flowery walk

people like their gardens in alameda. 

cat power first listen! 

i need to post a rant about GMO labeling soon. in the mean time, some good GMO-related articles:

sorry NY Times, GMOs still won't save the world

big tobacco shills trying to stop GMO labeling in california

why pepsico is fighting GMO labeling in california

jere gettle sows the seeds of a movement

wanted: scientific integrity on GMOs

bill gates reveals support for GMO ag 

these companies don't want GMOs labeled in california

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a sweet small house

a great day in harlem

pretties from sunday

mati, katrina and maxwell at the farmers market. this photo makes me smile. 

swedish illustrator lena sjöberg has changed her website. looks great!

mocfa

japanese textiles at sf museum of craft and folk art

more alameda houses

a non-instargram view of them

also found two more old trucks yesterday to add to the old trucks in alameda set. i wonder when i will have found them all.

listening to austra's lose it and to the deadly syndrome's all in time album (maine and won't be me, for ex)

watching sytycd. my favorites: cole, lindsay and george

juniper tree

 
at juniper tree vintage, new to alameda

i love love love this tattoo that anna emilia was commissioned to design.

flickr movement

by margaret durow

by shelbie dimond

by mary amor

pickathon 2012

 

the pickathon music festival at pendarvis farm has grown (3000 attendees this year) since my first pickathon in 2008. but it's still pretty special. such a thoughtfully planned festival with beautiful stages—the main stage with a view behind it of mount hood (covered in snow while we sat in 94+ sun); the woods stage, which is like a fairyland, especially at night all dark and twinkly (complete with a pizza oven and a beer/wine/cider vendor tucked in trees nearby); the two intimate barn stages and the starlight stage (which we completely missed). delicious food vendors in a little food "square" and much needed, extremely refreshing outdoor (though curtained off for privacy) showers (stocked with dr. bronners). recycling and composting. shuttle services to the venue (to cut down on cars). and misters in the form of children with spray bottles (put those kids to work). they had solar recharging stations for smart phones and were selling the camping gear left behind at last year's festival. shovels and rakes to borrow for making your camp site flat and the farm dog roaming around dispensing dog love (aka looking for scraps).

and of course the music. above are the two man gentlemen band—if watching these funny and talented charmers (sporting suspenders and slicked hair) doesn't put a smile on your face, i don't know what will, the mynabirds (rad), and ted jones and the tarheel boys (i think, practicing). also enjoyed neko case, genticorum, the war on drugs, the bowerbirds, white denim, typhoon, the cave singers and lake street dive. sad to have missed heartless bastards and thee oh sees, among others.

two man gentlemen band sing chocolate milk and
mynabirds sing mightier than the sword

ahhh

along the oregon and california coast

chico

hi there. back from a much needed trip. this is chico, my friend liz's dog. such a good one. black fox, seal dog.