Abstract Los Angeles: is wandering the streets of LA pointing my camera at the random flotsam that comes with the tides. Today it is about faces in murals, in the Arts District, East of Downtown.

Abstract Los Angeles is wandering about the streets of Los Angeles, looking, seeing and clicking. Today’s installment is about the face, a rendered face, in paint, bronze and plastic.

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about created faces; in a frame, on a billboard, with tile or maybe even eating some brains. On Lake, in Pasadena, a women opens her mouth in invitation. The hollow invitation of advertising, with [...]

     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 [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my camera lens. Today’s installment is about pieces placed on walls, from murals, to stickers to spray paint, randomly placed around the city. On a wall, just off Lower Haight, a mural with limbs [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about the murals, there are lots of murals in Los Angeles. Hidden under an overpass of the 101 freeway near Hollywood stands a mural of success, left over from the 1984 Olympics in Los [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about the murals scattered about Los Angeles. Famous, on the edge of Santa Monica Blvd. Mama, I’m Hungry! on Beverly Blvd. Monster hidden in a parking lot off Hollywood Blvd. In Memory of, in [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about the mural, celebrating the Hollywood legacy. 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, [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about the graffiti, scattered about the metropolis. A lady, hidden in the wall, looks out with sadness and beauty. The graffiti artist, himself, depicted in his own art form, is ready to explode. “Fuck [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is taken from both Sunset Blvd and Hollywood Blvd. 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 [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment begins at the beach, then jumps all the way to Lincoln Heights, near Downtown LA. Near where Mulholland meets the sea, a pipe rusts between ice plants. Driftwood collects at the high tide line, with the [...]