Backflipping Over the Fountains

Backflipping a motorbike over the fountains at Ceasar's Palace - it's Mike Metzger.

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You can see videos of things like this at my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com, and you can read about my cool day job as a name consultant at www.MarkGunnionNames.com

The Colorful Pictures of the Lovely cbrownsf, set to "Rolling Blackouts"

My lovely wife cb is a terrific fine art photographer, and she creates beautiful, colorful pictures from her photographs of the city and country.  A few years back, I picked several of my favorites from among her pictures at that time, and set them to a little tune I'd written and recorded called "Rolling Blackouts".  I hope you like it!










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You can see more of cb's pictures at her lovely website, http://www.cbrownsf.com - and you can see more of my music videos at my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com , and you can read more about my cool day job as a name consultant at http://www.MarkGunnionNames.com

One of the Best Backflippers Ever - Kid backflips to avoid dodgeball!

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See more cool videos like this on my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com, and read about my cool day job as a name consultant at www.MarkGunnionNames.com

The Earth from Above - an awesome time-lapse vid

I know I steal lots of stuff from boing boing, but I just couldn't resist this one.  I think it's some of the coolest video ever. 

Low-Light Time Lapse from the International Space Station

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To see other cool movies, check out my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com, and if you need some effective brand names for a new product, or would like to read about my cool day job as a name consultant, check out www.MarkGunnionNames.com

The Blue Meanie Hits Geyserville

Two weeks ago, Geyserville, the tiny burg we call home, hosted its annual Fall Colors Celebration and Hot Rod Show.  Far and away the star of the show - in my eyes, anyway - for the short time it was on display - was this fabulous baby-blue Buick, with a big On/Off switch on the back, known as The Blue Meanie.  I clumsily deleted my pictures of the great German Gothic mirror-silver lettering along the side of the car, but my lovely wife cb got these great pics, showing the awesome rake of the thing, hunched up on its big rear wheels.  After sitting curbside for a short while, the driver got in and drove it off, and when he was a quarter-mile away at the edge of town, he gunned it, and it sounded like an Indy car as he disappeared in a puff of blue-grey smoke.  Was it a dream?  We may never see it again - it was for sale for ten grand.  

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You can see some of my videos about previous years' Geyserville Fall Folors and Hot Rod Show on the "Mark's" channel of my tiny online TV station, www.HalfBeat.com , and you can find out about my cool day job as a name consultant at www.MarkGunnionNames.com

Your Money Face

Show Me Your Money Face

I could do this one.  I just have to get my hands on a fifty!





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Check out some of the links to the right there to see other weird stuff.  And see my day-job resume at www.MarkGunnionNames.com

7 Billion People On Earth - Which One Are You? (I'm #3,070,917,691)

Calculate Your Birth Order - Among All 7 Billion Of Us





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If you need a new corporate identity or product name that's one in a million (or even 1 in 7 billion), check out my day-job webpage: www.MarkGunnionNames.com

Beefy Business Cards!

Not for your hungrier clients.

Business Cards Made of Meat!

Laser-printed on beef jerky - no kidding.

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If you'd like to try some more traditional marketing methods - or maybe some even weirder ones - you'll still need a name.  Check out my day job - name consultant and freelance namer - at Mark Gunnion Names .com

I've Been Telling Them To Do This for Years!

The last suggestion in this Boing-Boing story that is - just stamp out some authentic 1965 Mustangs! 

Ford making New '65 Mustangs - More or Less

This was the car I drove in high school - a '65, 3-speed 289 mil-chocolate brown Mustang

Scary, Pervy Cupcakes

When Nancy, our good pal from Cloverdale, came down on Wednesday for our weekly dinner and cacha game, we scared her with some of these creepy orange cupcakes we'd made for Halloween Week.  They were yummy!

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Screaming Contest at the Sonoma County Fair

Our Minute with Gumby

An actual encounter with the man of clay himself.

Back in 2007, CW Nevius asked, "What's In a Name? Just Ask the Namer"

During business hours, I'm known as a freelance namer and name consultant.  Chuck Nevius from the SF Chronicle interviewed me about the job back in 2007.  I've since gotten a haircut.

CW Nevius Interviews Name Consultant and Namer Mark Gunnion

"Flipper Is My Idol": SF Poets Attaboy & Burke from 2006

In 2006, a young pirate radio station called Radio X in San Francisco held a little fundraiser at the groovy Frank Chu hangout 12 Galaxies.  One of the performers was a funky 2-man poetry/spoken/rap wigga duo called Attaboy and Burke. Well, Radio X didn't last long, but Attaboy and Burke's Google trail extends a few years later into the 'aughts.

Here's a few numbers from A+B's performance that night.  Thanks for coming out and supporting local radio, dudes!

Some language slightly NSFW. 

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Amazon:

Burke's Law: Season 1 - Volume 1 (First 16 Episodes)

The Over-Caffeinated Helicopter : It's a Backflipper

Everybody who's seen Roy Scheider's 1983 conspiracy/helicopter epic "Blue Thunder" remembers one thing about helicopters (other than the Blue Thunder, of course): They can't do backflips.

The guys who fly a beverage-sponsored helicopter heard this, though, and said, "Bull!"

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things to buy at Amazon:

Blue Thunder

Red Bull Energy Drink, 8.4-Ounce Cans (Pack of 24)

Rare-ish "King Kong" Clip, With Person-Eating

King Kong Vore Clip, Kinda Rare


I don't remember seeing this clip in most versions of 1933's "King Kong", but I stumbled across it when I tumbled into the YouTube world of "Vore".  Vore clips are ones where a person gets eaten, as in, carnivore.  You can apparently flip through thousands of these in a row, if you're so inclined.

Of course, Fay Wray isn't eaten.  As I'm sure you remember, " 'Twas Beauty killed the beast", even in the Jack Black version.


Amazon:

Max Steiner: King Kong

"The Laugh Muscles", featuring colorful pictures by CBrown, with music by Intelligent and Loud

Here's a tune I cut together out of some songs John and I worked on as Intelligent and Loud, called "The Laugh Muscles".  The images are some colorful pictures from my wife, fabulous fine art photographer cbrown.  You can see lots more pictures of hers at her cool website, www.CBrownSF.com

"The Wildlife of San Francisco" by Mark Gunnion

Here's a little video featuring some of the wild animals I saw one sunny weekend in San Francisco, where I lived for almost 25 years.

Most of the music is mine, except the dreamy long drifty bit in the middle, which is me and Jim improvising as "Red English".


Guitar Soloing - The Contemporary Guide to Improvisation - Book and CD Pack

A Mark Gunnion video: "The Hatchery at Lake Sonoma"

Here's some video I shot at the Lake Sonoma Trout Hatchery up here in the Northern Wine Country.

The weirdo music is my own. 

It's very peaceful and spacy.

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus The Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar