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Was That Car Fire Arson?
As December wound down… an arsonist or plural set over 40 fires in a hellish night of “street art” vandalism – starting many of the fires by igniting cars. Weird… on December 18 I was out shooting moonrise pictures, an eerie red crescent moon was rising… On the right there is the moon, but it…
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Last Thoughts on 2011
Hey yeah, so there goes 2011. Gotta write what I did this year before I forget… Published a book of Gerald Locklin's poetry YOU NEED NEVER LOOK OUT A WINDOW The Complete Coagula Poems Volume One. Got the book up on Create Space and published a limited edition of 100 hardcover copies signed by the…
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Discarded Art Essay Fragment
This did not make the cut of a recent essay but here it is as its own little saying:If the appetizers were as bad at Los Angeles restaurants as often as the art is regularly terrible at the galleries and museums, we would have all died of food poisoning. Since bad art does no damage…
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Brick and Mortar Punk Rock Memory Lane
If you are going to have an art show on the subject of punk rock, an industrial warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles is a load better than a westside art gallery to make the thing work. And a poster for a Bad Brains gig stripped from a New York Subway Wall and framed for the…
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New Art Review Policy
New Art Review Policy: If I cannot take pictures, I cannot write about it. You want me to put my own words to the art, I need to record and publish my own images. I will not fill out a form. I will not ask for special treatment. I will not accept your official images…