eric sorenson

@ahpook.bsky.social

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synthesist, live sound engineer and lighting tech, anti-fascist. product manager for oss supply chain security @github.com ... "Descriptive, helpful, and collaborative, with no indications of prohibited content."

A panel from the graphic novel Transmetropolitan showing the protagonist, gonzo journalist Spider Jerusalem, petting his three eyed cat and holding a lit cigarette. He says "Give me _information_." and behind him is a montage of dystopian TV news and advertisements.
A 'card' of my reddit username with an AI generated summary, which reads: "Engages frequently in r/doommetal, sharing music recommendations and show reviews. Also active in Portland-area and soccer subreddits. Contributions are descriptive, helpful, and collaborative, with no indications of prohibited content."
Google trends timeline search for the phrase "ludicrously capacious", showing a huge spike in 2023, inspired by the use of the phrase in the TV show "Succession"
Black and white doggo with absurdly large paws sleeping on a blanket
Interior of the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, a 1920s venue designed to look like the courtyard of a Spanish castle. Chapterhouse are onstage.
A screenshot of the Etsy shopping page showing two rows of items: The top is labeled "Trending on Etsy" and has cute items like "Gifts for Him" and "Family Reunion Hoodies" that say "I love you so much". The bottom row is labeled "Picks inspired by your shopping" and has hand-printed patches that say "Earth is not dying, it is being killed and those who are killing it have names and addresses" and "Capitalism will kill us all".
A zoomed in detail of this bizarrre AI slop post from the White House depicting Trump as a Star Wars Mandalorian carrying an American flag on a flagpole (WTF). The zoomed in part is of his hand holding the flagpole, with alignment lines showing that the pole itself is discontiguous between the part that is above his hand vs below.
A photo of the Thompson Elk Statue in downtown portland , which earlier today was replaced on its plinth after a six year absence, having been removed during the 2020 BLM protests, where it was repeatedly set ablaze. The statue is famously (a) not of an actual elk, a species which the sculptor had only heard about and never actually seen , and (b) depicted on the cover of Cascadian black metal band Agalloch's 2002 epic "The Mantle".
The Maven interface looks like a military-skinned version of corporate project management software crossed with a mapping application. What the military analyst building the target list sees is either a map layered with intelligence data or a screen organised into columns, each representing a stage of the targeting process. Individual targets move across the columns from left to right as they progress through each stage, a format borrowed from Kanban, a “lean manufacturing” workflow system developed at Toyota, and now widely used in software development.
a 2010s era meme photo of a cat peering pensively over a handrail, with tinder profile style captions that say: What I'm doing with my life: sometimes sheets can be propped up to be a cave but other times they lie flat like a ground. why is that I'm looking for: • poposable thumbs • Tall as counter • Understanding of locks • Warms The first things people usually notice about me: i am small enough to use pieces of furniture in different ways that are surprising to humans eg edge of the bed is actually a tiny step for me to use like a borrower The six things I could never do without: cold chickens, heated chickens, small dry pellet chickkens, chickens from a can with picture of cat on it, chickens from the sea (also in can but missing cat picutre on can), chicken from larger animals like beef The most private thing I'm willing to admit: iwill climb on top of you in the night and settle like a tiny rain cloud
A hotel room "art" piece that has a series of interlocking gears of various sizes in a configuration that makes it impossible for any of the gears to turn.
Reply to a reddit post. OP: "Just spent 30 minutes consoling my 8 year old who broke into tears after I broke the Evander news (Evander was his favorite player, was him for Halloween etc.). I’m personally on the if he doesn’t want to play I’m ok he’s gone, but this side of it sucks…" And my reply: "earning to live with disappointment is an important part of growing up. And an essential part of being a Portland sports fan."
flyer image for an event on Thurs March 12 at the High Water Mark in Portland. It's a community pop up co-hosted by Fire in the Mountains and Cascadian Midsummer festivals, featuring the bands Returning, Dry Wedding, and Mountain Holler, featuring a raffle, q&a, pop-up shop and "revelry".
