Category Archives: Los Angeles County

Urban Light

13 August 2015 Chris Burden’s arrangement is considered to be the masterpiece of the LACMA collection. You don’t need a ticket to see it: it stands just outside the Rodin sculpture garden.

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Walker and Pillars

13 August 2015 My flickr followers like this black and white atmosphere piece of a man walking to pretty much nowhere in the LACMA complex.

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Rodin

13 August 2015 Rodin’s student Emile-Antoine Boudelle gave us this rare glimpse of the creator of The Thinker and the Lovers. I love his wild and stormy beard.

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Detail of The Orator

13 August 2015 LACMA isn’t the Louve, but it does have some stunning paintings such as “The Orator” by Magnus Zeller, a particularly vivid piece illustrating the period before Hitler’s rise to power.

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Squares, Chevrons, and Sky

13 August 2015 I tried to curse this view of the roof at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a personal favorite, but it did not work.

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Farmer’s Market

13 August 2015 This is between the stalls at the Farmer’s Market.

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Saddam Insane Hot Sauce

13 August 2015 There’s a store at the Farmer’s Market that sells only hot sauce. This is an example that I dared not try.

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Nectarines

13 August 2015 A visit to Farmer’s Market is always good for the food. The number of stands run by actual farmers or featuring crops has been severely reduced over the years, however.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

Date: October 18, 2014 Architecture is not one of my specialities — mostly because I am surrounded by houses, bland office buildings, and merely functional industrial buildings including the hideous Oakley sunglasses plant. But put me in an area such as downtown Los Angeles, where I find myself surrounded by the mountains of men, I […]

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World Pinhole Day

Today is World Pinhole Day and you can bet that I will be out using my two pinhole cameras — a P-Sharan STD and a Pinhole Blender — to capture what I see. Here is a pinhole that I took last December on Solstice: Date: December 21,2014 The Griffith Park Observatory is always a good […]

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