Douglas DollarsDouglas Dollars is Six Times Alive

This site contains things that I find interesting that you will also likely find interesting. We won't be this way very long so I'm trying to explain to you who I am through the content of this site.

More of me: Daily photography, Twitter, my portrait studio RAD GRANDPA, and bringing you there.
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I’ve arrived, here’s an update.

I have full data access, but this phone is my only ‘computer’ for the week.

doug@dougstewart.org / 7809643684 (email or iMessage) or @theDoug for Twitter if you need to get in touch.

Posted at 1:59pm.

YACHT - “Shangri-La” (3:55)

I left this here to brighten your morning.

Posted at 5:50am and tagged with: YACHT, I'm in LA until the first,.

Just now when checking into my flight I remembered that past-Doug paid for a seat with no seat in front of him. Maximum legroom! Thanks, past-Doug!

In exchange, here’s a note to future-Doug that only makes sense to present-Doug, “Calm down, enjoy it.”

Posted at 11:12pm.

Beards and glasses making apps for the masses.

We’ll have news in a month when bidding ends. Wish us luck.

Posted at 3:17pm and tagged with: Health Month,.

Beards and glasses making apps for the masses.

We’ll have news in a month when bidding ends. Wish us luck.

healthmonth:

This morning, my listing for Health Month went up on flippa.com.

As a past Health Month user, fan, and someone interested in improving the lives of the people who improve mine, I have placed a bid to purchase Health Month.

It’s a Rails app, is revenue-positive, and is also really fun to use. If any development friends want to go in on this with me, let me know.

Posted at 12:21pm and tagged with: Buster Benson, Let's make greater something great,.

Via unbornwhiskey:

There’s fragrance before the storm.
I know it’s June because there are kids laughing
in the night at nothing for no reason
and your skin’s so soft I can barely tell I’m touching it.
The sound of a thirsty dog
drinking down the hall finally
interrupts us—
Oh yeah, and the storm;
clouds full of dimes
threaten the dream
and the dream’s architect.

People are becoming their essence
and the calm is verging on excessive.

Gordon Downie, “Summer On”

Posted at 7:07am and tagged with: Gord Downie,.

Mostly packed. This is half my bag.
Flight is early Wednesday, Tuesday is off-limits to stress.

Posted at 6:06pm and tagged with: maxfuncon, Polaroid, Instax, Passport,.

Mostly packed. This is half my bag.Flight is early Wednesday, Tuesday is off-limits to stress.

So please take any silence or strangeness here in the next few days as a sign that something good is happening. I have plenty to do when I get back, and these are very exciting times.

Posted at 7:58am.

I wrote less than a week ago that I’m good at naming things, and that it’s my 9th most useful super power. Here’s two cases from today.

  1. Sam has a birthday coming up. There will be a Justin Bieber piñata. The idea is now that people can buy Sam a beer and in exchange get a whack at the piãta. Thus: the Birthday Bieber Bash.

  2. Another pal, Leda, was making a super cake. Coconut almond meal cake with banana liqueur, custard filling, sliced bananas and a chocolate sauce topping. Thus: Drunken Monkey (My original idea was The Monkey’s Birthday Cake)

Posted at 10:51pm.

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Mirah - “Apples in the Trees”

A lot of the lines in this are nice, but this one always comes to mind first, “There’s apples in the trees / Let’s take all that we need”

nudewave replied: “one of my favorites”

Same! I’ve got a special thing for songs that encourage remembering that good things can be endless.

Posted at 7:47pm and tagged with: Mirah,.

Today’s Sunday thinking-walk was fun. These were my rules:

  • Must wander, but walk quickly
  • Listen to YACHT, Nana Grizol, and Cloud Cult
  • Every time a new topic comes to mind, you must change direction
  • See what shows up, and go a bit further

Posted at 1:13pm and tagged with: Edmonton, YEG,.

I’m on day four of the Hipster Habit App by Buster Benson and I’m finding it quite positive, and some of you might want to print one out for yourselves. Think of it like an app for your iPhone, but made with a single piece of paper.

I’m using mine to help make sure people know I appreciate them, which for me comes down to remaining sincere.

Posted at 7:50am and tagged with: hipsterhabitapp, Buster Benson,.

I’m on day four of the Hipster Habit App by Buster Benson and I’m finding it quite positive, and some of you might want to print one out for yourselves. Think of it like an app for your iPhone, but made with a single piece of paper.

I’m using mine to help make sure people know I appreciate them, which for me comes down to remaining sincere.

ghostofwhatshouldhave:

graduated 2k12

So damn proud of you. Keep destroying. Keep building.

Posted at 9:46pm.

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Nana Grizol - “Everything You Ever Hoped and Worked For” (2:58) (lyrics)

This is essentially what I’ve been trying to express the last week or two. Keeping the fragile excitement of creating alive and encouraging its growth in the face of all the things that can easily kill it.

You have the three minutes it will take to listen through. If you don’t, you’re probably grumpy and need to start creating something.

Posted at 7:18pm and tagged with: Nana Grizol, Love it love it,.

photosdaily: 111015-4 - I will say it more and I will mean it more

A longtime friend asked about making a print of this photo and I completely forgot to post my rule up to the net about prints. Here is:

Want a print of anything in I Make Photos Daily? Let me know and I’ll make sure you can either get a perfect print at cost or the original to print your own.

I forget (almost always) just how many friends’ homes have my pictures, but damned if it doesn’t make me so happy when I overcome these lapses.

Posted at 2:47pm and tagged with: I make photos,.

photosdaily: 111015-4 - I will say it more and I will mean it more

A longtime friend asked about making a print of this photo and I completely forgot to post my rule up to the net about prints. Here is:


  Want a print of anything in I Make Photos Daily? Let me know and I’ll make sure you can either get a perfect print at cost or the original to print your own.


I forget (almost always) just how many friends’ homes have my pictures, but damned if it doesn’t make me so happy when I overcome these lapses.