L.A. Bike Scene from studiodrome on Vimeo.

This awesome video does a much better job of capturing the scene than my clumsy thrown-together home movies.

I’ve made an interesting discovery. Apparently MTV, the crappy reality show channel, dabbled with music videos in the past. Now they’ve gone and made themselves a Hulu-like web site of their own, on the internets, to get back to their less-awful roots. Kudos and golf claps for you, MTV! You’re almost relevant now.

Check out the site.

This weekend I once again went on the monthly “Best Ride of Your Life,” aka c.r.a.n.k. mob. It was their first birthday. I made another home movie which will be studied by film students for decades to come. I took a few terrible photos. Once again it was chaotic, hounded by the long arm of the law, and the most fun ever. The only thing missing was bacon, and I hope to lobby the crank mob gods to install a bacon grill in the box for future fiestas.

Once you’re done being blown away by my masterful photography and cinematography, check out this video made by someone who actually knows what they’re doing. It mixes processing with Trentemoller with great results.

World is not round. from Simon on Vimeo.

Burning Man was pretty tough this year. There were a few serious dust storms at bad times, one on Monday which shut down the gates for several hours and another on Saturday that ended up killing the pre-burn fire conclave. There were also a lot of missing persons from this year’s camp, which was sad. A lot of the art projects I liked most in previous years didn’t show up this time. The third biggest playa project after the man and the temple, Babylon, was sorta lame. The playa was a nightmare to cross, thanks to giant piles of dust which ate your tires. At night they would randomly slow you down enough to occasionally crash your bike. However, this was only a problem until halfway through the week, when my bike was stolen.

All that being said, it wasn’t a total loss. It wasn’t a loss at all, we had a great camp this year. There were new people who were great additions and grizzled veterans who were more entertaining than ever. We partied our asses off, ate our fill of delicious, life-giving bacon every morning, and wore ridiculously awesome costumes. Fire was played with, delivering spectacular results, and safety was third. I took a lot of great pictures, which is hard not to do there. Check them out.

There is actually stuff to do there! When Downtown Los Angeles isn’t occupied with its primary task as a massive homeless shelter, there’s an art walk every second Thursday of the month. More art than you can shake a stick at, and this month Calarts is playing free sci-fi movies at the top of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel: Powers of Ten (check out a similar online exploration of the micro and macro universe) and Solaris.

Via midnight ridazz. Join us!

Scientifically proven: speaking english will kill you.

Unnecessary Knowledge will feed you useless fun facts. Keep hitting refresh to make the awesomeness continue. “You lose 60 hairs a day.” “More than $1 billion is spent each year on neck ties in the United States.” And on and on. This one is the most tragic: “Every year approximately 2,500 left-handed people are killed by using object or machinery designed for right-handed people.”

We had a monster quake today. I was lucky to escape with my life.

Ok, not really. The building shook enough to make me jump under my desk for about 30 seconds out of fear of getting hit in the head by this stuff. A little excitement but nothing terrible.

And hey, there’s a little movie about it courtesy of CalTech.

Youtube user heckleu247’s channel

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(This is good too)