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As heard in your bungalow last night, the song “Rollin and Tumblin’” is a song with a great history. We love Muddy Waters‘ version of course:

…and it has inspired a raft of covers, and perhaps all of rock n roll while it was at it.
My most recent favorite version is Jeff Beck’s version, when [...]

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Neat Thing #1
Putting every New Yorker on paper
Story in the L.A. TImes. (Yeah, the L.A. Times. don;t ask me why)
“Artist Jason Polan has an ambitious goal: to sketch all 8.3 million people in the city. He captures his unsuspecting subjects eating pizza, riding the subway, catching a train.”
My take: He probably gets less flak this [...]

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(Listen while lookin’: Colour - “Over the Moon” from their posthumous release Anthology)
A few weeks ago I went out with some friends walking around Downtown L.A. on a Thursday night. I brought the Canonet with a flash on an off-camera cord. I flashed random people on the street I thought looked interesting. I [...]

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I nearly made a hilarious mistake.
A few nights ago I went to see Leroy Powell at Harvelle’s — a very dark little bar. The only camera I wanted in that situation was the Leica M2 with the fast f/1.4 lens. But it had a roll of ASA100 film that wasn’t usable for a [...]

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fun. - At Least I’m Not As Sad As I Used To Be
Music for reading comes from the new band simply called fun. off their album Aim and Ignite.
I headed south on the one-oh-one freeway towards downtown Los Angeles to seek out Walter. See, my trusty Canonet had failed to fire a few times when [...]

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Recently, I did a series of publicity photos for local musician Seven Saturdays (a.k.a. Jonathan Haskell). We hiked up to an idyllic mystical patch of forest in Griffith Park where the light was swirly.
It was a fun shoot. Jonathan, like many people, wasn’t a fan of getting photographed. I kept the energy up [...]

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Laura Duncan - “Open Arms”
As I was breezing through the monthly HearNoHo musical showcase last night, Laura Duncan was a revelation. I’m talking blues riffs, jazz tinges, and one of the strongest voices I’ve heard in a while. This UK transplant is now based in Los Angeles, and I’ll seek her out again. She [...]

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Getty Images wants you « Flickr Blog.
So, Getty Images is no longer reaching into the Flickrverse to anoint a chosen few golden photographers of light. Now they are actively soliciting submissions. Great!  Just great.  Don’t you see what this means?  Before this, I could blame my obscurity on the fact that they just hand’t run [...]

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One of my boring old urban fragment photos was taken by one of my supremely talented Flickr friends and turned into an actual scene. I’m glowing with pride. It’s a stunning transformation that creates a new world in between the ones we know and the ones we imagine. I love it.

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