| 121401 |
Christine was in
California for Thanksgiving and I got to spend an afternoon
with her in Long Beach. It was nice and rainy, and I met her
family. This was taken right before I locked my keys in the
car. |
| 121501 |
This is from a
workshop that I taught at LACMA. This little boy, with the help
of his family, had made this mini installation. He was very
proud, as you can see. |
| 121601 |
This is Brisi and Sarai with Kate (Brisi's niece)
in the middle. They're posing during sunset at Spiraling Orchard,
the park I work at in downtown LA. Brisi and Kate are trying
to look like sexy models, and Sarai was just confusedly trying
to follow Brisi's instructions, failing, but looking more like
a model anyway. |
| 121701 |
This is more of a picture of yesterday, when I
went out for coffee with my brother Josh. We're at The Hub,
a coffeehouse in Fullerton. That's my tea is the foreground. |
| 121801 |
This is my bathroom. |
| 121901 |
This photo was taken for a project about displaying
myself. The view is from the back door of my apartment, looking
into my kitchen. |
| 122001 |
If you haven't been there, this is part of the
fabulous chinatown wishing well. It is large and covered with
cups marked, "lotto" "suerte" and "health",
things like that. I especially like the spray paint dots. You
really should see it. |
| 122101 |
I finally got a tv. This one used to be Garret's,
it's old and sturdy. I think he had it since elementary school.
A tv in your bedroom in elementary school! I didn't have a tv
in my room until I was 26! |
| 122201 |
Here's a picture from last summer. It's Alejandra
and Isias, who live next to the park that I work at. This picture
was taken when I had only known them a couple months, the first
time I brought a camera to the park. Taking pictures that day
was the first time I noticed how comfortable we had become with
each other. |
| 122301 |
Mom, Josh and I went down to Escondido to visit
Grandma and exchange Christmas presents. Josh's back hurt badly,
we didn't know why, and asprin didn't seem to help. Grandma
offered Josh some Horse Liniment, which mom rubbed on his back.
That helped a little, and smelled minty. |
| 122401 |
Here's Holly, not actually on Christmas Eve but
in the parking lot outside her annual Christmas party. She had
had a few drinks, but still managed (as always) to be quite
charming. |
| 122501 |
Christmas at the Weesha cabin. Merry Christmas. |
| 122601 |
Ok so this is a really good story. At the park
today, we found an old, rotting crate that someone had dumped
by the alley. We opened it and found dozens of photographs from
the 20's, all of this woman who called herself "Valdeo".
She seems to have moved out here from Chicago (where she was
a dancer) around 1920 in hope of becoming a star. It didn't
work, and she was stuck with all these pictures of herself in
costume. |
| 122701 |
This is a picture of Lauren and Lesley, Julia's
sisters, from last summer. They're in their kitchen in Santa
Monica, making a good dinner. I saw Julia today, but didn't
take any pictures of her. |
| 122801 |
Here's Diane at Millie's. This picture was taken
a couple of months ago, she drove in from the valley for an
interview and met Carla and I for lunch. |
| 122901 |
Hop Louie has the coolest building. I don't think
they actually use the tower, but I like to imagine someon'e
little restaurant office up there. It's right next door to the
Chinatown office of ARTScorpsLA (where I work). It's the short
building to the right of Hop Louie, the one with the blank sign
over the door. |
| 123001 |
I totally won this Monopoly game. That's my mom
with her money all neatly lined up, there. Holly was the third
player and is not in this picture because she had left the room
after being so thoroughly trounced. |
| 123101 |
Happy New Year!
I wish for you nymphs, bacchante and costumes and fabulous as
these. |
| 010102 |
A cold, dry day in the San Bernadino mountains.
Happy first day of 2002. |
| 010202 |
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| 010302 |
I'm sure this snow is gone by now, there's been
sunny days since then. Again with the San Bernadino mountains,
this one taken Christmas Eve on a hike with my mom. |
| 010402 |
Barnsdall Art Park is under construction. It has
a long and venerable history that I can't really go into here,
but it involves oil millionaires, socialists, looting, Frank
Lloyd Wright and many artists. They're tearing it all up, supposedly
to make it better but I don't know, I'm pretty worried about
it. It's really such a great place and such a genuinely good
part of Hollywood and LA and I'll just be so sad if it's ruined.
Here it is through the construction fence. |
| 010502 |
This one kind of goes with the one
of my bathroom. But this is my kitchen. |
| 010602 |
Here's another in the Chinatown series. I like
this because you can see how this part of Chinatown is kind
of really cool and kind of decrepit. |
| 010702 |
These are big houses on Franklin, the street that
separates the Hollywood Hills from just Hollywood. You can guess
which side of the street these are on. I especially liked the
little fringe of bushes hanging down the wall. |
| 010802 |
Here's the view from my parking space out onto
my street, Harvard Blvd. |
| 010902 |
Not the most attractive picture of me, but it
has its merits. My digital camera (which I use to take all these
pictures) can turn around so that the lens is facing me while
the little view monitor is facing me. So here we all are, looking
at the screen and trying to fit in (poor Alejandra isn't quite
making it back there). Brisi, who has an instinct for self-promotion,
is the one looking right into the camera. Those are Esther's
huge, pretty eyes in the forground. I like this picture because
you can really see us responding to the camera, and the camera
kind of becomes part of the picture. |
| 011002 |
Well, if you're going to make a website you might
as well put pictures of yourself on it. |
| 011102 |
This is the view from my back door. |
| 011202 |
Here's me again. I've been spending time at home. |
| 011302 |
Yesterday Mom, Coco and I met at the Watts Towers.
I took a bunch of pictures and at dinner afterwards Coco looked
through them and chose which one would be on the webpage. However,
she wanted it cropped. I don't usually crop my pictures. But,
she is my grandmother, it's almost her birthday and it does
look good this way, so here it is: Coco's choice for today. |
| 011402 |
Sometimes, when I'm stuck in traffic, I take pictures
from the car. |
| 011502 |
Here's another view of the Watts Towers, this
time with Mom and Coco looking up at them. See how tiny they
look? |
| 011602 |
Mom's taking a picture of me. There are nice shadows
on the ground (of guess what?). |
| 011702 |
Brisi has managed to get herself into three of
these Pictures of the Day, and she doesn't even know how to
use a computer. Whenever I pull out a camera, she's all over
it. But this time her brother, Brian, managed to steal the shot
with his little hand signal there. Isias is looking for an out,
he ran out of the picture right after it was taken. |
| 011802 |
This is Karen and Scott's house in Maine. I stayed
there over the weekend, before going to Caleb's wedding in Massachusetts.
Isn't it beautiful? I'm so happy for them to live in such a
place. And I was so happy for me that I got to stay there. Very
quiet. Snowy. |
| 011902 |
Snowy walk in snowy Maine. Icy puddle and gurgling
stream. |
| 012002 |
Caleb and Johanna Wright got married today, January
20, 2002. So, so happy. |
| 012102 |
I got to the airport a little before 6 in the
morning. Here's sunrise over TF Green airport in Rhode Island. |
| 012202 |
This is Karen. You saw her house on the 18th.
Her nose is pink because it was very, very cold. |
| 012302 |
Back to sunny California. Irvine, in this case.
It's a playground by my mom's house. |
| 012402 |
This is my parking lot in the evening when the
lights are on. Last night the power was out for a few hours,
and it didn't look like this at all. I'd never seen my street
lit by moonlight, it looked completely different. |
| 012502 |
Cake and coffee makes an excellent lunch. This
was really good. And I dedicate it to Coco, because it's her
birthday. Happy birthday Coco. |
| 012602 |
Mercy lived next door to the park I work at. She
died last year, before I started working there. She was a teenager,
died in a car accident. On the one year anniversary of her death
the neighborhood had a candlelight procession that ended at
the park, where her father made this shrine on our bench. It's
been there a few weeks now, he's talking about building a permanent
one. |
| 012702 |
Me fooling around, Garret trying to ignore my
antics. Not uncommon. |
| 012802 |
This is Tony, he started working at the park when
I did, with a brief hiatus for Teenage Melodrama. My last day
is this Wednesday, so I thought I should fit in a tribute to
him before I headed out. |
| 012902 |
This is from a fashion exhibit at LACMA (LA County
Museum). |
| 013002 |
Today was my last day of work at Spiraling Orchard.
They threw a "surprise" party for me at Esther and
Sarai's house. That's my cake there with the powdered sugar
on it. |
| 013102 |
My party yesterday was at Esther's house. Here
she is in her kitchen after the party, eating. |
| 020102 |
Doesn't this guy look like he's the head of the
Playmobile mafia? |
| 020202 |
Garret and I (that's him there) went to Avila
Beach for the weekend. It was very beautiful and nice, as you'll
see in the pictures over the next few days. |
| 020302 |
Here's Garret on the Avila pier. Doesn't it look
like an author photo from a book flap?. |
| 020402 |
Sealions. |
| 020502 |
Ok, last picture of Avila. |
| 020602 |
This is from last week, my last day at the park.
Garret gave us a balloon hat making kit as a celebratory final
gesture. It was, as you can see, well received. |
| 020702 |
I had a nice walk at sunset today. |
| 020802 |
I had a nice walk at sunset yesterday. Tangerines. |
| 020902 |
I took the girls (Esther, Sarai and Tabitha from
the park) to the zoo today. They're petting that goat while
it tries to nibble on Tabitha's jacket. I don't' know the yellow
shirt kid. |
| 021002 |
Here's another street by my house. I like that
Trianon building. It has turrets and the big sign on top glows
in blue neon at night, just like a real castle. |
| 021102 |
I liked this tree. It made me think of my grandfather
for some reason. |
| 021202 |
Here's another picture from that same evening
in Avila. |
| 021302 |
Taking pictures of myself in a LACMA bathroom. |
| 021402 |
Here's me and my valentine. Happy Valentine's
Day to you, too. |
| 021502 |
Shhh! I'm watching the Olympic men's ice dancing
competition. Here, look in my medicine cabinet. |
| 021602 |
Yesterday's picture got a good reception. Looks
like you guys like looking in my cabinets... |
| 021702 |
Today I woke up and decided to go skating on the
beach. Really, it's at least half of the point of living in
LA. |
| 021802 |
There were all these sailboats out (easier to
see in the larger view - click on the picture) and it was fun
to imagine that it was a school of monster sharks circling offshore. |
| 021902 |
Took a nice break at the Novel Cafe. |
| 022002 |
Last Sunday Josh, Dad and I visited Grandma. |
| 022102 |
Visited Skylight Books tonight. Charles didn't
want me to take a picture of him, so I just shot his hands. |
| 022202 |
From a class I'm teaching at Marshall High. Students
each got a little rectangle of wood 10 minutes to make something
of it. |
| 022302 |
Here's Sarai at the zoo, from when I took the
girls a few weeks ago. She's petting a goat. |
| 022402 |
Cleaned my bathroom yesterday, including the mannequin
arm I keep in the corner. |
| 022502 |
I have a cold today, so I'm recycling. Here's
a picture from a couple weeks ago, the observatory seen from
my street through the trees. |
| 022602 |
I haven't seen Brisi in awhile, but I just heard
that she's taking boxing lessons and loving it. Brisi the boxer!
I can't imagine anything better. |
| 022702 |
While stopping at a red light in front of the
Beverly Hills Hotel, I took a picture of these poppies in the
median. |
| 022802 |
Again I'm at a red light here, Sunset and Vine.
And this fabulous elderly lady wishes Amanda a very happy birthday. |
| 030102 |
Taught a drawing class at Eagle Rock Magnet yesterday.
This was (supposed to be) inspired by Braque. |
| 030202 |
Mark came down to LA to see other people, but
he graced me with a brief visit, as long as I promised to put
up a picture on the site in honor of the occation. |
| 030302 |
This is from when we visited grandma a few weeks
ago. |
| 030402 |
This is from my going away party at Esther's house.
Here's Esther and Alejandra in the kitchen. |
| 030502 |
The Gutter Girls are so called because they (we)
started as a bowling group. Now we have branched off into other
endeavors, such as this here party last Saturday night. |
| 030602 |
Voted yesterday. Would have taken better pictures,
preferably while voting, but I was afraid that that would make
me get yelled at in Armenian, which is unplesant. |
| 030702 |
Windy day today. |
| 030802 |
My succulents are looking good. |
| 030902 |
I share my birthday (more or less) with Katie
(8th) and her son William (7th). They were nice enough to add
me to their birthday cake. And then their friend Josie showed
up and admitted that it was her birthday, too. |
| 031002 |
On Sunday we had the Rebeccalympics, which was
supposed to be my birthday swim meet, but the only competitive
sport that made it was blackjack. |
| 031102 |
This is from the 789 party on the 9th. It was
a picnic in Griffith Park by the merry-go-round. That's Griffin
(coincidence), Katie's nephew. |
| 031202 |
When you're waiting for those masks to dry, you
have to amuse yourself somehow. |
| 031302 |
Had a nice day yesterday, walking around downtown.
I was walking around downtown looking for Garret's birthday
presents, actually, because today is his birthday. I did find
him some good things, and on top of all that loot I dedicate
this page, indeed this entire website to him. Trying to take
and show the best pictures I can, trying to be the best girlfriend
I can. Happy birthday, G. |
| 031402 |
At the tortilla machine in Grand Central Market. |
| 031502 |
Took the subway. The actual Los Angeles subway. |
| 031602 |
Downtown LA. |
| 031702 |
The chandelier at the Central Library. |
| 031802 |
Mostly what I've been eating recently. |
| 031902 |
Tags on the sidewalk by my house. |
| 032002 |
Another tag by my house. |
| 032102 |
It makes me hungry all over again just looking
at it. And those are banana pancakes, to boot. |
| 032202 |
We drove out to Laughlin, NV today, Mom, Coco,
Josh and I. We stopped at a rest area on the way. It was a beautiful
day, but windy. |
| 032302 |
We got to the Grand Canyon in the afternoon. It
was extremely windy, and cold. But we were staying at the El
Tovar and had a great dinner, so don't feel sorry for us or
anything. |
| 032402 |
When we woke up this morning, it had snowed! We
were so suprised, and though it was before 7 we got up to see
the Grand Canyon in the snow. Of course, during a snow storm
you can't see much. Here's Mom overlooking the Grand Canyon. |
| 032502 |
Today, driving back from the Grand Canyon to Laughlin,
we took Route 66 to Oatman, AZ. It used to be a mining "town"
and is now a little tourist stop in the desert, renowned for
the tame burros (left over from the mining days) that wander
the streets. Here's my family and a family of burros. |
| 032602 |
Oatman, AZ has another claim to fame besides the
burros. After Clark Gable and Carole Lombard got married in
Kingman, AZ, they stopped for an hour at the Oatman Hotel. This
is the bed they used. It's still a working hotel and seems,
sadly, much unchanged. For a $55 "donation" you can
spend the night in this bed, but you have to share the single
bathroom with the rest of the hotel inhabitants. |
| 032702 |
I'm now back in LA, but with plenty of pictures
of the Grand Canyon left. |
| 032802 |
Here's Coco, walking ahead of me along the edge
of the Grand Canyon. |
| 032902 |
This is the Oatman Hotel
again. This room is only $35 a night, but again, no bathroom.
Burros right outside, though. |
| 033002 |
The Hopi House is next to El Tovar, our hotel,
and it looks over the Grand Canyon. There's mom in front if
it. We prefer it in the snow. |
| 033102 |
I know we left a week ago, but I like these pictures
a lot and you're just going to keep seeing the Grand Canyon
until I'm done with them. |
| 040102 |
The sun came out and the snow melted pretty quickly. |
| 040202 |
This is the last one. I know it's obvious, I know
you may have seen it yourself, but it is just so, so big. |
| 040302 |
Did my hand washing yesterday. |
| 040402 |
In the hotel room. |
| 040502 |
Gaby and Kaushik are visiting sunny, beautiful
Los Angeles, and I am playing tour guide. Here's Kaushik in
LACMA, weary from all the excitement. |
| 040602 |
Continuing the theme of Gaby and Kaushik in LA
and in museums, here's Gaby (and a strange man) at the Getty.
We did other things besides go to museums, but I'm trying to
show you what a cultural tour guide I am. |
| 040702 |
I was hired by the Fowler Museum (at UCLA) to
lead students in creating expressive, personal sculptures based
on these little pine boxes. It was part of the "women
beyond borders" project. Their final projects are on
display at the museum. I'm very proud of them. |
| 040802 |
Kaushik at a museum again. They're having this
photography exhibit about trains at the Getty and they have
recordings of trains passing that you can listen to. They were
done by O. Winston Link, who made them so that people could
hear the trains as they were looking at his photos of them. |
| 040902 |
We went to the beach yesterday and took pictures,
found a little creek and some puppies to play with, it was a
good day. |
| 041002 |
Gaby and Kaushik have gone home, but photos taken
while hanging out with them remain. Here's a beach in Malibu
we stopped off at. That little stream is from a creek that runs
under a bridge. Yesterday's photo is from the other side of
the bridge. |
| 041302 |
This is by the La Brea tarpits (which is where
LACMA, the county museum is, because where better to store the
county's art treasures than on lakes of tar?), the burial ground
of many unfortunate, uncoordinated prehistoric animals that
met tar-soaked fates. They have made life-size replicas of the
giant sloths that once roamed the area so that we can imagine
what it would have been like to walk among them. Or maybe it's
a memorial to them. |
| 041402 |
Malibu. |
| 041502 |
Using a face mask. |
| 041602 |
This is the last picture of the grand canyon that
you'll see here. Still looks good. |
| 041702 |
Last night I was supposed to go to karate, but
when Rachelle (pronounced "Raquel") invited me over
to dinner, I decided to do that instead. It turned into a little
pizza party when Scott (her husband) came home and Danielle
came over |
| 041802 |
Getting the pizza out of the oven. An action shot. |
| 041902 |
I went to the post office to pick up a package,
but the line was so long (this was tax day, a few days ago)
that I didn't bother. Then it was returned to sender. |
| 042002 |
Aahhhh. Hawaii. I arrived on this day, the 21st,
to be in Megan's wedding and to have a vacation. Holly was my
traveling mate and we enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. This is
me on the first morning, right after sunrise (wearing my pajama
bottoms there). |
| 042102 |
The big day! Happy wedding day, Megan and Chris!
