brucine

Cortisol Dream

2012-02-06T17:15:00.001-08:00

Cashews and lines of crank on a plate in a fridge.

I am SO wearing a hat to the show.

2012-01-19T18:19:00.000-08:00

NB I'm not calling Marc Maron gay. I think I'm calling him funny & insightful. Great interview, both of you. Good on yer both.

traffic.libsyn.com/wtfpod/WTF_-_EPISODE_245_TODD_GLASS.mp3 at about 54:10

January Watercolors

2012-01-16T16:52:00.001-08:00

Cyanoacrylate Resist Blue & Ochre

Payne Grey Study

Field in crimson & ochre

Black & Blue Field

Payne Grey & India Ink

Distorted Red Field

Distorted Red Field with Silicone Squiggle

Offboard Memory

2012-01-16T16:18:00.001-08:00

Do you remember when taking a photo meant that before you could see your picture, you had to finish the roll, then take your film to the drug store, then wait a few days, then go back to the drug store and give them money, and then you got to see your pictures? I sure do. Now that photography is so cheap & easy, I use it just to remember stuff…

Don’t forget to write those checks…

What’s the restaurant that Julie thinks I should check out?

Here’s our lotto numbers!

Remote login…

Habanero Performance by Pam Benjamin

2012-01-14T10:12:00.000-08:00

Pam Benjamin sells poems for a dollar at the Civic Center farmers market in San Francisco. Here's one she wrote for me last Wednesday, 1/11/12. Thanks, Pam!

Refracted TV

2012-01-01T17:16:00.001-08:00

More here.

Xmas 2011

2012-01-01T15:33:00.000-08:00

Xmas Eve Moonset

Solstice

ODAR Santa Barbara

Sea Foam Hendry’s Beach. I like the shapes it makes. Much more here.

Kon Tiki at Night

Pismo Tree & Reflection

Bruce in Pismo. Photo by MJF

Country Kitchen, Prunedale

It Watches You

2011-12-19T08:35:00.001-08:00

Still from a mascara ad on TV.

“Animal Print” Xmas Letters

2011-12-19T08:33:00.001-08:00

Nil, Manju, ampersand, Cerina, Kum-kum, Ramona, John, Amal

Watercolor, inkjet and rollerball on paper.

Here’s the beautifully wrapped packages that Mary did. She’s so awesome!

Comma Commute

2011-12-19T08:19:00.001-08:00

I moonlight doing legal copyediting for my friend Al. I usually do this work during my commute to and from my regular job at HAP. This page collects all the times I wrote “comma” on the last five or six briefs that I worked on. I’m never sure how many peaks and valleys I put on the double-M in comma when I write it out on the bumpy train.

Here’s a painting of the comma collection. Inkjet and watercolor on paper. Hi, Al!

Mosbrucker Xmasisms

2011-12-19T08:01:00.000-08:00

Rhubarb Pie. Thanks, Cathy!

Silver pumpkin

Owl for Gayle

2011-12-19T07:56:00.000-08:00

With his buddy Penguey. “Whoooo are youuuu?”

Bringing Home the Noble Fir

2011-12-19T07:40:00.001-08:00

Technically, I’m Jewish.

Thanksgiving

2011-12-18T19:33:00.001-08:00

Commute

2011-12-18T18:28:00.001-08:00

Bell

West Oakland BART

Ad at Lake Merritt Station

Can you detect the subtle changes I made?

Mural.

Spud Photons

2011-11-12T14:35:00.001-08:00

1

2

3

4

5

6

The spud

Radiate UPS

2011-11-12T14:29:00.001-08:00

Ruthie Présente Ruthie

2011-11-12T14:14:00.001-08:00

Young Jack & Ruthie

2011-11-12T14:05:00.001-08:00

Puppet Sketches

2011-11-12T13:37:00.001-08:00

~~Not shown:~~ Bunrab

King Penguin

Moose (at the Menger Bar)

Moose

Godzilla

Triceratops

“Why did Cathy Change Seats?”

