I didn't take too many pictures at Nerd Rave Yuri's Night, because I brought the wrong lens (I brought the 24mm because I figured the place would be full of Big Things, but, not so much). Capacitor was great, and the air show was cool. The rest was just ok.

I think the NASA-branded glowstick pretty much tells the whole story.

If you weren't one of the thirty people to see Dandi Wind last night at Bottom of the Hill, you screwed up. That was one of the most entertaining shows I've seen in a long time. They were a guy playing keyboards and a girl dancing like a spastic monkey. She was radiating Nina Hagen levels of crazy the whole time, it was awesome.

I wish the Centro camera wasn't so utterly worthless:

Also re-discovered on my phone: here's bathroom graffiti from some random Mission bar from a few weeks ago:

So, my Canon 5D's sensor is (still) dirty. I've bought a couple different cleaning kits, and, while I've occasionally achieved something of a local maximum, I can't get it fuckin' clean. I just end up moving the gunk around.

If I take it to Calumet, they'll just mail it off to Canon, and I'll be without a camera for 6+ weeks.

Is there anyone SF-local who will clean these things with a turnaround time measured in days instead of weeks?

I happened to be wearing my Obey Propaganda Industries t-shirt one day, and a random guy on the subway asked me if I was going to the opening that night: turns out Shepard Fairey was having a show! I didn't make it to the opening, but the exhibit itself was amazing. The "studio" versions of his posters have many more layers and are incredibly detailed.

His stuff was omnipresent all over town. There was even a classic "Andre" sticker on the trash can next to the boarding gate for my flight home.