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

Taken yesterday at LACMA, just outside the new Resnick Pavilion.

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Just outside of Griffith Observatory, there’s an amazing piece of WPA art (technically PWAP, actually, but sponsored by the New Deal). The sculpture features six astronomers: Hipparchus, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Herschel.

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Taken a few days ago, on a walk through Runyon Canyon. That’s part of an abandoned cement court, used years ago for both tennis and basketball.

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Taken two weeks ago, on a walk around the Silver Lake reservoir. As far as I can tell, that’s an annex to the reservoir–currently empty except for what appears to be a whole lot of black foam rubber.

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Found recently on the beach:

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Spotted recently on a lamppost in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles: I don’t think it’s a prank, but it’s hard to be certain.

posted 11 June 2010 in Photos. 1 comment

Taken last month at the annual open house at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Padadena: a closeup on a campus fire truck. (The name for this file on my computer, by the way, is jpl.jpg.)

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I was lucky enough to talk with Dennis Hopper once. I was writing a short piece for the short-lived Rolling Stone “Cool Issue” about his book of photographs, 1712 North Crescent Heights. (Now out of print, the book is available on Amazon for prices starting at $580. Damn, maybe I should sell my copy.) We [...]

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Spotted while walking to dinner last night. I suppose that a swing is basically just a bench with some rigging, but that case is rarely made so starkly.

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Spotted while walking around L.A.

posted 30 April 2010 in Photos. 2 comments