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Life and Death.

The most fundamental base of what we understand; the most fundamental part of our lives.

In short, the day has come for DREAMBOAT to end here, on this blogger platform. We've reached over 1,000 posts after-all.

But life, rebirth, is just as sure as death and so now we move to a new plateau: DREAMBOAT on a Tumblr platform!

Just visit www.dreamboatmag.tumblr.com, take our hand, and let's walk these dogs together boo...

A Part Of Me A Part Of You

So good.

An Empty Boat

“Who can free himself from achievement, and from fame, descend and be lost, amid the masses of men? He will flow like Tao, unseen, he will go about like Life itself with no name and no home. Simple he is, without distinction. To all appearances he is a fool. His steps leave no trace. He has no power. He achieves nothing, has no reputation. Since he judges no one no one judges him. Such is the perfect man. His boat is empty”  


- Chuang Tzu


Via NC. 

That Was My Dad's Watch

Mom: Are you really going to Tosa?
Dog: Yes.
Daughter (Aya Ueto ;D): Uncle Tara too?
Quentin: I am Tara-chan. Haha. Haiiya! Samurai spirita!
Dog: He's really into this!
Quentin: *random samurai sword shit*
Mom: Calm down.
Quentin: Yes.
*RIIIING*
Daughter: It's my phone.
Blonde: Is Tara there?
Mom: It's your wife!
Quentin: Gulp!
Blonde: Tara...
Quentin: This is Tara-chan, yes.
Blonde: GET THE HELL HOME!!
Quentin: yyyes!
Dog: Oi oi.

Raw Drug Raps

Taking pictures of me taking pictures.

Shout out to Jono and Laura as well...

Thanks to Ryan for the pics. 

Blank Walls

The More OF You

The kid is still the best player in the league.

Even though he is learning for the first time what being hated feels like.

There Is Nothing Left Of Me

A.J. did the album art work for the latest Live @ KEXP cd, which if you didn't know, you should probably pick up.

Disclaimer: It's not that good of a cd. But your support goes a long way for the station. Which is kinda not true either.

I don't know. It's complicated.

Dare Not, Hope for Nothing by A.J. Fosik

(via canarycoal, dstn)

My Day All Day Everyday

Not so sure this is true.

Via Indexed

When The Mirror Is Still

I don't really know what this is...

But I feel it would push my International Spy / Ninja game into the next level.

Please, Leave Us Be We Have No Needs

AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER MAGAZINE'S LIST OF THE 50 FILMS WITH THE BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, 1998-2008 

My personal favorite movie on this list has to be Kill Bill or Gladiator, but not for the cinematography alone. Also, how the hell is Sky Captain and The World Of Tomorrow on this list? 

I distinctly remember walking out of that movie. 

