Just Above Sunset
April 11, 2004 Photography
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Just Above Sunset
April 11, 2004 Photography
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Omens and Portents
Sometimes the world just seems odd and ominous. Shirt hangers mock my intellectual pretensions, and the wall in the garage tells me
to stop getting all upset by the events in my life and just be more logical…
Semiotics: Just off Beverly Glen, high above Ventura Boulevard, we have an existential dilemma as, given this sign, this sign should not exist. And then there are the dark grey stairs... And the confused Buddha looking down on me…
And there is the odd, diffused light through the trees from my window,
which matches what Daniel Hewitt see through the trees in New Jersey – and his cat is as calm as mine. Ah.
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From last week's home page...
This is a side street in a village in Provence, Lourmarin, where Albert Camus retired – he took his Nobel Prize money and bought a place here, saying it was the most beautiful village in France. He was buried here, in the cemetery a bit to the southwest of the village. This this particular village is a bit north of Aix and a bit east of Avignon.
And the photo here has not been retouched. Those are the actual colors… This is from June 2000 on a very hot afternoon – after lunch in Aix on Cours Mirabeau a meandering drive north through the countryside....
It was in the nineties that afternoon. No one was outside - just the crazy American tourists. The locals were all sipping pastis in their shady homes, or in the shadows at the local café....
« Lourmarin en Provence est classé parmi les plus beaux villages de France. Situé dans le Parc Naturel du Luberon, le village de ... »
Yeah, yeah.
This issue updated and published on...
Paris readers add nine hours....
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