Lefty Like Me

And Now For Something Completely Different.

And totally cool.  My buddy did this for an interview job using flash/tech stuff/etc.  It is a very wild and crazy view of a bike ride we did from Berkeley up to Richmond and back.  It is definitely worth playing the game through twice to eat the meal AND go on the mystical experience.  Choose #1 first if you really like a good meal and #2 if you really like some mystical aka puking experience.  Hats off to the random robot guy/bird too. 

My apologies to the few people a day that on average visit this site that I don’t do a daily dosage of Mike D’s digression but I really can’t say I feel too bad that I don’t have time for this blog as I don’t have time for barely anything.  Don’t think for a second that I am not always preparing for the Grilled Cheese world and soon I will start getting more serious about the sammie smack down but for now I can officially say that tomorrow is my first day as an Academy Docent on the floor….@nightLIFE.  I am stocked to done the orange jumpsuit and share the little knowledge I know about the vast world that makes up all things water.  I never thought about how truly unique my experience there will be and I am definitely going to try and share some of it here with pictures as well.  It only took me the first day when we were told we could take a break and I walked outside the room to an empty museum with only me to explore it.  I have already faced-off with the T-rex on the second level numerous times in my head but also know considered that it would be also cool to see it battle the Blue Whale if it was somehow possible.  As in if the T-rex got to take one bite and the whale got to take one tail slap…..I imagine thats kind of even.  This is nothing compared to when I walked downstairs for the first time in the museum and came across the California coastline tank.  There was the world that I knew lived under and around the Farallones Islands right in front of me with rockfish by the dozen lying about explaining instantly why they are so easy to catch out there.  The first night I only probably saw a quarter of the bottom floor by myself just to truly look in each tank and see everything.  I already enjoy talking and sharing stories with many of the docents old and new as everyone has some interesting stories and reasons why there are there as well.   The first pictures I have (and will post I am just too lazy to get them as I write now) is of the Philippines Reefs which is probably one of the most beautiful tanks and reefs (although at the moment most of the reef part is artificial)  I have ever seen.  What makes it even more amazing (and a cool fact to know if you are a true fan and go often) is that they said its only about half full as of now!  Well I meant to really only write one sentence about all of this but it is hard to hold back.  

On a true Lefty Like Me note I am hoping to make one special edition (and very limited quantity) Grilled Cheese shirt and our next design in the true Lefty Like Me series entitled “Lefties are Always Hot.”  To boost sales on these newest items in these trying times stay tuned for a recession proof guarantee.  If you lose your job the day you get our shirt……..we will take it back from you!  Stay tuned and enjoy the interactive video (I hope to have more of these I just need more willing flash artists….*cough* *anyone* *cough*…..

Interactive East Day Ride or Die.

Think Tank.

I am not sure what % of my day I spend thinking about new ideas, old ideas, weird ideas, practical ideas, impractical ideas, or other peoples ideas but I can imagine it’s a lot.  Today at work we were actually invited to a group brainstorming session where we were given free reign to come up with any and all new ideas regarding our work and workplace.  Needless to say mine went from the serious such as whole kit testing and statistics/theory/why lunch sessions to the silly need for a boombox in our lab so I can reclaim my throne as resident laboratory DJ.  Nothing like aliquoting to some Armin Van Buren or pipetting to Paul Van Dyke.  Fine, all I get to choose from is classic rock who is so fucking loyal to about 200 classic rock songs it should be called Classic Rock 200.  I am both happy and angry that I know at some point I will here Styx – Renegade at some point in my day.  Oh the tunes we use to tune out the mundane reality of a lab rat’s life.    

