Browsing Category 'Read the Signs'
After some surprisingly warm and sunny weather yesterday, this morning Venice Beach was shrouded in a thick fog, making it all look a lot like a cheap ’80s post-apocalyptic movie set, especially with all the gathering junkies. I spotted this sign at Big Daddy’s, a pizza spot on the boardwalk. I had to wonder if [...]
For today’s fun-filled episode of Siteseeing, I’m keeping it South Bay with my favorite surf-inspired brand, Hippy Tree. Founded by surfer and talented artist/photographer Andrew Sarnecki, and working with their supercool marketing & sales director Josh Sweeney, Hippy Tree have slowly been building an impressive empire based on down-to-earth quality art, design, and product. In addition [...]
After a pretty productive day working from home, I strolled over to the corner store (to pick up some of their finest Redhook ESB Original Ale) and spotted exactly what I’d been searching for on Friday. Sans dookie, strangely enough. The missing excrement was disconcerting. Where was it? Under my shoe? Nope. The soles of [...]
Today at lunchtime, I hopped on my bike and zigzagged all over Venice like a crazy person, looking for one of these. I even went to some of the corners in the photos. No dice, though. Funny how when you actually want to find some doggy doo-doo it all goes into hiding. I barely saw [...]
Got up at the crack of dawn today and went for a nice stroll around Venice with my daughter, well before most people are out and about. Here’s Abbot Kinney with barely a soul in sight. Heading down toward the beach we passed Mollusk, which is quite possibly the best surf shop chain in the [...]
The other day I rode my bike from sunny Venice to the Foreign Family office in Koreatown (about 23 miles round trip, thanks for asking). I snapped some of the hand painted signs that caught my eye along the way. From 6 lanes of traffic and one divider away, it looked like a rival had [...]
Thanks to some heavy influence from my some of my favorite artists like Steve Powers, Grotesk, Mike Giant, Greg Lamarche, Morning Breath and Parra, I’ve been taking lots of photos of various hand painted signs in and around LA, like this one. I think custom signs like these have a lot in common with a [...]