Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Aw, You Read Me. Heart.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
WordPress
NO SAINTS IN L.A.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Trader Joe's
The walls of Trader Joe's
This is unusual for Trader Joe's, whose normal in-store decor themes ebb around the Islands. An oasis in the city if you will.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Anonymous
Today is a sad day for the antipathetic group Anonymous, who in 2008, chose to attack Scientology and its followers through an onslaught focused on their communications, exacting the shut down of their website and a flood of black faxes to their headquarters. Dmitriy Guzner, age 19, was charged with unauthorized impairment of a protected computer and faces 12 to 18 months. There's no word on how he was caught, but he pleaded guilty to the charge and is the first member of the Anonymous group to be prosecuted.
In 2008, Anonymous members organized multiple protests outside Scientology's offices and religious centers around the world; a series of foreboding and creepy YouTube videos were released by the group to make their case known. Counter attacks ensued, but the Scientology church denied that they were the source of retaliation. A movement I traced through the pages of Radar and documented. Members of Anonymous are most widely recognized for their use of the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta, an effort meant to protect themselves from personal attacks by the Church.
Teen Pleads Guilty to Scientology Web Attacks - Wired.com
Wiki/Anonymous Group
YouTube Anonymous Channel
Fly Away Home
My Days were spent under a less sunny canopy
Almost...
Denver Museum of Nature & Science:
Indigenous Crystal
Denver!
See the rain?! Like California, this can be a rare treat
Final Twilight Drive
Last Stop! 8pm
Friday, May 1, 2009
Home
In trying to look for a once favorite quote of mine, which goes something like, I'm a foreigner in my homeland, I found this one "Homesickness is...absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time...You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find," said by John Cheever. This statement carries more weight than the former. When I come home, it's to find relics of my past, the familiar toys, memories and people. These things comfort me and remind me of who I was, because new places make me feel lost. The danger of the unknown.
Los Angeles is as much a home to me as much as I want it to be. An obvious point and late realization, but I was never a child of the world. Stepping into that unknown. As John Le Carre said "we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen," and, there is so much more to see.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Smash Labs
Outside on the patio..