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August, 2016

The August Roundup

Here are all the pics I took in August 2016 that didn't end up in their own entry

Monday, August 1st

Spent Monday watching hours of vids on Randy Powell's Intro to Vortex Based Mathematics.
drawing ˆ math ˆ vortex ˆ wtf
If you're not using the internet to look at really weird and confusing shit, YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
video ˆ vortex
I love finding all the weird things online people are making to collaborate.
vortex
phyllotaxis
As much as this might look like fuckery, the vortex-based math stuff is interesting because it does a good job of explaining the shape of sub-atomic space and why matter looks and acts the way it does! (Including phyllotaxis, how plants grow and take shape!)
vortex ˆ phyllotaxis
And if that wasn't enough of a mind-melter...
puppet ˆ tv ˆ wtf
...then I followed up by watching...
puppet ˆ tv ˆ wtf
...the super-trippy....
puppet ˆ tv ˆ wtf

Tuesday, August 2nd

Watched the mindblowing, Evan Grant: Making Sound Visible Through Cymatics. Cymatics is the study of how vibration affects matter. Here you can see a virus, on the left, that looks very similar to a shape made by sound.
cymatics
Here you can see how a snowflake water crystal is similar to another "sound shape."
cymatics
Here you can see a starfish next to a starfish-shaped sound. The idea that "the word of god vibrated the universe into existence," is a lot more profound that many people realize!
cymatics
I feel like we should spend a lot more time covering things like this in our formative education years.
cymatics ˆ video
Decided to hit the streets and do a lil shopping in the neighborhood! Stopped off at Stromboli from a two-slice combo...
pizza
...then exploded some noggins at the St. Marks smoke shop by buying the mac-daddy cadillac of marked-up weed smoking technology! My first Volcano broke after eighteen months of HEAVY use - but a small price to pay to keep my lungs (relatively) gunk free!
volcano
Actually, I stand corrected. This hand-blown DRAGON BOWL is the one more-expensive item in their store. Pretty sweet, though. $749.99? WORTH IT!
art ˆ bong ˆ dragon ˆ nyc ˆ weed ˆ wtf
maddy
Got home to find this one making her "take me for a walk" face. Haha.
maddy
Garden looking pretty!
garden ˆ la plaza cultural
New greenhouse shed.
la plaza cultural ˆ shed
My neighbor working on a portrait...
drawing ˆ la plaza cultural
...of Rhianna.
drawing
wand
Came home to water my plants and do some self-reiki
crystal ˆ hand ˆ wand
david k
Screenshotted this old IKAD gem from my 30th birthday party for someone.
blow job ˆ happy ˆ laugh ˆ monkey ˆ david k
Spent the night playing guitar...
computer ˆ guitar ˆ living room
...and tracking a new song!
garageband

Wednesday, August 3rd

me
Rocking my (deer dana) Edie shirt from a million years ago!
edie ˆ mirror ˆ shirt ˆ me
Went rock shopping and bought my very first TEKTITE rock! Tektite are made of unique elements NOT FOUND ON PLANET EARTH, because they are formed when meteorite impact with the earth and fuse non-earth elements with stuff on earth. Here is a piece of tektite called Moldavite (because it was made when a meteor hit Moldova about 15 million years ago).
moldavite ˆ rocks ˆ tektite
Also got this pre-rolled jay as a gift from California...
doober ˆ joint
...it was rolled in honey & kief! Whoa!
doober ˆ joint

Thursday, August 4th

Headed home from around the park!
door
Laudanum bottles with all seeing eye.
masonic
Cool to see when the labeling...
flower ˆ la plaza cultural
...matches the product.
flower ˆ la plaza cultural
next lev kev
Had a late night reiki party with Kev!
vapor ˆ next lev kev
We got Sunny Annie Deli sandwiches late night. Oh yeah, the 2013 is still my jam.
sandwich

