in my post yesterday it was pointed out that i didn’t provide a point of scale for the mitten painting.
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garage inside out
January 16, 2011 – 12:09 pm
in just a short time the weather’s gone from “maybe we can own wool clothes in LA” to the usual 80 degrees and sunny. for a hike we went wandering in a lovely canyon in the Palisades (where locked gates aren’t too locked) and saw several thousand feet of wild and rampant nasturtiums. they weren’t [...]
reflected vs. reflection
December 1, 2010 – 8:59 pm
Light arriving at an opaque surface is like me arriving at a buffet. it’s all about which dish will be rejected and which dish will be ingested, since the color of something is determined by which wavelengths of light are reflected and which wavelengths are absorbed. turn away all wavelengths and you are a big [...]
scattered blue light
November 19, 2010 – 3:49 pm
it’s always been a great hope of mine to see the green flash at sunset (or sunrise – but that would require some east coast or houseboat type of living), but so far i have either missed it and/or the sun flashed green without me. yesterday i saw a program about a two-person rowboat race [...]
composition 101
October 23, 2010 – 5:01 pm
there’s a theme going on here, but i’m not sure what it is. pretty much it’s a study in color&composition, or two instances of “one of these things is not like the others.”
magic pedals
October 7, 2010 – 8:07 pm
i’ve been working on a project where the boss is constantly thinking of ways to make money. he’s really good at it, and he’s always trying to angle a better deal, or get a better percentage. it’s a numbers game to him, and the funny thing is that he treats his people really well. you [...]
a body at rest will remain at rest
September 1, 2010 – 12:55 pm
but sand will still fly off your shoes in the most unpredictable way…
dear Eli, thanks for the beach and i heart bacon
August 26, 2010 – 1:54 pm
a messload of legal hubbubery between the California Coastal Commission and David Geffen has resulted in a little coastal access pathway leading from the PCH to the nice stretch of beach in front of some expensive houses. despite the security guy (who takes long lunch breaks in between taking advantage of people who aren’t sure [...]
canine sherman’s glorious brown
July 28, 2010 – 8:52 pm
gotta love them stockings… mo shepherd shermans here and here…