Sen Merkley - I am a Portland resident and constituent of yours. I have just finished reading through as many of the recently published letters from the children imprisioned in the Dilley ICE facility in Texas as I could before I completely broke down in tears. There are only a few dozen people in the world who have the direct ability to influence government actions in this area, and you are one of them. Our government is committing atrocities under the guise of anti-immigration, and I implore you to do everything in your power to stop it. Defund ICE immediately. Open impeachment and criminal proceedings against the architects and implementors of these cruel policies - Steven Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, JD Vance, and Donald Trump. The Dilley facility and any others like it need to be immediately shut down and the children imprisoned there returned to their families. Please confirm your receipt of this letter and let me know what actions you are taking in this area. Thank you for everything you do for Oregon and for this country. https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-dilley-children-letters
A roadside memorial with candles, flowers, balloons, notes and signs, and other ephemera. A bag of sour patch kids is propped on a candle, as well as a Veterans Administration placard for memorial wreaths with Alex Pretti's name on it. There is a sign on the ground that says ABOLISH ICE.
“We came out here dressed in T-shirts and twirling Hula-Hoops and stuff, and they started gassing us, so we came back with respirators, and they started shooting us, so we came back with vests, and they started aiming for the head, so we started wearing helmets, and now they call us terrorists. Who’s escalating this? It’s not us.” Mac Smiff, Portland journalist and Black organizer MSNBC, July 29, 2020
screenshot of https://x.com/pinboard/status/1628462667559239680?s=46
Cervelo Caledonia-5 in black. All black. none more black.
basement with a bicycle trainer, soldering / woodworking bench, and storage shelves with hardware and electronics parts
A 2023 Portland Timbers primary jersey with DaBella's company logo as the primary sponsor. Dabella, a multi-level-marketing inspired roofing company with numerous BBB cliams, signed a multi-year sponsorship agreement with the Timbers, only to have the Timbers void the contract within two months as news reports emerged of scandalous misconduct on the part of DaBella's C-suite executives. The full story is long and sordid, but suffice it to say those of us watching from the literal sidelines found it unimaginably hilarious to have the FO have to gyrate from "we love them they share our values" to "not THOSE values" over the course of eight short weeks.
Providence Park from the northeast corner flag
Me in front of the digital sign for my talk - "Navigating the Wild Seas of Open Source license compliance"
The pavilion at For Mason in San Francisco , with the Golden Gate Bridge miraculously unshrouded in fog
Greta, a black and white dog with cowprint flecking under the white parts of her fur, sleeping right on top of all of my pillows.
Halftime fireworks at Providence Park in Portland, celebrating 50 years of Timbers soccer
Providence Park's soccer pitch in Portland Oregon
Gobo'ed beams of light radiating through the theater during "Oceans"
My legs standing on a carpet of fallen cherry blossom petals
Walk-in closet clothes rod which is attached to the wall by triangle brackets that are screwed into 1" plywood, which is itself attached to the wall studs
MONO, a 4-piece instrumental band from Japan, on stage at the Roseland Theater in Portland Oregon.
Black and white comic art showing a map of the United States, except the west coast is labeled "MEGA-CITY TWO", the east coast is "MEGA-CITY ONE" and the center is empty and simply labeled "THE CURSED EARTH". There's a small outline of a vehicle headed west with a direction-of-travel arrow behind it. The text says, "But at that moment, Judge Dredd's amazing journey across the cursed earth - with the vital vaccine - was almost over. His land-raider was approaching DEATH-VALLEY..."
The average age of the members of the European Parliament elected in 2019 was fifty. In Canada, the average age in the House of Commons is fifty-two. The average in Australia’s parliament is fifty-one. According to the Pew Research Center, the median age of heads of government across the world, as of last March, was sixty-two. Just 5 percent are in their eighties, and most of those are autocrats. Apart from Biden, the only octogenarian currently running a democracy is Hage Geingob of Namibia, which has a smaller population than Mississippi.
Photo from the early/mid 70s of a young white male with dirty blond hair and blue eyes wearing a collared shirt with wide lapels - as was the style at the time.
