Can’t keep up with reporting, visual and otherwise. Anyway, an external view of my workspace garret…
And the walk home, including automotive encounters (my apologies to the non-sympathetic) …
More of the walk home:
Gotta check in on Dog 163 …
And finally — anybody remember the keyboardist of Iron Butterfly? Now playing at a local bowling alley:
Outside on building, on my block:
And elsewhere:
Open this link to see the latest Velouria animation …
Kevin, EOU film and design instructor (and fellow Porschephile and computer programmer) is on a loop from Boise to Glacier Nat’l Park to Yellowstone and back to Idaho on his motorcycle (BMW 1200GSA). We have been in more or less constant email contact, and he sends back pics like these:
In the New York Times piece, “Do You Like ‘Dogs Playing Poker’? Science Would Like to Know Why“, questions about the science of art are explored.
Just discovered some rather ragged 49-year-old negatives, previously buried. Most seem to be from Griffith Park, within easy walking of my Hollywood apartment then.
Further unpacking from our recent move revealed this (among many more) photograph — if you can call it that, given the horrendous lighting conditions, my slow and unsharp lens and the work I had to do to coax any detail to speak of out of the thing — taken during my attendance at a 1969 L.A. Lakers game. I’m pretty sure it shows Wilt Chamberlain doing some damage against the Boston Celtics. I saw some of these live games from time to time as one of my co-workers had season tickets.
At least that’s what some Oxford University researchers are arguing.
Something I came across this past weekend while sorting through old 50-year-old-ish stuff in the process of moving. These kids, with three very distinct kinds of expressions and reactions to me, were playing on a Sunday morning at a schoolyard near the Watts Towers. My friend Roz took me there to see where she worked as she was a teacher at the school.
