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North Carolina Sky

I made this time lapse down in North Carolina a couple of weeks ago and it was originally 16 minutes.

The world is spinning around pretty fast these days, faster than the 1000 plus miles per hour it is usually spinning at. Just about done with Elite Services, waiting on some last minute content, then a launch.

Went rock climbing with Felix, Howie and Abbey and Jennie was there for her first time. She did well. Rock climbing is one of the harder sports to start because even physically fit people are not used to lifting their own body with by their finger tips for a few hours. It takes certain parts some time to get used to. Like playing the guitar, once you got some thick finger tips you find it much easier. I found it to be harder then when I used to climb 10 years ago. (still had my shoes) A lot harder. I was in great shape back then and went climbing almost every weekend, all weekend, all summer long. Today my fingers feel like an 80 year old, my back hurts and I think I still smell the feet smell from the gym, burned into my nostrils. I will probably go a few more times and see if it is still for me. I may have gotten too lazy for rock climbing, and you know what? I also may be okay with that.

The road trip weekend to North Carolina went well. We visited Jennies family and the Challenger ate up the 1200 mile journey with ease. I learned that truckers love this car,blinking their lights at me or flashing their hazards when I pass. It is customary for truckers to blink their lights to let passing truckers know their trucks have passed with enough room and it is okay to come back into the lane. Usually the passing truck with blink his hazards once as a "thank-you" to the trucker behind him for letting him in. They also do it very occasionally to cars they like. I have seen a few hot rods get the treatment on the roads and it was certainly an honor to be communicated with by the most massive vehicles on the roads. Probably not a bad thing either when they are literally the only other vehicles out there at 2 am. Maybe they dig the car because it is mostly Ram parts. Jennie snapped this photo while we flew through Virginia. That yellow bit in the center is the moon. It was pretty sick looking.

While down in NC I entered my first car show. It was a lot of fun. I did not win anything but I also didn't care. Met some cool people and got to learn how to be a contestant in a car show on a nice small scale. Maybe next time I can snag a trophy. I also took a bunch of P.O.V. movies with the car because the North Carolina roads are so nice, I had to share them with the folks on the Challenger Forumz. By the way, the show was at a church and the pastor had 2 early 90's Camaro's entered in the show. North Carolina man, it's like Mars. So that is Dar/th there next to the yellow Buick and the 2 toned Monte Carlo. 

Back in the chair for another round with Eric at Inkspot. He is making my arm art come alive and really delivering on what I had originally had in mind. He is super easy to work with and because he has owned the facility for so long, really knows how to interpret what you are trying to convey into tattoo-able techniques that will come across on skin. I honestly couldn't be happier with the results and I am very relieved that I found someone with the talent to fix what I thought was an unfinished execution to my original design. 

The Pentagon Gets a Logo

E mail chains make my day behind the computer worth it. For years I have had a group of 4 others (long time friends, all on computers all day, all in New York) that send funny/interesting/scary/inappropriate links to each other, comment on the days events and web happenings and just generally try and make each other laugh at the word and each other’s expense as much as possible. We call ourselves The Pentagon and here is a logo I created for us:

I was going to post some links and comments from today, or this past week but I really can't. If anyone but The Pentagon saw some of these things (comments included) they would take it the wrong way and one if not all of us would be locked up. I shall generalize as to protect the guilty.

Today's links, and subsequent comments subjects were as follows:
link1: Artist constructs a rape tunnel, where you go in, get stuck and he rapes you. Is it art? Sure, it's just stupid art. Best comments on that one?

"I want to get in now before he hits the mainstream with his next, eat-your-brains tunnel."

"name removed] has already booked his flight to Ohio."

" I guess his -pet you nicely with bunnies and rose petals tunnel- was not a hit"
you get the idea.

Yes we use technology to talk about farts, but behind that is, of course, is the knowledge that The Pentagon is the final word on what is hot and what is not, who is worthy of web time and who is not and most importantly we serve as a constant reminder that most people are dumb. Fight fire with fire we say!

"What The Hell Have You Been Up To, HAPPYBOX?!" You Ask?

That is a very good question. Aside from living out of plastic bags and cardboard boxes, trying to figure out where I want to live for the rest of my near future, selling my apartment and training with the circus I have also been quite busy in the website and online awesomeness category. (if I don't say so myself, which I do)

ELITE SERVICES GROUP
A few posts ago I uploaded a flash time line from this project. It has expanded. Here is the same time line updated.

This is the bottom menu with service icons. I will of course post the site when I am finished. Right now we are in the final stages of content creation.

TRI-STATE CHALLENGERS
A few of us Challenger owners from the area are trying to put together a car club. Everyone is very busy with other things so it is a spare time venture at this point. I recently built a preliminary flash front page and will be working on this site continuously. The video section is the only on that does not link out to the original HTML web site but check it out here:
Tri-State Challengers

CLASSIC MEDIA SITE HOME STRETCH   
I am getting lot's of new files from the good folks at Classic Media regarding their home page and will be finishing up that project pretty soon. It has really come along and proved itself to be a vibrant and cute site. (if I don't say so myself....again)
Check it out here:
Classic Media
 

AIRFLOW INNOVATIONS

Also winding down this page, waiting on the client who wants to add another section.
Airflow Innovations
 

*whew*

Today Is A Day I Wish I was Outside.

Showing the apartment later, so I will HAVE to be outside. For now I will have to settle for this nice view.

Old School Flashing Again... *joy*

Working to finish up Elite Services project. Check out the old school animation block in Flash above. It's like a poem, just without words... or verses... or rhythm... okay it's not like a poem but it is still pretty cool to me.

Random Pictures On My Server Space.

I was perusing happyboxproductions.com server space the other day, cleaning out some folders and the like and I ran across some cool pictures. I vaguely remember some of these being used in posts or as attachments on some bizarre e mail chain. I think I will leave these there, they seem to be at home.

Stayin Alive

 

Dave Wanderman's Job

 

Jennie Trooper

 

Felix With Swimmies

Ride The Big Trouble in Little China

 

Monkey Pole

 

Dark Side Ahead

The Original Darth

 

Hungry You?

Seriously, You Guys Are High.

Can somebody say... Extreme sheep herding? Maybe LED animal art? Perhaps 21st century wool art brought to you with the help of dogs? You know what, it doesn't matter what you call it because no title will match it's pure, unadulterated insanity. Whatever it is you guys are smoking up there in them hills..... on second thought, keep that stuff. I am pretty sure there are laws against sheep and luminescence here in Manhattan.
  For realz though this kind of hyper creative stuff makes me smile and think, quite the opposite of when I was younger actually, that these guys get it. Don't know what "it" is but they totally get it. On a partially related note for future writings, I do believe that humor is universal to not only Earth but whatever else is out there surviving. It kind of has to be.

Do Not Adjust Your Set.

Bars & Tones from André Chocron on Vimeo.