Thomas Locke Hobbs
| Currently: Buenos Aires |
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| Back in São Paulo. The photo is from a friend´s flat service in Jardins, from the pool on the 28th floor. |
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| The pool at the Beverly Laurel Hotel |
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| My friend Adam |
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| Near my dad's apartment in Marina del Rey, see also 2004.01.18 |
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| Respectively, Disney Hall at night, the garden behind Disney Hall, the interior of LA´s newish Cathedral, all from a quick weekend trip to LA about a month ago. I´m still in Brazil but I´ll be posting more regularly now. The Brazil photos will start this week. |
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| Sorry for the delay. Here are some pictures of my mom, whose birthday was a few days ago. She´s very patient with me and my camera and the too-close perspectives I seem to prefer. |
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| Big Basin Redwoods state park
It must be fate that the NY Time's fifth most emailed article right now is about the New Sao Paulo, where I happen to be right now (altho for the purposes of this blog I'll be in California for about another two weeks). I spent six months in Sampa in 2005 and at the bottom of the page are some links to some of the best photos I took while I was there. |
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| The interior of the Telescope at Mt. Hamilton.
Genre cliche or aesthetic zeitgeist? Suggestions on things to avoid for a photography contest:
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| An oak tree on Mt. Tam that's half in the fog, half in the sun.
Thomas Kinkade & MySpace The LA Times published a negative piece on 'Painter of Light', Thomas Kinkade highlighting his boozing, boorishness, and rapacity towards his gallery owners. With gleeful schadenfreude this artice has been flung around the blogosphere. Felix Salmon in particular dissects the economic greed hangover at the heart of the franchisee's gripes. At the same time and completely unrelated, a number of old-school bloggers have been expressing their bewilderment at the rise of MySpace, pointing to it's crushing ubiquity inspite of it's horrible, geocities-era, anything-goes design. It's probably only coincidence but I can't helping thinking these two memes are connected somehow. In the spirit of the moment, I've customized my own MySpace profile with a Kinkade background. Update:I could never be a professional blogger because I can't write snarky paragraphs like this: Thomas Kinkaide, the painter of mega-kitschy religiously themed and militantly bourgeois schlock, tchotchkes and knickknacks bearing his imprimatur, may be a freakin’ dirty bastard.from Consumerist. |
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| Mom, Will & Karen at Picchetti Ranch in the hills above Cupertino. Richard Renaldi is a photographer who takes portraits of strangers with an 8x10 camera. They are direct and formal in a style reminiscent of August Sander. His website has lots of photos; Bus Travelers, a pre-rennovation Pier 45, and Fresno & Newark, a series that was part of an exhibit a couple of years ago where I first saw his work (and blogged it). I'm not sure why I'm re-posting this now. Some memory was triggered and I just spent a long time browsing his website. Stephen Johnson is a photographer of the 'rocks & trees' variety who, nevertheless, has a fascinating book about California's Central Valley. The pictures, done in color with a large format camera during the 70s and 80s, remind me of Joel Sternfeld or Stephen Shore. |
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| Golden Gate & Crisis Counseling. The New Yorker's Tad Friend on the bridge's 'fatal grandeur'. |
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| The first tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Both of these photos are near copies of photos I took in 2001. Since being back here in California I've found myself 're-photographing' a number of things now, digitally. It's more expedient than tracking down the negatives and scanning them. Not everything changes in 5 years. |
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| Cienaga Road in San Benito county near Hollister. |
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| Along Route 25, south of the Pinnacles in southern San Benito County. The road passes thru countryside so rural and unpopulated that it's amazing to think you're still in California. Late winter and spring is a beautiful time of year here as the grass is green and the wildflowers start to come out. |
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 | For more about me, please go visit my old geocities page. |