old school tt

random googling lead to random bike find. these are some crazy old school time trial bikes by takhion.

naked fish

yesterday jess and i got some amazing sushi from naked fish.

the order:

- mango tango roll (red crab salad with fresh mango wrapped with cucumber and served with mango wasabi sauce and flying fish caviar on top) (pictured above)

- fire cracker balls (deep fried tuna roll with house trio secret sauce)

- sweet potato roll

- spicy tuna (my lame go-to)

- saki-mojitos (modeled below)



Naked Fish Sushi & Lounge
2084 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA
nakedfishsf.com

Mojo Bicycle Café

...definitely my favorite place so far in san fran. mojo is a cafe/bar and bike shop in one. it's has a great interior and setup that creates a sense of community around an amazing common interest. the shop weighs in a bit heavy on the hipster side, but considering how many fixies are in sf, i can't say it's out of place. great place for happy hour and a tuneup though.

639-A Divisadero Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
mojobicyclecafe.com

coolest (lego) site

this dude does work.



klocki

future cycling ambitions

i'm just saying... i dunno when, but it must happen.

di⋅ver⋅si⋅ty

"well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the civil war era."

i win.

my first 'resolved question' for someone...

gatorade

thanks to little brother for sending me this...

office in madrid

.ppt

amazing.

ironman prospecting

now that boston is checked off the 'to do' list, it's on to an ironman. since they can take up to nine months to train for, i'll be looking to the 2010 season to take one down.

during my initial research i have discovered that is extremely hard to register for a WTC Ironman Series race (most people recommend going to the '09 race to sign up for the '10). i'm still a broke-ass college kid, so flying to a place just to sign up for a race is a bit extravagant for me. i'd prefer to spend that extra travel/ lodging money on a sexy tri-bike.

instead i have been looking into some iron-distance races, and here is what i've found (all dates subject to change for '10 schedule)...

Big Foot Triathlon
Harrison Mills, B.C., Canada
August 8
http://www.triathlons.net/fullbigfoot/index.htm

Great Floridian Triathlon
Clermont, Florida
October 24
http://www.greatfloridian.com/

Redman Triathlon
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
October 24
http://www.redmantriathlon.com/

iowa grade

Prosciutto di Iowa from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.

to order: di bruno bros.

new//photo_site

new site. new photos. kicks the shit out of a facebook album.



check it out...

2:18

my favorite moment in recorded history.



planet earth - great white shark

throwback post to the series was inspired by me doing a search for some sharks to silhouette for my work.

retarded californian

this was the conversation i had with a dude at the bike shop here in imperial beach:

me: hey man, i can't get the bead of my tire to go around the tube, can you figure it out?

him: i dunno man, probably not if you can't.

me: don't you guys have any tire tools that could fix something like this?

him: did you try putting air in it?

me: yes. the tubes bubbling up because the tire's wire bead isn't wrapping fully around it...

him: wow man... that's trippy

me: /disappointed sigh/ is there ANYTHING you can do?

him: i don't know what to tell you man. like fill it with air and work it with your fingers or like a tool or something...

me: okay. bye.


that's what i get for taking a road wheel to a dude who works on fucking cruisers all day. i hate you cali bike shops and your ugly fat-tired bikes.

total badass.

Armstrong Surge Comes in Early Tour Surprise
- JULIET MACUR, Pub: July 6, 2009

LA GRANDE-MOTTE, France — With the wind whirling and whirring across a vast marshland during the Tour de France on Monday, Lance Armstrong did what he thought was natural. He pedaled to the front of the peloton just before the course turned.



For Armstrong, the seven-time Tour winner riding for Astana, it was the right move at the right time.

“I was just trying to stay up front, stay out of trouble, and then it happened,” he said later, after walking off his team bus with a huge smile. “It was good positioning, experience and a little bit of good luck.”

more>>

crazy_movie

Waltz With Bashir

In reflecting upon his time spent in the Israeli army, filmmaker Ari Folman has produced WALTZ WITH BASHIR, a profoundly moving antiwar meditation that is equal parts personal memoir, history lesson, and animated fever dream.

fancy fast food

super creative food site sent to me by zack - fancyfastfood.com

Spicy Chicken Sushi (Fancy Popeyes Chicken)

consumer behavior

Calculating Consumer Happiness at Any Price

NYT - June 29, 2009 - great article on our assumptions of pricing and consumer behavior.

questing

last summer, at a parma house party at my place in tordenaso, my roommates go a keg of this ridiculously good german beer, ganter. since, i have been on a quest to find it... or any information about it... so far i have turned up a recent wikipedia post and their offical website (which is in german, making it not helpful). i'm thinking i will need to just go on an epic journey to the land of great beers.


ganter's website

wiki entry

s. african wines and burnt rubber

A Whiff of Controversy and South African Wines
NYT - June 28, 2009

STELLENBOSCH, South Africa — Suppose the wine label said: This fruity red blend is full-bodied with tastes of sweet mulberry, spicy mocha and burnt rubber. The aroma lingers like the skid marks at an auto accident.

South Africa is the world’s ninth largest producer of wine, an up-and-comer in the global marketplace, the winner of more than its share of accolades in international competitions. How, then, have some of its wines been linked to a stench commonly coughed up by a junkyard fire: the bouquet of burnt rubber?

Most of the answer lies within the lively prose of a British wine critic, Jane MacQuitty of The Times of London. In late 2007, she tasted a run of South Africa’s flagship reds and wrote that half were tainted by a “peculiar, savage, burnt rubber” odor. In a later column she called a selection of the country’s best-rated reds “a cruddy, stomach-heaving and palate-crippling disappointment.”

Here in the glorious wine lands of the Western Cape, where the grape vines grow against a backdrop of stunning mountains, her comments were infuriating and perplexing and even derided as loony. No particular reds had been singled out by Ms. MacQuitty. Exactly which wines carried the scent of smoking steel-belted radials?

“All of us were slandered by a very general statement,” said André van Rensburg, the celebrated winemaker at the Vergelegen Wine Estate.

Wine aficionados began taking sides: yes, there is definitely a telltale rubbery odor, and no, it is all in your imagination. South Africans who dismissed the criticism were demeaned as burnt rubber denialists. Worse, they were accused of “cellar palate,” being so accustomed to tainted wine that their taste buds now welcomed it.

read the rest>>

lame

across the universe... kind of cheesy... kind of bad... kind of a waste of two hours. i like the beatles as much as the next guy, but i would much prefer to just listen to them for two hours than watch broadway-esk solo versions of all their songs forced together into a cheesy plot that looks like a bad pink floyd video remake. some great things should just be left to stand alone.

tide of the dead

...title of the zombie movie i plan on making. ocean. zombies. undertow. terror. need i say more?

new_shoes

finally bought another pair of new balances today... i've had the 903s since last fall (and have since trained and run boston)... so it is definitely time to buy a pair of their new line, the 904s.

dark night of soul

danger mouse's new jam is crazzzzy. he picked guest artists who he thought would bring something unique to each track and told them to go crazy.

article about its release.

d.o.a

death of autotune.
thank fucking god.
hot_97 interview with j

i really hope this moves the popular rap game in a fresh direction. if not... at least jay-z tried.

blueprint 3 -> 09/11/09

bean_town tat

i got this done yesterday at adorned by yoni zilber..... his line work, color, and shading is wicked. be sure to peep his other work.



(the nose is a bit shorter in the photo due to the lens-shortening)

do what feels right

summarizes the article: The Road to Success, Paved With Bad Advice

In the 2003 Tour de France, Armstrong consistently beat his rival, Jan Ullrich, and commentators, Dr. Berry noted, said it was in part because he could pedal so fast. Ullrich pedals slower but uses bigger gears. “What if Lance had never been there and Jan had won?” Dr. Berry said. “Would people say that the reason he is so good is that he pushes a big gear?”

shumi_sushi

shumi japanese restaurant
30 s. doughty ave, somerville, nj 00876
908.526.8596

as zack recalls, we had:

- albacore
- blue fin tuna
- big eye tuna
- white tuna (my favorite)
- three types of salmon
- fried shrimp head
- raw shrimp sushi
- monkfish liver (three different ways)
- quail egg and sea urchin sushi
- grilled octopus salad (ridiculously good)
- two types of mackerel
- an egg dessert
- plus a few other randoms

the head sushi chef prepared fish after fish. we ate and ate.

i definitely recommend it. shumi has changed my perspective on what japanese sushi is supposed to really be like.

jersey genesis triathlon results

swim 800m: 13:28

bike 16miles: 40:01min ( 24mph pace)

run 4miles: 25:59 ( 6:30 pace)

total time: 1:22:58



overall placement: 26 of 236

age group: 2nd

avitae

peep my new flash intro: http://avitae45.com

new tires

rollin on straight 23s

i want dat

time wasters

these games are wicked awesome to blow a big wad of time playing...

crush the castle
and
warfare 1917

tri_upgrade

bought some 2XU tri shorts today, and also snagged some new tires yesterday for the raleigh. i shall be rollin legit come june 6th.

mad skills

this dude is wicked awesome.

bikes

commute meet race

true

same goes for boring aol news stories i hear.

SUBLET my place!

craigslist

up_next

Jersey Genesis Triathlon
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Swim ½ mile, Bike 16 miles, Run 4 miles
sign up too!!

game on!!!!

mother's day

do this.

http://www.mom-sourcing.co.in/

why pratt

is retarded...

so i wanted to take summer classes. i have 11 fucking credits to finish. pratt waited until TODAY to send an email to all students saying they'd be offering some summer classes- they're supposed to start MAY 18th. the email should have gone out back in march so kids could actually plan these courses into their schedule instead of takin them on a fucking whim and dicking over the people, like me, who need to have these classes filled in order to graduate.

point being- there will not be enough people enrolled in the classes i need, and will not be graduating until december.

so instead, i'm heading to san diego for a couple months. peace out pratt douchers.

got swine_flu

saw this from a post by mr. jeremy marx....

Q: who googles me?

A: apparently dirty skanks

books_on_books

just bought a slew of web coding and design books...

- AdvancED Flash Interface Design

- Foundation Web Design

- Bulletproof Web Design

- ActionScript Zero to Hero

- The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3

and

Los Logos IV

//it's sad that i'll be learning more in the next few weeks than my entire career at pratt//

site/stats

thanks to everyone who checked out my portfolio site over the past few days... this is the most viewers its had in a while.



www.mattkoulermos.com

wouldn't it be awesome if i was actually graduating? (the answer is yes. yes it would.)

new_site

is up. www.mattkoulermos.com

really chase?

you got busta rhymes as your spokes person??

...because i'm sure his credit is order.

desktop

it's how i live my life.