Too funny. I had to click on the photo in the portal. Couldn't work out what was going on. Still can't but presumably chucked out chairs that have seen a lot of life.
Charles' and Nora's decorator, Andre was so fed up with their indecision on new upholstery fabrics for their side chairs, that he had a complete melt down and just threw them out into the street.
It would be tempting to pull 'em to the sidewalk and sit in one. Is there going to be a parade to watch? If so, I want the best seat! Your photos are always a hoot.
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.)
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Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
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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.
17 comments:
Too funny. I had to click on the photo in the portal. Couldn't work out what was going on. Still can't but presumably chucked out chairs that have seen a lot of life.
Charles' and Nora's decorator, Andre was so fed up with their indecision on new upholstery fabrics for their side chairs, that he had a complete melt down and just threw them out into the street.
Judy's take is perfect. I can't come close to that one. You find the greatest stuff L!
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Funny commentary, Laurie!
But I sure hope someone dragged them back onto the sidewalk. That's an accident waiting to happen.
They look drunk.
It would be tempting to pull 'em to the sidewalk and sit in one. Is there going to be a parade to watch? If so, I want the best seat! Your photos are always a hoot.
During their move, Tom had insisted that it wasn't necessary to tie down his wife's favorite blue chairs in the back of their pickup.
I'd like to follow upon Yak's caption.
Tom may have gotten his new jumbo LaZBoy out of the stunt, but he had to sleep in it for almost a month afterwards.
Runaway chairs.
Looks like the sit in is over!
A decorator has a meltdown, Judy? Is that possible???
Looks like they've fallen over laughing.
Your caption is perfect! Hahahaha.
looks like Tom took that corner just a LITTLE too fast!
and oh no..."we" couldn't leave those chairs out until the Parade...that would be "unsightly"!
Yay! I got a "Caption this Picture" out of this post! I love all of your comments today, everyone. Isn't this a bizarre shot?
Til tomorrow...
THis made me smile! What had happened to them? A domestic fight with them being the victims? ;)
at least they died together
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