Meet the Beetles: The Goldsworthy Spire in Golden Gate Park
Posted on July 6, 2010 - Filed Under California, Photography | Leave a Comment
Took a walk through San Francisco’s Presidio a couple of weeks ago and saw how artist Andy Goldsworthy managed to create beauty out of destruction. Cypress bark beetles made a feast of some 150 Monterey Cypress trees and Goldsworthy built The Spire from those felled trees to celebrate the history and future of [...]
Read More..>>California Redwoods in 3D Video
Posted on March 15, 2010 - Filed Under Video, California | Leave a Comment
Step Right Up Folks! See Amazing California Redwoods in 3D!
red-cyan 3D glasses required – double click on video for HD
Regardless of what you thought of Avatar, the movie has moved 3D from the sideshow tent to the Big Top. Even though some of the live action shots have the hyper-stereo look of old Viewmaster frames, [...]
Up From Baja: Point Lobos Migrates North
Posted on September 2, 2009 - Filed Under California, Photography | Leave a Comment
Don’t know much about geology, but what I am learning defines me, in the nature of nature, as the insignifcant biped that I am.
Paid a visit to the Pinnacles National Monument. Not recommended during the summer as the temperatures regularly hover around the 100F mark. The best time to go is in the cool spring [...]
Art in Carmel: The Not-So-Good, The Bad and the Badder
Posted on September 1, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture | Leave a Comment
Moseying ’round Carmel, California Saturday, I wondered how its tourist trap economy could survive when one of its major exports is cheese-ball art. There are often three or four stores selling similar product in a single block. But then, it doesn’t take too many sales to make the monthly nut. The Golden Gate Bridge picture [...]
Read More..>>Edward Hopper and Company: The American Landscape
Posted on March 14, 2009 - Filed Under California, Culture, Photography | 1 Comment
Too often we look at cultural and physical landscapes of places we visit as tourist brochures: America as the massive architecture of New York City and Chicago, quaint New England villages, the Bridge and Bay in San Francisco and pinkish western landscapes. One of the best examples of cliché America is a propaganda film [...]
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