Rule Forty Two: The Self-Aggrandizing Website of Gavin Edwards

I took this picture two days ago, on my way home from a dentist’s appointment.

Even in Los Angeles, walking has some fringe benefits.

posted 3 October 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

In late 2005, I spent most of a week on assignment in New Zealand, interviewing Peter Jackson and his colleagues about the King Kong remake. (This is the trip that led to my unbelievably jetlagged interview of George Clooney upon my return.) Between interviews, I tried to explore as much of New Zealand as I […]

posted 26 September 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

If you’re new to this site and you haven’t seen my flipwalks before, here’s what you need to know: while I was living in New York City, near the site of the former World Trade Center, I would take walks, leaving the route up to the flip(s) of a coin at every intersection. After an […]

posted 19 September 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

A few more pictures from Burning Man and then I’ll be done for a while (although I might bring some others out as counterprogramming to the Christmas season later in the year–we’ll see). I’m hoping to return to the flipwalks next week.
The Burning Man festival is different things to different people, but I think of […]

posted 12 September 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

I brought along my camera to Burning Man this year, but I don’t like taking too many pictures while I’m there; I feel like it puts me in the mindset of being an observer rather than a participant. But one morning, I went for a long bike ride and took a few pictures on the […]

posted 5 September 2008 in Photos. 1 comment

I got a cool email from Debbie Falb:
This afternoon I was reading a stack of old family correspondence and stories and found something written by my great aunt called “Penny Walk.”
Turns out that in the early ’20s on Staten Island my great grandfather would get all his kids and a lot of the neighborhood kids […]

posted 15 August 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

With this flipwalk, I’m two-thirds of the way to completion of this project. (There’s other pleasing aspects to the number, including it being the fifth power of two–or given my binary decision-making process, the number of possible paths for about three minutes or so of walking.)

That’s a teaser image, as usual: click here for flipwalk […]

posted 8 August 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

Spotted a few weeks ago in a San Francisco apartment building.

No matter how many times you ask you them, no matter how many signs you put up–those cats are never going to close that door.

posted 1 August 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

Taken a couple of years ago on a side street of Chinatown, some hours after a New Year’s parade was over.

posted 25 July 2008 in Photos. no comments yet

Two more pictures from my May trip to the California desert and the Joshua Tree National Park, one involving a crow leaving its perch on a pickup truck:

The other picture is probably my favorite from the trip:

posted 18 July 2008 in Photos. no comments yet