Home (latest issue) | Recent Photography | Image Archives | Guest Photography | The International Desk | About This Site | Search This Site | Just Above Sunset Commentary

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 – Drawn to Venice

Coming up on thirty years out here in Southern California – as the poet Ezra Pound said, "I have weathered the storm, and beaten out my exile." For him, after Wabash College, it was Paris, then Venice, and then madness. It's probably better to settle for Venice Beach. One does end up in Venice Beach. It's an inevitable place. And there's this new mural by "Enzo" –

At the Cadillac Hotel –

The "Spirit of Venice Beach" hasn't moved in decades –

The "Endangered Species" mural –

And this –

Home (latest issue) | Recent Photography | Image Archives | Guest Photography | The International Desk | About This Site | Search This Site | Just Above Sunset Commentary

All text and photos unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik 

[December 2010] [The Big Empty] [Drawn to Venice] [Good Times] [Riot Mob] [Happy Land] [Hard Boulevard] [Hollywood Wreaths] [The Gardenias] [Strange Lighting] [Hollywood Nature] [Fighting Christmas] [Lights-Camera] [Andy Lives On] [Just Folks] [Getting Trashy] [Otherworldly] [Serene Geometry] [Downtown Sun] [The Sky Above] [Just Words] [Strange Eyes] [Winter Formal] [Dark Sunlight] [Lighting Hollywood] [One Odd Light] [Hollywood Colors] [Gift Flowers] [Bird Box] [Born to Record] [For Your Pleasure] [Winter Kitsch] [In the Light] [Basic Struggles] [Grid Studies] [A Dark Lot] [For Cynics] [The Dark Rain] [Bad Dreams] [The Knowing Tree] [Two Creatures] [Hard Rock] [Double Rainbow] [The Odd Village] [Boulevard Christmas] [Christmas Botanicals] [Fixing History] [Fresh Paint] [Concealed Art] [End Beach] [Photoplay] [Mental Clarity] [Mood Boxes] [Obey] [December Skies] [Local Wall Work] [An Odd World] [Gone Now] [Parting Shots]