As I was in the wedding I don't have any photos of the wedding,
but it was fabulous. Little chapel on a lagoon looking over
the ocean at sunset, attractive young couple, vows and leis,
etc. Congratulations Megan Leigh Buchholz Gay, my kukenhagen,
looking beautiful already here in the beauty salon. |
| 042202 |
Ok. I know you probably don't think of pie first
thing when you think of Hawaii. But if you are ever there on
the Kona coast, and if you are a fan of pie (as I am), you must
go to The Coffee Shack. You will sit on a little patio overlooking
coffee plantations and the coast and the sea, you will drink
extremely strong and yummy Kona coffee, and you will eat a slice
of macadamia nut pie. Like pecan pie but actually better. |
| 042302 |
This is Pooler. Holly and I were driving around
the mountains in Hawaii, little quiet areas of macadamia orchards
and coffee plantations, and we saw a handmade sign that said
"Custom Boots". We pulled over and found Pooler taking
a nap in a hammock outside of this shoe shed. His yard had chickens
and dead shoes used as planters for vines and flowers. He woke
up and told us his story, how he went to Hollywood High, learned
cobbling in Catalina, became a jockey, had a daughter born in
the same year and town as I was, moved to Hawaii and currently
lives the good life. He does not have a computer so he will
not get to see this, unfortunately. And I only noticed later,
when looking at this picture, that his shirt read "Body
by God!" |
| 042402 |
We drove to the volcano but didn't see any lava.
That's a shame. But it was sill breathtaking, just the fields
of basalt (when lava cools it becomes basalt, or so I was told)
ending in the ocean. We drove to the end of the road, which
was cut off by a May 1995 lava flow. |
| 042502 |
Our first night in Hawaii we stayed at the Hilton
Waikaloa, because that's where Megan was getting married. It
was beautiful and luxerious and beyond our means, so we spend
the rest of the week in Kailua. But we missed the Hilton, and
returned to spend our last night in Hawaii there. You can get
around the resort by foot, boat or tram. Here are the tram tracks. |
| 042602 |
I highly recommend traveling with Holly. It's
a lot of fun. The 27th was our last day in Hawaii, and we celebrated
by having a little balcony party and text-messaging people on
her cell phone. |
| 042702 |
Home from Hawaii now, but still have many pictures
to show. My first morning there, after lying in the hammock
for awhile, I sat here at Buddha point, the westernmost point
on the big island. |
| 042802 |
Today is Megan and Chris's one-week anniversary.
Here's her dad at the reception, making a toast. |
| 042902 |
There's a pretty little painted church near Captain
Cook in Hawaii, where they put leis on the madonna. |
| 043002 |
Holly regards the macadamia nuts with distrust. |
| 050102 |
Kona coast. |
| 050202 |
This is the beautiful little church that the madonna
with the lei lives in. |
| 050302 |
Ok so this is really cool. We're still in Hawaii,
here, at the volcano. When lava flows, sometimes the outside
of a "stream" of lava cools and hardens but the inside
is still hot and flowing. It flows and flows and then runs out
and the center empties out, but the outside is still hard rock.
That makes a lava tube, a big basalt tunnel that is then there
forever. This is an old one at the volcano, all overgrown with
jungle-y stuff. It was very exciting to see it appear there. |
| 050402 |
Now inside the lava tube is also exciting. It's
wet and drippy, and the walls are all uneven and you get to
think about how lava used to flow through there. |
| 050502 |
The lava tube has a very official and well-maintained
path leading to it from the main road. But near the entrance
are these remnants of steps that used to be the way that people
would get there. Now they don't go any farther than you see
here. |
| 050602 |
Holly (we're still in Hawaii, here) didn't notice
that her leg was bleeding until it had gotten into her shoe. |
| 050702 |
Remember Pooler?
Well, this is where he makes shoes. |
| 050802 |
Finally out of Hawaii. For now. Yesterday I drove
up Beechwood Canyon because I never had. It gets very small
and cute very quickly, and then ends here at Sunset Ranch. This
is the nice thing about our city, how we have these bits of
smallness. |
| 050902 |
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| 051002 |
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| 051102 |
Happy birthday to mom! The restaurant made her
wear a funny hat in exchange for her free birthday peach cobbler.
They also made her kiss a brass pig butt. My mom's a fun lady. |
| 051202 |
For mother's day we all went to an Angels game. |
| 051302 |
The stadium wasn't full. That's the big A that
stands for Angels. |
| 051402 |
You may remember this picture of Danielle from
before. I had to take it away but I vowed I'd put her back,
and I just saw her so now I'm reminded. |
| 051502 |
More graffiti by my house. |
| 051602 |
Black sand beach in Hawaii.
(Star Wars today!!) |
| 051702 |
Pumpkin pie at the Urth Cafe. I don't like the
people there, but I really like the pie. The coffee cake is
also very good. |
| 051802 |
My hand towel. |
| 051902 |
This morning Garret and I had breakfast at Tacos
Delta. |
| 052002 |
Saturday night we went to a party for a sort of
film club called Alpha 60. I was feeling kinda antisocial and
took pictures instead of mingling. Here's Steve, Garret and
Cecil in the kitchen. |
| 052102 |
I haven't been working much recently, which gives
me the chance to complete random little household organizational
feats, like building a shelf in my closet so my shoes don't
have to sit on top of one another. |
| 052202 |
A hallway in Eagle Rock Elementary School. |
| 052302 |
Steve at the bookstore, listening to Camden Joy
read from his new book. |
| 052402 |
Last night Becky, Jeaux, Garret and I had an awfully
good time. We ate at a Thai place, which featured pineapple
fried rice served in a pineapple. There's Jeaux uncovering it,
there. Very exciting. |
| 052502 |
While in the Gap dressing room the other day,
I remembered Laura's series of self-portraits in dressing rooms
and I took some, myself. |
| 052602 |
Garret sometimes gets upset when I won't stop
taking pictures of him. Then, if we're in a restaurant, he'll
threaten the camera lens with a fork. |
| 052702 |
This morning Garret and I went to the 9 am screening
of Star Wars at the Chinese Theater. It was quite crowded, with
people reading the morning paper in their seats before the previews
started. This is a picture of the ceiling in the lobby, by the
snack bar. |
| 052802 |
Here I am in the same Gap dressing room as on
the 25th. |
| 052902 |
Took a walk yesterday evening around my neighborhood. |
| 053002 |
The Hollywood sign, viewed over the OSH hardware
store on Sunset. |
| 053102 |
There's a little creek in Griffith Park that Connie
and I have been walking to, it's all landscaped with rocks and
ferns and is really very nice. |
| 060102 |
This weekend Mom, Josh and I drove up to Healdsburg
to help Jean fix up her house on the Russian River. We did some
yardwork (here's mom taking out a big shrub) and a lot of sightseeing
and hanging out. |
| 060202 |
On Saturday Dad came over and all 5 of us (see
yesterday) went wine tasting. |
| 060302 |
This is Lake Sonoma, which was made by damming
up a river sometime when I was a little girl living up there.
We visited the soon-to-be lake back when I was 4, when this
bridge was there but the water wasn't. Apparently while Mom,
Dad and Josh were looking over one side of the bridge I was
climbing up the other side. When they turned around I was standing
up on the railing, very proud of myself and very near plummeting
to my death. I was snatched down, and now Dad calls this the
"Rebecca Tuynman Almost Memorial Bridge". |
| 060402 |
Kim Abeles is an artist that I work for from time
to time. She lives in a converted warehouse in downtown LA,
where the studio is on the first floor and the living rooms
are built up above. It's very unusual. This is a corner of her
studio. |
| 060502 |
Sonoma County vineyards. |
| 060602 |
The Bon Air Motel is near my house, in a whole
area that used to be really scuzzy but is now getting gentrified
- Starbucks and Blockbuster going in across the street. Maybe
someday if you visit you'll stay there. |
| 060702 |
From Sunset and Western. |
| 060802 |
A storefront on Western had the door ripped off,
and when I looked inside this is what I saw. |
| 060902 |
Back in fern
dell, walking under the bridge. |
| 061002 |
On Friday night Holly and Peter stopped by after
seeing a concert. They chatted for a few minutes then fell asleep
more or less mid-sentence. That was fine with me, but I have
to warn you that this leads to non-consensual photographs such
as this one of Holly. |
| 061102 |
I'm working for ARTScorpsLA again. They have the
park, Spiraling Orchard, downtown. I teach art there. The office
is in a studio in Chinatown, and it always has various student
work lying around. |
| 061202 |
This is the Chinatown Studio (see yesterday) again,
a model of a building they want to put in at their other park,
La Tierra de la Culebra. |
| 061302 |
Here's me sitting next to Garret. |
| 061402 |
On Friday Garret, Chad, Lauren and I arrived in
San Francisco for the Frameline Film Festival where Garret's
movie was playing. We checked in here and various problems ensued
and then were solved. |
| 061502 |
Yes, there's a picture there. Stick with me, here.
I actually really like this picture of Everett (the director)
doing Q&A after the movie, and if you can't quite see it
then adjust your monitors. The movie went very well, we were
pampered and treated like stars and the audience laughed and
cried and then we were all very, very tired. |
| 061602 |
A pirate store! Dave Eggers has a Pirate Store/Tutoring
Center in San Francisco, near Amanda's house, and she took us
there and demonstrated the hiding place. |
| 061702 |
This is one of Kim's studio walls. The two plates
with portraits are smog catchers, made by placing a stencil
over the plate and leaving it out on her downtown LA roof until
enough pollution sticks to it so that the image is visible.
In this case, the portraits are of presidents, and she would
leave it out depending on what their environmental record was
like. Environmentalist presidents were barely outside at all
and are very light. That dark one there is of Ronald Reagan,
who was left out for days and days. |
| 061802 |
On the way back from San Francisco (which was
a couple of days ago but) we stopped at Casa de Fruta outside
of Gilmore. Casa de Fruta is part of the Casa de empire, with
nearby buildings named "Casa de Coffee", "Casa
de Wine" and a train called "Casa de Choo-Choo". |
| 061902 |
I couldn't get enough of the pirate store! These
were some informational signs about scurvy and the ocean. There
were also trap doors, glass eyes, an aquarium theater with a
puffer fish named Karl and lard. It's way, way better than Captain
Rick's. |
| 062002 |
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| 062102 |
This is my dojo, where I take karate classes.
