Category: Media
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Great Color Sense
Wow! I love Dushan’s illustrations. I’m not as big a fan of the interface. I guess there’s something to be said for being surprised, but would it kill you to give me an idea of what I’m going to get when I click? Anyway, if you’re in to trippy, extremely colorful illustrations, then check ’em…
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You’re Getting Sleepy ….. Sleepy
In case you were wondering, if you stay up until 4 AM to finish reading Children of God, Mary Doria Russell’s just OK follow up to her exceptional book The Sparrow, you will sleep through your alarm the next day, and you will be cranky and tired at work, and you will write extremely convoluted…
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UCLA Sculpture Garden
Today I took a tour of the UCLA sculpture garden. It wasn’t quite what I expected, but it was still pretty cool. Yes, I had my camera with me.
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How Wide Screen Won
Slate’s article How Widescreen Won talks about the way that letterbox has beat out full-screen as the movie format of choice. One of my old blog entries cursed the full-screen format, and there’s a minor debate going on in the comments as transitory users happen upon it as a result of one google search or…
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Get Your Chocolate Outa My Peanut Butter
Man, that new Counting Crows song from the Shrek 2 Soundtrack is trying so hard to be an Elvis Costello song it borders on painful. I actually like a bunch of the Counting Crows stuff, and I love love LOVE Elvis Costello. Those two just do not go well together though. As long as I’m…
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South Coast Botanical Gardens
There’s an amazing botanical garden right in my backyard. I didn’t even know it was there, but if you live in the Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes area, you have to check it out. It’s just off Crenshaw a little south (?) of PCH. It’s vast and gorgeous, and I hear it’s going to be closing…
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Griffith Park Mnt Hollywood Hike
I took a hike up Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park today. It was kind of smoggy or foggy or just some kind of oggy. I took photos anyway, so here they are in all their hazy glory.
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Lost America
I want to shoot pictures like the stuff Troy Paiva is doing in his Lost America night photography series. Some of these images are just … wow!
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Vogue Baby
I’m not typically a big fan of high glamour photography. However, some of Miles Aldridge’s images are truly remarkable.
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The Nature of Monkey was Irrepressible
Monkey was an old Japanese show that spawned the infinitely remixable Monkey Magic. Reminds me a little of Queens “Flash Gordon” only you know with monkeys and stuff. How can you not love a song with a throw away line like “You’re not a god, you’re a birthday cake!”? If anybody has a video to…