Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently near San Francisco

 

Those Umbrellas

I'm sure there's some factory in China churning out those cheap black umbrellas with the oddly curved handle that are always sold on the street in New York. I go thru about four or five of these per year and I've always bought them on the street; $3 when sunny, $5 in the rain. I just discovered that a 99cent store very near my office sells them.

 
Friday, June 25, 2004

 

I love my mini-disc player. It's inferior to an iPod in all ways except two: It gets 52 hours on a single AA battery and I bought it used for $60. [I just checked on eBay and they're selling between $25-50] At the highest compression rate you can fit 5 hours of music on a single disc which is usually enough. For a weekend trip I'll take along two or three discs and I don't have to worry about bringing along a charger. You can record discs from a computer but Sony makes you use their shitty software and record in ATRAC format. Since my model as audio-in recording I just hook it up to my computer and record in real-time, leaving it to record overnight while I sleep [longer but easier].

 
Thursday, June 24, 2004

 

Tin tile ceiling at Bread, a good sandwich place at 20 Spring St. I found this blog of a couple posting their 1980 vacation photos from South America. Lots of faded colors and 70's styles. I liked this one of a street dancer in Brazil.

 
Wednesday, June 23, 2004

 

Guggenheim

There was this work by Donald Judd, one of his typical minimalist boxes. It was laid on the slanted floor. This just seemed wrong. A square box in a round building.

 
Tuesday, June 22, 2004

 

 
Monday, June 21, 2004

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