Rita and Paul's impromptu picnic in front of the Rialto left nothing but scattered papers and and empty hummus container. They held the memories in their hearts.
(so sorry I missed yesterday. I adore that window by the futon. I feel like it's mine, since I stay in that room when I come visit)
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.
13 comments:
Rita and Paul's impromptu picnic in front of the Rialto left nothing but scattered papers and and empty hummus container. They held the memories in their hearts.
(so sorry I missed yesterday. I adore that window by the futon. I feel like it's mine, since I stay in that room when I come visit)
Diamond in the Rough....
It's a remake of the classic 70's disaster film, Earthquake.
WV: provably - I'm provably correct.
Now Not Showing.
forget the "No-tel Mo-tel" it's the "No-show Picture-show" with the garbage in front.
sigh...such memories for me at the Rialto...
Picture if you will, a city, a small town who forgot about its past. Who let the aged beauty decay into ugliness without the slightest remorse.
I see opportunity. Why hasn't this been snapped up? Is it in litigation?
hi Laurie, thanks for your recent comments re my mom's passing. God Bless
I told you The Talkies would never last.
Typical male ghosts, can't pick up after themselves.
Feeling better yet?
How do I get to Videotheque?
the Kerbys are aghast at the lack of housekeeping in their beloved Rialto theater...
I should just let you guys caption every day. THese are great.
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