2011-11-11T22:32:00.000-08:00

“I think he has a pizza.”

Flight home from San Antonio. (Not supposed to be a picture of Cathy, or anybody in particular. Just a doodle on the airplane cocktail napkin.)

More San Antonio

2011-11-11T15:08:00.001-08:00

At the conference…

Conference lamps

Conference notes

Conference cross

That’s some carpet

Conference-goers on break

EXIT

Outside the conference…

We visited Occupy San Antonio at Hemisfair Park. Hi, protest kids!

This is a big ugly.

I Ching Gatos at the San Antonio Artwalk. They made a great sound.

Cathy and Mary at the hotel

Hotel garden.

Lone Star NOSSCR

2011-11-03T08:40:00.001-07:00

At the Menger Bar, 10/31/11

At the Alamo

At Session #2

San Antonio

2011-11-02T08:08:00.001-07:00

Dinner at the Salt Grass Restaurant on the Riverwalk Monday

Prickly Pears at the Alamo

Rules of Common Courtesy at the mall

Lizard

Bug

The Texas Memorial Feynman Diagram Table

The Menger Mirror

Teresa Champion. Hi, Boss!

Transformers

White Wings

Bruce at Dona Maria lunch Tuesday. Photo by MJ Foran

Map of Spain

2011-10-27T17:00:00.000-07:00

From Staff Meeting
Ex coll. L Chiera

Photon Paintings

2011-10-26T19:06:00.000-07:00

Photons 1a

Photons 1b

Photons 1c

Photons 1d

Big Photons 3

Grey and Red on Green

Polychrome 1

Missing Photon ex coll. C Mosbrucker

Camo 1

Nine Grey

Twenty-Five Fuzzy Ones

Painting using new brush

2011-10-17T10:36:00.001-07:00

I love watercolors

Figures & Watercolors

2011-10-16T19:42:00.001-07:00

Anybody want to check my arithmetic?

Jumpin'

2011-10-16T18:31:00.000-07:00

Mary was frying some Canadian bacon the other day. It was cheeky. While it cooked, it made these loud popping noises, and it jumped in the pan.

...then on my way to work, I passed this wig abandoned in a doorway on 17th Street. For some reason, my mind wanted to impose the bacon's behavior on the wig.

There you go.

___________________________________________________________________

I had to record this to make the popping sounds for the animations above. A rare behind-the-scenes glimpse at the dark underside of the creative process.

...and here's a live-action video of the miracle bacon in action

Bruce at Lunch

2011-10-14T12:22:00.000-07:00

Joe Moon is a Meth Head Piece of Shit!

2011-10-14T11:17:00.000-07:00

YOU ARE HERE
"HERE" is the bus stop outside Ward 93.

Spider Web

2011-10-14T08:19:00.000-07:00

24th St at Folsom. I really like my Friday walk down 24th Street.

Fun-Dip also Funyuns

2011-10-12T20:02:00.000-07:00

On BART. ~10-year-old boy was hoovering through snackfoods. Then he turned to his mom and started pulling the most hilarious faces. Everybody on the train was trying not to laugh.

Chaldron

2011-10-11T17:30:00.000-07:00

After Chronic City

A Trip to the Vet

2011-10-10T16:37:00.000-07:00

She’s doing much better now. Thanks, Dr. Atid.

Pedicure

2011-10-09T16:45:00.001-07:00

Mary took me out for a pedicure for our anniversary. I’d never been. Lord knows my feet could use some attention. My operator, Cindy, met what must have been quite a challenge with good humor.

Before:

This is in the iridescent foot-tub where you soak your feet while sitting in your spa-chair. Don’t worry, you can ask them to turn off the massage feature on your spa-chair. There was lots of cutting and filing and pushing and scraping and much abrasive scrubbing. All in all, it was a little more sensation than I’m comfortable with.

After:

So smooth! So pampered! My feet can’t believe that they’re a part of me anymore. “What,” they wonder, “are we doing carrying this fat slob around?”

