You Can't Compost Concrete on KCET.org

The Echo Park Film Center curated a collection of short films called Sustainable LA for the Silver Lake Film Festival last year; I made a short called You Can't Compost Concrete to be part of the program. Making the film--with much editing help from Lisa at the EPFC--was very fun, and it made me appreciate that much more what she and Paolo and the other supercool folks over there do for the community teaching filmmaking to kids and seniors for free and others for almost free. They also have a wonderful microcinema screening noncommercial gems you simply could not view anywhere else.
If you weren't one of the 15 or so people who got up on a Sunday morning to watch the Sustainable LA program when it was shown on a big screen in Los Feliz, now's your chance to catch a bunch of green-themed shorts, including You Can't Compost Concrete and How to Build a Self-Watering Container by my heros at Survive LA streaming at KCET.org.

Eva Playing the Hurdy Gurdy

This image is part of a very slowly growing group of portraits I've been working on over the past couple of years, shot on Polaroid Type 55 positive-negative film, which includes Kelly and Erik, Matt and the Birthday Robots.

Brussels Sprouts

—the sprouts themselves—start like this.

Purple Kohlrabi

isn't purple inside.

Sugar Snap Peas

flower. I didn't know that.

UCLA Hannah Carter Japanese Garden

This garden is one of my favorite places in LA. Nusia enjoys it quite a bit, too.

Splashing

Nusia was reluctant at first, but she has learned the joy of splashing in puddles while wearing boots. And there is no turning back.

Happy.

Nusia bikin'

Brussels Sprouts

Ours as of this Dec. 9 morning. They're about a foot tall, healthy and robust and aphid free.
We've got high hopes for this crop. Still too early to start bringing out the Brussels sprouts recipes (taking suggestions, though, if you have any), but we're optimistic we may be eating the fruits of our labor in the coming months.

Swift Lee Office

War Is So Retro

I took this photo before the war began, but I think the approach of appealing to people's fashion sensibilities rather than their politics is still a good idea.

Another Alpine Explorer

This is Phil Eploring the Alps by way of the Velaslavasay Panorama.
Here's another Explorer photo.

Some of these photos have made their way back to me, and I'm posting them when I get a little downtime.

Pico-Hauser pt. 2

Pico Modern; La Maison du Pain; 33 1/3

Pico-Hauser Outtakes

Some photos I shot of local businesses here in our new neighborhood (Pico-Hauser, Picfair Village, or Wilshire-Vista depending on what side of the Springfield-Shelbyville battle you're on) appear in the November issue of Los Angeles Magazine. Considerations that differ from mine go into deciding what images run, how big and such, so I thought I might post some outtakes, which I prefer to what made it into print.
In order of appearance: 33 1/3; Mercado; Sky's Tacos.

Nusia yesterday

I've always found it beautiful.

I just read a post on Curbed LA calling this building a monstrosity.

CA Endowment Center for Healthy Communities

Some photos I shot will be accompanying an exhibit at the California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities in downtown LA, with an opening at the Healthy Neighborhood Festival this Saturday, Oct. 13, 2007. The show is called "From the Abundant Pharmacy: Traditional Medicine in Los Angeles' Chinatown." It was curated by Sabrina Motley and Sojin Kim. LA Times article on it, too.

Nusia, sunflowers and an old chair

Nusia is sitting on a rocking chair that was mine when I was her age, in front of our sunflowers, which she and I have watched grow just about every day since they were seedlings shorter than her.