Another one.
From a set of etchings I did on found transparencies in the late ’90s.
I worked at a newspaper in Oregon, where they were getting rid of old archives of transparencies from the entertainment desk.
Can you believe that newspapers used to be composed this way? The networks would send out press packs to papers with color slides to shoot and lay out in the paper.
The newspaper was throwing out a mess of them, so I grabbed some and did stupid free-association scratchiti on them.
Even if the English had been rendered correctly, “As old as the hills” would still make no sense as a slogan.
The Space Between: New Camera, originally uploaded by Adam Kuban.
This is the first “Space Between” photo taken with our new Canon S90. It’s a great little camera.
Wow. Village Voice food critic Robert Sietsema takes blogger and Time magazine food writer Josh Ozersky to task over a column Ozersky wrote in Time ostensibly giving people advice on how to really cater a wedding. In short Ozersky says don’t hire a caterer but instead grab local chefs to do the cooking. Here’s Sietsema:
There are other problems with the piece. You unfairly malign caterers, seemingly oblivious that many caterers are talented cooks. Also, the piece is couched as a set of “tips” to the readers as to how they should cater their own affairs. That’s useless advice, since virtually none of them could ask a gang of chefs to cook their wedding meal, and probably couldn’t afford it if they did. As a fellow food journalist noted, “It’s really a ‘let them eat cake’ kind of move.”
As a guy who has been helping plan his own wedding*, I can’t help but nod along in agreement. Even though I blog at a not-insignificant food website myself, there’s no way I could dream of roping in a bunch of NYC chefs to cater our affair.
I can’t say that Josh didn’t have a grain of a good idea here. Who wouldn’t want to feed their guests some awesome top-notch food? But when I read that column knowing that Ozerksy’s relationships with those chefs would make procuring their services substantially easier for him than it would his readers, I felt the whole thing was a bit disingenuous.
*Credit where due: The fiancée has taken most of the lead on the planning, and I am eternally grateful for that.
Full disclosure: I know Josh IRL and have met Robert a couple times but mostly know him through email correspondence and blogging.
I remember thinking how cool and “European” this video was. Mostly because it looked like something a repressed German would have made. Oh, and I LOVED the Isetta in the video.
Christian Hosoi
While browsing Wikipedia yesterday after getting hit by a Bones Brigade flashback, I began to see a pattern in which many ’80s skateboard luminaries had converted or gone back to Christianity. I suppose Christian Hosoi was either fated to accept Jesus as his lord and savior or just become a batshit-crazy Satan worshipper.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Caballero
He was brought up as a Catholic, studied Zen/Taoism for 6 years, and in 2005 returned to a non-denominational Christian church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Mountain
Mountain is a Christian.[citation needed] He is married to Yvette Loveless and has one son, Lance Ronald Cyril Mountain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rogowski
He converted to a strict Evangelical form of Christianity after a severe accident in Germany (he jumped out of a hotel window while drunk and landed on a fence). At the same time, spurred by girlfriend [Brandi] McClain leaving him, Mark began a period of severe alcoholism.
Rogowski said he had considered seeking psychiatric help at the time, but the born-again Christians he was involved with discouraged this.
Rogowski would later go on to beat, rape, and murder the mutual friend who introduced him to Brandi McClain.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Hosoi
In June 2004 Hosoi’s sentence was reduced for good behavior and he was released on parole. Hosoi married girlfriend Jennifer Lee. He became a born-again Christian through the urging of his wife and her uncle, Pastor Christopher Swain. He also earned his high school diploma. Hosoi continues to be open about his new-found faith, having become ordained as an associate pastor, and has resumed his skateboarding career.
Fun note: Christian Hosoi has three sons, all of whom sound like their names could be skateboard products — Rhythm Hosoi, Classic Hosoi, and Endless Hosoi.
