Cafe LA

If Los Angeles isn’t actually glowing with heat these days, then it sure as heck feels like it! A transition from sun-streaked patio to unrelenting blue sky got me on my feet and on the street, to snap these photos of a coffee shop on Ventura Blvd. in Encino CA.

Lattice Detail

Blue Sky Detail

The photos, on-the-spot layout, and Photoshop finishing (back home) are all about working as quickly as possible to capture the "Look & Feel" of the place. I don’t know if the composition "works." I’ll leave that to you.

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Thunder and Lightning Both Arrive

Thunder and Lightning Biting Through

Cell phone photo before and after digital processing

Somewhere in cyberspace sites like Google and Technorati are cacheing these words in "digital stone". However, this is the artist at work. And I’m not finished with this post yet.

It started with a cell phone photo taken at Laughing Squid Decade 2, where Anita Cocktail and the Twilight Vixen Revue entertained the crowd. Cell phone cameras are cool because they fit in your pocket, and you’re taking your cell phone with you anyway, right? Mine can even Bluetooth images over to a computer. But, the pictures aren’t that good.

Ants inspired by Dali

I copied these ants from Salvador Dali’s famous “melting clock” painting, The Persistence of Memory, using Flash as a drawing tool. It turns out he did something similar, called The Ants. Dali once said "I always encourage people to reproduce my paintings because I find the reproductions much better than the originals."