Afterward we went out to Los Cantaros for a bite. I like stucco the wall outside when the light’s right.

Crumple

2011-10-08T16:17:00.001-07:00

Ruthie in Repose

2011-10-08T16:16:00.001-07:00

My, she does that well.

Light Cross

2011-10-08T16:14:00.001-07:00

Morning sunlight reflects off the horizontal bar, is refracted through the vertical pendulum. Here’s how it looks on the wall opposite.

Nice Splash

2011-10-08T16:09:00.001-07:00

Graffiti on 14th St. at Franklin, Oakland. Detail of…

Across the Street from the GA Office

2011-10-08T15:58:00.001-07:00

Russian –Criminal- Tattoo

Encyclopaedia Volume 1

HISTORY

2011-10-08T15:56:00.001-07:00

Market Street near 9th, SF

ROAR IRATE

2011-10-07T16:38:00.000-07:00

viz. here

October 6, 2011

2011-10-06T16:00:00.000-07:00

Candles with Hammerhead Shark. Happy Anniversary, Sweetie!

10-5-11

2011-10-05T17:22:00.000-07:00

H.S.T.I.C.N.T.I.A

2011-10-03T12:06:00.001-07:00

Having scanned this I can now throw it away.

True Story

2011-10-01T20:06:00.001-07:00

Walking back to HAP from the BAART Clinic the other day, I stopped in a liquor store, got a banana. I’d finished it by the time I’d walked down 9th Street to Mission. There’s a trash can on that corner, so that’s where I went with the peel.
Parked at that same corner, lights flashing, was a cop car. As I approached the trash can, I saw that I wasn’t alone there. Two cops, who had obviously just intercepted some open containers on the street, were there, emptying a half-pint each of vodka and rum into the trash can, just as I tossed in my banana peel.
”Looks like we’re making a banana-trash daiquiri,” I quipped. “Cocktail time!”
They didn’t respond.

Update 10/7/11: The large turgid cocktail shaker has been removed by the city. There goes my plan to make garbage-tinis for the neighborhood.

Where the trash can used to be.

What I Know

2011-10-01T16:45:00.001-07:00

Alice St near 14th, Oakland

Fish Mystery

2011-10-01T16:36:00.001-07:00

On Fridays, I walk down 24th street to get to my gig at Ward 93 at San Francisco General. There’s a restaurant called La Parrilla at 24th & Folsom, and they always have their specials, covered in saran wrap, displayed in their window.
Thing is, it always looks exactly the same. I’ve never been able to tell whether it’s real food that they're showing, or cunningly wrought plastic models of food, and they change the saran wrap every once in a while so it doesn’t start to look all dingy. I’ve been especially concerned about the fish, because, even if they fix a new one every morning, who would want to eat fish that’s been sitting out in a window all day?

So I took a picture last Friday…

…and another yesterday, and guess what!

Two different items entirely. It’s totally fish. Here’s what it looks like on their website.

LP Specials/Especiales / 156. TILAPIA (Mojarra)
Served with Rice, Beans, Tortillas and Salsa
$13.95

Looks good. Mystery solved. But I think I’ll have the torta de pollo instead, gracias.

Dragon for Jesse

2011-10-01T16:15:00.001-07:00

Flood Building, as seen from EDC/RADCO

2011-10-01T16:13:00.001-07:00

Boldoni G

2011-09-26T10:03:00.001-07:00

Tats

2011-09-26T09:45:00.001-07:00

Work

2011-09-26T09:11:00.001-07:00

SLUMP

2011-09-18T21:11:00.001-07:00

Ruthie in her Cube

2011-09-18T21:03:00.001-07:00

Automatic Drawing

2011-09-17T17:56:00.001-07:00

Ruthie’s been investigating that bad orange kitty’s access to our deck.

