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It's amazing what you find at the Jiffy Lube on the corner of Melrose and La Brea. Out on the sidewalk on the utility box there is now this play on "The Treachery of Images" (La trahison des images) – the 1929 painting by the René Magritte. That painting shows an ordinary pipe, and below it Magritte painted the words Ceci n’est pas une pipe – "This is not a pipe." Cool. The painting is not a pipe, of course. A pipe is a pipe. Just so look at the painting – René Magritte was right. That’s a painting. And Magritte was messing with us. Art is tricky. And these are not scissors.
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And this is not a parking space. (The local art gallery, sandwiched between a Vietnamese restaurant and a medical marijuana dispensary, is protecting its parking spaces out back.)
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And this is not Los Angeles –
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Technical Note:
These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.
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All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik
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Counter added Sunday, March 25, 2007 - 11:00 am Pacific Time
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