Thomas Locke Hobbs

Currently near San Francisco

 

Thanksgiving Leftovers

Since I'm not taking a lot of pictures during the week right now I've picked out a few more photos from last weekend in LA.

Shopping carts at the Farmers Market

Thanksgiving decorations

This marks the start of the Farmers Market property. I suppose I should go on some Mike Davis inspired rant about the privitization of public space and the concomitant loss of civil liberties but, eh, I like the Farmers Market.

An alley near Fairfax & 3rd Street. I remember when I was living in New York I knew this Argentine guy who was riding out the crisis by working for a few years in the US. He had a son back in Buenos Aires who demanded that his father send him a picture of a sinister alley of the kind he'd seen in countless in Hollywood films. My friend walked all over the grid part of Manhattan looking for and failing to find an alley way. He should've gone to Hollywood [or south of 14th]. Doritos Spill in the Outer Banks. A container washes ashore. The images accompanying this article are strangely beautiful and also remind me of a lot of contemporary fine-art photographs.

 
Thursday, November 30, 2006

 

Fun with the flash

I rarely use the flash on my camera but there's a lot of cool tricks you can do with it. Strobist is a blog just about lighting with flashes or strobes as they're called. It's a whole other universe of equipment and toys.

 
Wednesday, November 29, 2006

 

Santa & Reindeer at The Grove in LA Figure and Ground by Richard Renaldi is an amazing photo book [and only $30 on Amazon]. A lot of the photos are on Renaldi's website, but they look much better in the book. Renaldi uses an 8x10 inch camera. In digital terms that would be, like, 500 megapixels. In person, the blown-up prints are astounding. Yossi Milo in NYC is exhibiting Renaldi's portraits from Jan 25th to March 3rd next year. Alec Soth on blogging & artistic reputation: Blogging is probably bad for one’s reputation in the art world. The art world is built on exclusivity. Blogs are built on availability. Most art stars don’t even have websites for fear of appearing pedestrian. But photography, for me, is a pedestrian art. It is democratic and accessible. So I participate in the blogosphere knowing full well that it probably hurts my art-world reputation. [link] Turistas Brazilians don't like foreigners criticizing their country [like Americans but not nearly as bad]. I can imagine the shit storm that's gonna brew over the movie Turistas, a soon to be released horror flick that follows a group of sexy Americans who travel to Brazil only to get robbed, beaten, drugged and wind up in some crazy doctor's lair who then harvests the organs of the hott tourist chicks. I'm shocked (!) that anyone would be offended to have their homeland thusly portrayed. Folks aren't too pleased about the stealth promo site paradisebrazil.com which purports to be a backpacker guide to Brazil. The "webcam" shows a dead body on the beach while the words "invasive surgery" "bloody harvest" flash in the background. Interestingly, organ theft is a persistent urban legend in Latin America. Such is the problem that the US State Department even has a page debunking the Baby Parts Myth. The rumor is especially persistent in Guatemala which has a large number of foreign adoptions. Tragically, in 2000 a group of Japanese tourists were attacked in the picturesque mountain village of Todos Santos Cuchumatan [a place I visited in 1995 and fell in love with]. One tourist and the group's bus driver were killed.

 
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

 

My dad in Los Angeles

 
Sunday, November 26, 2006

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