Santa Marta, Brazil: Urban Renewal Project

Awesome.

Word of the Day

Today's fairly randomly chosen but strangely and self-satisfyingly cool-sounding word to stare at and repeat to yourself until it doesn't mean anything anymore:

Seal Beach Chrome

A few images I got from the Seal Beach Classic Car Show, held April 30th, 2011. It's a great way to spend a Saturday morning. Don't know how, but the weather is always perfect for this show. Guys sporting some serious camera gear are always out in full force for this one, too. And you'll need earplugs if you're near the classic dragsters when they fire one of them bad boys up.

I was born inside the movie of my life.

Looking forward to this one - Read the first chapter of Roger Ebert's upcoming memoir here. Publish date is Sept. 13, 2011.

Seen: At Cars & Coffee, Irvine

I think this is a Deusenberg. Shot with my iPhone - not too shabby!

All the best for 2011!

Happy New Year everyone! Where were you on the last day of the decade? I was hangin' with Kobe at Staples. They made it a little too close at the end - for dramatic effect I guess - but the Lake Show pulled out the win.

Seen: At the swap meet

Cover - beveled areas stand up about 10mm

I'm certainly no true believer, but I do appreciate a lot of the art and architecture created in the name of our world's religions. Case in point: This huge - probably a good five inches thick - and profusely illustrated bible I came across at the swap meet a couple weeks back. It was in rough shape and the binding was falling apart, but that didn't take away from the spectacular gilt inlaid cover or the incredibly detailed black and white plates, most likely reproductions of etchings, scattered throughout the book. They wanted eighty bucks for it, so I just snapped a few pics with my phone. Click photos for larger versions.

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