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February, 2015

The February Roundup

Here are all the pics I took in February 2015 that didn't go in their own entry!

Sunday, February 1st

Spent the afternoon playing around with my Kasina Mind Machine
kasina mind machine
It uses strobing lights that are synched with binaural-beat music in order to case different states of NEURAL ENTRAINMENT.
kasina mind machine ˆ sunglasses ˆ wtf
I also decided to clean that very very old bronze casting I bought...
statue
...with a mix of baking soda and lemon juice.
toothbrush
Rubbed the paste all over and let it sit!
statue
Later that evening, I went over to Sarah's...
apt 3a
...to watch the Superbowl.
sports ˆ superbowl ˆ tv
ellen, hans, jared, jeet, karen
Which is always just an excuse to hang...
apt 3a ˆ ellen ˆ hans ˆ jared ˆ jeet ˆ karen
...because there aren't a lot of sports fan in this audience.
Got home to discover the acidic paste i'd made had eaten through the bronze patina that had formed over hundreds (possibly a thousand years).
statue

Monday, February 2nd

Cleaned my apartment on Monday afternoon...
e9th apt ˆ living room
...and hid out from the snow!
east village ˆ snow
With the patina almost completely removed from my casting...
statue
seal script
...I discovered there was some writing etched into the back!
statue ˆ writing ˆ seal script
It's hard to make out! I posted some pics to a few internet forums and heard that the language is most likely a form of seal script that pre-dates modern written Chinese!
I thought it might be a few hundred years old, but was shocked to learn it could be as old as from 300 BC. Whaaaaat? I also learned that you're never supposed to clean the patina off an antique because they have trouble dating it. Oh well!
The cleaning also revealed a lot more of the details. Like this court-jester looking guy playing some kind of stringed lute-looking instrument.
And this choir of monks.
It shows a bodhisattva sitting on the backs of two dragons.
bodhisattva ˆ statue
seal script
Here are some more pics of the mysterious writing on the back!
seal script
seal script
If anyone knows anything about this, please leave a comment!
statue ˆ seal script

Tuesday, February 3rd

On Tuesday, I went to visit Ammon at Everplans. I didn't end up working with them at all, but they introduced me to LeagueApps who became a client of mine for several years!
flux capacity ˆ work
Walked by La Plaza and they had some kind of ice sculpting event going on!
ice ˆ la plaza cultural
Stopped off and picked up some snacks and drinks on my way over to...
...Ellen & Hans apartment to celebrate...
ellen, hans, sarah
...Sarah's birthday!
birthday ˆ cake ˆ ellen ˆ hans ˆ sarah
sarah
Hans made Sarah this amazing choc, strawberry & vanilla Groundhog's Day cake!
birthday ˆ cake ˆ sarah
amanda, andy, sarah
Feeling the cake-love.
birthday ˆ cake ˆ amanda ˆ andy ˆ sarah
jared, the ktb
Did I mention it was filled with three different flavors of PUDDING?
birthday ˆ cake ˆ jared ˆ the ktb
amanda, catrinel, jeet, karen
Ladies I love.
amanda ˆ catrinel ˆ jeet ˆ karen
ellen, hans, maddy, piper, the dude
Three-dog couch party
dogs ˆ ellen ˆ hans ˆ maddy ˆ piper ˆ the dude

Wednesday, February 4th

me
This is the face I couldn't stop making after going to the new crossfit gym across the street from my place for the 2nd time in the week.
mirror ˆ ouch ˆ me
me
Starting to put on some muscle, but having trouble raising my arms. (That's normal, right?) Haha.
gun show ˆ mirror ˆ me
Stopped to admire the ice sculpture they'd carved the previous night....
ice ˆ la plaza cultural
...then walked through snowy Tompkins...
snow ˆ tompkins
...for a Wednesday afternoon lunch feast...
diner ˆ food ˆ grilled cheese ˆ odessa ˆ salad
grant
...with Grant!
diner ˆ odessa ˆ grant
Went home and smoked Corleone for the first time. V. nice.
weed
Wispy sunset clouds!
clouds

Thursday, February 5th

Spotted this great Mutant piece up on the Bowery
bowery ballroom ˆ graffiti

Friday, February 6th

ellen, grant, maddy, piper, the dude
On Friday night, Ellen, Grant, Piper and the Dude came over for a hang.
ellen ˆ grant ˆ maddy ˆ piper ˆ the dude
ellen, grant, the dude
So much majesty!
ellen ˆ grant ˆ the dude
maddy, piper
Conked out!
asleep ˆ dogs ˆ maddy ˆ piper

Saturday, February 7th

Spotted this Space Invader...
buildings ˆ graffiti
...on my way over to Sarah's apartment!
apt 3a ˆ snow
I brought my nice camera and took pictures of her apartment so she could list her extra bedroom on AirBnB.
apt 3a ˆ flowers

Sunday, February 8th

Spent Sunday morning watching geometry videos...
metatrons cube ˆ sacred geometry
...and drawing some of my faves.
metatrons cube ˆ sacred geometry
9th Street Espresso and an Egg Sammich for the win.
breakfast ˆ coffee
Orthographic projection of a tesseract (hyper-cube)
sacred geometry
Ice crystal!
sacred geometry
max
Later in the afternoon, I had a video chat...
computer ˆ ichat ˆ max
max
...with this guy!
computer ˆ ichat ˆ max
Heady stuff. I'm gonna need some Pad Thai to help with the absorption
food ˆ thai food

Monday, February 9th

Veggie Bahn Mi...
food ˆ vietnamese
maddy
...and a silly sweatered dog.
maddy

Tuesday, February 10th

Got some fun geometry toys. Fractiles magnets...
sacred geometry
And a giant set of ZomeTools.
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
Very cool modeling kit that lets you make all sorts of crystalline structures that appear in nature.
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
A tesseract...
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
...is a hypercube.
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
The Flower of Life is a lot more than a neato design. It hints at the underlying structure of Plank space!
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
Fun to have a way to take my 2D drawings and try to figure out the 3-dimensional objects they are projections of!
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
Fun to just keep adding sticks to the balls...
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
...and see where the vertices lead you!
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
fatty, grant
Later that evening, Grant and Fatty came by and we bundled up to head out for...
e9th apt ˆ fur hat ˆ kitchen ˆ fatty ˆ grant
...an Indian feast at Mitali.
indian food
fatty
Uhhh, glass of Merlot?
fatty
me
Went back home and played with my new toys until late.
hat ˆ zometools ˆ me

Wednesday, February 11th

Took Maddy for a nice long, wintery walk...
east river park
...crunching around in the show at East River Park
east river park ˆ shadow ˆ snow
You know, listening to podcasts...
sacred geometry ˆ zometools
Home haircut!
haircut ˆ scissors ˆ sink
Then spent the afternoon with some new books! This excellent I Ching workbook...
book ˆ i ching
...is to help you keep track of the frequency of the different hexagrams you cast.
book ˆ i ching
After throwing some coins, I settled in to read the excellent and highly recommended Emergence by Barbara Marx Hubbard
book
Blueberry and Blackberry juice in equal parts...
juice
...Black & Blue Juice!
juice

Saturday, February 14th

maddy, meredith
Mer came by Saturday morning for a visit!
cuddle ˆ maddy ˆ meredith
grant
And then Grant came by in the evening. I showed him my nerd toys...
zometools ˆ grant
amanda, grant, siege
...and then we went out to Katie & Siege's to watch...
amanda ˆ grant ˆ siege
...Nic Cage in the utterly insane, Vampire's Kiss. If you haven't seen this film, do yourself a favor and watch it!
movie
grant
After the movie, we headed up to Siege's photo studio to look at photos from Grant's vasectomy.
vasectomy ˆ grant
grant
Siege wasn't shy with his lens...
vasectomy ˆ grant
grant
...and managed to catch some pretty gnarly, ballbag-clipping pics!
balls ˆ ouch ˆ vasectomy ˆ grant
grant
Thirty seconds of pain instead of eighteen years of anguish!
ouch ˆ vasectomy ˆ grant

Monday, February 16th

On Monday morning, I braved the 4-degree temperatures...
cold ˆ phone
...and walked down to Chinatown to try out a new chiropractor.
chiropractor
Electro-stim machine. My guy was away on vacation and I needed a crickin!
chiropractor
grant, vin
Met up with Grant & Vin for lunch at Tiny's Giant Sandwich shop
grant ˆ vin
caiti, cynthia, kai, siege
Later that night, I went back out to Siege & Katie's to celebrate Mardi Gras
king cake ˆ mardi gras ˆ caiti ˆ cynthia ˆ kai ˆ siege
siege
With a King Cake!
cake ˆ king cake ˆ siege
No baby in my piece!
cake ˆ king cake
caiti, kai
Kai was the lucky winner of 2015!
king cake ˆ caiti ˆ kai
astra
Much to Astra's dismay!
king cake ˆ astra
astra, katie, siege
How about a consolation tickling?
mardi gras ˆ tickle ˆ astra ˆ katie ˆ siege
astra, katie, siege
You guuuuuys!
astra ˆ katie ˆ siege

Wednesday, February 18th

Stopped on my dog-walk to admire these tree seed pods.
tree
Some kind of spiky-ball that upon closer examination was made of threads!
tree
My bike is in there somewhere!
bike ˆ snow
grant
Went down to Chinatown to say farewell to Grant...
kitchen ˆ nervous ˆ grant
grant
...and see him off to the airport!
suitcase ˆ taxi ˆ grant
grant
He was flying off to Vancouver and then South America for a few weeks! Bon voyage, Grant!
suitcase ˆ taxi ˆ grant
louis ck
Stopped on the way home through the East Village to watch them film some of Louis CK's Louie.
movie set ˆ sign ˆ louis ck

Friday, February 20th

Plant care Friday!
kitchen ˆ plants
Took care of all my guys and watered 'em real good.
kitchen ˆ plants

Saturday, February 21st

On Saturday, I was up at the Turquoise Barn with a bunch of friends for the weekend.
movie
sarah, the dude
Sarah cuddling The Dude next to the movie projector.
cuddle ˆ sarah ˆ the dude

Sunday, February 22nd

dylan, ellen, hans, jenny penny, karen, me, meredith, peter g, piper, quinn, sarah, the dude, the ktb
Group portrait from our last day at The Turquoise Barn. Happy February 2015!
best ˆ dylan ˆ ellen ˆ hans ˆ jenny penny ˆ karen ˆ me ˆ meredith ˆ peter g ˆ piper ˆ quinn ˆ sarah ˆ the dude ˆ the ktb