Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Central Valley Project: San Luis Reservoir

Crop-Dusting winter wheat:



Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Sunday, December 26, 2010


The Trinity River near Burnt Ranch, California
The Central Valley Project: Whiskeytown Dam


My best Christmas present, sent by Professor García-Acevedo:



(This is what it's all about.)

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Friday, December 17, 2010

Logging operation near Scotia, California today:




Thursday, December 16, 2010

Lovely short video by Kim Anno:

Tuesday, December 14, 2010





Life drawing class: my students' originality always rocks my world.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Monday, December 06, 2010

The new Resnick Pavilion at LACMA:



Saturday, December 04, 2010

Weekend in LA:



(Painting by Martin McMurray.)

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Perhaps the best paragraph about NAFTA I've read so far:
Check out some slides from a lecture and video screening I'm going to give at California State University Northridge this Friday December 3 at noon in the lecture hall of the Oviatt Library. The talk is going to be called Adaptive Ecosystems in the Era of NAFTA: Tijuana's Informal Communities, and the public is most welcome to attend!


Friday, November 26, 2010

"Secrecy in democracy is a volatile combination."

--Trevor Paglen
Video by Estudio Teddy Cruz

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Detroit: Making it Better for You by Kyong Park

Sunday, November 21, 2010

"Strive to be obscure."

--Jeffrey Vallance

Thursday, November 18, 2010

A few of David Hockney's IPad images:


Monday, November 15, 2010

Weekend in San Francisco:

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Sunday, November 07, 2010


The poet and artist Omar Pimienta.

Friday, November 05, 2010


A redux of Robert Smithson's essay "Cultural Confinement" (1972) courtesy Ken Ehrlich.

Yoshua Okón at the Yerba Buena Center (SF)

"White Russians" (2008): where the artist, his cameras, and and his art-world entourage spend some quality time with a working-class family in Wonder Valley, CA. (The 4-channel room installation allows you to join in the fun too.)





"Bocanegra" (2005-2007): Where the artist examines the recreational activities of a small group of Mexican Nazi enthusiasts: