For over a decade I lived 6 blocks from Venice Beach. Most days would have a bike ride, usually around sunset, down to the Bike Path. Often a workout at the Santa Monica monkey bars. Friends would come over and I had extra bikes. Here’s my young friend Will riffing to my camera next to a movie shoot.
Category: From The Field
H Is For Humphrey
Hollywood, 1980.
Dehydration Dent
Suddenly confronted with a significant dent in my forehead I of course turned to the internet. Information was sparse, but I did find one post that documented a similar forehead dent that turned out to be caused by dehydration. I tested this hypothesis by drinking a ton of water and sure enough, within an hour or so the dent was receding and by the morning my forehead was normal.
In retrospect I realized I had not been drinking enough water for the preceding few days. First as a result of two days of driving, but followed with a bunch of hiking in hot weather.
Lesson learned!
Here’s a link to the post that helped me out. How dehydration causes skin deformities
In retrospect I realized I had not been drinking enough water for the preceding few days. First as a result of two days of driving, but followed with a bunch of hiking in hot weather.
Lesson learned!
Here’s a link to the post that helped me out. How dehydration causes skin deformities
Suzie
Suzie
Modeen
Happy Birthday Corinn! #cc The time you were visiting in Humboldt and we went for a walk on the dunes and Modeen took off after a rabbit as fast as I’ve ever seen an animal move. If you look real hard you’ll see a black dot fading into the distance at the end of the pawprints in this pic.
The Cat Bird Seat
Relaxing in Hawaii in 1990 on my way back from touring Japan with Carole King. The music clip makes it. It’s Barney Bigard Sextet playing ‘Sweet Marijuana Brown’ with Art Tatum on piano! 1945.
Joe Cohen RIP
My random movie maker recently surfaced a journal entry from 1997 when I was living on Westmoreland Ave. in Hollywood having just been evicted from my awesome rent-controlled apartment in Silverlake by a greedy landlord. One of my roommates was Joe Cohen. We got along okay, but basically trolled each other constantly. Joe was having a hard time finding work at the time. Today I discovered he’d passed in 2016.
Unionizing
A note I found on my windshield after work one day back when I was part of the team trying to unionize Musicians Institute in the early 2000s.
Jazz!
When this photo popped up in my ‘random movie maker’ with Charlie Parker for a sound track. Robin, and Catherine at Carole’s birthday party 1992.
Mom and Les Visit 1984
From a journal. All we packed into a day. Hollywood!
Camping Mount Pinos 1983
I used to love camping on top of Mount Pinos. For a bunch of years in a row I’d go up for a few weeks in September.
Alice Vs. The Bowling Ball
Shaan Puri -The Crazy Story of Charity Water
Shaan is a great story teller and the story of Scott Harrison’s journey to creating Charity Water is an amazing story. This clip comes from the My First Million podcast episode. ‘How To Get the Most Out of Every Event…’
Shaan Puri – My First Million Podcast – On why people hate crypto.
Note that Shaan himself holds a bunch of bitcoin and is involved in all sorts of blockchain shenanigans. This clip comes from their episode, The Next Big Social Media Network Will Be On the Chain. Nader Al-Naji Tells Us Why. I wanted to share it because it so succinctly describes what triggers me about it all.