1. Amélie: Bruno Delbonnel, ASC, AFC (2001)

2. Children of Men: Emmanuel Lubezki, ASC, AMC (2006)
3. Saving Private Ryan: Janusz Kaminski (1998)
4. There Will Be Blood: Robert Elswit, ASC (2007)
5. No Country for Old Men: Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC (2007)
6. Fight Club: Jeff Cronenweth, ASC (1999)
7. The Dark Knight: Wally Pfister, ASC (2008)
8. Road to Perdition: Conrad L. Hall, ASC (2002)
9. Cidade de Deus (City of God): César Charlone, ABC (2002)
10. American Beauty: Conrad L. Hall, ASC (1999)
11. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Deakins)
12. Tie: In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle, HKSC, and Mark Li Ping-bin) and Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro, ASC)
13. The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Andrew Lesnie, ASC, ACS)
14. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Ellen Kuras, ASC)
15. Gladiator (John Mathieson, BSC)
16. The Matrix (Bill Pope, ASC)
17. The Thin Red Line (John Toll, ASC)
18. The Diving Bell and The Butterfly (Kaminski)
19. Slumdog Millionaire (Anthony Dod Mantle, BSC, DFF)
20. Tie: Eyes Wide Shut (Larry Smith, BSC) and Requiem for a Dream (Matthew Libatique, ASC)
21. Kill Bill (Robert Richardson, ASC)
22. Moulin Rouge (Donald M. McAlpine, ASC, ACS)
23. The Pianist (Pawel Edelman, PSC)
24. Hero (Doyle)
25. Black Hawk Down (Slawomir Idziak, PSC)
26. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Deakins)
27. Babel (Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC)
28. Lost In Translation (Lance Acord, ASC)
29. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Peter Pau, HKSC)
30. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Claudio Miranda, ASC)
31. The Man Who Wasn’t There (Deakins)
32. The New World (Lubezki)
33. Sin City (Robert Rodriguez)
34. Atonement (Seamus McGarvey, ASC, BSC)
35. Munich (Kaminski)
36. The Prestige (Pfister)
37. Memoirs of a Geisha (Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS)
38. The Aviator (Richardson)
39. Zodiac (Harris Savides, ASC)
40. The Insider (Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC)
41. Gangs of New York (Michael Ballhaus, ASC)
42. Tie: Brokeback Mountain (Prieto) and The Fountain (Libatique)
43. The Fall (Colin Watkinson)
44. The Passion of the Christ (Caleb Deschanel, ASC)
45. Snow Falling on Cedars (Richardson)
46. House of Flying Daggers (Xiaoding Zhao)
47. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (Eric Adkins)

Losing All Context

I used to live right there, in Brooklyn.

It was a great spot and I miss it often.

Via Epicly Laterd

Index Of All The Things I Love

What is this drink you speak of, "Four Loko?"

Basically, this one is for Young Matt, Gunz and Jonny "Snacks" Devine.

Sup.



It reminds me of Alpha Chino's "Booty Sweat" from Tropic Thunder.

Kein Problem

Did LeBron get played?

Using game theory to understand the decision of Bosh, Wade and James to join forces in Miami

Via Salon.com 

Consider a simple game with three players (no pun intended!) who all have to choose where to play basketball next year. They can each choose to stay in their own city or move to the city of another player. (So for the moment we leave out the option of them all going to New York or Chicago for simplicity’s sake, but I think the logic still holds fine if we expand the number of destinations.) The players get utility from the following four factors:

1. The money they are paid in salary.

2. The chance to win a championship.

3. The quality of life in the city in which you choose to live.

4. Not being perceived as a villain.

Let’s now assume the following:

All three were going to get roughly the same salary no matter where they signed.

The chances of winning a championship increase monotonically the more of the big three sign in the same place for those who sign there (i.e., probability of winning a championship is highest if you sign with both of the other three, which is greater than if you sign with one of them, which in turn is greater than if you don’t sign with either of them). As a corollary, the chances of winning a championship decrease for the one person who signs elsewhere if two of the big three sign in one place.

One gets perceived as a villain for abandoning one’s current team, but this “villain penalty” increases 1) if you originally grew up in the region of the team you are playing for, and 2) the more you say, "well, I might stay; I just don’t know." To put this another way, LeBron will pay the biggest "villain" penalty, and Bosh, who made no secret of his desire to get out of Toronto, will pay the lowest. (Note: For those who care about these sorts of things, we could also call this the A-Rod effect, who still gets booed in Seattle to this day.)

I’m also going to go out on a limb and assume the quality of life in Miami is higher than in Cleveland or Toronto for our young stars (and especially so for Wade and Bosh -- LeBron maybe a little less so because of friends and family in Cleveland).

OK, so where does this get us from the perspective of Wade? His top preference is to stay in Miami (no villain penalty, best quality of life) with Bosh and LeBron joining him (highest chance of winning championship). His decision gets more difficult as Bosh and LeBron go elsewhere, and especially if they go elsewhere together.

