Oh, the things people put on the walls of Los Angeles.

I found the greatest mural in Los Angeles. Or, at least, one that made me smile. Before clicking below, there are two things: It is huge. Be patient while it is opening. and it tells a story, the greatest story on earth, but… the story goes from right to left. If possible, close your eyes, […]

There is so much beautiful, weird and wonderful street art in Los Angeles.

     I went to San Diego’s Chicano Park to see the beautiful murals. What I found is a park that is beautiful, but not in the way parks are traditionally beautiful. Its beauty is not in huge expanses of rolling hills like Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, or disappear-from-the-city beauty like New York’s Central Park.      […]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my lens. Today is all about the pieces that don’t fit into a neat category. A bicycle with bumper sticker ‘Tax the Rich’ attached to a parking meter, south of Market, San Francisco. ‘Jews […]

  Left over from the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Mama, I’m Hungry Hollywood Blvd.   Hollywood Blvd.

Kermit the Frog and Jim Henson on a metal shutter protecting a glass storefront on Hollywood Blvd, near Hollywood and Highland. Detail of mural on Hollywood Theatre, Hollywood Blvd near the 101 freeway. The Blues Brothers adorn the outside of a coffee shop, which is part of the Days Inn on Hollywood Blvd near the […]

  A star, in mural form, stares from a peeling wall, just off Hollywood Blvd, near Hollywood and Highland. And across the street, a little presidential encouragement for those who try and fail. Posters and Graffiti patiently wait on a board. Waiting to become an intelligentsia coffee bar, 3922 W. Sunset Blvd. Elliot Smith sits […]