That's Kirin, practicing after class. |
| 062202 |
This one is from awhile ago. David met me at this
french cafe (he's having onion soup there) after I watched Amelie
for the second time. |
| 062302 |
Laundry baskets at Ikea. |
| 062402 |
At the park today the kids were collecting bugs
in paper cups. It's educational. |
| 062502 |
Ikea Burbank is remodeling. |
| 062602 |
Cutting up Polaroids in one of my photography
classes. |
| 062702 |
This is the same girl from a couple days ago that
was showing me her cup of bugs, but
I forgot her name. Every week Judith (not pictured) and her
kids come and teach Aztec drumming and dance. She makes the
drums herself. |
| 062802 |
On Friday we drove to Weesha for Camp Gutter Girl,
our former bowling group's retreat to the mountains. Here's
Darrell, Christine and John in the kitchen. Notice all the fruits
and vegetables. |
| 062902 |
Here's Chad at Weesha. We spent a lot of time
sitting out on that porch. Darrell and I made the flower centerpieces. |
| 063002 |
This is our same central table from yesterday.
This is Connie and our jello. |
| 070102 |
Brisi has made her way into yet another picture.
She's the one on the left. You can go to the index and find
other pictures of Brisi. She doesn't have a computer, but when
I told her she's on my web page she wanted the address, so I
wrote it down for her. Next time I saw her she just asked me
why there weren't more pictures of her on my site. |
| 070202 |
Yesterday Julia came over and we went to the Thai
grocery store. She spotted the durian and decided we should
bring one home to her parents. We did, and were ordered to take
it out of the house. Durian is a large, spiky fruit that smells,
well smells like fart. There's no other way to describe it.
We cut it open and tasted it, the smell was terrible and the
taste was terrible but in a different way. I don't recommend
it. It's outlawed on airplanes because of the smell, by the
way. |
| 070302 |
Breakfast today. |
| 070402 |
Sarai and Brisi in the alley behind the park.
Brisi will be checking up on me to see that I put up more pictures
of her. Here you go, Varsity Brisi. |
| 070502 |
I went to The Huntington Gardens alone last Wednesday.
It was supposed to be a work trip to look at the gardens, but
in the end I was the only one who could go. I had tea by myself
and realized that it had been 5 years since I've been living
in my apartment in LA. It was an anniversary tea. |
| 070602 |
Garret and Charlie, Grandma Lee's dog. |
| 070702 |
Holly is in Hawaii again, this time for work.
This is a picture from when she and I were there in April and
visited the volcano. Wish I was there. |
| 070802 |
Sarai running away from the photo
shoot. She can only take so much. |
| 070902 |
Lucy is the cat that lives at Skylight Books.
She doesn't like to be photographed during her ablutions. |
| 071002 |
Succulents at Huntington Gardens. |
| 071102 |
Today's picture of the day is dedicated to Kathy
Parkman. It's fruit candy at Casa de Fruta. |
| 071202 |
Here's Sarai in the alley behind the park, Kate
way behind her in pink, the neighborhood behind that. |
| 071302 |
My mom's a cowgirl. |
| 071402 |
Kathy and Richard's wedding cake. It was delicious. |
| 071502 |
Dressing room. |
| 071602 |
A cup of bugs. |
| 071702 |
I made special birthday cakes with animals on
them last week. |
| 071802 |
One of the weightlifting benches at the dojo.
I don't actually lift weights, but I admire those who do. |
| 071902 |
My bed by the window. |
| 072002 |
The window in my bathroom . |
| 072102 |
This is where I'm sitting right now. It usually
looks something like this. |
| 072202 |
I'm teaching a photography class at the park,
and for the first class we walked to the library so that we
could poke around all the cameras in a cleaner, better controlled
environment. Here's my class and some groupies (kids who were
too small to take the class but still wanted to come with us)
walking back to the park. |
| 072302 |
Still life next to my computer. |
| 072402 |
Ikea. |
| 072502 |
A student from yesterday's class with her picture. |
| 072602 |
Ali has to be fetched out of a tree yet again
by ever-suffering husband. |
| 072702 |
I know we've all seen pictures like this before
but I can't emphasize enough how much I would like to be this
cat. Also, I'm seeing mom today and she'd like this photo. |
| 072802 |
It's my lovely brother's birthday today. |
| 072902 |
The girls from the park in front of Sarai's house. |
| 073002 |
My hair. |
| 073102 |
A little, grumpy yard in Venice. I like how the
owner capped the gate corners with laundry detergent lids. |
| 080102 |
This man was so great. Mark, Ali and I were admiring
his apple tree and he came around all small and old in a blue
jumpsuit and slippers, and talked to us about the burden of
the apple tree for awhile. I wanted badly to take his picture,
because he looked so good next to his tree, but I was too shy
to ask so I snuck this one. |
| 080202 |
My bathroom window again . |
| 080302 |
Esther paints a chair at the park. |
| 080402 |
Nice sunny summer yard in Venice. |
| 080502 |
Summer is camp time, and this picture is from
last week's art camp at LACMA. This week is photography at The
Huntington. Then that's it for me. I try to limit my camp teaching. |
| 080602 |
Today I taught the kids how to make cyanotypes.
The nice thing about doing this project at The Huntington is
that we can go into the gardens and (under supervision) clip
off bits of whichever plants we want. You can see here the impressions
the plants made on the papers. |
| 080702 |
This photo is not recent. It's from when Julia
and I bought the durian and tried it. Here it is being sliced,
before the smell hit completely. I put it up today in honor
of the Stinky Flower, which should be blooming today (one day
only!) at The Huntington. It is an enormous, rare flower, about
five feet tall, and apparently when it blooms it smells strongly
of rotting flesh. I'm sure my students will be very excited
to see it today. |
| 080802 |
The stinky flower blooms! And many people come
to see it. It really does smell, too. Just like rotting meat.
Apparently that's supposed to attract flies and beetles that
spread the pollen. |
| 080902 |
This is my classroom this week. Today's my last
day to be in the cool lab and get to cut up the pretty plants. |
| 081002 |
You drive your car around every day, knowing but
not really believing that it can break down at any moment. At
least standing by the side of the road gave me some time to
take pictures - and movies. |
| 081102 |
A book one of my students made. |
| 081202 |
Scientists and their students examine a sea turtle. |
| 081302 |
Nancy and the other kids paint chairs at the park.
You can tell how hot it is. |
| 081402 |
Christmas in August. |
| 081502 |
A tiger! A real tiger kitten. I know, I couldn't
quite believe it, either. At the karate dojo last night Heather
came by with her ward. She works at an exotic animal ranch and
they got a litter of white tigers (by the way, I'm not sure
if the terms "litter" and "kitten" are accurate
for tigers, correct me if I'm wrong, please) so she's helping
give the constant care they need at this young age (7 weeks
old). Here's Desiree petting dazed little kitty. She's just
a little bigger than a big cat, but her paws are huge and she's
extremely solid. |
| 081602 |
A counter in a tattoo parlor. |
| 081702 |
These leaves are on a bush along a regular stretch
of road in LA. They're not by a freeway or anything. And look
how they're covered with pollution. That's the same stuff that
gets on my tables when I don't dust often enough. I suppose
it's the same stuff that gets in our lungs, too. |
| 081802 |
The tiger kitten considers going on the mat. |
| 081902 |
Tiger attacks tiger. Notice how huge and strong
the paws are. |
| 082002 |
The Disney Concert Hall downtown is almost finished.
Our little piece of Bilbao. |
| 082102 |
The problem with watermelon is that there's just
so much of it. They need to invent a watermelon the size of
a cantaloupe. |
| 082202 |
Josh at Figaro with our fancy coffee drinks. |
| 082302 |
Well, it's still summer. I hope you're making
the most of it. |
| 082402 |
Michele and Jessica are visiting from New York
and today we went to fancy Rodeo Drive and drank fancy iced
tea. |
| 082502 |
Today was the Sunset Junction street fair, which
was tremendously exciting for several reasons, one of which
was The Zipper. So fast it spins! And bands and funnel cake
and friends and people watching. I like street fairs. |
| 082602 |
Michele and Jessica took their rented convertible
to the beach (they're on vacation in LA, after all) and I stayed
home to work. |
| 082702 |
This picture is from Sunset Junction a few days
ago. Charles lives right there on Sunset and we went up on his
roof to watch the festivities and take pictures. |
| 082802 |
Student work from art camp at the Huntington.
They got to choose which plants clippings were taken from to
make the cyanotypes. |
| 082902 |
A student poses for another student at the Huntington. |
| 083002 |
Little front yard with pumpkins. |
| 083102 |
Today is my show. You may be reading this before
August 31, and that is because in the days before the show I
must be away from my computer and in the gallery. I must neglect
what the show is ultimately about, which is this very website.
If you're going to be in San Francisco, please come by. The
link to show information is below. |
| 090102 |
At my show. These are the flowers I got (at least
some of them are for me, I'm not sure about the rest) and the
binder with all the artist information and stuff. It was all
so great, it went so well. |
| 090202 |
While I was in San Francisco setting up my show,
the weather was really beautiful. It was gorgeous and all the
San Franciscans were so excited to be outside with only one
layer on instead of their usual 2 or 3. |
| 090302 |
I'm home now and it is very, very hot. Too hot.
These are Italian sodas Mark made for us at his house last weekend.
I wish that I had them now. |
| 090402 |
This tart. Oh my goodness. It's from a place in
San Francisco called La Tartine and it's absolutely as good
as it looks. That's vanilla almond cream, there, and spectacular
nectarines. I kept taking a few bites, making quiet happy noises
to myself (I was alone) and taking pictures. I have a whole
series of photos where the tart just gets smaller and smaller. |
| 090502 |
This is Adobe Books, the gallery is behind me. |
| 090602 |
Packing up my pictures for the show. Yes, this
picture is not from today but from last week. That happens sometimes.
This was taken at Mark and Ali's house, with their dog Dallas. |
| 090702 |
Today was Max's first birthday party. There was
a fish theme, including a little fish cake that the kids all
dug into together. Mostly just the frosting was eaten off. |
| 090802 |
Amanda in the doorway to her gallery. Those are
a couple of pictures from my show, there. |
| 090902 |
Jackie at Max's birthday party, playing with Max's
new toys. I suppose that is the function of the big sister. |
| 091002 |
The view from Spiraling Orchard yesterday afternoon. |
| 091102 |
Mercy passed away before September 11, 2001. I
showed a picture of her memorial at Spiraling Orchard earlier
on this site, it tells a little more about her. Her father recently
showed up at the park in camoflage, and explained that he gives
one day each month to Mercy, and since her favorite thing to
do was go camping in the woods with him he dresses in camping
clothes on that day. But not to work. He also asked to have
this permament memorial at the park, he keeps flowers at it
and we tend them (the non-plastic ones). It seems like today
is going to be our new day of memorials, and we're all going
to hear a lot of stories. So that's mine. |
| 091202 |
A blast from the past. Holly in Hawaii eating
a papaya. She's eating a papaya at The Coffee Shack, which you
may remember is where the macadamia nut pie comes from and the
place Kathy contacted to get said recipe. Holly is a big fan
of papaya and enjoyed this one very much. |
| 091302 |
I want to go to karate, especially since I have
a test coming up next month. But I hurt my leg a little bit
last Sunday and am trying to stay off of it until it's healed.
Erg.
