Paint & Collage

Analglyph that shit. Looks like some kind of bio process

“Stripes” drawing.

Combined

Dicotyledon Toilet Brush

With window reflections.  Some design-y place on the same block as House of Pain 450 Sutter. I hate to speculate what you're supposed to clean with the little one.

Timmins and Katey at Costco

Talking Mezuzah (Something I’m Working On)

Early mezuzah sketch with Shin. Bad design, disregard.
Needs work.  Hi, Kenton! (Kenton has expressed interest in helping me with the electronics.)

You approach the house.  Kiss the first two fingers of your right hand and touch them to the mezuzah on the doorpost. It's in the shape of a human mouth, crafted from soft, pliant silicone plastic.  A touch-sensitive pressure switch activates a circuit which plays back two audio files through a speaker, hidden behind the mezuzah's lips.

1. Voice of your favorite Tzaddik*:  [whispered] "Shaddai"
2. Your mother's voice: [maybe a little bit shrill] "Ugh, that thing is all fershmutzik, covered with other peoples' germs! Get inside and wash your hands this instant! Wait! Wipe your feet! You'd think you were brought up in a barn."

*...and for an extra $19.99 per year, you can upgrade to Mezuzah Platinum with exclusive Tzaddik only service.

…so we’re going to need voice talent.  I’m thinking of rebbe Bauer for the Tzaddik.  The Jewish mother?  Well, Babs is gone, and that’s a shame.  But Meg is a Jewish Mother.  As is Andrea. And her mom, Vivian.  And, recently arguably Kenton’s mom Ann.  And Ann Pereles. Who am I forgetting? Marni? Oma? Lynne-Rachel!  And perhaps Peter could be a second Tzaddik.  Mustn't rule out the possibility of a Tzaddikin voice, as well.


Working drawing. What the circuitry does

 
There's a blue LED which fades on and off every three seconds or so.


Here's how it might look in action.

5/13 12 Whoa—This Prior Art just in from the Holy Land:

Guess what Dude Illigence just bought!

Also, here’s our first customer:

A Day at the Museums

 
I love the Exploratorium.  I went there with Andrea to help out with her graphic transplant booth at the Swap-o-rama-rama. I mostly just did a science-buddy nostalgia walkabout--

Hi, Jim!

Hi, Bruce!
Text and audio from www.ybca.org/nathalie-talec, video is Exploratorium's cloud chamber. I love that cloud chamber.  I could spend all day watching that stuff. 



I sat in on as much of Nathalie-Talec’s conversation as I could.  For the life of me, I couldn’t tell whether she was addressing male exploration of the poles a hundred years ago, or contemporary feminist art practice. Whatever it was, it seemed like the bunkus to me.  I kept on looking around the room trying to catch the eye of anybody else at the talk to signal a WTF? with my eyebrows, but they were all entirely engrossed.

Learning to Love the Smudge

The Area

I’ve been having this intermittent, not related to anything that I can discern, funny tingly feeling sort of to the right of my pupik. Wonder what that’s about.

The Puerto Vallarta Botanical Gardens

Lovely site.  Visionary with followthrough.  Highly recommended.
  
Oh, look! They have a restaurant!
    
Bugs


 
Flora. 


 
Swimmin’ hole




Pollywogs

El Palacio del Rey del Maíz en la Mazorca Asado en un Palillo

 

Boca de Tomatlan

Off-Leash

I made a few purchases yesterday while the womenfolk were indisposed. Most of this stuff will be glued to Tom’s helmet, maybe.



Magnetic! Kinetic! Frog, armadillo, cowboy on burro, caterpillar, tortoise





Kinetic! Grasshopper, octopus, grasshopper, wasp.

Other stuff I bought, at the hardware store.

Butter

My Flamboyant Laundrette

Boca

Gin Rummy Under a Palapa. Photo by Cathy Mosbrucker

 

Bruce, Mary, Cathy.  Photo by some nice lady from Seattle

 

Skarch sparkling mineral water.  Because what could be more fortuitous than pouring gas into Bruce?

 

View from our table

 

Palapa Frame

 

Palapa construction with cute puppy. Photo by Cathy Mosbrucker

 

Shark Thing

 

Rio Tomatlan

Crazy Blue Cantilevered Moon-Viewing Pavilion

Sketch made after first sighting


On the road from Puerto Vallarta to Mismaloya and Boca. Photos and video were taken out the window of the bus.






Moon viewing pavilion footage (rare)




Puerto Vallarta to Boca de Tomatlan with Pavilion




Here it is.