Taken last month in Lancaster, California.

posted 28 May 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

One last photo from the set of Lost. Here we see Dominic Monaghan and Matthew Fox hanging out on the set (under a canopy), waiting to shoot their scenes. Note the DS ring on Monaghan (his character’s band’s name was Drive Shaft) and the wound on his neck (his character had recently survived a hanging). […]

posted 21 May 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

A photo from 2004, when I visited the Lost set in Hawaii; the show was halfway through filming its first season. Those are prop corpses, laid out on the apron of a trailer in the parking lot nearby the location shoot. I believe they were meant to be people who didn’t survive the plane crash, […]

posted 14 May 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

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.

posted 7 May 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

Spotted while walking around L.A.

posted 30 April 2010 in Photos. 2 comments

A mural painted on a wall in Shanghai, China, presumably intended to instill environmental values. I took the photo almost exactly five years ago, so you can judge for yourself how well it has worked.

posted 26 March 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

It shines for all. A picture from a few years ago of the clock promoting The Sun, the defunct New York newspaper. (At the time, the name had been revived by The New York Sun, which kicked off in 2002 with an issue that included the solution to the crossword puzzle in the last issue […]

posted 19 March 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

On a New York City street. The left boot was nowhere in sight.

posted 12 March 2010 in Photos. no comments yet

Another photograph from the Great Wall of China:

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Two photos from lower Manhattan:

posted 26 February 2010 in Photos. no comments yet