She really wants to explore, and we’re not sure that she’d ever find her way back (bless her heart). So I went to Ace Hardware today, looking for some way to secure the deck. I got this polyethylene gutter-guard stuff. I was there on my bike. The cashier at Ace didn’t have a red flag that I could tie to the stuff for safety on the way home, but he gave me a pink piece of paper, and let me use his masking tape.

By the time I got home, a drawing had happened.

That was easy.

Light Stripe

2011-09-12T21:42:00.001-07:00

Re-Landscaping at 90 7th Street

2011-09-12T21:37:00.001-07:00

They’ve been tilling the gravel at Federal Plaza. Readying the ground for a community cannabis plot, no doubt.

What are those 2-D barcodes called, anyways

2011-09-12T21:26:00.001-07:00

A QR code (abbreviated from Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or two-dimensional code) first designed for the automotive industry. More recently, the system has become popular outside of industry due to its fast readability and comparatively large storage capacity. The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background. The information encoded can be made up of any kind of data (e.g. binary, alphanumeric, or Kanji symbols)^[1].
Created by Toyota subsidiary Denso Wave in 1994, the QR code is one of the most popular types of two-dimensional barcodes. The QR code was designed to allow its contents to be decoded at high speed.^[2]
The technology has seen frequent use in Japan and South Korea; the United Kingdom is the seventh-largest national consumer of QR codes.^[3]

^{Thanks, wikipedia.}

On 9 Ag I tweeted:
"Shut your face, code brain.”
I think that's something like something I might have thought I heard on TV.
On 12 September, I saw this on the BART platform->

Cleanser

2011-09-12T21:10:00.001-07:00

I don’t know why, but I really prefer the kind of cleanser that turns blue when it gets wet. I just get the feeling that it’s doing more than the ones that don’t change color.

Color Study from Red Dog

2011-09-11T20:59:00.000-07:00

...and painted.

Weekend at the Ranch

2011-09-11T15:23:00.000-07:00

Oy.

We cooked,

we ate,

we hiked with stemware,

we drank, we picked the grapes.

Tuesday, 8/30/11 Barcelona—Toronto—SFO—Oakland

2011-09-05T18:06:00.001-07:00

KROK

Necropolis on the way to the airport. Where the dead saints and TV sets live.

Don’t get me started about the tsuris we experienced at the airport in Toronto. It was dehumanizing. Also pants. Also naff. Also egregious.

It was Soviet, is what it was. It was like trying to clear customs in Bucharest in 1985. Screw you, TSA. Fuck you. I mean it. Stasi couldn’t have done it better.

Here’s all the stuff that we brought back for people. Sorry if we didn’t get anything for you. We suck at shopping.

Monday 8/29/11 Barcelona

2011-09-05T17:36:00.001-07:00

This is on the mellow alternative Rambla that Mary found.

Carrer de Fernando Poo.

Beach at Poble Nou

Mary with her new frames. Just this side of superhero styling.

Honest to God, Tom. We really tried to go here. They were closed. Twice.

Odd dihedral arch structure.

Farewell, offhandedly funky & beautiful Gothic Quarter

Farewell, beautiful hotel room with your unused minibar. Farewell, desk where I made this:

Adieu, panorama from the roof bar.

Hello, aggressively bizarre food!

"Fine chopped cod ravioli with hummus, mushrooms and tomatoes (unit)"

Sunday 8/28/11 Barcelona

2011-09-05T16:45:00.001-07:00

St George probably.

Baby Jesus again. That’s not a rabbit pelt, is it?
Hope he didn’t flay Easter Bun.

Poseidon and Crewe.

Poseidon’s logo.

Dragon lantern at Pla de la Boqueria

Hostal Paris, where we stayed in 1991. God, I’d like a Fortuna Mentolado.

Santa Teresa at the Barcelona Cathedral. Hi, Boss!

Catalunyan creche-shitters.

Roman wall at the Barcelona Historical Museum.

Saturday, 6/27/11. L’Escala, Figueres, Barcelona

2011-09-05T16:23:00.001-07:00

Leaving L’Escala. The sister refuels car “Jumpy”

L’Escala is the anchovy capital of the inner solar system, at least.

