This guy doesn’t mind the rain
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Tsegue Maryam Guebrou
“There ought to be a monument to the man who invented neon lights,” the fictional detective of Raymond Chandler’s crime novels once said.
Los Angeles itself could be that monument. Our boulevards are lined with neon pinks and blues. The oldest operating neon sign ever found was uncovered just last year.
Photographer Vicky Moon set out to document the neon signs that are slowly getting overtaken by flashing LED lights.
For her project “Expired LA” Moon hopped on her pink scooter and made long exposures with expired film. See more of her work on KPCC’s AudioVision.
What adds a layer of intrigue here for me is that the film Vicky Moon used was decades old, discovered at a flea market. — heidi
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favorite artists Edward Hopper (1882-1967)
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Why We Watch: Village of the Damned (1960, directed by Wolf Rilla)
In less than four minutes Rilla has our full attention in this icy, detached, thoroughly thrilling science-fiction masterwork. If there’s a more baffling opening scene in the genre, I would like to see it. You don’t have to look very closely to see this moment echoed years later by Michael Crichton, Steven Spielberg, M. Night Shyamalan, and a few episodes of “The X-Files.”
at Glen Foerd On The Delaware
at Nelly’s Flowers
“I worked hard, I was honest, I provided for my family, and I took care of my parents.”
David McNew, US-Mexico Border Fence, 2009 (via atlantic)
A section of the controversial US-Mexico border fence expansion project crosses previously pristine desert sands at sunrise on March 14, 2009, between Yuma, Arizona and Calexico, California. The barrier stands 15 feet tall and sits on top of the sand so it can lifted by a machine and repositioned whenever the migrating desert dunes begin to bury it. The almost seven miles of floating fence cost about $6 million per mile to build.
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