Dave Bullock / eecue : Programmer | Photographer | Admin | Human

I'm trying to get in touch with Dane Reese. He was an inspirational teacher when I was in High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. If you know or if you are Dane Reese and you're reading this, click on the Email button on the left hand side of this site and let me know how to get ahold of him. Thanks! 

After months of not posting on blogdowntown, I finally put a post together from this month's Art Walk. It's a short photo essay from a few galleries and it's live now. Click here to see my Art Walk post on blogdowntown.

Click here to check out the rest of my photos from the May Downtown Art Walk. 

• Kittens on a Treadmill
  Great, now we need a treadmill.
  (tags: cute cats treadmill)
• LOLCat of the Day
  Kitty-seat!
  (tags: cute lolcat)
• Bar Monkey
  Everyone needs one.
  (tags: bar.monkey monkey japan)

A gallery that I shot for Wired.com just went live this morning. The process for creating the metallic glass is pretty cool. The materials they are producing will end up finding tons of commercial uses in the near future.

Screengrab hosted by flickr. 

• Up the Yangtze - Trailer
  This is going to be a great movie.
  (tags: china three.gorges.dam yangtze)
• Noise - Trailer
  Tapping a primal urge that everyone experiences leads the protagonist of this movie to smash cars when he finds them with their alarms on. Brilliant.
  (tags: noise.movie noise car.alarms smash)
• Hamlet 2 - Trailer
  Ok this looks hilarious.
  (tags: hamlet.2)

• Couple Rides Train From Wedding to Reception
  This is awesome!
  (tags: wedding reception public.transportation matrimony)

• Britain's Got Talent Surprise
  Ok this rocks.
  (tags: britain's.got.talent michael.jackson awesome)

After I was walking back from the protest today, I saw this totally awesome pipe-smoking fellow walking his fat fluffy bunny:

Today's protest was smaller compared to last years May Day protest. I would say roughly 10,000 people gathered beside City Hall at the end of the day. There were three groups, and photographed each of them, the first while it was gathering at Olympic and Broadway, the second from their rally point in MacArthur park to the intersection of 5th and Broadway where I met up with the Legalize LA group, which seemed to be the largest of the three.

Here are some of the photos from today:

More after the jump.... 

I spent the weekend shooting Coachella for Wired.com. Here are the posts I haven't linked to yet. Click the screengrabs to see the photos:

Screengrabs hosted by flickr. 

Here's a link to some of the shots I took today on Wired.com's Listening Post:

Screengrab hosted by flickr.  

As I mentioned yesterday, I'm covering Coachella for Wired.com. I just posted a selection of the photos I shot yesterday over on Wired.com's Listening Post. I got a lift up in a cherry picker over the main stage and got some photos of the whole grounds at night:

Screengrab hosted by flickr. 

I'm liveblogging from Coachella for Wired.com. I just put up my first post featuring some photos I shot last night of the staging and art. I'll be posting a few times a day for the duration of the show. Check it out:

Screengrab hosted by flickr.  

• Please and Stylish Date Picker
  I know this will come in hand for me some day.
  (tags: javascript bookmark someday)

• First Completely Outsourced War
  This movie is going to be hilarious.
  (tags: movie war.inc war)

• What will you do for Earth Day '08?
  Google's cool mashup for Earth Day.
  (tags: earthday)

As I mentioned in my Mojave Wildflower post yesterday, I traveled to the revived ghost town of Shoshone for the Desert Explorers Rendezvous. We went on a few off-road trips, exploring mines and ghost towns along the way. It was my second DE Rendezvous, here is my post from the 2007 Rendezvous. Here are a few photos from the trip:

Click here to see the rest of the Desert Explorers Rendezvous 2008 photos. 

For years my blog allowed comments, but the system was hard to figure out and people rarely commented. Recently I have noticed a few sites using Disquss to power their comments and I decided to give it a try. It's easy to use from both a publisher and a user's perspective. One nice feature is the ability to export all the comments, which I'll likely do once I finish the rewrite of the software that powers this site. I hope you'll leave a comment if you enjoy reading my blog and viewing my photos. Thanks!

A few weeks ago I took a trip out to the desert with my lovely wife and my father-in-law, Jim Proffitt. The group that brought us together for this excursion to Shoshone is known as the Desert Explorers. They are a group of mostly older folks who have an immense pool of knowledge and love for the desert.

I found and photographed 11 different species of wildflowers. Alan Romspert is a botany professor at UC Fullerton and helped me identify the species I shot during happy hour in Shoshone. Here are a few of the photos I shot:

Click here to check out the rest of my Mojave Wildflowers photos.  

This weekend my Search and Rescue Team did a joint training in Calico with the Barstow Mine Rescue team. Here is a video put together by one of our team members, Jeff Lehman: