March 4 Protest and March to Oakland

San Juan Capistrano and a beach near Dana Point

I didn't take a lot of pictures today. To add to that, I didn't particularly like the ones I did take. Here are the ones that I really did like:





I think my finger slightly covered the lens on this picture.

On Location: (500) Days of Summer

I have decided to create a new feature that I have entitled "On Location" to my photoblog. This was inspired by a conversation I had with Johanna about (500) Days of Summer, how watching the movie was basically reliving the Urbanscape Junior Year project I did in high school, and the bench scene. I told her that I love the places depicted in (500) Days of Summer but that for some reason they look a lot more stylized, dreamy, hipster-y, and just plain clean than in real life. I'm not trying to badmouth L.A. I LOVE L.A. My favorite Rilo Kiley song is "I Love L.A./Let Me Back In." I daydream of L.A. when I'm in Berkeley. I spend a lot of my vacation time back home exploring, photographing, and just wandering L.A.

Anyway, when I saw (500) Days of Summer, I recognized various locations in the movie. More specifically, this entry is about the bench scene in (500) Days of Summer.

"The bench scene" that I mention is the one in which Tom discusses architecture and draws the skyline on Summer's arm. I believe it is also part of the opening montage. You can see glimpses here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM at 0:51 and 2:01-2:02.

Those scenes take place at Angel's Flight and the park adjacent to it in Downtown L.A. just across the street from one end of the Pershing Square Metro Station and about a block away from the actual Pershing Square. It is also located near the Financial District.

Here are some pictures that I took today (They are also technically part of the Gloomy Downtown L.A. (01/01/10) series.):








VERY (500) Days of Summer



I'm not sure why the pictures are squared off on this post. To see them in full size, just click them or go to my flickr page for them: http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniesamson/sets/72157622994311077/

:)

11/20/09 Berkeley Student Takeover of Wheeler Hall

Berkeley Budget Cut Strike 11/18/09

Even police officers were taking pictures!

The morning of the strike, I got a text from my friend Kate Maeder who works for Storefront Political Media and is also a news and politics junkie. She asked if I could take some pictures of the rally and send them to her. Some of these pictures and others that are on my flickr (flickr.com/berniesamson) are now on the Fair Share for Fair Tuition Facebook page that Kate manages.

Most of the pictures were taken with my iphone because it was just more convenient for sending those pictures out as soon as possible.

On another note, I need to become a contributing member of a periodical or create my own, so I can have a press pass and, consequently, easy access to all the news scenes!

Abortion Protests at Berkeley

This morning. 9:55am. As I walked through Upper Sproul, I noticed what appeared to be warning signs stating "Genocide pictures ahead." Next, I saw an informational exhibit (for lack of a better word) that was about 10-feet tall. The topic: abortion and how it is a form of genocide. There weren't many people on Sproul just yet.

1:00pm. In front of the exhibit was a human chain chanting "My body. My choice!" to protest the exhibit.

All in true Berkeley form.

North Hollywood Arts District

Whenever I take the Metro, I see advertisements about the NoHo Arts District. I decided to check it out.

Writers working on television scripts.

Check out the rest of my pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/berniesamson