Archive for the ‘35mm’ tag
Gape at the Thoughts Which Others Have Thought was uploaded to Flickr
John C. Portman, Jr
In his book Postmodern Geographies: the reassertion of space in critical social theory (1989), Edward W. Soja describes the hotel as “a concentrated representation of the restructured spatiality of the late capitalist city: fragmented and fragmenting, homogeneous and homogenizing, divertingly packaged yet curiously incomprehensible, seemingly open in presenting itself to view but constantly pressing to enclose, to compartmentalize, to circumscribe, to incarcerate. Everything imaginable appears to be available in this micro-urb but real places are difficult to find, its spaces confuse an effective cognitive mapping, its pastiche of superficial reflections bewilder co-ordination and encourage submission instead. Entry by land is forbidding to those who carelessly walk but entrance is nevertheless encouraged at many different levels. Once inside, however, it becomes daunting to get out again without bureaucratic assistance. In so many ways, its architecture recapitulates and reflects the sprawling manufactured spaces of Los Angeles” (p. 243-44).
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Not to mention:
It has been featured in many movies and television series over the years including: Strange Days, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Blue Thunder, Breathless, This is Spinal Tap, Hit the Booty Do, In the Line of Fire, Nick of Time, True Lies, Midnight Madness, Showtime, Hard to Kill, The Lincoln Lawyer, Chuck, Moby Dick, The Fantastic Journey and was destroyed (via special effects) in Escape from LA and Epicenter. The television series It’s a Living was set in a restaurant atop the Bonaventure. The Westin Bonaventure Hotel is also showcased in episodes of CSI and its exterior can be seen in Americathon, Mission: Impossible III, Almighty Thor, Hancock, and at the beginning of the Lionel Richie Dancing on the Ceiling music video. You can see it being constructed in the movie The Wilderness Family.
Gape at the Thoughts Which Others Have Thought was taken on January 31, 2013 at 04:57PM
I Forgot All The Rest was uploaded to Flickr
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I Forgot All The Rest was taken on September 22, 2012 at 04:52PM
So Fine At First – Copper Blue was uploaded to Flickr
Toned in Photoshop.
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So Fine At First – Copper Blue was taken on December 18, 2009 at 01:33PM
Exquisite Errors was uploaded to Flickr
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Exquisite Errors was taken on October 23, 2011 at 06:06PM
You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine was uploaded to Flickr
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You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine was taken on April 03, 2011 at 04:16AM HAST
Bank of America – Kodachrome
(Kodachrome emulation via Photoshop)
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Bank of America – Kodachrome was taken on October 09, 2011 at 12:52PM
Promises That Might Come True After A While
Heathrow bound 1994 double exposure
Heathrow bound 1994 double exposure, originally uploaded by swanksalot.
Ahh, to be young again…
Your humble photographer about to leave London, combined with an inadvertent double exposure of some gravel pit outside of Austin Tx. A scan of a 35mm print, circa 1994, when I was 24 going on 65.
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