This is a fascinating set of videos that were take by Converse (the shoe company) of several Oakland area spraycan artists from the early 90s. The commercials were never used.

The "short" commercials are so different from the lengthier interview footage. It's like night and day, or, maybe, "child" and "young adult".

See: the videos

Nice Mullets!

See: http://crayone.com/ for more.

Additionally, this fascinating article about vernacular mathematics, and stylized graffiti as a form of community cryptography: Street Math in Wildstyle Graffiti Art.

Here's some info about writing contracts. Most contracts are boilerplate, tweaked for a purpose. They should be reviewed by a lawyer, but, let's face it. Possesssion is 90% of the law. Invoice frequently, and get paid frequently, and there's less to contest, and less to negotiate.

On the consultant's side, it's critical to be able to make accurate estimates about how long things will take. That behooves us to record our timesheets accurately, and use them to quantify how long tasks take.

http://kagemedia.com/articles.asp?articleID=28

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/bulletproof-web-design-contract/2

LA Times:
Express Adds Little Luster to Gold Line -

Seems like the Gold Line can't get riders. So they made an express train that stops, mainly, at the stops in the wealthiest neighborhoods. It stops in Sierra Madre (at the freeway), then passes by Northwest Pasadena which is a working class community, and stops at Del Mar near Old Pasadena. Not many people lives there; it's warehouses. Then it stops at Mission, which is in the hills in South Pas. Then it stops at Highland Park, which is working class, but also is the Mt. Washington stop. Then it passes Cypress Park, Lincoln Hieghts, and Chinatown, to stop at Union Station.

No wonder they can't get riders. They're flyi

You can't teach a man to fish
When there's none in the river.

The ownership society
Is trying to fence the sky.

Walls climb so high,
And shorten the day
In the man-made,
Grand canyon of commerce.

Some of them know.
They sleep under bridges,
And bathe in the rivers.

Nazi for a day
Eight dollars pay.
See Leonid Kuchma
Of the state media
For your uniform.
Join the crowd,
But no Jews allowed.