So a few of my ideas were well accepted and even approved to move forward into the planning and action stages.  This is what LeftyLikeMe is to me except for the daunting fact that I pretty much get to pass on my genious gems to myself and only I can get the hamster ball rolling.  Before I get in any trouble I will admit I have a few fellow furballs who probably will never read this very sentence but I will still say are crucial to the cage.  Maybe just the artist.   Although I am very happy with what I have accomplished with this so far knowing tens of various lefties across the are country proudly displaying my first T-shirt design, I still am struggling with the time to keep bringing more of my ideas for this site to fruition.  I see this site as not only a place for myself to share my lefty vision through my art but for it to be both a discussion and a display of other people’s wares and cares.    As we originally started working on this site and rushing to try and meet Mr. Obama’s rapidly oncoming Inaugeration I was asked what the main goal of this site was and what I intended to get from this.  A single sale room for some lefty inspired shirts and some blogging and community building was not the big board room surprise I have been waiting to share with the world.  No, actually I have had a vision for a site for a while where I could incorporate some of my artistic talents for a while.  It quickly evolved into a very complex new idea that I consider to be almost its own new medium.  New medium…..now that’s something you might mention to get some heads turning.  Too bad we are a million meetings away from me even getting close to delivering that bombshell.  I first gotta get a better feel for the company and where they can go.  In this case for me the company is a website.  I have never written code of any form except for Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left Right, A, B, Select, Start but who the fuck hasn’t right? But last year I took a Flash class at the local community college to see if I could even begin to make my dream a reality.  What did I learn? I did learn how to animate a raindrop falling and turning into a fish.  I don’t want to see that I animated rain turning into fish because honestly it would have been just copies of the exact same fish and rain drop being pasted all over the place and who is that fooling? I will never forget that raindrop fish.  I will also never forget that I did learn there was some possibility in this programming pudding.  No the goal was not for me to learn how to code it myself and get that wheel turning but instead to be able to understand the language of the code so that I could speak it and have someone else translate my vision.  I think it is very important for me to understand the language of a blueprint before I go and hand someone it because in the end it allows me to say make it like this….

Vroom baby....

but apply all these tools/things/spiffynesses so that in the end they turn it into what I actually was envisioning all along.  Except mine would have even more rockets!

Batmobile....lost a wheel!

So tonight I hope that I, like President Barrack Obama (I only have a few more days until a new theme so I gotta give him more name time), have helped make you better understand the plan ahead.  It will be a slow and steady process that will take time.  The bat cave wasn’t built overnight.*  I hope that one day we will all look back at this blog post and be proud to say that we were one of the people that pledged to keep loyally holding on.  We would refresh the news page day in and day out in hopes of some news that we didn’t hear from day 1 (or Jan. 20th however you look at it).  We would pretend to not notice that the contest deadline for the logo was pushed back and changed with no mention as to allow more time for entries other than our friends or family members.  We would buy the last few remaining damn shirts so we can officially take that off the page and start shirt #2 without having those extra haunting my closet.  I actually wish they were literally haunting because then they would not take up any real space and I would not be pushing this so hard.  And that we lefties, we non-lefties, we-ambids would come forth and join the forum and start disussing anything and everything and start submitting new lefty ideas and artwork.  So don’t lose hope because this tank still has plenty of think left in it and I hope you enjoy all that is to come so that one day I get to share in the coming of a new day.  Even maybe a new medium? ! ! 

Sincerely,

LeftMastaMike

*No proof it wasn’t either but I’m going to make that a fact here. 

Lefties Unite.

Janurary 20, 2009

Welcome to our blog blog:

For the first T-shirt, we are going to let Obamii himself sell the shirt and tell you all the reasons why you should join him in his movement. For all legal purposes we are in no way related to Nintendo or the Nintendo Wii nor does this site condone the following comments made by Mr. Obamii. These comments are also in no way a true reflection of President Obama or have any relation whatsoever. It just seemed funny.

Obamii: Ladies and Gentlemen. People and Avatars. Today is the dawn of a new day. Today we march together towards a new hope and a change that has been calling out. Around the country and the entire globe there are millions of people being neglected on a daily basis. Now I will leave President Obama to deal with those people…..because I am worried about a different kind of people. I am worried about only the truly left. I am worried about the hundreds of tens of people who are killed each year from right handed products. I am worried about the woman in Wasilla who is afraid to go to the mailbox because she knows it will only remind her of all the coupons that she doesn’t have the proper scissors to cut them with because they don’t carry them in her area. I am worried about those couple students that walk into classrooms across America and have to compete for the one or two left handed desks in their classrooms. Ladies and Gentlemen I am worried about the left….because it just doesn’t seem right for them.

Now you wonder. What do I know? Who am I? I am not President Barrack Obama? No. But we are still very similar people. Do not think it is just that we look alike.

First thing, President Obama officially has moved to the white house and I have been at my own since the beginning.

Obama has some crazy fans…..who have crazy fans….and it goes on.

I, of course, have some crazy fans. Unfortunately I am not allowed to post a picture of their crazy fans.

Obama also is a man that votes for the people.

And I, too, vote with everybody.

As you can tell we have come from similar paths and will probably face similar ends as we are replaced by the next big thing that awes the masses. Yet I hope we can both leave a mark that will last forever. A mark that will show when Americans and Avatar-Americans took the right path again. The left path…..because left is right again.

Stay tuned for my weekly discussions as I take place in my virtual office and delegate to you my newest constituents. Until then, congratulations Americans for finally getting out of the bush and back in the ballgame. Go America! Go Obama! Join the Million Mii march and support a cause!

Sincerely
Obamii, Leader of the Million Mii March for Obama