What about Bosh? He clearly revealed from statements leading up to the free agency period that he was willing to pay the "villain" penalty to gain the quality of life benefit of being somewhere else. So in our simple game, he too prefers Miami (higher quality of life than Cleveland, given he wants out of Toronto), and he prefers to be there with Wade and LeBron. Again, things get more difficult for him only when the "championship" option looks better elsewhere, especially if Wade and LeBron both go somewhere else together.

Which brings us to LeBron. He is going to be pay a heavy "villain penalty" for leaving Cleveland. If that penalty is sufficient enough to outweigh the benefit of living in Miami vs. Cleveland, then he would likely prefer to be in Cleveland with Bosh and Wade joining him there. (Plus, remember LeBron’s quality of life benefit from Miami is probably lower than that of the other two.) Indeed, he might prefer to stay in Cleveland even without Bosh and Wade, provided those two remain in separate cities. Where things become more difficult for him is if Bosh and Wade both go to the same place outside of Cleveland; in the probability of winning a championship this then makes the difference  between joining them (highest chance, all three in one place) and staying put (lowest chance: He’s in a different city and the other two are in the same city) the largest it could be, making the cost of staying in Cleveland the highest it could be.

So here’s the question: What do you do if you are Wade and Bosh and you want to achieve your most preferred outcome (i.e., all three in Miami)? Once LeBron makes his decision, you simply solve for the highest utility, balancing playing with LeBron vs. quality of life vs. the villain penalty. However, if you can make your decision before LeBron, then perhaps you can influence LeBron’s choice, especially if you have an idea how much LeBron values winning a championship.

Thus the optimal strategy for Bosh and Wade, I think, is for both to credibly commit to going to Miami before LeBron makes his decision. This puts the maximum possible pressure on LeBron to come to Miami. Now, all of a sudden, LeBron is making his decision with complete information: If he sufficiently values the chance to win a championship, he has to come to Miami also. Whereas if LeBron makes his decision first, he might choose to go to Cleveland on the expectation that there is at least some non-trivial chance that Wade and Bosh will join him there.

So this leads to the interesting question: By allowing Bosh and Wade to make their decisions first, did LeBron possibly get himself into a situation where he ended up with a suboptimal outcome? If so, it would certainly put that ESPN special in a whole new light: not just obnoxious, but possibly even counterproductive. By committing himself to a specific timetable -- and remember, the demands of the ESPN show called for absolute secrecy regarding his decision -- he gave Wade and Bosh a chance to both 1) move first and 2) have a little time to think through the strategic value of moving first. So, in the end, the need for the King to play to the public may have led to the King himself getting played -- surely not the first time in history this has happened!

La Chien, La Chat

It is monday, and you might need a small break from the Tour.

Also, it's not like I am a Lance Fan or anything, because those people are gross, but c'mon, he deserved better than what he got.

Or maybe not, I don't know. Whatever.

Late In Time

"Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is about how important it is to have a boyfriend."

– Stephen King  

Wide Open Fields, Where No One Can Feel

I haven't really said anything about Lebron, which is nice and kind and understated: But we all know the situation was poorly managed and as Dan Gilbert so eloquently said, "narcissistic."

To be sure, it was unfortunate.

And yet, great graphic design has sprung from the ashes of a once-great superstar...

"Once-great?" Just kidding.

The King is still maybe my favorite player to gaze upon in the League, although I do think he made an poorly formed decision in going to the Heat. The Bulls, as much as I hate to say it as a diehard Jazz Man from SLC, was the best choice for the young 25 year old.

Lance Armstrong Is Out Of Contenting In Winning An 8th Tour De France

Some people just need to calm down...

You're Not A Lover of Mine

What is that, a UK passport?

No Way

6 months from now...

I Cannot Pretend, I Am Not Like You

All Black Everything.

Even on the top of a dormant volcano.

South Sister, outside Bend, OR.

Thinking About You, Ignoring

'Dem girls so fake!