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Happy Halloween, Charlie Brown!

Musical accompaniment: Great Pumpkin Waltz [iTunes Music Store]

(Marshall's, East Providence, RI)

More Scary Self-Portraitature:
If You Need It, You Should Show It
Self-Portrait In:Of A Scion

(GRNY Store, Manhattan)

(Red Hook, Brooklyn)

Related posts:
BWAC~CAWB
Blue Sky (Mine)
360 Sunset in Red Hook

(Court St & Atlantic Av, Brooklyn)

Mortellito Memorial (2003) by Tom Otterness

(Branch Brook Park Station, Newark City Subway, Newark, NJ)

More Otterness Mania:
Lost in the Land of the Lost

(Price Rite, Seekonk, MA)

Our visit to Ikea ends back at home with the object of conquest: the famous Jerker computer desk.

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

Computer alert! Computer alert! One day after my Treo took this photo, it died. I guess the weird but cool scan lines were a hint things were about to go wrong. (A replacement Treo came a few days later.)

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

More Jo Jo On The Lingonberry Go Go:
Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (1)
Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (2)

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

More Jo Jo On The Lingonberry Go Go:
Date With Ikea: Jo On The Go (1)

Jo's always on the go, even in the Ikea cafeteria.

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

Finding a cool nom de street that some other hustla hasn't already taken is getting tougher and tougher.

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

The Search for Street:
The (Still) Birth of Cool

Happy Birthday to Daniel (aka DVCAM), who enjoys the Ikea experience so much he likes to hang out at the entrance greetin' customers and snappin' their photos.

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

More DVCAM:
Three Questions for Daniel

Until Ikea comes to Brooklyn, a trip out to the blue and yellow giant still means a day trip for us city folk. So why not make a mini-vacation out of it, snapping photos and getting all excited over $.99 cafeteria cheesecake like a tourist?

This shot is for the Mighty Mikael, who helped me set up this very blog. (He may or may not like hot dogs.)

Title reference: Pavement

(Ikea Elizabeth, Elizabeth, NJ)

(Apple Store Soho, Manhattan)

Related posts:
Haiku 10.3.9 (7W98)
Androids Dreaming of Electric Sheep

(Marla)

The Monday is Cat Week Experience:
Chinatown
Feline Felicitations
Hollaback Cat
Black, White, Trendy
Bidalasana
Marla in the Superunknown
Four Felines
Hello Beckoning Kittys
Paws

(Manhattan Bridge)

The replacement of the Lincoln Road bridge is one of the reasons the Q has been all crazy absent on weekends this month. But hey -- cool view, huh?.

Title reference: "The Crunge" by Led Zeppelin.

(Brighton Line Subway [B/Q] at Lincoln Rd, Brooklyn)

(34 St & 7 Av, Manhattan)

(Wall St & Broadway, Manhattan)

(Metropark Station, Iselin, NJ)

A Spam sushi? Someone I know actually ate this, but I wasn't brave enough to try it.

(L&L Hawaiian Barbecue, 8 Av & 36 St, Manhattan)

(Dupont Circle Metro Station, Washington DC)

(Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC)

Last night was the world premiere of Take It Or Leave It? at the DC Asian Pacific Film Festival and I'm very glad to say the audience seemed to really enjoy it. They laughed big -- and in all the right places. After the screening, I got up on stage with Jackie (my actor) and the two other filmmakers in attendance for a Q&A, which went very well.

Everything else about the festival has been great, too. The staff of the festival are super-nice and friendly. I've met some very cool fellow filmmakers. The theater where my short screened was the AFI Silver, a new theater with a excellent projection and a great sound system.

Not least, I've seen some terrific films, most notably the wonderful The Grace Lee Project by Grace Lee and the devastating And Thereafter by Hosup Lee, both of which are documentaries. I wish I had time to stay for the entire festival, because there are a lot of good films showing.

I'm happy now, but to be perfectly honest, I was anxious all week long leading up to the premiere. I'd never seen the film on a real cinema screen before and never before an audience of strangers. I wasn't sure what to expect. How would my hand-held DV camerawork look on the big screen? Would the audience laugh at the jokes? Would the tape jam during the screening? What kind of questions would they ask at the Q&A if they hated the film? Should I bother ironing my shirt before going?

Fortunately, it all went well. I wish I could be in Vancouver for the Canadian premiere next month, but I need to work on my next project. If you're in Vancouver, please go see it -- and please laugh in all the right places.

(AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD)

(1 Broadway, Manhattan)

(Canal St & Lafayette St, Manhattan)

(Bowling Green Station, Manhattan)

OK, I admit it -- I bought my G5 as much to tinker with as to do video editing on. And so far, the tinkering and editing are measuring about even on the pleasure meter.

Just last night, I added a fourth Maxtor DiamondMax 300 gig drive via my MaxConnect hard drive expansion kit, bringing the G5's total storage up to 1.36 terabytes, including the 160GB boot drive.

Why do I need all that space? To edit video, of course.

Now I just have to figure out why my optical drive has suddenly crapped out.

(My dual 2.0 Power Mac G5, Brooklyn)

Yeah, I hate the lines in New York as much as the next person. But every now and then I remember that when I lived in the Jersey 'burbs I used to wait in line at restaurants, too. Except in NJ, the lines were for places like El Torito, Pizzeria Uno, and Ye Fake Olde Tyme Grille -- not at all like the delicious (and deadly) Shake Shack.

So now I just try to enjoy the sun and the park and snap away while I wait...

(Shake Shack, Madison Square Park, Manhattan)

As soon as I raise $200 million, I'm going to shoot a really badass alien invasion movie. Here's the first shot. [click for full size]

(Time Warner Center, Columbus Circle, Manhattan)

(Home, Brooklyn)