Pyrokinetic

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• Commented on 555 California security guards in San Fran threaten to punch sidewalk photographer, break his f*cking camera
  Let's do a photographers' meet-up. I did this in Los Angeles when I lived there... I've since moved to the bay. Anybody care to create a Flickr group or stand up to be the organizer in one way or another?...
• Commented on Burning Man Responds to EFF over fair use and photo rights attack
  I call bullshit. I make a living in the stock photography industry, and if I took a photo of someone's art car at burning man to be used in an ad, I'd need a property release from them. If it...
• Commented on DIY electric VW goes 82MPH
  NICE!! That's not a 1991, probably a 2001. I have a 2000 Passat GLX and it looks identical. Good to know that my car is good for something... I've been procrastinating on selling it for months now. When I bought...
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  @Adonai (#24): That's actually a pretty good idea. Although I'm not aware of a single city or municipality with a law restricting photography in public places. (If one exists, I'd sure like to know). Other than the "call our media...
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  Guess I'll be keeping my camera out more often when taking MUNI or BART. I haven't had any problems yet, myself. But I've had other experiences in other cities....
• Commented on What Poison Ivy Has Been Up To While You Weren't Paying Attention
  @Will Tingle (#14): Do you have a citation for that? Honestly, I would be very very happy if you were right and all of this was just natural, but all things being even -- ignoring that there is overwhelming evidence...
• Commented on Best Government Flak Quote of The Week
  Hah! Mirkarimi is the supervisor for my district. Take this to mean what you will, but I live about five blocks from the intersection of Haight and Ashbury....
• Favorited BB reader: "Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles" on Boing Boing
• Favorited BB reader: "Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles" on Boing Boing
• Commented on Crochet Coral Reef
  Huh, Track 16 and Bergamot Station is five blocks from me. I should take the girlfriend over there. Thanks for the post!...
• Commented on Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
  Here's a better link to a pastebin page that goes over the chronology of what happened and how: http://pastebin.com/f652c44fb (link thanks to waxy.org) The link above makes it out to be more of a politically-motivated hack, but based on the...
• Commented on Rock and roll social media
  I went to Outside Lands, and it turned out to be a great show. Th jury is still out on CrowdFire, I think it's an interesting idea. The problem though was that there were so many people there that the...
• Commented on Is the government compiling a secret list of citizens to detain under martial law?
  Great. I'm sure I'm on that list because of this....
• Commented on Photographers stand up for your rights in LA, June 1
  I'll be there. Maybe I'll shoot off a friendly email to the FBI while I'm at it......
• Commented on BB reader: "Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles"
  @Doctor Pickles, I'm the photographer you're discussing. I thought I should clarify a few points. First, yes, I had parked my car in a large, empty dirt lot with no fence and no signs, and then walked off to take...
• Commented on BB reader: "Two FBI agents just showed up at my door for taking photos in the Port of Los Angeles"
  @Holtt: I'm the photographer that sent in the link, and it wasn't like that at all. I acknowledge that the agents were just doing their jobs, but the original circumstances don't warrant that. Read my post and then come to...
• Commented on Taking pictures on LA's Red Line violates the "9/11 Law"
  This stuff is bullshit. Just this morning, I had two FBI antiterrorism agents show up at my front door to question me because I was taking photos in the port of Los Angeles complex two weeks ago. (I'm a professional...
• Commented on Mazda destroys 4,703 shiny new cars worth $100 million
  I call bullshit on this. A friend of mine bought a VW Jetta in 2002. Prior to his purchase, that exact same Jetta had been mounted to a vertically rotating disc affixed to the wall of the Los Angeles Auto...
• Commented on Worst Band Names of 2007
  My little brother and my ex-roommate are in Jews and Mexicans. (they are a jew and a mexican, respectively) When I saw the title of the article, part of me knew that they had to be included on the list,...
• Commented on Southern CA wildfires: good Lord they are huge.
  Here's a photo I took at the beach earlier: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyrokinetic/1704362997/...