

asianmodelsblog

Scary Caterpillars Attack Honda Civic

This Honda Civic has been completely entrapped by a pack of rare caterpillars along with the rest of the Dutch street it's been parked on. Holland's response?
They'll turn into butterflies in four weeks anyways.

jalopnik

T4E :: Lost and Found 007

T4E – Lost and Found 007 on AH.FM (10.08[aug].2009) ::: ★★★

01. Ben Parker - Sylva (Crystalix Mix)
02. Weimar - If I Stumble (sunrise mix)
03. David Vendetta - Hold That Sucker Down (vocal mix)
04. Barry Jay - Infused (Original Mix)
05. Lanui - Atomic Tangerine (Original Mix)
06. Niko Pavlidis - Untitled Feelings
07. Tatana - Autumn Sun (Oliver Southey Remix)
08. Marco v - The Man Who Was There (revixed)
09. Kassey Voorn - Offshore (Original Mix)
10. Michal Poliak - Palava (alternate mix)
11. The Airstatic - Te Quiero (mesmerized remix)

86mb 192kbps download (nightclubber.com.ar)

a very cool mix. Glad I caught the replay on AH.fm. Starts off with a tight downtempo/chill tune, then trance, a little house-y, and trance.

Myon & Shane 54::Coldharbour Day

HOLY EFF this is SO GOOD.

I got up and started dancing.

