Greetings from sunny California.

posted 26 April 2013 in Photos. no comments yet

A couple of months ago, I was in Amsterdam for work (no, really). Walking around one night, I saw this (non-ironic, as far as I could tell) street sign, with English graffito. Does anybody speak Dutch? Is this for real?

posted 29 March 2013 in Photos. no comments yet

Photographed a few days before Christmas in San Mateo, California.

posted 4 January 2013 in Photos. no comments yet

This hellspawn citrus was picked off the tree and photographed two weeks ago in the backyard of a friend’s home in Santa Barbara.

posted 28 September 2012 in Photos. no comments yet

My apologies for the grain: this was taken from my car and then cropped down, but I thought the license plate was remarkable. In case it’s not clear, that’s a BMW featuring the vanity license plate HAMLET, with the A replaced by a star symbol. For me, that sums up a lot of life in […]

posted 21 September 2012 in Photos. no comments yet

There’s an area in Runyon Canyon (a mostly vertical park in Los Angeles) where somebody has arranged stones into a large spiral; it takes a few minutes to walk to the center. There’s also some loose stones nearby, which have usually been arranged to spell a word or two, anything from “ROCK” to “LUST.” Recently, […]

posted 14 September 2012 in Photos. no comments yet

A couple of years ago, I started writing the alphabet just about every day. Specifically, whenever my kids were drawing with chalk on the sidewalk outside our house, I would write the twenty-six letters of the alphabet in one of the pavement squares. It was two minutes of lexical graphic-design jazz–or it was me goofing […]

posted 13 July 2012 in Photos. 2 comments

On the 1868 Soldiers’ Memorial in the center of the town square of Santa Fe: Apparently the word that’s been chiseled out is “savage.”

posted 23 March 2012 in Photos. no comments yet

This New Year’s Day, I woke up early and went to Padadena for the 123rd Tournament of Roses Parade. Of the many marching bands, this was my favorite: That’s a Japanese high-school band, almost all girls, from Kyoto Tachibana. Aside from their general awesomeness, they sounded different from American marching bands, which made them stand […]

posted 17 February 2012 in Photos. no comments yet

Photographed last week at the Orange County Museum of Art (in their “State of Mind” retrospective, part of the “Pacific Standard Time” extravaganza). The work, by Paul Kos, was first presented in 1970.

posted 27 January 2012 in Photos. no comments yet