March 9 2010
I walked toward the bungalow on the far left because that’s where Geometry class was being held. We had bungalows at our school, next to the last remaining orange groves in the San Fernando Valley, because our real high school location was still under construction after the 1994 earthquake. Yes. I had classes [...]
Director and producer Tamra Davis shot footage of New York City artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in the late 1980’s before the artist died of a drug overdose. After 20 years, she’s revealing her archives to the world in a new documentary called “The Radiant Child.” The trailer above speaks for itself and, quite frankly, I’m emotional [...]
Feb 22 2010
I can never manage to capture a landscape beautifully, but tonight I discovered a mountaintop in my beer glass. The peaks were mesmerizing. “How tall do you think it is?” There was a golden lake at its base and I wondered if the Aztecs had once drifted on this water with their trajineras. [...]
I spotted this at the Southern California Library in South Los Angeles, Ca. We set up a field recording to document youth who grew up in that part of LA and plastered on every grand space of the slightly disgruntled building was a mural, painting or poster. This is one of my favorites. From the [...]
You can’t escape billboards in Los Angeles. They’ve been a signature of the skyline for decades and a valuable resource for advertisers to cram their messages down your throats. Recently they’ve gone digital, and sometimes they are illegal. What’s indisputable is their normalcy in Los Angeles; their presence is an instigator of great debate. I’ve [...]
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