Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Looking Up
A self portrait, after not doing self portraits for quite a while.
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Eco Friendly Bed – Cool Packaging!
This is how our new bed looked in our room when I brought it down from the truck. Here is how it looked out of the box and unpacked. Did I mention this is a Queen size full spring coil mattress? We decided to go with this Keetsa bed, because it was surprisingly comfortable, reasonably…
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“It’s The Shinning, Boy!”
While digging through a pile of canvases and old paintings of mine, I found this one. I had a period in my early 20’s where I explored different forms of expression. The canvas already had some paint on it when I got it as a twenty-something year old. I added my own ideas to it,…
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Pink Socks and the Desert
When you drive through the desert you have a lot of time on your hands to think and get bored. I thought of lots of things, and this is what my wife and I thought of to represent them. Pink socks looking out at the road and a bunch of brown. Outside of Primm, Nevada…
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Some Art finally, but the end…
I am finally getting down to the dregs of what was once my studio at SJSU. There are so many little odds and ends that go into making a body of work, that when its time to clean it all out, inevitably there is a lot of tossing and stirred up emotions. I still had…
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Aerodynamics
When I was younger I was really in to TV. Lots of TV! I’m pretty sure it rotted my brain, but I think it also spurred my visual imagination, and precursed some of the imaging skills I have today. As a teenager I liked the typical action movies, but I also really got into nature…
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I guess I was wrong about Hot Dogs…
When I posted about hot dogs in my vegetarian posts I kinda made an exaggerated claim (surprise!) about people who like hot dogs not eating vegetables. This month’s issue of Sierra, as if to smack down obnoxious bloggers, has an interview with Natalie Coughlin. In it she says, Also, my guilty pleasure is a really…
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Travels Through the West
Last week my family and I drove about 1500 miles through a big chunk of the Southwest. I like driving. It lets me think with few distractions. There is no screen, keyboard, or much else except good company to pull me from a focused conversation, or line of thought. It can be a test of…
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Vegetarianism – Notes
Since I started writing these posts on vegetarianism, I have been asked again “why [am I] a vegetarian,” asked if I “am still a vegetarian,” asked for advice about diets because I am an “expert,” agreed with, disagreed with, and generally been put at the center of some weird conversations about meat and food. I…
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