S P O O L

The End

2006-12-27T19:17:00.000-08:00

BZZZZZZT!

The End

Thanks. It was a fun year.

DAY 57

2006-11-30T06:48:00.000-08:00

"Nothing down here. Wait...there's something near the wire."

Glass Elevator to the Center of the Earth

2006-10-04T17:22:00.000-07:00

"What's down here?" asked the guy.

Photograph by Brian Chun.

Descending Anchor

2006-09-29T09:48:00.000-07:00

Winners in Hell

2006-09-28T08:16:00.002-07:00

STOP

2006-08-03T13:02:00.000-07:00

Reporter

2006-08-03T12:07:00.000-07:00

Doily

2006-08-03T11:49:00.000-07:00

Host & Parasite

2006-07-31T21:07:00.000-07:00

Bookjacket for prestigious literary journal Host & Parasite.

Moving Strike Zones

2006-07-30T20:59:00.000-07:00

Western Lands

2006-07-21T15:51:00.000-07:00

Disguise: Mask and Goatee

2006-07-21T15:12:00.000-07:00

Pacifist Rambo Lands

2006-07-20T02:37:00.000-07:00

"Ballbearing" b/w "Hitler's Brains"

2006-07-13T14:00:00.000-07:00

Stuff found in bunker underneath Burgercrazy on 12th St.

Fumes

2006-07-08T07:56:00.000-07:00

mortal coil chewing gum

2006-07-03T19:47:00.000-07:00

Poster for the drag racing movie of the same name.

Update

2006-07-02T23:26:00.000-07:00

The Chair and the 2005 Christmas Tree

Elvis's Influence

2006-06-21T15:09:00.000-07:00

Tween Wafer

2006-06-20T17:57:00.000-07:00

Photo

2006-06-17T01:07:00.000-07:00

Taken 6-7. Stinson Beach area. Off the side of McKenna trail. (We thought it was the trail but we were actually following animal trails.)

The Walrus Effect

2006-06-14T02:39:00.000-07:00

Standard example of the "cool walrus" phenomenon.

Wolf Spider on Lens

2006-06-01T23:32:00.000-07:00

Wolf spider or galactic ape peeking through lens, hold on.

Missing Starter Dough

2006-05-29T14:46:00.000-07:00

The Gambler

2006-05-23T03:23:00.000-07:00

((Ballad of the Unrestrained Poem aka The Gambler to appear in this space soon))

Life: The Sexy Adventure

2006-05-17T16:38:00.000-07:00

All Is Well

2006-05-16T15:26:00.000-07:00

The man balances on top of the world. The serpent is content and sleeps around the fruit. The baby is sound asleep, not crying anymore. The twin eggs are warm and safe within the earth, incubating for eternity. The guardian stands alert, watching with one mindful eye. All is well.

Bring Back the 3-D TV

2006-05-09T13:54:00.000-07:00

New Rooster Discovered in Median

2006-05-08T17:07:00.000-07:00

New species of bird discovered strutting between cars.

Loves Hot Dogs, Likes to Party

2006-05-05T01:37:00.000-07:00

Wearable Art 4 Sale!

2006-05-01T17:28:00.000-07:00

Found Art. This T-Shirt is available for purchase through E-BAY. International shipping can be worked out. Mention you saw it here and get an original drawing from Eric Saxon, the artist behind most of the images on this site.

Creeping Rainbow

2006-05-01T02:24:00.000-07:00

This “rainbow angel” observed while inebriated and watching Reading Rainbow.

Musical Interlude

2006-04-25T18:06:00.000-07:00

Commercial Break

2006-04-24T07:22:00.001-07:00

Through the Door and Back Again

2006-04-17T00:02:00.000-07:00

Post-It Note found on the vanished Frazier's desk.

ON TO MINIMAL ISLAND, friends

POP

2006-04-13T05:45:00.000-07:00

Gleego.

On a Door

2006-04-11T19:28:00.000-07:00

Iron filings & other small pieces of metal have arranged themselves in a curvilinear array. On a door.

From the Files (5.97)

2006-04-10T01:03:00.000-07:00

Frazier in simpler, more complicated times.

A Stirring Mutiny on the Heatlamp

2006-04-07T07:43:00.000-07:00

Captain Frazier, "Navigator" of the USS Heatlamp.

Towards Minimal Island

2006-04-04T22:04:00.000-07:00

The living figurehead of the USS Heatlamp observes blue snow.

Charlie Brown's Backyard

2006-04-02T14:36:00.000-07:00

Mind Dots and the Li'l Ol' Man

2006-03-29T14:23:00.000-08:00

These dots are a physical manifestation of this little old man's thoughts. Here they have arranged themselves in a neat rectangular pattern. They are mobile, always positioning themselves where he can't see them. We can see them, however, as this photograph makes clear.