MASH-UP MEGAMIX. ★★★★★

LOOK at that tracklist!!! All in 64 mins! *speechless*

1. Oasis - Wonderwall (Myon & Shane 54 Helpless Mix) (2:58)
2. Amster Dyen pres. Airplay 47 - Be Free (Mat Zo Remix) (0:28)
3. Dakota vs. Talla 2XLC - Johnny The Fox vs. Dante's Peak (Jerome Isma-Ae Remix) (0:57)
4. Pryda vs. ATB feat. Heather Nova - Melo vs. Renegade (Acapella) (0:57)
5. Myon & Shane 54 vs. Above & Beyond - Helpless (Ian Flux & Thomas Blofeld Remix) vs. Home (2:23)
6. Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - Home vs. No One On Earth (Acapella) (0:28)
7. Arnej vs. Above & Beyond feat. Zoe Johnston - Dust In The Wind (Deep Dub) vs. No One On Earth (Acapella) (0:32)
8. John O'Callaghan feat. Sarah Howells vs. Dave Gahan - Find Yourself (Cosmic Gate Remix) vs. I Need You (Acapella) (0:42)
9. John O'Callaghan feat. Sarah Howells vs. Lost Tribe - Find Yourself (Cosmic Gate Remix) vs. Gamemaster (Shane 54 Drum Less Dub) (0:28)
10. Rank 1 vs. BT - Symfo (Official Sunrise Festival 2009 Theme) vs. Somnambulist (Acapella) (0:32)
11. Rank 1 vs. Gareth Emery - Symfo (Official Sunrise Festival 2009 Theme) vs. Metropolis (0:35)
12. Gareth Emery vs. Above & Beyond pres. OceanLab - Metropolis vs. On A Good Day (Acapella) (1:54)
13. Duderstadt vs. Store 'N' Forward vs. Above & Beyond feat. Richard Bedford - Broken vs. Alone Tonight (Acapella) (3:06)
14. Cass Fox - Touch Me (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) (2:08)
15. Christian Cambas feat. The Static Age - Sirens (Squash 84 Remix) (0:28)
16. Myon vs. Ronski Speed feat. Aruna - Albion (Padapella) vs. All The Way (Jonas Steur Dub) (1:11)
17. Christian Cambas feat. The Static Age vs. Myon - Sirens (Squash 84 Remix) vs. Albion (Acapella) (0:28)
18. Christian Cambas feat. The Static Age vs. Andy Moor - Sirens (Squash 84 Remix) vs. Halcyon (0:28)
19. Myon & Shane 54 vs. Andain - All Night Rock & Roll (Squash 84 Remix) vs. Summer Calling (Acapella) (0:28)
20. Myon & Shane 54 vs. Conjure One feat. Sinéad O'Connor - All Night Rock & Roll (Squash 84 Remix) vs. Tears From The Moon (Acapella) (0:57)
21. Faithless feat. Cass Fox - Music Matters (Mark Knight Remix) (1:25)
22. Amiel - Love Song (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) (1:18)
23. Sunlounger feat. Kyler England vs. Jakatta feat. Seal - Change Your Mind (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) vs. My Vision (1:54)
24. Above & Beyond pres. OceanLab - Just Listen (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) (2:08)
25. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge feat. Meighan Nealon - Faces (0:42)
26. Super8 & Tab vs. OceanLab - Elektra vs. Satellite (Acapella) (1:54)
27. Ohmna - Key Of Life (MaRLo Remix) (1:29)
28. Adiva feat. Vicky Fee vs. Stardust - How Does It Feel? (Mÿon & Shane 54 Dub) vs. Music Sounds Better With You (Dub) (1:25)
29. Andy Moor vs. Lange - Stadium 4 (0:28)
30. Super 8 & Tab vs. Kosheen - Helsinki Scorchin' vs. Catch (Acapella) (0:57)
31. Super 8 & Tab vs. Andy Moor vs. Orkidea - Helsinki Scorchin' vs. Year Zero (0:28)
32. Andy Moor vs. Orkidea vs. Darude feat. Blake Lewis vs. Cara Dillion vs. 2Devine - Year Zero vs. I Ran (Gareth Emery Dub) vs. Black Is The Colour (Acapella) (0:57)
33. Three Drives vs. Gareth Emery vs. Delerium - Greece 2000 vs. This Is Silence (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) (1:40)
34. Gareth Emery vs. Delerium vs. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge feat. Meighan Nealon - This Is Silence (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) vs. Faces (Acapella) (0:28)
35. ID - ID (0:28)
36. ID vs. Markus Schulz vs. Andy Moor - ID vs. Daydream (Acapella) (1:25)
37. Nadia Ali vs. Orkidea vs. Perpetuous Dreamer - Love Story (Andy Moor Dub) vs. Metaverse (Gareth Emery Remix) vs. Sound Of Goodbye (Acapella) (1:25)
38. Signalrunners feat. Julie Thompson - These Shoulders (1:40)
39. Above & Beyond vs. Mr. Pit vs. Cosmos - Shana Can't Sleep (Myon & Shane 54 Mashup) vs. Take Me With You (Acapella) (2:23)
40. Above & Beyond vs. Mr. Pit vs. Above & Beyond vs. Andy Moor - Shana Can't Sleep (Myon & Shane 54 Mashup) vs. Air For Life (0:57)
41. Signum feat. Anita Kelsey - Come Around Again (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) (2:23)
42. Signum feat. Anita Kelsey vs. Tiësto feat. BT - Come Around Again (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) vs. Love Comes Again (Acapella) (0:35)
43. Nalin & Kane vs. OceanLab - Beachball Sky Falls Down (Myon & Shane 54 Mashup) (4:17)
44. Matt Cassar vs. iiO - Seven Days And One Week (Myon & Shane 54 Monster Mix) vs. Rapture (Acapella) (1:25)
45. Michael Angelo feat. Jenry R vs. Leona Lewis - Disconnected (Myon & Shane 54 Dub) vs. Bleeding Love (Acapella) (1:40)
46. Bissen vs. Ronski Speed feat. Sir Adrian - Washout (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) vs. The Space We Are (Acapella) (1:25)
47. Bissen vs. First State feat. Anita Kelsey - Washout (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) vs. Fallin' (Acapella) (0:57)
48. Bissen vs. Albert Vorne - Washout (Myon & Shane 54 Remix) vs. Formentera What? (Gareth Emery Remix) (0:57)
49. Tomcraft vs. Adam White & Andy Moor pres. Whiteroom - Loneliness (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Dub Mix) vs. The Whiteroom (Acapella) (0:57)
50. Tomcraft vs. The Doppler Effect - Loneliness (Myon & Shane 54 Summer Of Dub Mix) vs. Beauty Hides In The Deep (Acapella) (1:29)

320kbps, 146mb | 192kbps, 88mb | Myon & Shane 54::International Departures 007

euroadrenaline

Myon & Shane 54 are definitely on my list of djs I really wanna see.

I also want almost every one of the songs in this set.

=[ I missed practically all of Coldharbour Day because I had class that day and wasn't home til kinda late and it had ended already. But yay for the interweb can easily find and dl mixes! =D

I want that 4hr Markus Schulz mix.

Best of the East Bay Party

I'm juiced. Oakland hipsters, indie kids, good music, tight art... East Bay hell yeah!

The East Bay Express celebrates its winners of the 2009 Best of the East Bay issue at the Oakland Museum of California. The party is poised to surpass last year’s blow out.

(wtf! I didn't even know about last year's! AHHG! That's a Bay Area Girl fail moment. >___<;;)

More than 12,000 guests are expected this year at the Oakland Museum of California. (seriously??! zomg.)
This year six stages will feature over twenty bands including:

• On the Amoeba Main Stage hosted by Bukue One:
Superfinos VTO
Mystic Rage
Maldroid
CU Next Weekend
7th Street Band
The Thrill of it All
Goapele
Dizzy Balloon formerly known as PANDA !!!
Souls of Mischief
The Heavenly States
Swann Danger
Fracas
Social Unrest

• The Electronica Underground hosted by Syd Gris (Opel Productions):
Dyloot, Dresden & Johnston plus Mephisto Odyssey

• From R&B to metal, a wide range of great East Bay sounds including:
Stephanie Crawford & Trio, Valerie Troutt and many more!

More Arts & Entertainment:
• The Professional Contact Sports Ring will host mixed martial arts, capoeria, and Lucha Libres
• The DAI Style Lounge will showcase more than forty local, independent designers and host makeovers and a fashion show
• In the Gearhead Garage, Godspeed will give performance bike demos and Harley Davidson will display their finest hogs
• The Illuminated Corridor with a site specific light art performance
• Live Art demonstrations by Blick Art
• An International Dance Stage
• Comedians, Drag Shows and more

Kid friendly activities:
The Chabot Space & Science Center’s Kids’ Zone (ages 10 and under) with a variety of fun hands-on activities and music from 5pm-9pm including:
• “Day in the life of an Astronaut” Blackholes activities, Astronaut Trainings, Space Potty Toilets, Balance Beams, Robotic Arms, Astronaut Demo Suits & Compressor Rockets
• Live bands courtesy of BandWorks from 7:45-9pm
• Magicians, activities, hands on projects and games throughout the evening
Adults must be accompanied by a cool kid at all times in the Chabot Space & Science Center’s Kids Party Zone.

When it’s time to feed your hunger or quench your thirst a variety of local restaurant vendors will be available onsite with tasty treats and beverages at economical prices.

When: Friday, August 7, 2009
Where: Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street
Time: 5pm – midnight
Admission: Free
Attendance: All Ages
Getting there: Two blocks from Lake Merritt BART, free valet bike parking by EBBC

more details: Best of the East Bay Party Blog

Party Guide (flash—if you can grab a hard copy of the express [free], it's the insert)

east bay express home site, the whole "best of"

See you there!

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I'm so effing tired right now. I would have crashed an hour ago but felt like I had to blog this and finish up a few other things online.

Went to electro pop rocks last night with some friends. Fun. =D

Will write a backdated entry on it later.

Currently listening to Zero7, album: Simple Things.

Acid-jazz/trip-hop. Very nice, especially when tired and 130+ bpm trance is unthinkable.

I have not listened to any trance in more than the last 24 hours. Wow.

t-mobile skydives

A skydiver almost goes upside-down as he approaches Justin Herman plaza. T-Mobile celebrated the official launch of its new myTouch 3G phone with an aerial event over the San Francisco skyline. On August 5, 100 skydivers parachuted into Justin Herman Plaza as fly-by jets lit up the sky with colored smoke over the Embarcadero, Justin Herman Plaza, Marina Green Park, Pier 39 and Moscone Recreation Center.

Photo: Lance Iversen / The Chronicle

google "afraid"

anzevino & florence

anzevino & florence - women's memory fabric dress

80s purple

what a cute dress. + pleats & pockets!

But a bit pricey and it's already sold out in my size. =[

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I got back home on saturday night.

Most likely won't be blogging as much for a little bit.

I need to clean up my home living room, so I can use my laptop on my computer desk instead of actually on my lap or on my chair while sitting on the sofa.

So far, I've put all (or all that I've found so far) of my collection of rave flyers in a shoebox.

Neat.

multi-tasking

Sgt. Kevin Locicero, left, and Capt. Bruce Elliot of the Niagara County Sheriff's Department examine a flatbed towing truck that drove into a swimming pool in Lockport, N.Y. on Thursday, July 30, 2009. Police said that the Buffalo-area tow truck driver was juggling two cell phones, texting on one and talking on another, when he slammed into a car and crashed into the swimming pool.

Driver texts, talks, hits car, crashes into pool, ap/sfgate

comments:

dough17/30/2009 12:06:58 PM
He doesn't have a lawyer yet because he hasn't returned his text message...
Recommend: (267)(8)

hedley_lamar7/30/2009 12:09:43 PM

Texting, talking, driving, slamming, side-swiping, crashing, and splashing—

all concurrently!!! Talk about multi-tasking!!!

Recommend: (44)(1)

b.u.i.

"dude, a drunk dude on a bike just ran into my car and smashed the windshield with his head. then rode off as my neighbor went chasing him."

Olympus EP-1 Pen

Instant Love, Followed by Letdown, by David Pogue, NYtimes>stateoftheart

This has got to be the best (★★★★★) gadget review I've read so far.

