OK. So I floated a camping trailer to the middle of Lake Ladoga.
It was pretty funny. Camp Tipsy was super fun. The lovely and talented Anja took photos.
http://anja-ulfeldt-photography.smugmug.com/gallery/9342935_9uTNm#P-1-30
There was 140 people all told. The contest was awesome. The idiocy abounded.
A little sad without the small dog… but a fair amount of [...]
Behold the trailer that I am going to float to the middle of Lake Lodoga using barrels from the maraschino cherry company.
It’s a swim up cafe. And the coffee is free….
Can a guy try any harder?
chicken
Camp Tipsy has some Olympic contestants. Special Olympics, that is…
Here are a few of the boats you will see floating around….
Kezia and her catfish boat (notice the floatation she uses) with the top off. Yes, there are a few bike helmets in there:
Here is Team Fandango:
Their entry blurb:
Our UFO-themed [...]
“I have sometimes thought of the final cause of dogs having such short lives and I am quite satisfied it is in compassion to the human race; for if we suffer so much in losing a dog after an acquaintance of ten years, what would it be if they were to live double that time?” [...]
RIP Dammitina Dawoo
How long can I sit here in front of this blank screen with the title above and a blank white page mocking me? How could I ever reduce the joy that Dammit bestowed on me to mere words? …The same devices that used car salesmen and politicians use. The same feeble and obvious [...]
I just don’t wanna hear one more person say they can’t build a boat.
Nonsence.
These boats are made outta cardboard, some caulk, some ducktape and glue. In this coffee powered city of over-acheiver, I refuse to belive my ears when I hear people say: “I don’t know how to build a boat.” Duh. [...]
OK. So our beloved civic infrastructure needs to balance the budget of this City of Art and Innovation we all live in. Fair enough. Budgets need to be balanced. I’d suggest they cut the hair gel thing by 50%… but I digress…
Newsome is ballyhooing about not raising taxes. So where does the money come from? [...]
Hi. I am having an odd sensation. In general. I can see better. The focus is crisper. The colors brighter. The edges sharper. Like I’m high. And I’m certainly not high. I can hear better. I can feel [...]
Of all the ceremonial foods Birth Day Cake, Halloween Candy, New Years black eyed peas, the least ceremonious of foods could be the lowly pretzel. To elevate the status of the crunchy knot I would propose that it should be the official gift-snack of Fathers Day.
Pretzel mythology dates back to 610 AD when an [...]
So the Swimming Cities project went swimmingly and now the deconstruction is almost complete. The boats are back in containers and who knows what’ll happen next year. But the spoiled rotten leaderless collective of angry vegans pulled it off. And I’m proud of ‘em. There is a Flickr slideshow that is on the site, www.swimmingcities.org, [...]
I love you is a powerful thing to say. So I hear. It’s usually a delineation, marking a point in a relationship you have with someone. Something you struggle with timing-wise with a new lover, something you say to a parent or the people in your Burning Man Theme Camp. And it’s not just the [...]
Giant boyfriend. As her lips came close to mine a God-like voice thundered inside my head. As I shook his hand, earlier, I felt like a child. It was like shaking a Thanksgiving turkey. He looked tired, and rightly so having to move around all that muscle. He also looked kinda infuriated. I would be [...]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/neiltron/
Neil is my roomate, he came to document stuff and do the things that photographers do. You may remember Neil as when he quit is job he did the standard “resignation letter”. Standard thing, really. He wanted out of his mind numbing data entry thing and become a pro photographer. Here is a photo of [...]
In order to read this story, you have to be able to read in a German accent. Anytime I use italics, itz weeth ze Shermein, no? Yes no. Good. You see, Werner Wervie is German. And the accent is a huge part of the Werner show. You pronouce his name Verner. Verner Vervie. But you [...]
I had a feeling that I would need an ancillary agenda item on this trip. Ukulele. I brought one with me and wrote an albums worth of material, kinda as theme songs to the time I did here. There was some down time. Alright. Last night, I went to one of the little bridges in [...]
The moon is full and round over Venice. The little stone bridges stretch out over calm water like glass reflecting candle light from a café. Beautiful. The lunar accoutrement a broach on the cloak of the night sky, the germ freak Italian catalogue people wander in their immaculate outfits and preposterous hand gestures. It’s embarrassing. [...]
The boat tips from bow to stern like see-saw. The water washes the decks. The boats creak and and knock. Drywall screws. I remember the conversation about spending the extra $5 buying exterior grade screws. I was assuming they would buy fasteners in 25 lb. containers. They ended up buying whatever they needed day by [...]
`Prego!!!
OK. Sorry to disappear, but I just kinda needed to submerge into this project for a minute and just unplug. I’m in Italy. We are traveling in little canals, but the bridges are low and we keep getting kicked out of the canals and sent back to the Adriatic. Sea. The Adriatic Sea. It’s the [...]
O.K. So I leave for Slovenia in the morning. The boats are in the water. Ready for me to put the motors on and go…
This is the boat Alice, but in the Adriatic. It’s weird to think that giant hulk is out there.
So I’m off to crash the Bianalle. With bullshit. I’ll be back later. [...]
Frenchy french fries’ movie trailer here.
The most interesting thing that has happened to or around BM in the last 5 years is this movie. Which is going to put all BM’s bullshit ideologies to the test. And they are going to fail like dogs in the dirt. This film will single-handedly eliminate kool-aide drinking, and [...]