Sanitation Dept. of the Collective Unconscious

2006-03-27T23:08:00.000-08:00

you ain't no punk, you punk.
you wanna talk about the real junk?
if i ever slip, i'll be banned
'cause i'm your garbageman.
well you can't dig me you can't dig nothin'.
do you want the real thing, or are you just talkin'?
do you understand?
i'm your garbageman.
yeah, somethin' from the garage and down the driveway.
now get outta your mind and get outta my way.
now do you understand?
do you understand?
louie, louie, louie, lou-i the bird's the word and do you know why?
you gotta beat it with a stick.
you gotta beat it 'til it's thick.
you gotta live until you're dead.
you gotta rock 'til you see red.
now do you understand?
do you understand?
i'm a garbageman.
aw, jump on and ride...
yeah it's just what you need when you're down in the dumps.
one half hillbilly and one half punk.
big long legs and one big mouth.
the hottest thing from the north to come out of the south.
do you understand?
do you understand?
woo, i can't lose with the stuff i use,
and you don't choose no substitutes.
so stick out your can 'cause i'm your garbageman.
louie, louie, louie, lou-i the bird's the word and do you know why?
you gotta beat it with a stick.
you gotta beat it 'til it's thick.
you gotta live until you're dead.
you gotta rock 'til you see red. now do you understand?
do you understand? do you understand?

all right, hop off.

From a Moving Train

2006-03-20T21:20:00.000-08:00

In homage to the great box car artists, this form created in less than five seconds. Art like this has more in common with lightning than with traditional portraiture.

Pulled Apart by Magnets

2006-03-17T11:11:00.001-08:00

Despite warnings, this man proceeded to gun his motorcycle through the image frame. This reaction was recorded by vacuummmagnetic photography at a rate of 6700 rs per second.

Action in Progress

2006-03-14T16:41:00.000-08:00

STOP.

2006-03-07T01:53:00.000-08:00

STOP. There is nothing beyond or on top of this point.

But I told you not to.

Encounter!

2006-03-03T10:49:00.000-08:00

There's something in the eye of that rambler.

Surprised by Carving Beetles

2006-02-24T16:58:00.000-08:00

Artisan sea beetles must have piggybanked into the darkroom. Milkcream emulsion on photographic plate eaten in a design.

Scuba Dive

2006-02-23T01:51:00.000-08:00

Below the boat. Record cover. Licorice Peg's Blessed In An Open Head. Found in trunk on ocean floor. This is actually a varnish slide of the sleeve: actual cover inflated and popped when it reached the surface.

Hunch at Cliff's

2006-02-21T20:57:00.000-08:00

There are some items of interest at the bottom of that boat.

Nite Life in Cobra

2006-02-17T12:10:00.000-08:00

Hat

2006-02-13T14:34:00.000-08:00

This hat was found in abandoned amusement park underneath Hockey Haven. Facial isolation software used to suggest, in green, how the wearer might have worn it. Unclear whether or not this hat has any relation to The Eagle Chief legend.

What Is This?

2006-02-10T16:39:00.000-08:00

There's something in here.

Visual Language Breaks

2006-02-09T06:56:00.000-08:00

This panel was unintentionally excavated from a recent construction project in Curve. An element of a visual language, it signifies the end of a thought. Much like our dot (".").

Uncle Sam's Nuisance Brother

2006-02-02T21:59:00.000-08:00

This fearful apparition is a likeness-in-the-clouds of Uncle Sam's twin brother, the deranged magician Tracy Sam. Photo taken from airplane over the Pacific Ocean. (For scale, note approaching ship at bottom left) Seeing this image over the sea is a good or bad omen, depending on whom you ask.

Beneath the Mud, Evidence of a Fight

2006-01-31T00:26:00.000-08:00

These featherdusters were found underneath an avalanche.

Newspapers from Within the Ocean

2006-01-27T02:17:00.000-08:00

Part of masthead for The Fighter. Newspapers arrive en masse with the gray tide.

Diagram for Battery Placement

2006-01-23T14:23:00.000-08:00

Cross section originally intended to help operators place battery in Pinball Maniac.

Popular Culture on the ground in Okay

2006-01-19T11:40:00.000-08:00

Promotional item. Wrapper for crinkles doubles as bookcover for The Case of the Missing Vampire. Streets of Okay.

Horse Trading Through the Centuries

2006-01-17T16:12:00.000-08:00

Rubbing taken from carved boulder near Hexagon Castle.

Discovery at Windy Sweep

2006-01-16T22:38:00.000-08:00

There are monsters near the ocean.

Unable to Capture

2006-01-14T00:43:00.000-08:00

Not fixed image but moving about.

Color Chasm: A Fantasy

2006-01-14T00:06:00.000-08:00

This is an Icepick Glyph. Recovered from a basaltic chamber of an area rumored to contain a color chasm. Subject apppears suspended or even fossilized.

The Style in Cable

2006-01-13T14:06:00.000-08:00

This man knit a quiver to hold his collection of dice. It is certainly a complicated quiver!

Willow Hollow, Second Day

2006-01-13T01:41:00.000-08:00

Photographed outside a pool hall in WH.

Visiting Jackhammer Forge

2006-01-12T18:51:00.000-08:00

Photographed outside a rockabilly clutch in JF.

Return to Cloven Town

2006-01-10T12:59:00.000-08:00

Photographed outside a bbq restaurant in Cloven Town.

INTRODUCTION

2006-01-08T06:09:00.000-08:00

SPOOL is the web log of Eric Saxon. It features images and words.