8:53 AM, Los Angeles, CA. Some people like this guy. He’s ok, but I like the snapshot because the likeness is still there despite the blur from focusing on the window glass and not on the face.
5-9-11
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1-9-14
Odd Coupling at 11:51 AM, Altadena, CA. I was thinking about strange couples and for me, an interesting combination was a book by Man Ray and my old Nintendo Entertainment System.
8-18-12
8:15 AM, Altadena, CA. This Nintendo Entertainment system is still in working order. I wonder how many of these are still around. I can’t get over the effectiveness of the simple graphics. No extreme visual tomfoolery with excessive modeling, ultra-rendering, and worm-eye views, just simple, flat, straightforward visual information.
1-7-14
12:08 PM, Altadena, CA. I like images that provoke weird alliances or in this case, unusual disruptions. Here, ramen meets a custom car. The car was in a postcard that I picked up at the Pasadena City College swap meet in Pasadena, CA. The initial combination was not calculated but the final result with the disintegration of the car was.
9-26-13
9:46 AM, Altadena, CA. I’m not a photographer but I take a lot of pictures. What attracts me are the commonplace. In my house, bags of ramen fall into the commonplace. That’s a good reason to shoot it.
1-8-14
11:38 AM, Altadena, CA. Once again, here’s a hybrid or my process of cannibalizing my work to make new pieces. I wanted to combine the dog picture with my first digital iPad drawing of Haruki Murakami’s novel called Norwegian Wood.
12-20-11
10:56 AM, Altadena, CA. I first saw this breed of dog about 5 years ago and I’ve been hooked. She’s a Shibu Inu, an ancient breed from Japan and this one can be traced to Shikoku, Japan.
12-10-13
4:57 PM, Altadena, CA. When I saw my snapshot of the octopus, I vividly remembered the craziness of the Tsukiji Market. The place was a surreal mix of frantic activity and bizarre sea animals of every size and shape. The digital drawing of the paperback book seemed to sum up the seafood market experience.
7-31-10
1:07 PM, Tokyo. Seafood is huge in Japan and it seems to originate from the Tsukiji Market. The market is famous for its auctions and sheer amount of seafood that passes through the place. I don’t know how sustainable this is but it was very interesting to see it. This vendor was showing off an octopus.
12-10-13
5:23 PM, Altadena, CA. There is a wonderful Indian restaurant and grocery store in southern California. Actually, there are probably a lot of them. This one had shelves full of exotic and unusual products. I took a snapshot of one product called “Ahmed Jelly”. My guess is that it was jello.