Friday, August 5th

maddy
Morning cuddles with light-bulb head!
bed ˆ maddy
me
Sat down to a...
me
Thai lunch mega-feast while gorging my eyes...
food ˆ thai food
...on the last season of Damages.
tv
treat
Peanut Butter Bomb cake slice for dessert, omg.
cake ˆ dessert ˆ food ˆ peanut butter ˆ treat

Saturday, August 6th

Saturday was the day of my 40th birthday party! (2 days in advance of my actual birthday). Spent the morning...
bedroom ˆ door ˆ e9th apt
...hanging this neato "nature mural" on the inside wall of my bedroom.
mural
maddy
The hardest part of installation was finding room to unfurl all the sections in a Manhattan apt!
hallway ˆ mural ˆ maddy
Ta-da!
bedroom ˆ mural
Very nice to wake up to in the morning!
bedroom ˆ feet ˆ mural
My new loft-less bedroom is coming along nicely!
bed ˆ e9th apt
Got an afternoon rainshower, but otherwise perfect party weather!
e9th apt ˆ east village

Monday, August 8th

mom
On my 40th birthday, I woke up to the best gift I could ask for: A text from my mother, who is learning how to text. This means that I receive excellent (and cryptic!) texts like:

"HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY!
wow, still cannot believe
it...
you and Curtis Jackson
50 cents share the date

talk to you later...

XOX

" I read this outloud and it makes me laugh every single time. Who knew my mom was such a fan?
birthday ˆ phone ˆ text ˆ wtf ˆ mom
me
40 years old and in the best shape of my life! Did my afternoon exercises and took a few birthday flex-down selfies for the record!
mirror ˆ me
me
One last pic before it all falls apart!
gun show ˆ me

Tuesday, August 9th

Spent the afternoon whiteboarding with a startup client that had recently closed a round of funding. I ask people questions about their business and draw a map while we talk! They usually look something like this!
flux capacity ˆ whiteboard
On the way home I stopped at Ray's Candy Store for an order of beignets.
rays candy
From an era that is not-so-slowly disappearing.
east village ˆ rays candy ˆ sign

Wednesday, August 10th

Went to the Essentia showroom to try out a new mattress that Grant was going to get me a hook-up on!
bed ˆ mattress ˆ shopping
While I was in midtown I stopped by Koreatown to TREAT MYSELF to a bi bim bab feast. Ugh. (Just captioning this photo is going to make me have to go there tonight now. Fuck).
food ˆ korean food
Later that evening I went to Webster hall to see Piebald...
band ˆ sign
me, vin
...with this guy.
band ˆ me ˆ vin
Owel.
band
You're A Part of It Tour.
band ˆ sign
It was Andy's birthday and we all got to sing him happy birthday. Awww.
band ˆ birthday ˆ candles
Excellent show. Fun to hear this album 10 years later.
band
Travis even crowd-surfed! Lol. Great show.
band ˆ stage dive
Came home feeling inspired recorded a few of my own lil' diddies.
guitar ˆ mic

Thursday, August 11th

Woke up the next morning and laid some hot LIXX over the rhythm tracks I'd laid down in the wee hours of the previous night!
guitar
maddy
Maddy made a wiener bud.
dogs ˆ maddy

Sunday, August 14th

Got back from my trip to Maine! Meredith came over bearing gifts from...
food
our "exchange program." I give her my vaporized weed leftovers and she uses them to make....
weed
...pot butter and then makes baked goods!
brownie
Spent the afternoon reading books I bought during my trip to visit the Wilhelm Reich museum in Maine.
book
This one too!
book ˆ cartoons ˆ drawing
Lots of great cartoons by William Steig!
book ˆ cartoons ˆ drawing
I took some pics of the ones that spoke to me.
book ˆ cartoons ˆ drawing
Watched the animated version of Watership Down
tv
Sometimes it's time to leave the warren!
tv
pop pop
Going through old pics and I found this great pic of my dad's father taken while he was on an island in the Pacific Theater in WWII. Check out the cute pup on his lap.
dogs ˆ nostalgia ˆ pop pop
amanda, david lionmane
Went over to Amanda's for Sunday night hangs with David & David!
amanda ˆ david lionmane
Late night ice cream treat back at home!
ice cream

