Glimpses of South Pasadena: Great Idea

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Great Idea

Who's with me?

11 comments:

Judy Williams said...: I hate to keep droning on about the heat here, but this is just another reminder of a cool and spirited drink as a refreshing diversion.

Remember that Elizabeth Shue/Tom Cruise movie by the same name? Maybe I'll find it on Netflix as a tribute.; June 15, 2011 at 5:31 AM
Green Guy said...: I'm in.; June 15, 2011 at 6:44 AM
Vanda said...: Yay! Yes!; June 15, 2011 at 6:51 AM
Julie Hill said...: such a moody photo..love it. Laurie, and all...I posted a painting today that I did off of Laurie's fabulous interior shot of Kaldi's coffee shop. Take a look! it will be in the summer show at the Segil Fine Art Gallery.; June 15, 2011 at 10:09 AM
San Diego Farmgirl said...: Mmmmmmmmimosas!

WV: deediva
Deediva has left the building ... because there weren't any cocktails.; June 15, 2011 at 11:18 AM
Anonymous said...: Nice shot! That could be the start of a movie, with a nice boom down to reveal...; June 15, 2011 at 11:59 AM
Anonymous said...: I LOVE this.; June 15, 2011 at 4:09 PM
who cares what I think? said...: You bet I'm with you. What time?; June 15, 2011 at 9:54 PM
Laurie said...: Everyone, be sure to check out Julie's blog to see her painting based on one of my Kaldi photos. I always love to see the interpretations of my images through the paintbrushes of Julie and Leslie Saeta. I always wanted to be a painter ... now I don't have to do it! :-)

The internet is so wonderful for these spontaneous collaborations. I am inspired by history, so I take pictures of things, and artists paint from my pictures, and I'm sure other artists paint from those paintings and possibly inspire writers to write about them. One big world making art together. It's great.; June 15, 2011 at 9:59 PM
TheChieftess said...: Am I too late for the party???; June 15, 2011 at 11:14 PM
Pasadena Adjacent said...: wv: rednes; June 17, 2011 at 8:01 PM

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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.

Check out pp 47-48 of the May, 2011 issue of Arroyo Magazine for my photos of the Raymond Restaurant's fabulous chef Tim Guiltinan. (Find more of my shots at Pasadena Weekly and the Toyota Farm to Table Tour website.)

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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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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.

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