I’ve had this image for several weeks, found in one of my swims through the LA Public Library’s digital archives, but I’ve refrained from posting it because the information packaged with the image is sparse. It lists this is street scene as Sunset and Castelar in 1890, but I’d never heard and could find on …
One of my favorite poses of his.
Just watch: Thanks to Tony Pierce for introducing this to me.
Thought you might like to reflect on this piano-key perspective I was surprised to discover in the living room this morning (click for the bigger picture):
For me it’s rather trivially demonstrated by the fact that the walls of the foyer at our house are of a measurement so specifically and mindblowingly exact to the wheel-to-wheel length of my beloved 8Ball that she is held freestandlingly upright and perfectly in place when set between them, like so above (click for the …
This incessantly slimy wet weather Los Angeles has been suffering with these last few days finally got me nostalgic enough for summer this weekend to battle my balky computer until I finally was able to get the above timelapse uploaded to YouTube. This is the last of four timelapse sequences recorded continuously between June 7 …
I wonder at times about high-priced bicycles and the companies that make them. When the people involved decide upon the retail price, do they do it in all unblinking seriousness believing it an entirely valid amount, or do they nervously hunch over somewhat reflexively in wide-eyed incredulity, like they’re doubtful they’ll get away with such …