Are you a terrorist?

I think not.

The TSA may think so though.

Check out the TSA poster on the blog Photography Is Not A Crime.

California Reality

Back in my blog post of December 27, 2009 I talked about looking for a scene I had shot back in 1990, and even showed a sample of it.  I was not able to find the exact scene last time, thinking it had changed so much as to be unrecognizable.  Well, I was back out on the west coast last week, and undeterred, I decide to keep trying to find that street.

This time, I walked further up and down every street in Chinatown, up and down all the hills, peeked into every alleyway, stared up at every building, until finally, at the bottom of Jackson Street, I felt a kind of six sense about it.  I turned a corner, feeling somehow I was close, and sure enough, I was there!

Amazingly, most of the scene was intact 20 years later, save for the Pac Bell phone booth, the Far East something Service has changed to Wayne’s Liquors, and a sign of Chinese characters has come down. Unfortunately the Grassland Cocktail Lounge sign as seen better days, and is no longer lit up- probably because the space is for rent.  I doubt it will survive another year, but who knows.

And, the Chinese restaurant not visible in the foreground is now a Thai restaurant, all of which, if you are interested on Kearny, at Jackson.