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Category Archives: Photography
Fall Colors
Sunday, November 16, 2008
You can tell fall has arrived in San Diego. Sure, every day is sunny and mild, but the change in season is obvious in the colors. You can see that these palm trees are being lit up by a sun that’s much more south in the sky than it is in July. Plus, the glorious [...]
Grundig Mini World 100 PE
Saturday, November 15, 2008
This is the finest pocket radio ever made. It is the Grundig 100 PE. It gets AM, FM stereo, and six shortwave bands. Here is a little gadget that achieves fantastic performance within a small package powered by two rechargeable AA batteries. Sure, it could use a fine-tuning control, but for what it is this [...]
The Great War For Civilisation
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Gerald F. Pearce was one of the two grandfathers I never met. He was in WWI, but not in the European trenches. Instead, Gerald Senior was in the Middle East. 90 years ago today, the Great War ended. My grandfather was in Baghdad, Iraq. Here’s what the main drag looked like on November 11, 1918:
The [...]
Trinket 1958
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Here is another of my mom’s great early color photographs from the 1950’s. She took this picture of a kitten named Trinket back in December 1958. The family cats didn’t start to get weird until the 1960’s.
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Ours is a society that has chosen to live by the sword. The story isn’t likely to have a happy ending.
Gardner Street School
Friday, October 31, 2008
Gardner Street School is a block north of Sunset Boulevard and a few blocks west of La Brea. I showed up here for first through fifth grade and I hadn’t been back inside the place since the last day of school in June of 1969. I used to walk half a block to buy the [...]
Plague of Locusts
Thursday, October 23, 2008
OK, maybe it was one cricket, but you don’t see one of these every day.
1994 View of Venice Beach
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Here’s the view from the front door of the place I lived in on Ocean Front Walk in Venice, California. This shot was taken back in April of 1994. The charming gray apartment building with the little enclosed yard was demolished to make way for two gigantic glass and steel boxes, built up to the [...]
Earthquake Retrofitting
Friday, September 26, 2008
If you live in earthquake country, this is a sight you’re likely to see in your neighborhood very soon.
Recent studies have shown that common bubblegum does a better job than steel when it comes to protecting old buildings from earthquakes. When the ground starts shaking, the bubblegum stretches without breaking, allowing the building to roll [...]
Mad Carew 1974
Thursday, September 25, 2008
This was one of the crazier cats I grew up with in the Hollywood Hills. She was named Mad Carew, a perfect description as well as a catchy moniker. Is she using keen powers of concentration? Is she in touch with a higher consciousness? Or is she nuts? (This is an easy question.)
This photograph is [...]
Pescadero Avenue, O.B.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Ocean Beach is one of the most fun parts of San Diego. Here we see the view west from a few blocks up Pescadero Avenue. I’m looking forward to winter. When this neighborhood gets a few inches of snow, people snowboard down the hill, off the ski jump and into the ocean, and then catch [...]
Learning to Fly
Friday, September 19, 2008
In the middle of March, 1976, I was a senior at Hollywood High School. I figured my college chances would be better if I could prove that I had super powers. While my classmates were busy in the library, I was hard at work trying to learn how to fly!
I also imagined that it would [...]
Caution Rattlesnakes
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Smoking and campfires are forbidden in the Hollywood Hills.
Public compliance with these rules went up dramatically when the Authorities brought in some rattlesnakes to enforce the laws!
Hollywood Construction
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
A massive tidal wave of money is coming into the core of Hollywood. Maybe the rest of California and the nation and the world are all having problems in real estate, but the Entertainment Capitol of the World is getting a lot of new buildings and luxury condos.
Here’s a shot of the cluster of buildings [...]
