We’re approaching an era of stability in our lives. There is one roof and only one city. We’re taking the same trips and creating memories together. I found my tripod last week in a garage housing decades-worth of belongings I’ve left behind and mostly forgotten. This was the first time I’d used it [...]
Rochelle (far right) is back home in the Bay after living in South Africa for six months, and then briefly hanging in Los Angeles. Revaz and Laura (middle) are both in the Bay on their way to Portland. Laura will then leave to Kenya for a year where she’ll be based with human [...]
It’s hard to have NorCal love coming from SoCal living. But the city’s colorful secrets make me wonder if there’s a possibility of living here in the near future.
Arts District Los Angeles, formerly known as the Warehouse District, reminds me of an underdeveloped DUMBO. Unused rail lines lead to fences. Buildings are covered in well-known stencil art. The sidewalks are mangled by the remnants of construction work either left unfinished or postponed. There’s even a nice view of Downtown from the [...]
I’m not inspired by fruit, flowers or vegetables. In fact, I get really frustrated at farmers markets because I can’t try most of the produce. I’m allergic to birch pollen, so nectarines, pears, peaches, apples, and kiwi – items always left out in volumes for sampling – are never for me. I’m left [...]
I don’t know much about Culver City, Ca. My time in the area revolved around the Samy’s Camera just west of this shot. I hear galleries have opened (and closed) over the last few years, the rents are alright and there’s a “scene.” I’ve only ever visited the city three times and I’m [...]
Notorious for being the old stomping grounds of Charles Bukowski (a rumor no one I know has ever been able to verify) the Smog Cutter sits between gangland Los Angeles and the Western fringe of Los Feliz/Silverlake. The bar is small in square footage but large in personality. If you’re not ready for [...]
There was a lot of fantasy involved before our move. What would our place look like? What adventures would be waiting? What memories would be photographed and preserved? I remember thinking it wasn’t a good idea to dream. I’ve had a turbulent relationship with Los Angeles over the years and my absence hadn’t [...]
Oso moved out to DF last month just in time to see us leave. It’s natural to wonder what Mexico City would have been like with my fiancee and a really good friend living in the city. It took a visit from David to enlighten my coffee ordering. Before him, it was puro [...]
Anna ran the office from our living room and started with five permanent employees when she first started her job in Mexico City. Two years later, the office she built is bustling with over 100 local employees. Above, a few of her chamba-mates come out to salute her one last time.
The green VW beetle. Once a constant around the streets of Mexico City, the vehicles are sparse now, headed for extinction in 2012. The notorious green beetles, or “el vocho”, were transformed into maroon/gold in 2009 and are now sprinkled randomly throughout the city. Above, a green bug in Roma.
The most fascinated illustrations at the Mexico City Museum involve the canals and waterways once dominant in Mexico City. How this city became the second most populated in the world – on a base considered mush – is still something that boggles my mind. None of this is forgotten in the hundreds of [...]
By normal standards of street beauty, Juan de la Barrera would be considered extraordinary. Arching branches cover the sidewalks overhead with intense green foliage. The houses are weathered with character. Its birds can be heard chirping because silence isn’t unordinary. It feels like a neighborhood in a giant city.
We were on our way to pick up moving boxes and I spotted them. A young man enjoying the few hours before the 5:30pm rains with his lady friend. She never moved, but he turned to look at me the moment I took the first photograph. This is when I feel the most [...]
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