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Phil27 (ethics & morality) final today, then 8am Math20c final tomorrow (saturday!). Fun.

Then in the evening will finally fly back home for a summer in Berkeley. =]

Sied van Riel:::Rielalistic 015

Sied van Riel:::Rielalistic 015 on AH.fm, 27.07.2009

84 mb/mirror

★★★★

1- Airbase ft Floria Ambra - Wonders
2- Robert Gitelman - Rockless ( jan oostdyk remix )
3- Rank 1 - Symfo ( marcus schössow & robert burian remix )
4- Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren - Man on the run ( nic chagall remix )
5- Sied van Riel - Rush
6- Carl B - How things could have been ( sied van riel remix )
7- Armin van Buuren ft Jacqueline Govaert - never say never ( myon & shane 54 remix )
8- Sied van Riel - Mongoosed
9- Temple One - String Theory ( m6 remix )
10- Marcus Schössow - Kaboom
11- Purple Haze - Bliksem

Sied van Riel, myspace.

alldj

Wurster Cottage

When Twitter co-founder Biz Stone tweets, a million people listen. So it wasn't surprising that when he recently posted a message about selling his home, the broker's Web site he linked to was so overwhelmed that it froze up.

"We loved our Wurster cottage in Berkeley but it's time to move - if you're into architecture, check it out," read the tweet.

—Twitter co-founder selling Berkeley cottage, sfgate

Many people don't like these little Chronicle homes articles which because they seem like advertisements. But I enjoy them because I like looking at architecture.

ZOMBIES EVERYWHERE

Karate High School – Zombies Everywhere

★★★★★

What a killer song. Punk-pop rock-ish.

Local band, somewhere in the SF Bay Area, they did not specify.

First heard on live105's Radio Soundcheck.

SF Marathon

With the Bay Bridge lit in the background, the first wave of runners started off on the marathon at just after 5:30 a.m. (Brant Ward / The Chronicle)

More than 20,000 runners circled the city for the annual San Francisco Marathon on Sunday, July 26, 2009.

ceiling pipes

fb photo albums

Going to be blogging real tumblr style for a bit.

What did I do this morning?

I facebook-photo stalked.

Hopefully she keeps her profile public to her network.

Gots more blog material photos.

Art school/indie/Berkeley kids are so interesting.

Not captioning with any names. Can't have anyone googling themselves and landing on my blog, finding out that I stole their pictures. ahah

Music posts postponed.

Which means I won't be getting many hits to my blog.

LINK ME LINK ME LINK ME please.

meteor showers

I've never seen a meteor shower before.

July 28-30, August 12-13.

Luis Sanchis

nokaalma: by Luis Sanchis (via)

newspaper, mMorford, ...

Gosh, I'm getting too lazy/busy to blog.

I'm not even writing long personal entries, just short entries of things that catch my eye.

But I guess this will turn into a medium-long length entry, now that I've started it, and started it with talking about myself. + random thoughts

I WANT THE NYTIMES. DELIVERED. TO MY DOORSTEP. EVERY DAY.

if not NYtimes, SF CHRONICLE IS FINE/ALSO GOOD.

gosh, I just love reading. I don't really like reading the newspaper online. I just look over the headlines on the main page, maybe read an article or two, then open new tabs to check e-mail, facebook, dl music, etc. It sucks. I want the newpaper in hard copy. Then I could skim through every headline, big and small, maybe little articles that will be of some interest. I could cut out pictures. The NYtimes has really good photos, if you haven't noticed that many of my previous posts are photos+links to NYtimes articles. + with hard copy of newspaper, comicspage! =D wow I miss getting the newspaper. If I got the newspaper, I would be so much more aware of current events. It's just too easy to scroll through the main nytimes page then go on with the usual interweb browsing. =[ mehh

I MISS ICE CREAM. SUPREME ICE CREAM.

Socal is too dominated by fuckin fro-yo. WTF Yogurtland opened in Berkeley???! On Bancroft right across campus??! WTFFFFF. Ok, it's good because it's a lot cheaper. 30¢ an ounce, 8¢ less than here. Yes, a good thing that froyo opened there. Fine. But I am so freakin tired of froyo. I get froyo like every week. I WANT ICE CREAM. Ici, Tara's organic ice cream, and gelato. Ahhhh that's what I'm really missing from Berkeley. Haha. That and pizza. and Thai food. Zachary's Chicago style. Their thin style is also really good. Then, real Thai food. Yessss. Lols the things I miss most from home is the food. xD

Oh, and grass (I don't mean weed). Sitting in the parks. So relaxing. No one really sits on the grass at school. No parks around where I'm living right now.

Berkeley Parks ♥. and walking around houses that are all different. Instead of walking around business parks and empty parking lots and wide streets.

I was reading Mark Morford's latest column (he hit the FB limit of 5000 friends! I missed my chance.. =[ but I became a fb fan. lol I left a comment saying his columns are literary orgasms.), and in it, he subtly includes links to NSFW blogs. So really, why are guys so fucking tasteless and still look Playboy and online porn where all the girls are oiled up and photoshopped and all that? Ughh. There's indie porn (don't click), and lots more tasteful artsy porn that're so much more interesting and beautiful. And you don't even need to pay for a subscription. Seriously, guys.

Next topic: tumblr

Tumblr's are so easy to use. But tumblrs are just for reposting stuff. And that's exactly what almost every blogger does. Repost shit. Blogspots are more for blogging/writing. Tumblrs are just for pictures. Not sure where I was going to go with this paragraph, maybe no where to go, just wanted to state the difference from different blogging sites. I repost stuff, pictures and links to articles, to music downloads.

Yeah. gosh that was such a cruddy ending to this post.

I watched Citizen Kane last night. Woke up late today.

My handwriting keeps getting messier. Going to spend the rest of my day typing up my notes.

Nagakin Capsule Tower

Composed of 140 pods, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo has fallen into disrepair,
with leaks and maintenance problems.

Kisho Kurokawa's Future Vision, Banished to Past, NYtimes

It's a pretty interesting read. Heard of the Japanese Metabolist Movement?

The tower looked familiar though I had never been there; a scene was shot there in the film (actually a triptych) Tokyo! Or not, I don't have that good memory. Or yes, at least in the background:

lonely vocals mixx01

I finally recorded my own mix!
But not live.
I heard mixmeister is pretty easy to use, but I couldn't download it (all of the ones I tried just showed up as text files x__x) so I got Ableton instead. which is much too complicated for me and I'm not going to produce. I only wanted to make a mix.. =| it took like 10x longer mixing on software than live spinning on cdjs/turntables. Blahh

Anyhow, I finished it. Please download+listen and tell me if you like it. =)
Feedback on track selection/flow welcomed. Not so much for mixing, since it was my first time using Ableton and I've spent enough time on it and don't wanna mess with it anymore, unless you have tips for mixing on Ableton.

Dianne Yee – lonely vocals mixx01
96mb | 70 mins
trance—vocal

1. 16 Bit Lolitas feat. Jennifer Horne - Nobody Seems To Care
2. Reflekt - Need To Feel Loved (adam k and soha vocal mix)
3. Above & Beyond pres. Oceanlab - Lonely Girl (Gareth Emery remix)
4. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Ana Criado - Sunset Boulevard (original mix)
5. Above & Beyond - Alone Tonight (Above & Beyond's Club Mix)
6. Armin van Buuren feat. Gabriel & Dresden - Zocalo (Original Mix)
7. Rozza - London To Bangkok (Estiva Remix)
8. Markus Schulz - Without You Near (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
9. Nadia Ali - Love Story (Dresden Johnston Vocal Mix)
10. Adam White & Andy Moor pres. Whiteroom feat. Amy Cooper - Someday (Vocal Mix)

Happy 4th!

Fireworks display off Staten Island NY with the Verrazano Bridge in the background which connects Staten Island to Brooklyn.

I went to the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar with a couple friends. A ton of fried high-risk-for-heart disease All-American food there. Some really gross-sounding stuff, too. There was one stand that sold fried frog legs, which might be okay. But this other stand: Krispy Kreme donut chicken sandwich. and this cookie sandwich thing which consists of a chocolate chip cookie, cream cheese, strawberry syrup, and chicken. omgwtfbbq fo'reals?! I just had chicken parmasan. Went on two rides, this mouse roller coaster and the ferris wheel. It was fun. Wish I could've gone on more rides, though, but ticket$$. =\

I brought my film camera, on black & white right now, and got 25 shots. Yay! That's the most shots I've taken in one place so far. haha.

The Del Mar fireworks weren't really impressive. And where we were sitting, a building/tower & a palm tree blocked some of the fireworks. Then the pause leading up to the finale was a little too long and gave off momentary confusion as to if that was just the end of the show.

New York fireworks shows are always better.

But there were fireworks last week at EDC, going along with great music, so whatever. haha.

I still haven't written my review of EDC yet, maybe in a couple more days.

Started classes on Monday. Also finished Rosetta Stone Swedish and started on Italian. Then I also downloaded Ableton and am trying to make a mix. So yeah, kinda busy, but thought that of course I need to make a July 4th post. Yeah. Laters. ~