Pacifico and Sketchbook

Also, timbales.

Palapa Construction Revealed

 

Flora

Pods

Leaf

Louie Goes to Town on Bruce's Feet

At Casa del Puente, Puerto Vallarta, Jalicso, Mexico.

casadelpuente@yahoo.com
888-666-9540

Hi. Mollie Muir! We are so grateful for your hospitality. And your too-cute doggies.

Viaje a Mexico

Cab to SFO

Someone must alert the captain! There’s too much fuel in this craft. Screw the paperwork! It’s either that, or we’re all going to Newark.  Is that what you want?

Arriving in Mexico always makes me happy.

I liked this odd antenna-like thing that we saw on our ride into town from the airport.

And here’s a pelican at sunset.

And agua mineral.

This guy was fishing everywhere the pelican’s weren’t.  They were diving into the water all around him, coming up with fish. Didn’t see him pull anything out of the ocean.

House gecko.

Scorecard.

Oenophile Helmet

Is This Your Card?

Queen of Spades?

March Madness

From: Jason Redacted
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 10:53 AM
To: allbasf
Subject: Esprit de Corps is Challenging You to enter the NCAA Tournament Challenge

Welcome to the BASF NCAA Tournament Challenge! Compete against your friends and co-workers for bragging rights and a prize. Fill out a bracket at the link below and follow the action as the tournament progresses. You must enter by the morning of Thursday, March 15th before the first game of the Tournament.

Hi, Jason

I hope my entry isn’t too late to be considered for the competition.  These are my brackets for this year.  As you can see, one of them is curly; the other one (on the right) is square.  The curly one is pink with turquoise shading, and has been ‘bedazzled’ along its outer flank.  The square one has been 22k gold-leafed(!) which is why it’s all shiny like that.

Good luck to all who competed!

xxBruce

 

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for your entry.

Unfortunately the bracket attacked by a bedazzling gun was disqualified by NCAA officials for academic violations and the bracket out of Aziz Ansari’s typographical collection was recently beaten by Long Beach State.

We thank you for playing.  Please keep an eye out for future Esprit de Corp’s contests, such as Hunger Games: BASF Edition.

Best,

Jason


 Here it is colored in.

Notes from Breakfast with John

I think Dec 27, 2011

Candy Wrappers

It was an immaculate Lindor/Foil peel.  I don’t know where the Jolly Rancher came from.  Just showed up as floor-detritus.

Malign Yellow Sports Car

Dream Image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watercolor. First image in my new drawing book, yay, cleared that hump. 3/18/12

Raft of Ants

LIFEBOAT from Science News on Vimeo.
I was led to this video by Lynda Barry's excellent tumblr, http://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com BB sez check it outski.

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  Daniel Hayek  10 months ago

  What are we seeing here? Soem sort of organic growth in timelapse?
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  Max Tubman  10 months ago

  ants holding on to each other to form a raft i think, where they are coming from i dont know.
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  bruce bortin 9 minutes ago Delete / Edit

  Some quick-witted antologist bought a bunch of ants, then formed them into a ball. To do this, I'd imagine he (and let's face it folks, it was a 'he') smeared the inside of a tennis ball with sugar water or Mountain Dew or whatever it is that lab-ants like, let the ants out of their packaging, and waited for the ants to fill up the up the ball.
  
  He put the ant-filled ball (you understand that the ball has been bisected at its equator, hinged, and it has a 3/8" circular port cut into it to allow the ants to get in there, right?) in the fridge to stupefy the little fuckers. After about an hour or so, he got out his video camera, trained it on an under-lit tank of water, and emptied the now solid ball of ants into the water.
  
  We're watching the ants as they transform themselves from a loosely coagulated, rapidly de-hibernating sphere into a floating planar raft, with a lot of fractal-y dendritic rule-based behavior action. Isn't it pretty?

Did you watch to the end? I'm sure I don't know what "Snout Utensil" refers to. Oh fiddlesticks. Watched it. Now I know. Thanks a heap, internet.

Big Damp Hairy Blue Ball

On San Pablo near Market St. Oakland

The Week of Many Nametags

OVIPS chandelier

OVIPS photo-op.

Nametags.  OVIPS over EJS


Timeline from USF Mock Courtroom

Equal Justice Society Ceremony

at The University of San Francisco School of Law 8th Annual Creative Justice Art Show Hunger Pains.

Here’s what I showed, a watercolor called “Desk Set”, and the copy I wrote:

I do SSI advocacy outreach at methadone clinics in the city. My clients are destitute and addicted to opiates. They know from hunger; the hunger of living on food stamps (if that) compounded with the hunger of addiction.
When my clients come see me, they've just had their dose of methadone for the day. It's my belief that taking methadone probably knocks out every vitamin in your body. So when my clients come to see me, I always have a bowl of fruit on my desk. “Did you just drink some methadone? Here, have a nice piece fruit.”
This is a painting of my desk at one of the clinics with a bowl of tangerines.

Here’s the frame corner display at the framing shop that matted my painting.  Boy, they sure keep those rows straight and tidy!

BART Seat Repair

HANDS UP, WHO LOVES POP-RIVETS!  Me too.