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Now a days there are a lot of very skilled and imaginative craftsman and pottery makers of all sorts. It's seems like SF is the ground zero marketplace and the kids are really buying it up. Much love and props to them all for making product right in the backyard. 

But I remember back in my day when we used to go out and forage for our own treasures: 

Leave it up to the good folks at Treasure Craft to keep it picante' or hot as you might say. Dang! That's a sharp looking mug. Great goodness, they even have a bit of history in California: 

You learn something new everyday. And it looks like they found themselves a whale cause I just added a new number to my collection: 

I learned a valuable lesson at the truck stop a lil while back: much like milking anything with nipples, you can pot anything and it can grow: 

The Armour Meat Company has been around since 1867, I know, I was surprised by this too. 

Armour certainly does make it easy, not sure what exactly could make this great: 

Maybe it's the mechanically separated chicken? Maybe is the partially dehydrated pork fatty tissue. It's up to you to decided.

But what isn't up for argument is where this treat is made: it's America's treat (delusional)! That's for gosh dang sure! 

It's like, when you look close enough, you can see what we really value as a nation. 

Look behind the symbols. 

Besides film (we are shooting on film right?) one of the highest used products on set is tape. Gaffer's tape. The tape of the Gaffer. In visual effects (VFX) we run through the stuff pasting it to every blue and green screen which passes our way. 

Now it's not my choice which tape is purchased but it just so happened we went with PRO-GAFF. And there is something special about PRO-GAFF: 

Can you see it? Can you tell? 

I keep two rolls on my person at all times. It's the jam type tape. The one and only. 

The image above is pasted on the trucks which move our movie making gear around town. In other words the flick I'm working on is MADE IN NEW YORK CITY. 

Pretty tough right? 

I've also been working tons and raking in the loot. Which means I've been doing my civic duty and consuming a lot of goods. Lots of new stuff to show off. 

New Balance 996

The precise origin of the name is unknown, one theory being that it is named for the gaffer (chief lighting technician) on a film crew. When cables are taped down on a stage or other surface, either to prevent tripping hazards or conceal them from view of the audience or camera, they are said to be gaffed or gaffered. - WIKIPEDIA 

  New Jerseyis DEFINITELY in the building.

I've haven't been prescribing to all rules of commerce lately. Which doesn't mean I'm giving up on the goals. I've just arrived in NYC for the summer and went after a basketball immediately to make sure my game keeps up. I've seen a whole lotta basketballs recently and they all have one thing in common: 

Which is all good because hoops is an international game and you gotta imagine the people of China are buying the same ball right? So that is pretty cool. Turns out though the ball is a piece of garbage, but maybe that is just a first day on the court kinda feeling. 

Meanwhile, I found this yesterday and now I'm gonna save up my allowance for the next 3 months to get it:

You might not know it now. .

I've been working away at a side project recently: playing every SF park with a basketball court. Its been an awesome experience and I've seen many of great new spots throughout the town. I've been documenting each location with a picture, which you can check out on Instagram. Look up my username: rckmn or search the hashtag #playeverycourt

I wanted as well to have a physical reminder of all the courts, you know, besides the bumps, bruises and scratches I've picked up along the way. So I've opted for a good old fashioned map mounted on some solid cardboard.

And how do you make a such a fun map? With the help of some lil friends of course.

Viva Mexico! It's always interesting to me when I find things from this continent at Walgreens. Never hurts to look at the label. Oh, and I found these at a yard sale:

Double boom.

Here is a solid pic of the WIP, more courts to come:

Yeah, Moms says this is over priced. She dropped a lot of info about how they used to sew their own back in the day. I can appreciate that but I can also appreciate the company 24/7:

I appreciate the notion provided by the beard in the second half of this clip:

Alas, while the sentiment of having an "irreplaceable" skill is endearing, the truth is the products are completely replaceable and the cost is much lower than ever before. So if the TV breaks I don't send it to be fixed, I buy a new one. Well, I don't but people do.

I've been perfecting my homemade pumpkin pie this holiday season. My pumpkin game is strong. It takes the right ingredients to get it right. Sugar pumpkins, good butter, spices and of course:

Things I've learned about oral hygiene during my journey:  They make dental floss in Ireland.

Oh and finding a toothbrush made around here did not used to be a challenge. Cause of these:

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But. . . the world turns and cars start and stop and rains and floods and love and birth and candy and basketball and cowboys and revolution and all things change:

How about this Reach & Dr. Fresh: you give me two for the price of two and make my toothbrushes back here on the mainland? I wont mind.

I know I've written about this charming group of booty lovers before, but since I've repeated my business I guess its official. . . I really just like short shorts. Maybe I'm just trying to save the world one yard of fabric at a time.

Chubbies strikes my life again with these sweet swimmers.

Cause like, LA is all about low carb and vodka with soda and tanning and stuff. But this is not quite like that. It's quite good:

Oooooh, maybe I'll go check the brewery when I'm there next weekend: