When "This Old House" was cancelled, the producers first sold the sets, but later on everyone got pretty desperate and started selling whatever they could find nearby...
Upon closer look with my bifocals I see that my one and a half refrigerators are actually shelves. Oh well, put meat in one shelf, veggies in one and fruit in another.Never mind that they are not cold. Duh!
In December of 2007, after many years on the west side of Los Angeles (and at least a third of those years spent stuck in traffic on Pico Boulevard) my family settled into a happy little house in South Pasadena. This daily blog covered over 4 year as I put down roots in my new home town.
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Thank you Charlie's Coffee House for hosting my recent photo exhibit, South Pas: Observed. From October 2011 through January 2012 my pictures graced the walls of the best place in town to get a cup of coffee!
Read the nifty story on photo bloggers Petrea Burchard, Ben Wideman, Kat Likkel and little old me featured in the September, 2011 issue of Pasadena Magazine.
For over 4 years, I presented a picture a day from South Pasadena, California -- an incorporated city within the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. All photos up to November, 2008 were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix E900 camera. I added a Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD megazoom in December 2008, a Nikon D3100 in 2010 and a Lumix DMC-DS8 in 2011. I shot with them all. In August 2010 I joined the iPhone camera craze and sometimes included pictures captured by my phone. I regularly cropped images and used basic editing software to adjust the brightness, intensify the contrast, and increase color saturation. Other than that, all images came straight from the camera with minimal alteration. (If I couldn't have done it in a darkroom, I wouldn't do it with a computer.)
The bigger picture:
Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
You can click on any picture to see a larger version.
All photos and prose on this blog copyright Laurie Allee. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. (Plus, it's really uncool.)
Run, don't walk to the nearest bookseller and pick up a copy of Margaret Finnegan's delightful debut novel, The Goddess Lounge -- undoubtedly the kookiest, most wonderful riff on Homer's Odyssey ever written. Margaret never ceases to inspire and make us laugh at her blog Finnegan Begin Again. Her book is magical, silly, smart and a wonderful love letter to the all the goddesses among us.
Our very own Altadena poet Linda Dove weaves words into thoughtful tapestries in her moving poetry collection In Defense of Objects and chapbook O Dear Deer.
Kevin McCollister of East of West LA blows our minds with haunting images of Los Angeles. But since we can't put his blog on our coffee table, we can buy his fantastic book. I believe Kevin's images truly capture the quixotic and often heartbreaking soul of LA. Don't take my word for it, see what The LA Times had to say.
15 comments:
What to do with one and a half retired refrigerators.
I wonder if those things are still there!!
"The new homeless living space in South Pasadena comes with plenty of storage."
kitchenfail
Curbside Pantry.
at first i thought they were a set of sculptures ... so what about "sculptural junks"? ;)
Zorg Returns to Earth to Rescue CP7 and R3D3,
How Long Before it Disappears?
Gone in 60 Seconds?
Good ones YAK and AH!
When "This Old House" was cancelled, the producers first sold the sets, but later on everyone got pretty desperate and started selling whatever they could find nearby...
Upon closer look with my bifocals I see that my one and a half refrigerators are actually shelves. Oh well, put meat in one shelf, veggies in one and fruit in another.Never mind that they are not cold. Duh!
Thanks, people! (Except for you, Hiker. Grrrr.) Until tomorrow...
Green shopping. No overhead.
Let it never be said that SoPas doesn't take care of it's homeless, providing storage for free.
or
Old Mother SoPas Hubbards cupboards are rather bare!
FREE, to a good garage.
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