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About Me

I've been reveling the warm weather. Being able to head outside at any time of day in a t-shirt is where it's at. The last week alone Cole and I have been up to Horsetooth Rock (first time), up the Poudre Canyon, to Red Feather Lakes, exploring the Wyoming back-country, out to the Pawnee Grasslands to shoot some clays, walking around Old Town while strangers come up to scratch Cole's fuzzy ears.
...throw my camera on the passenger seat, Cole in the back, and hit the road Jack. No directions. No destination. Just seeing where the road of life leads to. You should try it. Just start driving, and when you think youâ€™ve gone far enough, go a little further. The mystery of whatâ€™s around the next bend is usually enough to keep me going. The experience is sort of zen-like for me, but not in that cheesy spiritual way. The sense of freedom from the confines of schedule and destinationâ€”along with the exhilarating tingle of not knowing where you are (and not caring)â€”is fresh.
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And of course, swing by my dailies site... read my thoughts and leave yours.

My Interests

Music, design, my dog, and photography are the biggest parts of me. Being outdoors and constantly learning are large tangents. Otherwise... becoming a better cook/grill master. ignoring the ridiculous media coverage about the '08 presidential candidates. wishing my phone would stop restarting itself when I send text messages. creativity. outdoors. sushi. being a coffee snob. peeing every 10 minutes after drinking said coffee. incessantly trying to find new music. being a dork at the bookstore and library. sketching out art for my next tattoo design. writing about culture, art, and events on my Dailies site. trying to squeeze the juice from a grapefruit without spilling it down my shirt. tennis. mountain biking with my fancy new ride. camping. hiking. avocados. I'm still running with the intent of finishing a marathon in late-summer, we'll see how that goes. exploring with no destination. I like to think I'm pretty good at pool. addicted to sushi.

I'd like to meet:

That's pretty much wide open at this point... ride bikes with, hike with, hit the dogpark, camp, photograph, play tennis, and explore with! Have your people contact my people.

Music:

Hot in the deck: Dispatch - All Points Bulletin(again)

Latest... Tim McGraw, Avril Lavigne, Panda Bear, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The Rakes, Indochine, Relient K, Blackalicious, Ratatat, Arcade Fire, Dispatch, Lyrics Born, New Pornographers, Bright Eyes, Prefuse 73, Sneaker Pimps, Lady Sovereign, Dashboard Confessional, Beatles, Shins, Moloko, Killers, Lily Allen, The Blow, State Radio, Gym Class Heroes, Bloc Party, Amos Lee, Slightly Stoopid, Citizen Cope, Ok Go, Fall Out Boy, Kosheen, Johnny Cash, Ani DiFranco, Jem... and 2,500+ other albums.

Movies:

Latest... Me and You and Everyone We Know, The Descent, Garden State, The Squid and the Whale, Donnie Darko, Crash, Munich, Harry Potter, Thank You For Not Smoking.

Television:

Eh. I'd rather be outside. Though still a sucker for Nat. Geographic and Discovery. Shh... I like being nerdy.

Books:

I have a shelf full of books wanting to be read. Everything from art/design/photo, techy stuff, fiction novels, cheesy dog-psych stuff, to a cook book on grilling (my latest purchase).

My Blog

belief is beautiful armor.

(this post is from my dailies site)I heard the above bit of wisdom on the radio (courtesy of John Mayer) while driving home one late night last week. Alone on a deserted road, the street below me glow...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:21:00 PST

moutain bike!

I finally got a mountain bike out here! Long story, but I left my previous bike with my parents in NJ when I left Rochester for the west. I built that bike up too heavy for climbing any of the hills/m...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:35:00 PST

ink flow.

For years, since the day of my last piece to be precise, I've wanted more ink. Not just anything. I pity the fool who walks into a parlor and picks a flash piece off the wall. Some flash is very cool,...
Posted by Justin on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:39:00 PST

new music sunday.

Today was New Music Sunday! I went a wee bit overboard and got a bunch of new tunes today:Corinne Baily Rae: Neo-soul songstress; sounds like: Macy Gray, Jill Scott, Craig David, Erika Badu.Lily Allen...
Posted by Justin on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:44:00 PST

dailies.... online.

This is just a quick note to plug my new site: http://www.dailies.jmvdigital.comThe gist... Let's start with the fact that I think the word "blog" is tired and unoriginal, and carries a stigma associa...
Posted by Justin on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:33:00 PST

the dark network.

Not sure where to begin on this, but I read an article in TIME today about what your brain does when you aren't actively "doing" anything.Here's the setup: Obviously, we have long known that different...
Posted by Justin on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:53:00 PST

new dishes!

I got these pimp new japanese-style dishes at Target yesterday! Yes, I am excited. I'm a dork, it's ok, you can point and snicker. I've had the same dishes for like 7 years, and they were just growing...
Posted by Justin on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 08:40:00 PST

what design needs.

"What design needs is ten years of total turmoil... fuck-it-all anarchy... after that maybe it will mean something again... stand for something again..."
Posted by Justin on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:33:00 PST

capitilization at its best.

LOVELAND, CO In a move that could spawn dozens if not hundreds of listings on eBay, three snowballs from Fort Collins have sold on the popular Internet auction site for $200. Chris Hansen, a firefig...
Posted by Justin on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:00:00 PST

regrets

When someone asks you if you've ever had regrets about things in your life, what do you say?I haven't decided about this. I usually am of the thought that I don't, and shouldn't, regret anything in my...
Posted by Justin on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:54:00 PST