kate

wild animal park

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:37:19 GMT

The Wild Animal park started as a breeding facility for the San Diego Zoo. As interest grew, they started making the pens more accessible to the public and giving less privacy to the animals. Now they have another undisclosed facility for breeding and this less crowded option for taking pictures. More pictures next post...

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:42:38 GMT

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 05:58:31 GMT

I'm still mad at myself for not taking pictures of the wildfires when they were here. But then again, something feels wrong calling it a missed opportunity.

Not taken by me:

Cate Blanchett... as Bob Dylan

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:53:00 GMT

Watch the movie on the top right to see this shamboozle

"Cate Blanchett is one of six actors to portray Bob Dylan in the new film 'I'm Not There.' "

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:39:24 GMT

tonight we are writing songs to record on
Zoom HD16CD Multi-Track Recording Studio
so I am really glad you have a guitar now.

and we will be warm, laughing, and happy.

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 04:26:52 GMT

Most of it is B.H. swaying her head to instrumentals

Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:22:44 GMT

But I really don't need to write to you, and you don't need to call

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:20:51 GMT

not everything should be that important

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:40:40 GMT

lcd soundsystem
arcade fire

9/20/07
hollywood bowl
los angeles, california

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:43:40 GMT

Tue, 29 May 2007 17:38:36 GMT

These squirrels were all babies. I've been taking Elliott on more walks around the beach wall where those squirrels are eroding the cliff away. He hates the sand at in Carlsbad, he's so little it gets stuck on his nose and in his mouth and when he tries to shake it off it gets more in his mouth. I'm finished with my classes this semester. It'll be nice to have a summer to save up for fall, I'm going to be commuting down to Mesa and spending a lot of time in San Diego. My art teacher said that I could get a scholarship for my portfolio last semester. She wants me to sandwich my life portrait in plexi-glass. I'm thinking when I am done with that I could make it into a coffee table. That way I can just put magazines over my nipple and won't have to store it in my garage. I'll probably take a picture of it when I set up my tri-pod again. Natalie and I are officially pen pals, I sent her a piece of my sketch. A nineteen year old t-boned me in an intersection so I get a rental car. I'll probably drive up to Tahoe this summer and stop by to see her and Neil. One more year until I have a job that gives me dental, I can't wait to see how many cavities I have racked up on all that skittles gum. Heidi is doing so great lately, this month she set up a ton of goals to complete, I'm going to buy her a nice dinner to celebrate. My three year plan is a little behind schedule, but if I keep moving I'll get there. Some day I'll follow Yo La Tengo on their whole tour. Their new cd is mostly streaming quiet vocals and pretty rock out sessions.

Thu, 12 Apr 2007 17:53:34 GMT

"I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer, I can't help thinking that, and that this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing, and why and where evolution is heading. That's why we have giraffes and hippopotamus and the clap."

Kurt Vonnegut, RIP

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:42:57 GMT

oil pastel and acrylic on canvas.
I made this for an old friend's new apartment,
but never gave it away.

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:21:56 GMT

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:16:55 GMT

Last night you spoke up and the classroom got
smaller and smaller around you. Suddenly
you were standing on top of the world looking
at the sun, noticing you were too big for these
little people.

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:13:44 GMT

I accidentally merge into another lane because I am using my knees to hold the steering wheel while changing cds.The driver I almost side-swiped starts honking and yelling. I wait until they match my speed to flip me off.

I have two choices:

1. Mouth an apology so they can just speed ahead of me and slam on their brakes starting a chain reaction for me and the four behind me.

2. Act out this intense sobbing and crying scene in the few seconds I would have made eye contact. This causes them to feel guilty and apologetic to the brunette in the economy car for driving in the lane next to her, or even wanting to take this route to work in the first place.

I wish people would watch me drive and notice the genius I really am.

Animation Show Year 3 Trailer

Sat, 20 Jan 2007 01:57:22 GMT

I cannot wait for this, oh Don Hertzfeldt, you lover you!

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:30:22 GMT

fog on the oceanside pier

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:44:08 GMT

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:00:54 GMT

The neighbors made a hole through their fence so Mongoloid can play with their german shepard, and I thought that was nice of them.

Sun, 17 Sep 2006 21:53:16 GMT

This is something I want to remember but didn't want to post because I thought it was cruel to use this person as a joke and I was afraid of looking like an asshole. Plus I wouldn't care about my menial life, boring family monotony, or facts and people I can't relate to either so it's cool.

Joey and I dodged everybody after my aunt Jan's wedding because we were sick of pretending to have fun. I especially didn't want to go to Jennifer's, above all my other cousins, because she has turned into an alcoholic over the years and it has made her less intelligent and have bad taste, like wanting the reggae band Common Sense to play at her wedding reception. So on the way back home we stopped by Ikea to see what kind of furniture my boyfriend likes, if I agree with him, and plus they sell a two hot dogs and soda for $1.50 meal. So hung over from the booze and cruise wedding we had went to the night before, where Jan and Tim got married in front of a big fucking american flag, we started turning into the left lane of the parking lot off the 5 north. We both spot this "I might be homeless because I am on a street corner and I am sun burnt" guy with a sign, "DID YOU JUST SEE WHAT I JUST SAW?". I made him pull a u-turn so I could take a picture of it with the last two spaces left on my scan-disks gig. I still wonder if that guy knew how great he was, or that he looked like a bear in Disneyland's "Country Bear Jamboree", or if he was making a lot of money with his sign.

oh, and here's the wedding. I liked that old an old couple were watching a new couple get married. It would be a good idea for a posed piece. Even though in reality this is both Jan and Tim's third time getting married. In another shot I got their kids perfectly mirrored in ages and genders from their previous marriages to the right and left of them.

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:50:45 GMT

Joey piled the pillows around my face today like a fort; putting the blanket over them so it would be dark enough for me to sleep in. I woke up and stood straight up in my bed, left the blanket on walking out into the kitchen like a ghost. He was reading on the back porch, smoke circling, trailing story lines. It smelled like morning, and the sprinklers were on around the parking lot. The steam brought oil, pavement, and dust up to the patio. I wrapped the blanket around his shoulders and stood there in my underwear, hoping the neighbors were walking dogs and getting into their cars for work. I move up on my tip toes just so they could see how wonderfully tiny my nipples look when I stretch my arms back, but normal people never look up.

    "What do you want to eat today?"

    "You... out"

    "That's funny Joey"

    "No seriously.... you... out"

    "UGH, want to go get bagels with me?

    "Ehhhhh, I'm not really hungry"

    "Well I'm going to go get bagels, and then come back and eat, and then take a shower and go to school, and then come back and paint in the room, and then probably go to the beach for the rest of the day."

    "Okay wait, I'll go get my shoes on"

    I give him a triumphant "Yes!!" An hour later I yell, "JOEY. Hurry the fuck up, I'm starving!"

(Everything is true except, Joey doesn't smoke and we never have days off together, but if he did and we did, this is exactly what it would be like.)

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:15:55 GMT

The meditation gardens

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 00:15:54 GMT

One of my favorite things to do is to talk to my dad on his back porch. I've never told him that.
He pointed out this sunset a couple of weeks ago, and I took a picture of it for him.

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 00:53:43 GMT

I KNEW the Country Feed Store down the street was hiding an awesome employee. This guy was hanging out with twenty other rabbits in a hutch behind the pig pen.

Orange Mocha Frappachinos.