Author: leh

Fred Lyon’s San Francisco

Photographer friend John turns my attention to a recent showing of some 1940s and 1950s work of San Francisco legend Fred Lyon, documenting his home town in the 1940s and 1950s. This post was originally intended for just my photoblog, but this stuff is too great to not share more widely, starting with this, a personal favorite for me:

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Fred Lyon photograph ca 1953

See the exhibition’s website here.

rDay Five-Hundred-Sixty-Five: Perambulation & Peregrination

Three different walking stints today: downtown in the morning to the doctor, downtown to the Library and to Arts Center East gallery (for the “Innate Heroine” all-woman show) in the afternoon, and the inevitable dusk-time Charlie-dog ramble.

Great Human Odyssey

I’ve already told some of you about this, but now we spread the word.  Don’t miss the Nova special, Great Human Odyssey, a two-hour PBS program that ran on October 5, I think (we caught it last night online).  One of its segments that particularly fascinated me was the story of early, thousands-of-years-ago Polynesian navigation and how  recreations of the same watercraft using ancient navigation skills — no charts, no GPS, no instruments, just reading the stars and flows of ocean currents — is being employed to circumnavigate the world in a three-year voyage, currently underway.  Read more about the voyage here.
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