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d a n n y

My cat can eat a whole watermelon

About Me

---The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction...The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced: that is the hyperreal...which is entirely in simulation.---Jean Baudrillard

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My Interests

CURRENT MOON lunar phases

I'd like to meet:

Lebbeus Woods. Paul Virilio. Peter Falk. Sally Mann. Martin Amis. Mike Leigh. Zaha Hadid. Sebastiao Salgado. Thomas Pynchon

Music:

Akron/Family_Devendra Banhart_Alaska!_lowercase_Folk Implosion_The Pattern_Octant_The Birthday Party_Rapeman_Shellac_Big Black_Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds_The Teardrop Explodes_Echo & The Bunnymen_ Leonard Cohen_SWANS_Sonic Youth_Jesus Lizard_Scratch Acid_Slint_Crime and the City Solution_Mudwimin_Bauhaus_Joy Division_New Order_Butthole Surfers_The Velvet Underground_Iggy and the Stooges_Destroy All Monsters_Faust_Rocket From the Tombs_A Minor Forest_P.E.E._X_Black Flag_J-Church_The Mr. T Experience_Crimpshrine_Filth_Fifteen_Monsula_Lovesongs_Top Critters

Movies:

Wings of Desire_Aguirre, The Wrath of God_ Nosferautu_Fitzcaraldo_Cries and Whispers_Wild Strawberries_Solaris_Stalker_Nostalgia_Gothic_Diary of a Lost Girl_The Killing_Dekalog 1-10_2001: A Space Odyssey_Vertigo_Rope_Naked_Secrets and Lies_Brazil_A Woman Under the Influance_Husbands_Faces_Alien_Mystery Train_Down By Law_Red Shoes_Mon Oncle_The Party_Fishing With John_Serpico_Dog Day Afternoon_The Big Red One_Das Boot_Rescue Dawn

Television:

kill your television_ but not before you watch Six Feet Under, maybe some episodes of News Radio. If it's on the Jon Stewart show it's probably news worthy... oh- 60 minutes on Sunday evenings_House_but yeah, kill your television...

Books:

Philip K. Dick_Charles Bukowski_Martin Amis_Kingsley Amis_Paul Auster_Albert Camus_Toni Morrison_J.D. Salinger_Kurt Vonnigut Jr._Thomas Pyncheon_Harry Crews_Mike Davis_James Joyce_E.T.A. Hoffman_Upton Sinclair_Ian McEwan_ Jane Jacobs_Samuel R. Delany_Paul Virilio_Jean Baudrillard_Philip Ridley_Jean Genet_Irving Welsh_Milan Kundera_Raymond Chandler_Jim Thompson_ Annie Dillard

Heroes:

Lieutenant Columbo_Steven Biko_Malcolm Little_Huey P. Newton_Russell Means_Noam Chomsky_Howard Zinn_Klaus Kinski_Peter Sellers

My Blog

watch out Steve Albini!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6NTymQ6FM
Posted by d a n n y on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 07:09:00 PST

UC Berkeley RAD lab

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/BUILDINGS/SODA_4F_2006/ one of the first projects I've seen through from start to finish!...
Posted by d a n n y on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:03:00 PST

Unoccupied

Interior photographs of a Victorian Home in the Haight Ashbury that was known to be the source of most of the acid that predominated the 1960s. I took these photographs after we renovated the place in...
Posted by d a n n y on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:58:00 PST

The Exurbia Project

The Exurbia Project is what I am presently working on. I am alarmed at the rate the outer Bay Area is being developed with mundane housing developments. While Los Angeles has always been the...
Posted by d a n n y on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 12:51:00 PST

The Musuem of Jurassic Technology

The Museum of Jurassic Technology http://www.mjt.org/ One of my favorite places...
Posted by d a n n y on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 06:56:00 PST