Sea Fortitude
Sorry about the pun-title. I feel a need to share my fascination with military architecture (largely based upon my desire to live within a heavily armed bunker) with anyone passing by today....
View ArticleJapanese Tetrapod Beaches
Japan’s unnatural/natural terapod breakwaters are lovely markers of man’s role as planet manager, and Japan’s various novel concrete intrusions into the fine art of water management through concrete...
View ArticleShipbreaking
I recently stumbled across the BLDG BlOG’s excellent post, Where Cathedrals Go To Die, about breaking container ships. As someone who’s daily life includes the constant, neighborly presence of these...
View ArticleAlternate Living Arrangements
I’ve been processing some of the non-exhibition photos from my trip to Thailand this year. Yesterday I put up a series of photos of cargo barges and ships taken in Sriracha Harbour, a largely...
View ArticleThe GRI Is on Flickr
I’ve heard terrible, terrible things about how brutal the staff cuts at the Getty were for the hard working folks at the Getty Research Institute. But you can’t keep the resourceful staff of the GRI...
View ArticleFor My Angeleno Cultists and Conspirators of a Literary Bent
Vigilant Citizen, the greatest of all occult/conspiracy/music video review blogs, is in your downtown, analyzing your library. Whether your a card carrying member of P.A.G.A.N. (People Against...
View ArticleTigers @ SMBA
I am so gonna steal this “elongated body tiger line drawing” for some future project. That’s real style, there, just lovely line work. Hollow Brick with Tigers and Bi Disk, from the Eastern Han...
View ArticleEdith Abeyta: Opening Tonight at Windward School & Long Beach Garment...
I’ve been having a number of exciting art moments during “Spring Break in LA 2011!!! Woo!!Woo!!”, including a much anticipated visit to Edith Abeyta’s ongoing installation, Long Beach Garment...
View ArticleGerry Judah: Apocalyptic Cityscapes
I recently came across Gerry Judah’s work on BLDGBLOG, and it’s nuts, totally gonzo hot painting/installation/sculpture. These bleached and skeletal cityscape derived works arouse so much end time...
View ArticleThe Civil War, Now in Vibrant, Modern 3-D
The Library of Congress keeps bringing the heat of history to Flickr’s Commons. For the 150th anniversary of the War of Northern Aggression, they’ve loaded up a cannon load of stereographs,...
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