Hotrods of the Apocalypse II

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space glass

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In eyeball space

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lost robot friend

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The phone buzzes, directing me to the breaking news and I am properly horrified. Again. My mind goes first to the whereabouts of the people I love, then a mental attendance of all the people I know.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any friends in San Bernardino. I hope I’m right about that. I used to have friends in Savannah (There was a mass shooting there as well, google it) but I’m pretty sure they have all moved away at this point.

So I and everyone I know is safe for the moment. There will absolutely be more mass shootings. This is the NRA’s America, after all. I only hope my (and the people I love and the people I know) luck will hold.

This isn’t normal, it shouldn’t be normal. Their right to stockpile machine guns shouldn’t outweigh my (yours, everyone’s) right to not be shot. Imagine what it would be like, how it would feel to be running away from somebody with a machine gun. Now imagine a person you  love running away from someone with a machine gun.

Mass shooting victims, gun suicides, domestic gun violence, all of it is a testament to the fact that the NRA has won. The least I (or anyone) can do is stay horrified. So stay horrified.

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(via Octopus Movie on Vimeo)

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(via Jellyfish Lake, Palau on Vimeo)

There is a lake in Palau filled with jellyfish! The jellyfish have stingers, but they're too small to sting humans. They live, in part, by feeding off algae that live inside their bodies. I took a dive trip to Palau with Paul and the Ocean Horizons Scuba gang and took these videos with a now-outdated GoPro Hero 2

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Please enjoy a montage of yours truly repeatedly backrolling into the Philippine Sea.

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tears become... streams become...

What a lovely exhibition.

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If we keep throwing only young, mostly white, mostly upper middle class people at the engine that makes our digital world go, we’ll keep getting camera and reminder and hookup apps—things that make an already privileged life even smoother—and we’ll keep producing features that sound like a good idea to everyone in the room, until they unexpectedly stab someone in the heart.

http://www.zeldman.com/2014/12/28/unexamined-privilege-is-the-real-source-of-cruelty-in-facebooks-your-year-in-review/

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I like matchbooks. They are cheap, functional and everywhere. Did you know they used to be the most popular advertising medium in the 1920s? I made these so I could give out a small token of appreciation to friends who made the trek out to my far-off Brooklyn neighborhood.

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WATCH THE THRONE on Flickr.

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tubes all the way down on Flickr.

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fall walkway on Flickr.

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