doug:

I can claim to be classy all I wish, but…

Right now I’m watching a Christmas-themed episode of COPS* that begins in Portland and when it’s over the new episode of Jersey Shore is starting.

There’s just something I find too interesting about transgressive trash.

In the photo above is a prostitute named Kristie that the police know by name, who despite being of legal age was mistaken for a 14-year-old by the person who called the police.

When the police showed up the female officer began asking Kristie if the gentleman got his full service for the $60 she charged. The police have arrested her for prostitution five times in the last six weeks, and encourage her to “find another job” (their words, not mine). Man, the world is odd, but I’m glad that the Portland police are that kind of odd and not the kind of odd where they pull over random non-Caucasians and find drugs on them (seemingly every episode in Florida and California).

* I was so wrong. The episode was listed as “Ho! Ho! Ho! #7” but I didn’t get that it’s a prostitute-themed episode until 15 minutes into the show.

ALSO: What the girl Kristie charges $60 for in Portland, the woman in the photo below charges $15 for in Amarillo. Clearly, if you’re going to prostitute, go with the city that you only need to work 1/4 as hard in.

doug:

A quick round of housework then 4-5 solid hours of productive work.

Fuck To-Do lists, what’s on my Don’t-Do list tonight?
- Television or movies*
- Cooking dinner**
- Twitter/Facebook/IM/Email/Google Reader/Tumblr/et c.***

* Wanna tell your grandchildren about the great shows you watched some random Thursday evening? Probably not.

** Prep time + cleaning time + eating time. Anyone can skip one meal and suddenly: free time.

*** How much time do we spend making nothing?

If I want the bare minimum results a part time job doing creative work would bring, I require that I give it the same level of respect, time and effort.

doug:

My first publicly available photo book, Cartography I-III, is on its way to the printers. Total size is around 860MB. The next couple nights will be spent figuring out what I want to do for art prints as well, and when it’s all ready I’ll post more about them here.

It looks like whether I wanted it to be or not, the book is going to end up expensively priced. The high price is the downside of going hardcover, choosing better paper than default, and having something in the range of 70 pages of full-color photography.

Photograph prints will be available for every image in the book, and will have not only very reasonably priced options but truly expensive ones as well. Everyone, if they wish, should be able to at least get something for $5 is my thinking. Or you could buy the book, take an X-Acto knife to the spine and you’ve technically got every print at a heck of a bargain.

All items, no matter what their prices (and my lack of profit on any of them), will be pretty strictly limited in edition. This will motivate me to move forward and produce new work.

doug:

“Coin Slot” is not a slang term I was familiar with. I was looking in Google Images for an old arcade machine-style coin slot, what it gave me were pictures of female ass crack.

1. BLEH!
2. I feel saddened for anyone who has fallen so out of love with the rest of a person that the only remaining attractive part of a gender is their ass crack.

doug:

1. David Karsten Daniels (25)
2. Xiu Xiu (18)
3. Clipse (18)
4. MGMT (17)
5. The New Year (15)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

doug:

This was recommended by a good website as both a beard softener and moisturizer for the impossible-to-get-to skin beneath the beard. I’ve added it to my Amazon cart because I know I should have it, but I can’t justify a shipment for a single item. Some day, some day.

doug:

I can claim to be classy all I wish, but…

Right now I’m watching a Christmas-themed episode of COPS* that begins in Portland and when it’s over the new episode of Jersey Shore is starting.

There’s just something I find too interesting about transgressive trash.

In the photo above is a prostitute named Kristie that the police know by name, who despite being of legal age was mistaken for a 14-year-old by the person who called the police.

When the police showed up the female officer began asking Kristie if the gentleman got his full service for the $60 she charged. The police have arrested her for prostitution five times in the last six weeks, and encourage her to “find another job” (their words, not mine). Man, the world is odd, but I’m glad that the Portland police are that kind of odd and not the kind of odd where they pull over random non-Caucasians and find drugs on them (seemingly every episode in Florida and California).

* I was so wrong. The episode was listed as “Ho! Ho! Ho! #7” but I didn’t get that it’s a prostitute-themed episode until 15 minutes into the show.

ALSO: What the girl Kristie charges $60 for in Portland, the woman in the photo below charges $15 for in Amarillo. Clearly, if you’re going to prostitute, go with the city that you only need to work 1/4 as hard in.

doug:

I don’t know much about the movie, but I do know that all the advance reviews seem to say it is the real deal. That it absolutely lives up to the hype.

James Cameron had a good quote about the point in making things so grand and so ambitious is that even if you fail you still fail far ahead of anyone else’s wildest dreams.