Monday, August 15th

grant, phoebe l
On Monday we played hooky and took Grant's friend Phoebe, who was visiting from Vancouver, to the beach!
beach ˆ grant ˆ phoebe l
grant, phoebe l
G-Sto showing off the picnic connection.
beach ˆ picnic ˆ grant ˆ phoebe l
grant, phoebe l
We got our beach tent all set up...
beach ˆ grant ˆ phoebe l
...and unpacked all our beach treats!
beach ˆ food ˆ picnic ˆ treats
grant, me, phoebe l
One for the books, for sure!
beach ˆ fort tilden ˆ rockaway beach ˆ tent ˆ grant ˆ me ˆ phoebe l

Tuesday, August 16th

Spent Tuesday whiteboarding with the founders of a Startup called Preo!
flux capacity ˆ preo ˆ whiteboard ˆ work
wilhelm reich
Came back home to pick up my Wilhelm reading...
book ˆ wilhelm reich
...and took care of my kitchen plants
kitchen ˆ plants

Thursday, August 18th

Was out in Greenpoint on Thursday. Marveled at how much things have changed out there!
buildings
View of Manhattan from the water's edge.
fence
Paul Richard's drip-paintings are neato!
art ˆ painting ˆ sidewalk
Walking around, I noticed a lot of really great graffiti.
graffiti
Cool cartoony stuff....
graffiti
....some photo-realistic...
graffiti ˆ mural
...and some wtf! Sleeping on the clit?
graffiti ˆ wtf
me
Spent my evening hanging in La Plaza
garden ˆ la plaza cultural ˆ me

Friday, August 19th

maddy
Had the day off on Friday! Played some guitar and read another excellent book on etheric body by Master Choa Kok Sui!
book ˆ couch ˆ guitar ˆ mirror ˆ maddy
jeet, maddy
Later that evening, Gurj came over for a hang...
e9th apt ˆ jeet ˆ maddy
jeet, meredith
...and we went up to visit Meredith...
jeet ˆ meredith
...and eat a Middle Eastern feast!
food
me
I stayed up playing guitar in my undies...
guitar ˆ mirror ˆ me
...and watching a documentary about a bunch of old school blues guitar players who apparently sold their SOUL TO THE DEVIL! I love their names: Johnny Shines....
tv
...and Honeyboy Edwards!
tv

Saturday, August 20th

me
Played some MORE GUITAR in the morning and then....
guitar ˆ me
...got my chant-on for an hour or so! (Padmasambhava's VAJRA ARMOR!)
mantra
jeet
Later that afternoon, I met up with Jeet and we headed to Chinatown First we did some messy shop exploring!
chinatown ˆ jeet
Then headed over to Nom Wah...
chinatown ˆ dim sum ˆ restaurant
jeet
...for dim sum!
chinatown ˆ dim sum ˆ food ˆ jeet
jeet
Afterwards, we went over to FOOT HEAVEN for footsie rubs!
chinatown ˆ massage ˆ jeet
Later that night I met up with Grant over at the Slipper Room...
burlesque ˆ slipper room
cheeky
...so we could see Cheeky perform.
burlesque ˆ slipper room ˆ cheeky
maddy
Came home late to find lil buddy cuddling my book.
maddy

Saturday, August 20th

Felt cute. Might post on the internet in 3 years, idk!
Spent most of Sunday playing guitar and working on my songwriting!
Here's a screenshot from my little audio sketchbook. Almost up to 500 recordings in the latest batch!
Spent a whole bunch of time singing to Padmasambhava...
...and visualizing this beautiful Mahakala mandala.
mandala

