Burning Man Day 2

Burning Man Day 1: The Man & The Temple

Today

Shots of the Day: Qian Qian

Patrick Fugit sings Hang Me

Watching The Beaches of Agnes by Agnes Varda on Netflix...beautiful, poetic documentary; highly recommended.

Life in the Man Cave: Doing Magical Things

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"IF" by Rudyard Kipling read by Dennis Hopper: http://youtu.be/is1WlBBakUI (via @msGILLIANZINSER)

Shot of the Day: A drive through Venice

Giancarlo & Stephanie are back!

Getting ready for Burning Man 2011

Life in The Man Cave

Róisín, Mark Wrathall, and our intern Adam living the unique combination of work and relaxation that co-exists in in the man cave. Click image to enlarge

Casting a Short Film

Mangusta Productions is casting an untitled seven- to 10-minute HD short which I will be directing. We are going to be shooting mid September.

LOGLINE:
The Sopranos meets Sex and the City in Venice Beach, California.

SEEKING:
Melanie Marlow: female, mid-20s, blonde, beautiful but a little to thin, moves slowly, speaks calmly, always with a trace of boredom.

Lily: female, 20s, Asian or Latino, cute, excitable.

Gabriel: 20-30, African-American, quick tempered, by turns aggressive, arrogant and charming.

Tara: female, 20s, attractive, English accent.

Roberta: female, 70s, eccentric, disarming but calculating.

Nana: female, 20s, African-American, stylish, imposing, tough.

Jewelry Store Manager: male, middle-age, Caucasian, conservative, composed.

Police Officer: one male and one female.

First Auditions will be held by appt. only Aug. 20 in Hollywood. To schedule an audition appt. email pix  & resumés to kinomadic(at)gmail.com. Some pay, copy, credit, meals, and travel provided.

Sir Richard's Condom Company

Doing good never felt better: Sirrichards.com
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Shots of the Day: Lunch with Róisín

 

Today on the Venice Boardwalk

Guild on Abbot Kinney with Róisín

.@bellafreud writes about Black Moses (& a bit about yours truly) in her Vogue blog http://bit.ly/oD1TlM

I love this: http://inbflat.net/

Americans outsourcing their own jobs: youtu.be/rYaZ57Bn4pQ

Photo of the Day

Brazilians pronounce "iPod" as "iPodgy" #bestthingilearnedtoday

Thought of the day: One of the great things about going nowhere is that it doesn't take very long to get there.

Wow, dj'ing someone's transformative waking dreams is a powerful & beautiful experience...thanks for all the great suggestions everyone

Dammit, I really want to be one of those people who listens more than they speak #notbecauseIcarewhattheyaresayingjustsotheywilllikememore

Photo of the Day: Alexander & Roehm

Been making new prints for my portfolio all day. This is Alexander and Roehm in Tulum during the TRUTH shoot in Mexico

Amazing old film of a Bwiti harp player Papé Nziengui: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pVHKv2PxQ8&feature=related

Sitting w someone about to go an ibogaine journey: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine Send music suggestions (instrumental only; pandora station?)

A very cool collection of videos, curated by a very cool human being: http://www.youtube.com/user/roisindavis

Using Heidegger to understand drugs: http://blog.taoruspoli.com/1998/08/drugs-and-technicity-heideggerian.html

Rest in Peace Moraito Chico, one of the great contemporary flamenco guitarists, taken from us at too young an age: http://youtu.be/TWBbm5JYWak

TaoRo

The places Tao & Roisin have been. View TaoRo in a larger map

Clip of the Day: Andalucia Meets LA Meets Beijing

A Diptych of memories from this weekend:

Shots of the Day: Tom and Scarlett

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Gallery of the Day: Zhu Zhu at the LA Street Art Show

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Vive L'excentricité! Tom Sewell & Chris Hanley at the Rose Cafe today (Venice, California)

Clip of the Day: Austin Peralta performs Schubert for the Being in the World soundtrack

"Oh Christ I just wanted you to fuck me & then I became greedy, I wanted you to love me." #quoteonpaintingabovetoiletwhereIampeeingnow

Tom and Michelle Sewell visit me at the man cave in Venice

"As long as your afraid of losing what you've got, it must be hell to be in heaven." -my grandfather Billy Berger

Have you heard Oh Land? Is it really possible simultaneously to be this cool and this smoking hot??  http://youtu.be/V4wHMORwlHY

TRUFFAUTOSYNTHESIS--The process by which plants convert sunlight into French girls (via @DCPierson)

My name has degraded through my life from, "Like the Tao Te Ching?" to "Like The Tao of Pooh?" to "Oh, like that club in Vegas?"...oy vey

"Is it adultery if I'm committing it at one end of a guy, & he's committing it at the other end of that same guy?" http://on.cc.com/pC8lUM

I don't think I've ever mentioned how much i love Dan Savage's sex advice column, which I read religiously: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=9232512