Multiplying Figures: Oscar Rejlander and David Hockney Afterimage [more...] Review: "Hearts and Bones:...Tom Chambers' Photomontage Art" Afterimage [more] "Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography" The Getty Center, Afterimage [more...] It's a Helicam! It's a Crane! It's Thousands of Images Shot from Above, Slate[more...] A Very Unusual Camera That Emphasizes Time Over Space, Slate This Picture is Worth 1,000 Pictures, Slate. Hyperphotos are to panoramic photos what Google Earth is to a globe.more...] "The Last Great Modern Photographer," Slate. Ray K. Metzker's innovative photos[more...] More articles in Slate [here] Meet the Artists, Westways. The rolling hills and ocean coves of Palos Verdes have attracted artists [more…] Anthony Friedkin: Photos of Prostitutes, Surfing and the Fringes of Society, L.A. Weekly [more....] Torrance Art Museum Thinks Big,Patch.com, Curator Max Presneill has a quixotic dream...[more...] $8 Million Crafts Market to be Largest in the U.S. L.A. Weekly[more...]
Travel
Soaking up Art in Japan,Los Angeles Times.On Naoshima Island, the works of Hockney, Johns and other contemporary artists [more…] Palm-Held Docent,Westways. You don't have to be a VIP to get personalized tours of the Getty Center.[more...]
Humor
Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronymsSalon14 words that contradict themselves[more...] Help! I've Got a Single-Task Mind in a Multitasking World, Underwired [republished at More.com]. I can barely task [more...]
Language
Sext Me Your Gnargoyle, Los Angeles Times. Mashed-up words are older than Chaucer and as fresh as Colbert.[more...] 11 Words That Don't Mean What They Sound Like Mental FlossBodkin...Crapulous [more...] 6 Words English Got from Hindi Mental Floss Ganja...juggernaut [more...] 12 Lonely Negative WordsMental FlossAre you disgusted, disgruntled and disheveled? Well, unfortunately you’re never going to be gusted, gruntled or sheveled. [more...] More articles inMental Floss [here] Palindromes, anangrams, and 9 other names for alphabetical antics The Week What do you call a word that looks the same upside down? [more...]
My Kingdom for an Answer...Now, Los Angeles Times.You need a live librarian at 2 a.m. [more...]
Profiles
All You Need is Love -- and a Well-Aimed Hurricane Kick,Peninsula People[more...] Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance! Terren Mueller's Persistence Pays Off at the Pantages,Peninsula People [more...] Artist Drives Students, and Herself, to Abstraction,Palos Verdes Peninsula News. On Dael Patton's last day teaching at the California Institute for Men, a hulking 6-foot-6-inch tattooed convict [more…] Greek Mother's Tale is a Tribute to Family,El Paso Times [more…] Mallet hits the nail on the head with brilliant art career,Daily Breeze [more…] "Tribes of Palos Verdes" Author Joy Nicholson Hears a Different Drummer,Our Town[more…] Twice Upon a Time: A Tale of Two Authors,Peninsula People. "It’s bunny-eat-bunny out there!" [more…]