March 31st, 2009

Take offs

The thing about L.A. before you even land is the lights. Everywhere. Like a circuit board. Beneath or at least near each is a story, a life, a world. Only a glance and I’m reminded of that.

It’s late, but I know the way it would look in the sunlight, the circuit boards stretching between [...]

March 25th, 2009

Seen This Week Short and Sweet

Images from the second phase of my recent travels. I’ll let them speak for themselves.

March 17th, 2009

Landings

Lately I’ve been thinking a tremendous amount about places I’ve been, places I am and places I may be going. As this week’s “Seen This Week” mentioned, since Friday I’ve been in Portland, Oregon. While here, I’ve had the opportunity to connect with a number of old friends, beloved members of my family and a [...]

March 17th, 2009

Seen This Week Gets PDX'ed.

While I put off thinking of a snappier title for my weekly collections of images seen out and about, I thought I’d post a few images from quite a distance out (at least compared to my day to day around L.A.). I’ve been in Portland (the Oregon edition) since March 13 for what could easily [...]

March 4th, 2009

Want some coffee with your water?

Guilty.

I love a great cup of coffee. Black and warm, on a gray rainy day like this, with books piling around me (alright, I guess instance I’m looking at newspapes and transcripts and doing so in a virtual sense — thank you USC Libraries and your various databases), it’s a welcome companion.

As this [...]

March 2nd, 2009

Seen This Week: Feb. 23 - Mar 2

It has been a bit of one of those weekends for me — not to complain to strangers, though — I’ll let the images speak for themselves. Highlights include an afternoon on campus at USC, to a Saturday afternoon visit to the Bicycle district at Heliotrope and Melrose, and a quick jaunt up the coast [...]