A couple hundred people packed into a small, divey bar with a stage ticked in the corner. The band Sorcia are playing bluesy, fuzz-drenched riffs
Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as Eve and Adam from Jim Jarmusch's 2014 film "Only Lovers Left Alive".
Promo graphic in a cyberpunk/vaporwave style for Volt Divers, showing a bald beardo (me) hunched over glowing synthesizers
Agalloch, Autechre (x3), Austra Baroness (x3), Battles, Bauhaus, Big Brave Candlemass, Carpenter Brut, Chat Pile Depeche Mode, DCFC, Dead Can Dance Earthless (x3), Eight Bells, Elder (x5) Faetooth, FNM, Fauna, the Field Godflesh, Grinderman, Guns N Roses, GusGus HELL, Helmet, HEALTH, Heilung IAMX, Inter Arma, Iron Maiden Jane's Addiction, Jesus Lizard, Junior Boys Kaelan Mikla, KANGA, Khemmis, Kraftwerk Lamb of God, Liturgy, Lingua Ignota Messa, Mastodon (x4), The Midnight (x6), Mr Bungle, Mr Lif Neurosis (x5), Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, OM, The Ocean, The Orb, Pallbearer (x4), Parliament, Perturbator, Pink Floyd Quicksand (x3), Queens of the Stone Age, Queensryche Red Fang (x4), REZN (x3), Ride, Rivers of Nihil, Rush Santigold, Shellac (x3), Sigur Ros (x3), Sleep, Soul Coughing (x3) Thief (x3), Thievery Corporation, Tycho (x3), Usnea, U2, UADA, Underworld, Vampire Weekend, Violent Femmes, Vandal Moon Windhand, Warpaint, Whores, Wolves in the Throne Room (x3) Xasthur, the XX, Xymox Yob, YACHT, Year of the Cobra, Young Widows Zeal and Ardor, Zombi
Black and white photo of an open air vendor stall full of tacky Hawaiiana - shell necklaces, novelty tikis, etc. The proprietor sits nearby in a folding chair, on their phone, wearing one of the products - a pointed straw hat with "Hawaii" printed on the front in script.
A fan created tifo (a large-scale banner hoisted in the stands before the beginning of a soccer match) for the LA Galaxy, designed to look like an old school comic book featuring DOCTOR DOOM / MF DOOM the rapper. There's a slogan at the top that's a takeoff of a quote from DOOMs "All Caps": "All caps when you spell the team name". The comic appears to cost 96 cents, a reference to Galaxy's founding in 1996.
A view from the 13th floor of the Multnomah County courthouse in Portland Oregon , looking over a grey and rainy riverfront and the Hawthorne Bridge
Interior of a dimly lit rock and roll venue , POV is behind the sound and lighting consoles. Empty stage is set up for a band. There is, inexplicably and to the author's great annoyance, a structural pillar directly in the middle of the venue.
A wooden modular synthesizer rack with 3 rows of modules. The top two rows are vertically oriented and have an Empress Zoia; Mutable Plaits, Rings and Ripples; Erica Bassline, VCO, Pico DSP; Squarp Rample, dsp.coffee Kali, and others. The bottom row has a new Erica Synths Black Sequencer on the left; ALM PNW; Make Noise Mimeophon, Qu-Bit Data Bender, and an Erica mixer
A medium size female dog with short black-and-white fur, standing in a large grassy park with a happy expression on her face
Airplane selfie of me, a middle aged white dude wearing glasses, a ball cap, noise cancelling headphones, and a T-shirt from the epic funeral doom duo Bell Witch.
A work called "Welcome to Palestine", which depicts a giant military tank looming over a stooped elderly man with a cane, wearing traditional middle eastern robes and head covering
Photo from the tear down of xoxofest, with four printed banners reading "lower your expectations" laid out on the ground atop an upside down folding table
A custom MIDI control surface with faders, LED soft buttons, rotary encoders, and a bank of eight arcade-style buttons
A round table with a small hand lettered note saying "Please take stickers!" and is otherwise completely covered in sticker sheets, art postcards, transit maps from Paris and London, zines, and other ephemera