Leaving France. Mary and car “Jumpy”.

Mary enjoys a complimentary glass of bubbly on the roof-bar at the Hotel Duquesa De Cardona.

View from the roof of the Hotel Duquesa De Cardona. I can’t imagine what the Baby Jesus is dangling unto the world.

The beach at Barcelonetta. We had a drink and a snack, talked to a nice local couple who implored us not to tip at restaurants and bars.

View from the restaurant-boat Luz de Gas.

Really enjoyed having the watercolors on this trip.

Friday, 8/26/11 L’Escala

2011-09-05T15:33:00.001-07:00

Flags over Luna Park. I don’t know what was up with me that day. It was an amusement park that we took the girls to, and I got exactly zero pictures of anything fun. Well, here’s Mary & Meg at the attached bar/café, but, seriously. They had European whack-a-mole and skee-ball, and the girls were running around having a great time and hitting us up for a few more Euros…

There was a sudden intense downpour which cleared the air, and somehow resulted in another take-out chicken dinner, yum.

Thursday 8/25/11 L’Escala

2011-09-05T15:16:00.001-07:00

Flowered bushes at the parking spot

Fink Store. I don’t really speak European, but I’m willing to take a stab at the general meaning of things.

Petrocat—on the road to L’Estartit

Glass-bottomed boat

From the boat

Mary sails the wine-dark sea

Odd clamlike things under water

Those blurry black spots might be small fish

This is what the above-the-surface world looked like to my camera with its white-balance still set to underwater.

Port de L’Estartit

Clouds

Weather coming in

Wednesday 8/24/11 L’Escala

2011-09-05T14:39:00.001-07:00

L’Escala beach early in the morning

Mary at the lesbian Café

On the road to Sant Marti. The reason I was able to take all these on-the-road pictures is because Meg did all the driving, which was a huge relief to me, and she was such a good sport about it. Thanks, Meg!

Sant Marti grafitti

Ecclesiastical sculpture outside a 14th century church

MB photographs les filles

Danger, jellyfish!

The beach at Sant Marti

Wine at the beach bar.

Tarantula

MB at El Pollo Espensivo

Tuesday, 8/23/11

2011-09-05T11:48:00.001-07:00

Weird breakfast place at L’Escala beach

Lunch at the waterpark

Les Filles at the waterpark

Monday 8/22/11 L’Escala

2011-09-05T11:38:00.001-07:00

Dang. Forgot camera all day long. Maybe Meg will send me some pix. The Greek and Roman ruins were quite spectacular. A beautiful botanical garden was interspersed with the forum and the agora and the partially restored mosaics and everything.

On the road to Sant Marti.

Ruins of Empúries

“The ruins of the Greek and Roman city of Empúries are near to the summer resort of l'Escala. Three different civilizations settled here, the Indigetes, the Greeks and the Romans. It is the only Greek city west of Italy that can be seen more or less as it used to be due to the fact that it has been excavated intensively. Part of the immense sea-wall of the old Greek port can still be seen. The remains of the Greco-Roman city cover an area of 40 hectares and are the archaeological site most visited in Catalonia. Its privileged situation made Empúries the gateway chosen by the Greeks to the peninsula as well as witness of the arrival of the Olympic flame for the Games in Barcelona 1992.”

Photo & text by Javier Alvarez

Sunday 8/21/11 L’Escala

2011-09-05T11:19:00.001-07:00

Djeneba on her way to the beach

Check out the whimsical tortoise sculpture on somebody’s wall.

The beach at L’Escala

Saturday 8/20/11 Barcelona-Figures-L’Escala

2011-09-05T11:00:00.001-07:00

Figueres Train Station

Les filles: Diane, Djeneba & Leah

Beautiful house in L’Escala. Many more photos here.

View from the villa.

The two chimneys kinda remind me of Philip Guston's hooded klan figures--

8/19, actually/11 Barcelona

2011-09-05T08:26:00.001-07:00

I was on vacation. My dates got away from me. Oops.

Sagrada Familia. Line around the block not shown.

Pleasant shaded park across from the cathedral

Nice display of construction handtools

Mary coyly models the world’s ugliest fan at La Pedrera. Many more La Pedrera photos here.

Our beautiful room at the Hotel Condes, which we were sorry to have to leave. Que lastima.

8/18/11 Barcelona

2011-09-04T17:45:00.001-07:00

Jamon con tiny Umbrellas

Batllo at Dawn

Batllo

Batllo Tour Photos. Nice windows, amazing sculptural tile work. That sink really pissed me off, though. More Batllo photos here.

Mary in the market at the maraschino cherry booth.
Hi, Tom’s grandfather!

Lunch at El Glop

That’s Mary’s reflection in the tabletop.

Looks like some kind of salad. Check the bread with olive oil & crushed tomatoes. Nice cast glass plate!

8/17/11 Barcelona

2011-09-04T10:28:00.000-07:00

Launch Window--preflight dream

Dawn over Iberia

This leaf fell on me during lunch

Energy Bar Soap. Better soap than snack.

Mary at the Tapies museum

La Pedrera from the Hotel Condes roof-bar

8/16/11 First Leg—Taking Ruthie to Cathy & Judy’s ‘Oliday Camp

2011-09-04T04:04:00.000-07:00

Fire behind SF General--from cab

Frankie wonders WTF?

Sammie concurs

Cathy made awesome dumpling stew. Way to go, Cathy! Thanks!

packing list

2011-08-15T15:48:00.001-07:00

Hammerhead Brucie Jr

2011-08-14T22:45:00.000-07:00

For Gayle Lynne

My Drunk Ironchef Kitchen

2011-08-14T22:42:00.000-07:00

Pillar with Rebar Ghosts

2011-08-13T17:18:00.000-07:00

There's a new building going up at the corner of 17th and Harrison. They just did the first story pillars. I like the way you can see the way the concrete flowed around the rebar as it was poured into the form.

Ruthie on her Box

2011-08-13T17:06:00.001-07:00

¡Que viva 67Sueños!

2011-08-11T14:11:00.000-07:00

Here's the part of the mural that I filled in over lunch today. Photo by Pancho.

... and here's how the mural looked at the end of that day...

On the HAP Fire Escape

2011-08-09T13:05:00.001-07:00

Photo by Kitane Folk

Meghan, Ted J, Margaret, Julie, Susie, Katie, Ted W, Bruce, Carlos, Suman, Laura J, Faisa, Jessica, Sarah, Ilyana

I'm a bit troubled by the iconography of this photo. Totally unintentional. Makes me wonder whether I'm long for this world.

Palms -- BART Drawing

2011-08-08T18:16:00.000-07:00

Grafwall

2011-08-08T18:11:00.000-07:00

Ref this

Blossoms

2011-08-08T18:05:00.000-07:00

On 17th St, Oakland

Mary's Birthday Party

2011-08-08T18:04:00.000-07:00

Dave, Cathy, Amy

Cast of upper teeth July 2011

2011-08-06T21:36:00.000-07:00

That chipped molar. Cast by Rincon Dental.
More images here

Rhizopus Nigricans

2011-08-01T12:07:00.000-07:00

Bread

2011-08-01T12:04:00.000-07:00

Trumpetvine Macros

2011-08-01T12:03:00.000-07:00

Mr Shinypate

2011-07-29T08:19:00.000-07:00

later...

Yahrtzeit

2011-07-25T20:09:00.000-07:00

weird alien brain lamp shadow

2011-07-24T15:31:00.000-07:00

Watercolor 2

2011-07-24T15:29:00.001-07:00

Watercolor 1

2011-07-24T15:28:00.001-07:00

Watercolor 4

2011-07-24T15:22:00.000-07:00

Watercolor 3

2011-07-24T15:20:00.000-07:00

7/23/11
I got kind of spry with the watercolors last night.