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Life is Beautiful

Life is Beautiful

An afternoon on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Boycott Petroleum

New BP Logo - Boycott Petroleum

I’ve started to notice these spray painted on mailboxes around San Francisco. They seem pretty new which is what surprised me. You’d think they’d have been doing this a lot more then the spill was still uncapped.

Using an iPhone 4 to kill a monitor

I discovered that in certain conditions (iPhone in Edge Mode) that placing my iPhone 4 under my monitor turns the screen completely black. You can see the blue power light is still on but the monitor goes out. This is pretty repeatable and makes me wonder what this thing is pushing out in Edge mode that’s powerful enough to turn a monitor off. Sorry for the poor quality of the video and no sound but I shot this at work and I’m in a big shared space with other companies and I wasn’t up for doing a V.O. on this one. I might revisit it at some point.

Can anyone else get this to replicate? The real trick was to make sure it was in Edge Mode with signal. WiFi seemed to have no effect either way. Pretty weird eh?

Girl in San Francisco

Girl in San Francisco

Shot on my iPhone 4 and post processed in Photoshop. I tried using the effects apps on the phone but nothing has really struck me yet. Hipstamatic is neat but takes too long and everyone uses it so its not really that useful. Photoshop is still the way I like to work. I just wish the phone had a save as RAW option. This was tweaked with the Channel Mixer set to B&W w/ Orange filter and a little vignette was added in the Lens Correction filter and was also cropped down by about 30%.

Worlds largest lolcat!

Invisible Bike Mural

My traveling partners were talking about the Asians.com tag but I was transfixed by the largest lolcat in the world.