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PAVED MIRACLE STREET
This is a surreal scene for our locale: a perfectly paved boulevard sans potholes or earthquake/disaster movie-worthy cracking. Weirdly, Southern California streets normally are in worse shape than...
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THE MOST PHOTOGENIC PERSON I EVER MET 2.0
Bearing in mind my interpretation of "photogenic" encompassing attractive people becoming even more in front of the camera, (see LINK) Carmen Rayburn-Mariani excelled in the pantheon of the most...
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HOW FAR AWAY
At eight years old first viewing the musical film "South Pacific," I marveled that the Lt. Cable character (actor John Kerr with vocals dubbed by Bill Lee) was just so good-looking. I now realize this...
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BLUE-EYED DEVILS, GLAM SKANKS for a great cause
Above, lead singers of The Blue-Eyed Devils and Glam Skanks, respectively, Ron Young and Ali Torres. The Blue-Eyed Devils and the Glam Skanks will perform an afternoon benefit for Pet Orphans this...
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4TH OF JULY a la Ramones
Happy red, white and blue 4th of July from the USA: my patriotic Ramones t-shirt photographed in our paisley rock and roll bathroom, with dinosaurs (and apropos X video below...) NOTE: link directly...
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VINTAGE CARS for film production
One could research which current film or tv shoot is using this vintage Chevy, Packard and assorted 1940s/50s cars duded up as L.A. police cars, taxis etc. in its production as of July 4, 2013. But...
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LOVE & ROCKETS & COLOR XEROGRAPHY
David and Daniel never stood next to one another onstage by the time Love & Rockets were selling out arenas in the USA. Therefore I spliced together two separate shots from the same gig in my...
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I'M A FEATURED ARTICLE in RECORD COLLECTOR NEWS
Wow, I'm a featured article in Record Collector News! SeeLINK for my two cents on my onetime graphic art teacher, the redoubtable, visual arts icon-creator John Van Hamersveld. Here's the missing first...
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ALLOSAURUS OUTPOST
Technically the Allosaurus is not a reptile, but I applaud the marketing moxie seen last Sat. next door to the Blue-Eyed Devils/Glam Skanks gig (see next posted blog.)
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BLUE-EYED DEVILS, GLAM SKANKS live at PET ORPHANS BENEFIT
Above, Ron Young, lead singer of the Blue-Eyed Devils (and Little Caesar) interfacing (hah!) with one of the puppies offered for adoption at Pet Orphans, Van Nuys, Calif. where the aforementioned bands...
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GUEST PHOTOGRAPHER: KURT INGHAM
Guest photographer: Kurt Ingham. Camera, Polaroid/Cambo. Film: Fuji FP 100C. Date taken: July 9, 2013. Subjects: Karis, Sarahbelle, yours truly. Yes Virginia, there is a Polaroid-type film still...
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This is our own mashup design of a bird feeder that indeed is completely squirrel-proof. Poles, chains, and part of horse's bit did the trick. We don't mind squirrels, it's just that they want to...
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R.I.P. MICK FARREN
Rest in peace Mick Farren, prolific writer, singer, intelligentsia, Social Deviant, gadfly of rock and roll from the 1960s onward. The music biz became more formulaic today with his loss. In his...
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MODERN DAGUERREOTYPE?
Guest photographer: Kurt Ingham. Yours truly circa the late 1970s. Not actually a Daguerreotype, but Polaroid Type 42 roll film (discontinued in 1992) taken with a Polaroid 95 camera, brown degradation...
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KIBITZING WITH LITTLE CAESAR
Singer Ron Young shrugs an apropos "Oy vey!" over a brief technical glitch during Little Caesar's 7.19.13 gig at The Kibitz Room, Canter's Deli in the Fairfax/West Hollywood sector of L.A., home to...
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OBJETS D'ARTS
I love ad hoc art. Photo on top: this installation was hanging above the house paint section of Orchards yesterday, obviously the inspired work of their talented house paint section employees.Photo...
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LOMPOC DOG SHOW 2013
The Western Sighthound Regional Specialty (part of the Lompoc Dog Show cluster, Lompoc, Calif, an hour's drive north from Santa Barbara) always held last weekend in July, always perfect weather. Guest...
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WEIRD MOON OVER HOLLYWOOD
Weird moon resembling a slice of a cheese wheel over Hollywood at Fountain and Highland, returning from photographing Mick Lynes gig in West Hollywood.
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LONG TALL MICK
Long Tall Mick is Mick Lynes, Montreal-bred, London-based traveling troubadour who alit at West Hollywood's Genghis Cohen club 7.27.13. during his U.S. tour. Mick introduces his audience to specific...
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JAMES WILLIAMSON FIELDS SOUTH AFRICA
Three representative photographs by yours truly here LINK adorning an interview with Iggy and The Stooges' guitarist extraordinaire James Williamson by cogent South African journalist/musician Michael...
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