MY IPHONE SHOT OF THE WEEK: THE VINTAGE LAWN CHAIR

I liked this one because it reminded me of the chairs my uncles used to sit on at family get-togethers in the 1980s. Nowadays these types of chairs are hard to find… trust me, I’ve tried. All lawn chairs these days are molded plastic junk that’s got no soul. It really bums me out. I miss the 80s.

MY IPHONE SHOT OF THE WEEK - “SIDEWALKS GOT NO CHANCE AGAINST THEM URBAN PLANTS”

I liked this one best because it demonstrates how several species of urban plants were able to put aside their political and socioeconomic differences to come together and completely annihilate an entire segment of concrete sidewalk. F YEAH URBAN PLANTS!!!

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MY IPHONE SHOT OF THE WEEK - LEANING TOWER OF CRATES

If this stack of gravity defying crates was moved to a gallery space at the MOMA it’d probably sell for a million bucks at Sotheby’s. I’m not sure if that’s a good or a bad thing, but it’s definitely some sort of thing that makes me wonder about what the hell makes something art, and who should get the credit.

This is blowing my mind a little bit. I mean, I took this photo, but I’m definitely not the artist, that title belongs to whoever set up this awesome gravity defying stack of crates. But what’s crazy is that the person who set up these crates probably did so with no intent of creating “art”, but rather “trash”. I wonder how many regular folks have never gotten credit for their incredible temporary art installations.

Anyway, here’s a few more pictures of this most wonderful piece (artist unknown)…

If you’d like to see more of my daily iphone photos documenting other people’s inadvertent “street art” click here.

When Captain America retired he gained some weight,

married a woman he didn’t really love, and had a couple of slacker kids with absolutely zero super hero potential. While he obviously regretted all of these things, his biggest regret in life was trading in his sweet motorcycle for this used mini van so that he could drive his chubby kids to soccer practice, where he would dejectedly watch them pick grass and cry about having to exercise.

PLACES OF JAPAN 07 - “KOCHI”

I took this photo through a window atop the frigid Kochi Castle in Kochi, Japan.

Bit of advise for anyone who may ever visit Kochi Castle in late December… Always wear the complimentary sandals! You are not allowed to wear shoes in the castle, and my biggest regret in life is refusing the complimentary sandals thinking that I’d be fine walking around in my tube socks on the frigid wooden floors. I had no idea that wood, or Japan for that matter, could get so cold.

COOL STUFF IN JAPAN 04 - “POP QUIZ”

A Tokyo Taxi is to a Manhattan Yellow Cab as…

a. Schroeder is to Pig Pen

b. Cal Ripken Jr. is to Barry Bonds

c. A Flushed Toilet is to an Un-Flushed Toilet

d. Clean is to Dirty

e. All of the above

The correct answer is “E”, we are looking for letter “E”… hmm… do I see any letter “E’s” out there??? What’s that? Is that a “5”? Sir, that’s not even a letter. I repeat, we are looking for the letter “E”… “E” as in “Every day I am closer to being dead”.

Feelin’ hot,

she wants to cuddle,

but all she’s got,

is a big wet puddle.

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No plastic eyes,

or synthetic thighs,

but she can feel,

cause she is real.

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Born in the valley,

it’s the grand finale,

for the girl named Sally,

who will die in the alley.