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.)

Tuesday, December 21, 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.

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: