Entries from LAist tagged with 'peskyhumans'
November 27, 2007
I love shooting macro photos, especially involving things that don't move. It really allows you to leave the shutter open for a while and get some crazy detail on very small objects. For me, it takes a lot of things that people would find mundane and turns them into objects of beauty. I took a failed trip to McLogan's this morning, not knowing that they would be closed on Friday. As the foremost supplier to......
Continue Reading "Destroyed Dime"June 4, 2007
All photos © / Pesky Humans The artist district near downtown is one of the most heavily pieced areas of the city. The prevalence of artists and the isolation associated with being so close to train yards, freeway interchanges, and the LA River make this one off the best spots to do a piece that will stay up for more than a couple of weeks without city interference. I haven't shot this spot in......
Continue Reading "Graffiti Rules! (Part 5)"May 21, 2007
I was tipped off by my boy Eddie B to this alley spot off of the 5 and Atlantic in the City of Commerce. The story is that a graffiti crew did a sick piece in the alley, and the residents and businesses adjoining the alley liked the looks of it and have since allowed crews to decorate both sides of the 2 block alley. What's more, in a part of town that is......
Continue Reading "Graffiti Rules! (Part 3)"May 20, 2007
LAist is experimenting with blogging dates from J-Date, but finds the best men are found offline. Some date vicariously online and that is one reason why porn is big -- really freaking big -- so they ask if they should cover XXX since the heart of it lays in the city's San Fernando Valley. A writer grapples with her food porn photography obsession, another gets censored on Flickr, one gets scooped by the LA......
Continue Reading "This Week in the World of -Ist"May 14, 2007
I made another trip under the bridges crossing the LA River and was pleasantly surprised to find a maze of catacombs covered in graffiti. This spot is both a proving grounds for artists honing their craft as well a a private place with lots of huge surfaces for crews to do larger pieces with a lesser risk of arrest. It is a landscape dominated by massive interior spaces, crushed top to bottom with every......
Continue Reading "Graffiti Rules! (Part 2)"May 9, 2007
All photos © / Pesky Humans I drive the 101, 110, and 10 freeways on a daily basis. Since a lot of my freeway time is, thus, spent in heavy traffic, I have had ample time to check out the vast spectrum of graffiti decorating the otherwise bleak domain of beige, gray, and black that is the hallmark of LA's freeway system, river basins, bridges and streets. I have come to respect and admire......
Continue Reading "Graffiti Rules!"April 29, 2007
Roots rockers Shadwrack & the Greedy Souls, and Wayne Kramer of the Motor City 5 at the Hotel Cafe last evening. All Photos © / Pesky Humans Way more after the jump.........
Continue Reading "Photo Essay: Shadwrack & The Greedy Souls, Wayne Kramer @ the Hotel Cafe"April 27, 2007
All photos © / Pesky Humans Tom Morello, the living legend guitarist from Rage Against the Machine, released his solo project's debut album on Tuesday. Following an in-store appearance at Amoeba Records, Morello packed out the Hotel Cafe and assembled a show that could most accurately be described as something between a spectacle and a true extravaganza. If you would have told me that one day I would see Tom Morello, Alanis Morissette, Ben......
Continue Reading "The Nightwatchman album release party"March 23, 2007
Photo © / Pesky Humans Spring? Sprung. Witness the debauchery that is Undie Run 2007 after the jump. ©......
Continue Reading "UCLA Undie Run 2007 - Bonus Photo Essay"