StoopidTall

Everything I have been able to find online about this fun video:

The neatorama link:

http://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/24/STOOPID-TALL-145-foot-Bike/

The video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJXXckWLc0E

A great video with some of the same scenes except shot at ground level, with no music overlay (amazing silence):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh6tw6GcFyI

Some flikr postings from the ground:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyrokinetic/

The blog post on the topic by the same guy, with lots of good words:

http://blog.halbergman.com/2013/04/22

Links to the "apparently very underground" band that the music from the original video is: Listed as "Amoebaz - Rune!"

"The album is called "Nascence". It's very underground apparently." http://youmustlearn.us/2009/12/09/paint-the-town-rune/

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tdkgywegnmm

The guy's AMA on Reddit:

http://tinyurl.com/STOOPIDTALLAMA

A music video showing one of the guy's earlier tallbikes. This whole production is so Los Angeles that I feel like I'm back there:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMrlHHVx8A

Cobra-weave-exploding-stick-dominos

http://www.instructables.com/id/Cobra-Weave-Exploding-Stick-Bomb/step7/null/

Hip Cat

Ah, "Hip Cat", one of T's favorite books, gotten from a book sale at our local library. Here's the book:

Having been to San Francisco, I knew where this story is set, I could almost taste the transience and art of the titular hero. The book drops all kinds of names of clubs, and to my delight I am able to learn more about them through Google.

Minnie's Can Do on Filmore is an obvious place to start. Here is a great article about Minnie, and the comments provide immense elaboration by folks who had been there:

http://newfillmore.com/fillmore-classics/minnies-can-do-club/

An overview of the history of the area and how it was all ended by the "Redevelopment Agency":

http://www.pbs.org/kqed/fillmore/learning/music/swing.html

A nice scrapbook of newspaper articles including the one above:

http://www.charliehickox.com/minnies/

This is just barely related, but just so dang interesting:

http://www.answers.com/topic/for-colored-girls-who-have-considered-suicide-when-the-rainbow-is-enuf-the-choreopoem-in-focus

SO COOL: The Hungry i and the Purple Onion still exist, apparently now under one owner?

http://www.hungryi.net/purple.htm

http://www.sfstation.com/purple-onion-b3868

The Hungry i and the Purple Onion were both part of "North Beach" area described in other articles as earlier victims of the Redevelopment Agency. They appear to have been the home of more folky to mainstream acts rather than jazz:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...From_the_Hungry_i

http://www.travisedmonson.com/smotherslenny.htm

A great article about North Beach in general -- this is where the Coit tower is?

http://www.sftravel.com/northbeach.html

Ok, Wikipedia does help here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungry_i

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Onion

Everythng I need to know about Yo Gabba Gabba

Awesome show. Four seasons so far. Wikipedia presently has a good history of the origin of the show:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_Gabba_Gabba!

Also, a nice summary of Lance Robertson's story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Lance_Rock

The best origin story article that I've found so far, sort of ties everything I've seen in other sources all together:

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20348539,00.html#

Info about the live show, or it would be if it wasn't so polluted with flash and other crap that I can't even read the site:

http://www.yogabbagabbalive.com/

The fan site "gabbafriends" is utterly cool, just a huge list of peoples' personal stories going to the live shows or having YGG themed birthday parties:

http://www.gabbafriends.com/