You know, Nerds make excellent pudding.

Hey John, when were you going to tell me about all the Nerds in the hood? I found all of these on the stretch of Williams between Russell and Freemont. I was so overwhelmed by Nerds that I really can not recall which street signs these came from. I also found so many other great instances of graffiti I am going to have to do a separate post from this one. This may be the most prolific posting day for me yet. So many pictures so little...wait, I have all day. Stay tuned people.

Very simple green magic marker on scrap sticker. '05

I would have tried to push the edges out on this purple and black painted '06 sticker but the stop signs are so high on this block it was all I could do to get a pic of them without a reflection. You can imagine driving up Williams to see a large leather jacket wearing dude, standing on his tippy toes, taking pictures of the backs of street signs. Absurd!

Red and silver painted '05 sticker.

Seems to be a very fresh white paint marker '06 on the light pole at the bus stop by the bus stop right by John's house. I will forgive him this one because it did look recent. MAKE IT HAPPEN!

Green and purple painted promotional sticker. I can not make out what it was for but there are bikini clad dames on it. '05

This is cool. The first collaborative for my Nerd doodler friend. A three panel sticker with what appears to be two other artists. Very faded marker on Priority Mail sticker. The other two panels are below.

The panel with the Nike swoosh I have seen before, in fact also came across two other Nike swoosh stickers yesterday as well. See below

Well, this is just the first post. I wish my boy JT wasn't sick because he would have had a great time walking this stretch of road. Very many cool things to see. Get better Johnny!

The Nun replies by whipping off her hood and shouting, Ha ha, I'm the bus driver!!

I have always thought of the hammer dulcimer as a crummy hippie drum circle type instrument until I found Max Zbiral-Teller.

Check out this clip of his playing.

All I can say is wow!








*Photo not actual photo of Max Zbiral-Teller

This is the reason I look at craigslist.com daily.

This shit made me laugh so hard. I had such a hectic day I needed something like this so bad. Here is the link until it is deleted. Another related link for the curious.

Although both are beautiful...

I love one of these two things. I will let you guess. Anyway they both make for beautiful pictures don't you think?

Brassica oleracea var gemmifera

Roses

A little stencil work in the hood.

Office furniture store down in Jt's hood. I thought it looked a bit like this.

I really should learn how to manipulate photos in PS a bit more. I thought this looked good when I lined up the shot but now it seems a bit flat. The colors are cool for sure.

Lunch.

You earthlings are to suck! The chalkboard walls in bar and restaurant restrooms is the greatest idea. If only the execution of doodles and saying s followed it's genius.

I seem like I'm typing while holding Green and Gold pompons and praying that my cheerleader skirt isn't too revealing. It's a burden.

Well it's that time of year again. Dah-Dah-Dah-Duhhhh...NFL football started this week. On Thursday the Ben Roethlisberger-less Pittsburgh Steelers beat the team picked to win it all by some writers, Miami Dolphins and ole Daunte Culpepper 28-17.

So anyway the Green Bay Packers take on the Chicago Bears at 3:15 Central Time on Sunday. Where will you be watching?

To get you in the 'Sconnie' spirit here is a Budweiser commercial featuring the Wisconsin style "Wazzup?".

Vir·tu: A knowledge or love of or taste for fine objects of art.

I stumbled across this website for an art show at Excellent Virtu gallery in Florida while poking around on Positive Ape Index blog (Coop). It has art by: Lori Earley, Mark Ryden, Andrew Brandou, Mark Mothersbaugh, Robert Williams and other artists that I dig. Check it out, you won't be disappointed.

©Copyright Brandou

Bustin' makes me feel good

Just watched an awesome fan film called Freddy VS Ghostbusters. Very good. Had some great lines. "What would Jared do?" funny stuff! Written by Hank Braxton and Tim Johnson and directed by Hank Braxton of BraxtonFILM.

You can download it here.

Imdb.com

Other Braxton films: Four More Years of Vader (If Darth Vader can win another four years, anybody can!) and Artsy Fartsy (Art films are stupid and boring. So we here at BraxtanFILM.com thought we'd make one! Because we are stupid and boring.).

Silly youtube.com Dump

Hey guys. This post is mostly for JMD. I know how much he likes this show and I'm sure he's seen these both but here are a few youtube dumps from Roseanne.

Roseanne and Dan Get High

Roseanne & Jackie vs. Eddy & Patsy

I’m turning toward you, so I can keep my eye on you!

I got this back in change yesterday. I have heard about keeping tabs on how you spend your money but is this really what that means?

I have registered this dollar bill at the website www.wheresgeorge.com and you can track it here.

I'll now be surprised if it's the guy with the beer belly and the camo pants

Another quick sticker, stencil and throw-up walk on lower Morrison.

Not quite sure what it says but I do know it is a robot.

Not really a graffiti sticker but I thought it looked good amongst the crummy ads, flyers and roughly drawn dudes.

hydrant Chicken.

Trust.

Colorful bird eats plus/minus and poops mid-flight!?

Can't argue with you there.

461, Non-PCB Mineral Oil? Check.

Man...or Astro-man? album cover? Nope...Street sign.

Stylized lightning bolt and cloud. I have seen more primitive lightning bolt and clouds all over NE, could this be the same person getting bored with the sharpy?

Heh, heh...You said Humper.

Route 666.

Alright then, let's continue.

Did you ever notice the parking signs said COP at the bottoms?

Chupacabra?

CON
SÜœM

Citroën

I don't know what this is but the man looks anguished. Streams of tears running down his pained face.

YEAH NERD. JT and I saw this one on a previous ride and I forced him to drive back to it. '05 pen sticker. Signed BORE? Is Katie undecided on a tag?

POOP.

Pooped.

Guess who I hung out with today? That's right J Thompson.

"Life Aint Perfect But Its Good". Another '05 Nerd. Makes my day you know.

The criminal class, and it’s hard to maintain

Saw an excellent movie last night. Everybody should watch this one.

Here are a few stills from the movie Kontroll. The movie is a bit of the morose life of the ticket inspectors on the subways of Budapest.

Very dark film with amazing cinematography. The main character is very endearing and he ends up happy.

Don't know how to describe it otherwise but I can assure you it is worth seeing. It also has an amazing soundtrack with music by Neo.

Bulcsú....Sándor Csányi

Szofi....Eszter Balla