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You ever have trouble finding the right light in which to photograph something?
Yeah. I'm sure everyone's as anal about it as you are.
Ignore him.
I found the light I was looking for, and I was beginning to shoot pictures…
Then, someone wanted a ride, and I had to leave. I made the photos above outside the car wash.
And, as long as have nothing important to say, I'll share some more of Spring with you.
And, while I'm at it, I got a real good shot, later in the day, of something I had seen many, many times, but, was never in a good spot to take a picture.
Now, there's a story behind this. Here's the story, in someone else's words:
"Why do so many Los Angeles-area banks have amazing murals, mosaics, and sculptures? It's mostly the the work of the Millard Sheets Studio, which starting in the fifties designed more than 100 Home Savings bank buildings and their accompanying artwork. Howard Ahmanson Sr. bought Home Savings and Loan in 1947 and the bank prospered by making home loans to SoCal residents during the mid-century boom, according to historian Adam Arenson's blog on the banks. Sheets was an artist who became well-known in the thirties for his paintings. In 1952, according to the Daily News, Ahmanson wrote to Sheets: "Have traveled Wilshire Boulevard for twenty-five years. Know name of architect and year every building was built. Bored … Need buildings designed?I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now."
Ahmanson and Sheets's first bank collaboration was the Wilshire Home Savings in Beverly Hills (their first building together was the National American Insurance building on Wilshire, near Western, now the Ahmanson Center). Ahmanson gave Sheets plenty of latitude to create "banks clad in travertine and trimmed in gold, adorned with mosaic, murals and stained glass, and sculptures that lauded family life and the history of the Golden State." (Ahmanson loved them, according to a Smithsonian interview with Sheets.) Sheets designed 40 banks before Ahmanson died in 1968; he designed 80 afterward.
In 1998, Home Savings sold to Washington Mutual, which collapsed in 2008. Its banks were acquired by Chase."
Yeah. That's a tile mosaic. They're all over the place, in California. I have photos of many of them. This one is, now, a shoe store.
This pen, by the bye, is made of Ziricote. I'd mad a couple others with this wood - #s 7 and 14, think. I haven't really much cared for this wood, because it kinda looks like charcoal. However, this one sorta catches my eyes differently. I don't know. Maybe I'll grown accustomed to it. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Thank you. And I apologize.
Yeah. I'm sure everyone's as anal about it as you are.
Ignore him.
I found the light I was looking for, and I was beginning to shoot pictures…
Then, someone wanted a ride, and I had to leave. I made the photos above outside the car wash.
And, as long as have nothing important to say, I'll share some more of Spring with you.
And, while I'm at it, I got a real good shot, later in the day, of something I had seen many, many times, but, was never in a good spot to take a picture.
Now, there's a story behind this. Here's the story, in someone else's words:
"Why do so many Los Angeles-area banks have amazing murals, mosaics, and sculptures? It's mostly the the work of the Millard Sheets Studio, which starting in the fifties designed more than 100 Home Savings bank buildings and their accompanying artwork. Howard Ahmanson Sr. bought Home Savings and Loan in 1947 and the bank prospered by making home loans to SoCal residents during the mid-century boom, according to historian Adam Arenson's blog on the banks. Sheets was an artist who became well-known in the thirties for his paintings. In 1952, according to the Daily News, Ahmanson wrote to Sheets: "Have traveled Wilshire Boulevard for twenty-five years. Know name of architect and year every building was built. Bored … Need buildings designed?I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now."
Ahmanson and Sheets's first bank collaboration was the Wilshire Home Savings in Beverly Hills (their first building together was the National American Insurance building on Wilshire, near Western, now the Ahmanson Center). Ahmanson gave Sheets plenty of latitude to create "banks clad in travertine and trimmed in gold, adorned with mosaic, murals and stained glass, and sculptures that lauded family life and the history of the Golden State." (Ahmanson loved them, according to a Smithsonian interview with Sheets.) Sheets designed 40 banks before Ahmanson died in 1968; he designed 80 afterward.
In 1998, Home Savings sold to Washington Mutual, which collapsed in 2008. Its banks were acquired by Chase."
Yeah. That's a tile mosaic. They're all over the place, in California. I have photos of many of them. This one is, now, a shoe store.
This pen, by the bye, is made of Ziricote. I'd mad a couple others with this wood - #s 7 and 14, think. I haven't really much cared for this wood, because it kinda looks like charcoal. However, this one sorta catches my eyes differently. I don't know. Maybe I'll grown accustomed to it. Maybe it'll grow on me.
Thank you. And I apologize.