May Day Doo Dah 2010 - Parade Time Distortion

I know this is gonna confuse people. The Pasadena Doo Dah Parade is this Saturday. For real. No, it is not December. No there won't be a good reason or justification for the 11 a.m. champagne style orange juice inoculation.Change is good. Just takes a bit of getting use to.Still, goodness knows how Fester is going to tolerate the increase in temperature. Not to mention the Country Gentlemen, The Dead Robert Palmer Girls or the Bastard Sons of Lee...

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That's the Hell of It - The Finally Friday Freekout

There is too dang much stuff going on, I can't keep up with the amount of retro-stupidity and political power given to intellectually challenged people. Willfully and proudly the legislatures of Oklahoma and Arizona have provided the country with the WTF moments of the month.I would be remiss to leave out the SEC Executive Poonastic Posse. Giving new meaning to the belief that it is good to have a government job. Might have to rename the sucker something like the Securities and Erection Commission.The fellas certainly paid more attention to their...

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L.A. City Hall Protest - Day 7 Videoblogging Week 2010

Phew! I did it! Seven days, seven videos. I did not expect to end with this kind of recording. I was heading to Little Tokyo to check out the sights via the Gold Line extension. There are a lot of interesting things to see but you had to pay to get into the museums and restaurants.You don't want to know how hard it is to record video in museums and restaurants on the QT. You can't. So I'm walking around and I keep seeing helicopters at City Hall. Nobody hangs out at L.A. City Hall on a Saturday unless there is a protest or something.I first thought...

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Letter Poem - Day 6 Videoblogging Week 2010

Mike Moon has a great Day 6 post and I certainly want to encourage folks to wander over to A Moment At Mike Moon's Moon Echos.Me? Yeah. I have something. Not as good as Mike's. No where near as good as Mike's but I had an situation where I had the ringer of the phone off because of the carpet telemarketer and I missed a call. Dude, call me back!I digress. It gave me an idea to write a quick poem and see what I could come up with to channel my anger at people who have no respect for the concept of "Not freaking interested!" In carpet cleaning. Really...

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Signs of the Discarded - Day 5 Videoblogging Week 2010

It is day five, I think of Videoblogging Week 2010 and for this outing I'm going for poetry, conceptual and bring your own meaning to the party.We see and we don't see. This is what I saw and have seen.Not much more to s...

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Julie Morgan's Pasadena YWCA - Day 4 Videoblogging 2010

There are some people that are trying to erase portions of history that they don't like. There are others that are trying desperately to discover what they never have been told. Mainly by the people trying to pretend the other group does not exist.The Pasadena YWCA building was designed by Julia Morgan. She was the first woman in California to have an architecture license. I did not know that she designed and worked on Hearst Castle/San Simeon as well as having designed and built 700 other buildings.I volunteered in this building so I have a small,...

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Music and Art at One Colorado - Day 3 Videoblogging Week 2010

Music is powerful. It pulled me into the Pasadena Student & Faculty Art Show that was happening at One Colorado. This is a short clip on following the music and seeing where it leads you.Here is the thing. I know many artists are sensitive about having their work recorded. I should have moved in closer to some of the work but I was in non-confrontation mode. I have to say some of them didn't seem like they wanted anything but a sale.It is understandable.I don't know who the musicians are but they are probably students at the California College...

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Tranquility Alley - Day 2 Videoblogging Week 2010

Videoblogging will lead you to interesting places and concepts. It is very educational. I learned something that I did not know before making this video. Watch the video on my parking garage inspired blues and then we'll talk.For those that can't see the video I was asked to leave the alley because I was recording the parking structure. The reason given was that the building was copyrighted and the architects didn't want the building recorded for others to copy.That can't be right. I'd have to check. The whole freaking parking garage that is in...

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Videoblogging Day 1 - 2010 Lemonade Thoughts

I am so running late on things. It looks like it is going to rain, I'm still futzing with not one but two video editing programs and really this isn't how I imagined this day. Things are still going wrong but I have to leave otherwise more things will go wrong. Like the viewing size of this video. But it is finished. The goal of day one has been completed.Where are my shoes? The 8GB card? The padded pouch?It was supposed to be ... different. Organized. Things going according to plan. The one in my head. This is why I was listing to a podcast about...

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In My Name on the Finally Friday Freakout

I just found out that MTV has music videos on the MTV web site. And that they are embeddable. Why am I the last to know these things? The old skool and new wave are in peaceful co-existence with the hippy de hop.Will I Am |MTV MusicThis is important if you gronk up Big Daddy Kane, The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs and Wil I Am. Speaking of which this is a video with said Am and Angelique Kidjoe asking for peace, In My Na...

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Menlo Park Adult School Closing Protest From Jose Lara

Budget cuts are no joke. School budget cuts are expensive in the short and long term. Jose Lara from Intersections - The South Los Angeles Report has a video report on why area residents feel strongly that the adult school should remain open. This is a captioned video but it takes a bit to kick in:You want an adult school in your community. Immigrant communities need access to education, the ability to ask questions and to tap into resources. An adult school gives second and third chances.Education reduces crime by providing training and other...

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Learning About the Information Gap From Jeff Monday

I discovered a new to me web site called Monday Dots. The subtitle of Jeff Monday's site is modeling complexity with dots. I should have turned tailed and run but no. I moused around a bit and viewed this video:mind the information gap from jeff monday on Vimeo.I can't stop thinking about how we do this; how we increase the size and the difficulty of learning and communicating to each other. Why do we continue to do the things we do? Why do we look at a changing world the same old way? Why is dogma more important than collectively solving a problem?...

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Watching the Hype - No Tablet Today

I feel like the sadder but wiser gal. I see the gleam in the eyes of people that want to buy the new shiny toy. The reasons that become needs. The new Apple Table is like a siren song. I have my ears blocked for the moment.I understand. Once you get bit by equipment lust it is hard to fight the infection. I have bought enough computers and peripherals to know the yearning that becomes consumption. If I'm spending cash money I need to know it is a good investment or I will derive such pleasure that it doesn't matter.It is a conscious choice. It...

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T.A.M.I. and Smokey on the Finally Friday Freakout

Let me set the scene for you. You are in a movie theater on a Saturday afternoon. After a couple of cartoons and a movie short feature and just before the main attraction you get to watch a recording of The T.A.M.I. Show.It just so happens that every time I couldn't scrounge up fifty cents was the very time the movie house would show the flick.Yeah, I've never seen it. I had to listen to people tell me about second hand. No VHS of it that I know...

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