This little tiger is much bigger now and she has her first job
next week. She eats about 5 cups of meat a day. |
| 091402 |
Today Garret and I went to Universal Studios courtesy
of some free passes Coco gave us. Last time I went was in high
school, and I was amazed by the "movie magic". I've
learned a lot more about movie magic since then, and such wonders
as this collapsing bridge didn't quite do it for me. |
| 091502 |
A view of Universal Studios backlot. The interesting
thing is, and you may have to go to the big image to see this
well, but past the golf course there you can see Warner Brothers
studios. And I'm pretty sure that Disney is just past those
tall buildings there. Last year on September 11th when we were
getting the idea that someone wanted to attack American power
points, I was worried they'd go for this area as well. |
| 091602 |
You can see this trip to Universal was very fruitful,
picture-of-the-day-wise. My favorite part is all the little
fake streets. Once I did a workshop at Warner Brothers and I
got to sneak away (I had a story all ready in case someone confronted
me but nobody did) and go around the empty, fake streets. It's
very cool because you turn the corner and you're in France,
then turn again and you're in the old west, Chicago, suburbia,
whichever. Very fun. My next goal is to get inside a prop house.
Can anyone help me with that? |
| 091702 |
A false front. |
| 091802 |
My show is still up in San Francisco. I don't
think any have sold yet, but I'm really happy to think of them
still up there. This is a picture of the framing process. See?
You can figure it out from this picture and make one at home.
It's craft of the day. You can further recreate the show by
going to my links page and hooking up to the art of the mix
website, where Garret posted the rad mix CDs he made for the
opening. |
| 091902 |
A funhouse from Sunset Junction that consisted
entirely of this mirror maze, some distorting mirrors and a
- woo! - spiral slide.
I need to get into the gypsy funhouse operator business. |
| 092002 |
A very happy birthday to Mark! |
| 092102 |
This is a second happy birthday to Mark, because
I was late on the first one and because I really like these
cookie pictures. |
| 092202 |
Danielle and I went to a really fantastic art
thingy (performance? I'm not sure how to categorize it) at London
Street Projects on Saturday. There was a guy on the roof of
the building pretending to be Ernest Shakleton with styrofoam
ice and a fuzzy "arctic" hat. We sat in the gallery
and watched the projection of what was happening above us. Sometimes
he would stand behind the camera and crumble up styrofoam so
it looked like it was snowing. There he is moving one of the
"ice floe fragments". |
| 092302 |
On Sunday night there was a little fair on a nearby
corner (again with the gypsy rides - this time we avoided them)
and played this game where we threw ping-pong balls into the
ducks. We won a bear. Also had delicious corndogs (see tomorrow). |
| 092402 |
Garret and the delicious corndog. See how he enjoys
it! |
| 092502 |
A closer view of Shakleton's rooftop ice-laden
ship. |
| 092602 |
The tables under the tree at Spiraling Orchard. |
| 092702 |
Brisi standing on some rubble, looking much smaller
than usual. |
| 092802 |
At Max's birthday party again, towards the end
of the day. |
| 092902 |
Steve laughing in extreme close-up. |
| 093002 |
At Adobe books, a guy sleeping on the couch (not
uncommon). Today my show comes down. |
| 100102 |
It's a rainy day today. I should probably go get
a haircut. |
| 100202 |
Today is my last day working at Spiraling Orchard,
at least for now. This is the not often pictured and somewhat
mysterious Big Ramp on the oil side. (There are 2 lots at the
park, the Orchard side which is very developed and the Oil side
which is owned by an oil company and we don't have permission
to develop.) |
| 100302 |
Well I don't mean to disappoint you but this is
the last picture that you'll see here for awhile. I'm going
on vacation and I wouldn't be suprised if the site doesn't get
updated until October 14. We'll see. Maybe sooner if you're
good. But then there'll be all new and great photos for you,
so I'll be thinking of you and working for you even while I
am gone.
Here's Sarai, Brisi and Kate to keep you company while I'm away
(though clearly Kate is not interested in the job). |
| 100402 |
The lovely couple begins their trip to the exotic
East Coast. This is actually a photo from October 8 when we
took the train from DC to New York, but I didn't have any pictures
from our Long Beach - Dulles red eye. Strangely. |
| 100502 |
Funny flying things at the Smithsonian. |
| 100602 |
Girls posing for a picture (not mine) in front
of the White House. Notice how the flag is at half-mast? We
saw that all over town and couldn't figure out why. Any ideas? |
| 100702 |
We were at the Air and Space Museum on Monday
while the space shuttle was taking off. They set up a big tv
in the room with the space shuttle stuff and everyone sat around
it and counted down. |
| 100802 |
On Tuesday we took the train from Union Station
(very pretty, see above) in DC to New York. Well, we were supposed
to take it to New York but instead it broke down in Newark.
I know they sound similar but really they are very different. |
| 100902 |
We went to the top of the Empire State Building,
and saw where the World Trade Center isn't. |
| 101002 |
It was a really nice, coldish day in Central Park
and we came upon this shallow lake made for sailing model sailboats.
We drank coffee and watched the old men sail their boats (they
had remote control rudders and sails) and discuss the latest
issuse of "Model Boat Monthly" (seriously). |
| 101102 |
The Magnolia Bakery makes just the most exciting
cakes and baked sweets (the Cupcake Cafe rivals it for cupcakes,
however). After a very long and tiring day of sightseeing we
enjoyed some Hummingbird cake, which is like carrot cake but
with banana instead of carrot. It is not pictured here because
we were focused on devouring the cake until it was gone. Then
we rested. |
| 101202 |
Ok this is not the best picture ever but the content
is very exciting. That there is the first Apple Computer. Yes,
it's wood. I tell you, the Smithsonian is full of fun suprises,
some of which you may see in the coming days. |
| 101302 |
We're back from the East Coast by this point,
but I still have pictures to regale you with. This is the lobby
of the Air and Space Museum, and everything you see here is
very important and historic but I've already forgotten most
of it. Well, the coolest one I remember - it's the Wright brothers'
plane, the one the flew in Kitty Hawk. It's there on the left
side, cut off. It's the REAL ONE! Isn't that exciting? And I
think that's the wing of the Spirit of St.Louis there across
the top of the picture. |