Last Sunday I trekked out to Ontario, California and the areas surrounding it for another piece of the interior design photography project I've been working on. The photos will be art for a local office in the area and I do some research online ahead of time, but it's fun to go
Read MoreMy cousin Mark was in town yesterday, so we spent a few hours hanging out. We didn't really have any plan or anything specific to do or see, so we just wandered the neighborhood with a walk down The Strand, a drink downtown, and back to
Read MoreI delivered that 30x40 print taken for a new downtown office that I mentioned in an earlier post to my client today - and while I saw from the map that their office was in the Chinatown area, I didn't realize it was right in the central plaza. LA's original Chinatown was
Read MoreYou've gotta have a good reason to leave the beach to go to the Valley. And an even better one to go in a heatwave. Leave it to my friend Pat to have a reason: a birthday poolside cookout. Actually the heat didn't seem
Read MoreLately I've been working on a project that is kinda fun in how out of the ordinary it is for my usual work. A local interior design firm found a photo I had done of the CalTrans Building and asked about getting a large print for a conference room of a downtown office they were doing. The original file was
Read MoreIf you were around for previous years posts (before the blog died, that is) you know the Beach Cities turn into one big party for the 4th of July. Chalk it up to getting old, but instead of our usual early morning start with the Hermosa Beach Ironman, we made a later start of it this year. The beaches and bike paths were…
Read MoreLast night I joined my friends Rob & Jon who had a couple of us over to catch their local fireworks. This has to be the smallest crowd and most relaxed fireworks show I've seen - maybe ever. It's actually a private show put on by
Read MoreI trekked with my pal Andrew to Corgi Beach Day in Long Beach yesterday. We got there toward the end, and unfortunately since it wasn't at the actual dog beach, they kicked all the dogs off the beach once they hit the ending time, but we
Read MoreSo I sorta dropped off the blog before coming back from Brazil… oops. (No apologies cause I said I'd stop apologizing for on-again/off-again posts - so "sorry, not sorry?") At any rate, maybe this will be the beginning of a new on-again period…
Read MoreFor the last few days post-Olympics, I spent a few extra days to just decompress and hang out in Rio and then came to São Paulo for a few days. I knew next to nothing about São Paulo and had little or no expectations. It may be for that reason
Read MoreWe've been doing more in our off-hours this Olympics than probably any of the Games that I've worked before. (Maybe that accounts for not having time to post about what I'm up to?!) I don't know the reason for that, but I can't complain. (Well maybe for
Read MoreOne of the most common questions I get from family and friends is "how do we know when we see something you did?" In previous Games, I was a lot better at updating what I had done along the way - it may be that we're doing a lot
Read MoreFor once, I feel like i have more to post than I have time to actually sit down and write them. So with Olympics ending soon, I'm running out of time if they're going to be somewhat topical. With that in mind, I'm making this a quick post just to
Read MoreWe made it out of the Olympic Park bubble on Sunday afternoon after work. Olympic Park is in the neighborhood of Barra in Rio, which is about an hour or more southwest of city center as well as the beach areas of
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