Afternoon in Downtown Los Angeles

After cruising around downtown for a bit on Monday, I spent the afternoon with my good friend and collaborator David Dietch of Dietch PR. He recently finished renovating a beautiful penthouse space in a building circa a million years ago. The finished look is modern meets vintage meets industrial with lots of natural light and clean lines. The elevator ride up is tomblike and seriously tested my panic button, but it was absolutely worth it once I stepped out into his massive rooftop haven.

Admired: Antonin Kratochvil

I had the pleasure of studying photography with Antonin briefly in 1999. He’s an incredibly poetic shooter and one of the most creative living documentary photographers, in my opinion. His site is really nicely designed. Clean, clear, to the point - the primary goals when displaying photography. Let the images do the talking. Especially these.

Jonathan Harris

For the past few years I’ve been admiring the work of Jonathan Harris, a storyteller and digital anthropologist who creates stunning online experiments.

Think human-spirit-meets-computer-science:

We Feel Fine / “Harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs.”

Universe / “Using the metaphor of an interactive night sky, Universe presents an immersive environment for navigating the world’s contemporary mythology, as found online in global news and information.”

I Want You To Want Me / “This chronicles the world’s long-term relationship with romance, across all ages, genders, and sexualities, gathering new data from a variety of online dating sites every few hours.”