Monday, August 22nd

On Monday I had lunch in La Plaza...
la plaza cultural
...and tried to write lyrics for a song I was working on! (Music comes easily to me but the words are so much harder!)
songwriting
I like to have a process. After working out lyrics on paper, I try to commit them to a final digital copy when they're done!
songwriting
next lev kev
Kevin came over for reiki and an empanada feast!
e9th apt ˆ empanadas ˆ food ˆ next lev kev

Tuesday, August 23rd

Went into Voray to help with some product work on Tuesday!
flux capacity ˆ voray ˆ whiteboard ˆ work
vin
Spent the evening hanging out with this guy.
couch ˆ guitar ˆ vin
hank battjer
Burned some late night candles...
candles ˆ hank battjer
hank battjer
....for Hank!
hank battjer

Wednesday, August 24th

leilei
Met up with Leilei on Wednesday for lunch and life catchup!
food ˆ phone ˆ salad ˆ leilei
david k
Afterwardsi, I stopped in to visit the Mayor of Mott Street, seen here celebrating the arrival of a new bag of dish sponges. Happy day!
box ˆ excited ˆ robe ˆ david k
Also got this great (and super-weird) new book on Ceremonial Magic Rituals by Alejandro Jodorowski (the film maker who made The Holy Mountain, among others!) (And who kind of looks a bit like David in the photo above!)
book ˆ magic ˆ masonic

Saturday, August 27th

maddy, meredith
Caught Meredith and Maddy cuddling on the couch on Saturday morning.
blanket ˆ couch ˆ maddy ˆ meredith
She made up blueberry pancake breakfast...
breakfast ˆ food ˆ pancakes
meredith
...and then we took Maddy to East River Park for a long walk!
east river park ˆ meredith
They have a shipping container they use to all the bikes they use to teach people to ride bikes and it's covered with great chalk drawings.
art ˆ drawing ˆ east river park
Always wear your shark helmet.
drawing ˆ east river park
matt
Later in the afternoon, I met up with Matt for a schvitz at the Russian Baths
russian baths ˆ matt

Sunday, August 28th

cheeky, grant
On Sunday I went out to Rockaway Beach....
beach ˆ cheeky ˆ grant
cheeky, grant, me
...with Grant & Cheeky.
beach ˆ cheeky ˆ grant ˆ me
Came back home and played some guitar!
guitar
Picked up a vape cartridge...
vape
...and ordered up a Thai feast!
jack d
Started watching Crazy Ex Girlfriend on Netflix. So excited to see Jack Dolgen's songs getting some love! ;)
jack d

Monday, August 29th

Spent Monday watching this awesome documentary on the Bhavachakra

Tuesday, August 30th

Got an awesome email from LeagueApps' CEO that the company had just broken the daily transaction record for the 3rd Monday in a row. Nothing more satisfying to me than helping a startup company grow!
email ˆ flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ work
Headed into Preo in the afternoon to help their CEO map out a plan for the next month...
flux capacity ˆ preo ˆ whiteboard ˆ work
...with the rest of their team in Bogata.
flux capacity ˆ laptop ˆ preo ˆ work

Wednesday, August 31st

The very next day I got ANOTHER email from LeagueApps' CEO that they'd just broken the transaction record AGAIN! (I'm still working with LeagueApps 3 years later and I'm happy to report that in September of this year, we hit the milestone of the BILLIONTH dollar transacted on their platform!) All those almost-million dollar days add-up!
email ˆ flux capacity ˆ leagueapps ˆ work
Spent the afternoon watching some crazy videos on ceremonial magick (which have all since been deleted by Youtube. Booooo)
magic ˆ video

Wednesday, August 31st

My new living room speaker arrived on Wednesday!
packaging
Unpacked and set up! Love the way it looks and sounds. Happy August 2016!
living room ˆ speaker

2 comments

  • jbdecember 13, 2019

    Way better than IG, man! Glad to see that you're still posting to the ol'blog

  • anonynonfebruary 16, 2020

    If you changed the mouth, that Rhianna drawing could be of Leigh