Dave Schumaker

A mural I saw while walking through the Tenderloin District today...

This place just looked sketchy though. Yikes.

One of the (many) awesome things about living in San Francisco? You are almost always guaranteed a fantastic sunset. Here is a selection of some of the sunsets I've seen since I moved into this apartment building nearly 2 years ago.

From tonight:

Last night:

Other previous sunsets from our apartment:

And a few sunsets from this past summer over the Golden Gate:

While some of the newer DSLR's on the market have some new, high tech HD movie recording mode, I've been plugging away with my "old" Nikon D300, creating some time lapse movies using the "interval shooting" option hidden in some of the menu settings.

Here are two movies I've shot from the balcony of our apartment, showing traffic on the streets below. I think I may ultimately try to combine these into some sort of larger movie when I get a chance. Something similar to this or this.

Here are some photos I've taken the past few days.

Sunset behind our apartment building:

Peace in the Tenderloin (Shepard Fairey design):

All Alone:

More photos from the California Academy of Sciences. We went again yesterday and finally got to check out the new planetarium. Top notch! One of the coolest things I've seen.

Fog rolling in across the Golden Gate Bridge. This is a short time lapse movie I shot from our apartment's balcony earlier this evening, beginning at 4:30pm with my Nikon D300. Photos were taken every 30 seconds from roughly 4:30 pm to 5:00pm.

Showing the shift in voting from 2004 to 2008. Blue counties show more Democratic votes compared to 2004, while red counties show more Republican votes compared to 2004. Source: NY Times.

The New York Times has a fascinating writeup on the shifting electorate and comparing the results of this election to 2004. Slowly but surely, we're turning the country blue.

Great job from the Upright Citizens Brigade.

[Via Andy Carvin]

What a crazy awesome feeling to see that something I'm planning ends up in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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