Just went whitewater rafting, really fun! Getting to know anna's fam better. I like them a lot. We're renting a house right on the lake. Awesome views!

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Here is Angelo Badalamenti's description of his composing the Twin Peaks Love Theme with David Lynch at his side. An awesome example of musical collaboration:

I'm featured on the Flickr blog today (thanks to Zack for this)! http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/06/26/wired-sky/

And here's a couple more aerials:

I decided to try something new with flickr. I'll continue using http://www.flickr.com/photos/myelectricsheep/, but in addition I'll also post at http://www.flickr.com/photos/inabstract/, which I just created. myelectricsheep will contain whatever I think might be of interest or want to share. inabstract will have a much narrower focus, with fewer, more artsy images. I also still have my http://momentaryexistence.com site, but I haven't entirely figured out what to do with that. Recently I've been desiring a site I can put on business cards, so people can see my portfolio. Maybe I need yet another site for that more professional purpose.

Anyway, here are my first images on the inabstract account:

I like it here. Anna's sister's wedding is tomorrow. Met her dad, he is really cool, a photographer. Must sleep. Hope everyone is well.

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David Byrne has upload a set of black metal album covers to his flickr account. Here's a brief summary of black metal from wikipedia:

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and unconventional song structure.

During the 1980s, certain thrash metal bands established a prototype for black metal. This so-called First Wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost.[1] A Second Wave emerged in the early 1990s, which consisted primarily of Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Immortal and Emperor. This scene developed the black metal style into a distinct genre.

I submitted a selection of my BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) photos to the BART blog, and the webmaster there posted one of my images with some kind words and a link to my flickr account!

http://sfbart.posterous.com/

Melissa, the webmaster, is really into my photos and is going to try to get the images on bart.gov, or other places in the BART system. I'm excited!

Full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/myelectricsheep/sets/72157619057460773/
Fuller set: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2218229&id=6709111&l=f38708b228

Huh. Kind of weird. I like his glasses...

There are lots of sweet insights in this BLDGBLOG interview with game critic Jim Rossignol. And if you haven't checked it out yet, BLDGBLOG rocks. I can't recommend it highly enough!

At one point, I found a bunch of tapes that were nothing but surveillance footage taken inside Wembley Stadium. It was unlabeled, black and white footage of people milling about outside the bathrooms, near the ticket gate, and so on—and my initial thought was actually that some sort of crime must have taken place. There had been a stabbing, or a riot—and, I thought, maybe even someone here at Foster & Partners had been involved. That’s why we had the tapes. Then again, that’s how it always is with surveillance tapes: you’re always waiting for something to happen on them. All CCTV footage of road traffic, for instance, looks like CCTV footage taken right before an accident.

In any case, nothing happened: there was no crime. What those tapes were actually used for was a kind of spatial research project: the office had pulled a bunch of surveillance tapes from the stadium so that they could watch how people actually used the space: where they congregated, what needed to be better designed, how things really, on a social level, worked. They could then figure out how to design the next Wembley Stadium.

My point is that that was an example of user-research coming to influence the spatial future of a building project—but it’s very rare, I think. Most people just design buildings based on whether or not it fits into their own stylistic development, regardless of whether anyone else will like what results. They just put up a new building—and you have to adapt to it, not the other way around.

So where did rooster sauce come from? Now you know!

Multicultural appeal was engineered into the product: the ingredient list on the back of the bottle is written in Vietnamese, Chinese, English, French and Spanish. And serving suggestions include pizzas, hot dogs, hamburgers and, for French speakers, pâtés.

“I know it’s not a Thai sriracha,” Mr. Tran said. “It’s my sriracha.”

Like many immigrants of his generation, David Tran’s journey from Vietnam to America was epic. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Mr. Tran’s travel, and the travel of his family members, was fueled by chili sauces.

I love the sound of these. The sights are good too.

It looks like Avalon used some of my shots on their website:

http://www.avaloncommunities.com/avaloncore/nadvantage.asp?comm=337

In the slideshow portion at the top, the AT&T Park, Union Square, Muni
train, and yacht club shots are mine.

The building is about to open too, so I'll be able to go over and check out the rest of my shots in the lobby. Exciting. :-)