Photography

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including an Octopus With a Heart-Shaped Head

This week, a frenetic, 40-minute-plus video airs on MOCAtv, a photo show gives famous and anonymous photographers equal play, and a short film brings together 21st-century preteens and a slavery-era hymn about deliverance. 5. Spirituals and sea creatures Artist Lili White organizes the Another Expe ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Farro With Broccoli Di Cicco From Ray's

Who says museum food can't be top notch? Our L.A. Weekly Flickr pool photo of the day comes from Ray's at LACMA: a farro dish with broccoli di cicco, shiitake mushrooms, green onions, chili sauce and slow cooked egg, courtesy of Darin Dines. Ray's is not only known for its farm-to-table menu -- but ... More >>

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L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Lengua From Ración

Today's L.A. Weekly Flickr pool photo of the day, from the roaming belly, is of a plate of braised beef tongue with pickled onions and honey aioli over bread from Ración. Ración, if you've not been to Pasadena lately, is the newish Basque restaurant in the location previously occupied by Tre Venez ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Summer Berry Gazpacho from Petrossian

With warm weather comes chilled soup. Gazpacho, a typically raw vegetable-based soup that's traditionally served cold, is featured here in this week's LA Weekly Flickr pool photo of the day. This photo comes to you courtesy of My Last Bite, and was taken at Petrossian in West Hollywood. Foie gras po ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Peanut Butter S'mores Meringue Pie

One visual to rekindle the experience of roasting marshmallows on a metal skewer and squeezing them between Hershey's squares and graham crackers is today's Flickr pool photo of the day. As the recipe for this peanut butter s'mores pie shows, a crumble graham cracker crust is covered by a chilled mi ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Choritos a la Chalaca at Mo-Chica

Our L.A. Weekly Flickr pool photo of the day is from photographer Darin Dines, whose photo of Choritos a la Chalaca, a dish of grilled and chopped muscles, prawns, squid and tomato choclo salsa, is on the menu at Mo-Chica. The new one, that is. Ricardo Zarate's original Peruvian restaurant, in the M ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Citrus Carpaccio With Yuzu-Jalapeno Sauce

Today's Flickr pool photo of the day is a vibrant citrus dish with orange, grapefruit and blood orange carpaccio, courtesy of Cooking on the Weekends. The recipe includes a variety of citrus fruits that are carefully sliced and arranged in a circular pattern, topped with a yuzu-jalapeño sauce and p ... More >>

Judd Weiss, Bel Air Party Boy, Arrested For Alleged Sex Assault, Took Sexy Photos

Judd Weiss comes off on his Facebook page and his blog as a party boy with a camera, a good eye for pretty girls and a wallet that allows him to live the Hollywood life. But the LAPD over the weekend said Weiss is a felony sexual assailant, and cops want to know if there are other possible victims ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo Of The Day: Cafe Dulce Coffee Cart

First food trucks, now ... coffee carts? It appears so. Cafe Dulce debuted one last week at Tuesday Night Cafe, a local performance arts series in Little Tokyo. Your photo comes courtesy of R.E.~, from our L.A. Weekly Flickr photo pool. The "mobile espresso bar is made of gorgeous reclaimed wood," ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo Of The Day: Geisha Gone Wild

Geisha House's website says it aims to be a "five star sushi restaurant set in the atmosphere of surreal high-class brothel." That must be why an outside wall depicts a woman in geisha makeup, caught in mid-chew. Right? Today's Flickr pool photo comes to you from Greg Lilly, taken at Hollywood's Gei ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo Of The Day: Rorschach Lamb Plate at Wolvesden

Nine courses were on the menu last week at Wolvesden, the underground, semi-secret supper club run by Craig Thornton. When Squid Ink interviewed Thornton a couple of years ago, he agreed that his plates were like Rorschach tests. (Did guests dive in? Look away? The approach conveyed a lot, he said.) ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo Of The Day: Easter Egg

For your LA Weekly flickr pool photo of the day, we have an egg from Joey Zanotti. An Easter egg, that is, colored in yellow and raspberry, with flecks of gold and silver. Are we going to eat it? Probably not. Like most Easter eggs, we're guessing it's been hard-boiled into an unappetizing rubbery b ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: The Perfect French Fry

This LA Weekly flickr pool photo comes to you from Paolo Pamintuan, a.k.a. thepaolosaurus. "mmmm... calories," says the caption. This is a mystery french fry, its provenance unknown. But who cares? The fry's curved neck, straining under the weight of gooey cheese and bacon bits, tells us all we need ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Exploding Fish, Sort Of

Sure, tuna tartare is a bit, well, dated. But this is not just anybody's "tuna dynamite," but Kerry Simon's (Simon L.A.). Which means that it could very well explode. (Or maybe that's his cotton candy.) Whatever happens to it, it's better than your tuna tartare, that's for sure. This gorgeous LA Wee ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Exploding Fish, Sort of

Sure, tuna tartare is a bit, well, dated. However, this is not just anybody's "tuna dynamite," but Kerry Simon's (Simon L.A.). Which means that it could very well explode. (Or maybe that's his cotton candy.) Whatever happens to it, it's better than your tuna tartare, that's for sure. This L.A. Weekl ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Lychee Panna Cotta at Gold Standard

This LA Weekly flickr pool photo, by Misty O. of nomsnotbombs, was just one of many delectable sights at yesterday's Gold Standard. Although maybe the most colorful. The lychee panna cotta topped with nasturtiums came from Starry Kitchen, one of 40 restaurants invited to participate in the food bona ... More >>

Cleo Berry, Los Angeles Actor With 2 Legs, Photoshopped Into Diabetic Amputee by NYC Health Department

It's one thing to wake up to a heroic graphic design of your face on the cover of TIME, a la Sarah Mason of Occupy L.A. It's another to wake up to an unflattering (and even more unflatteringly manipulated) photo of yourself on a New York City billboard, and all over the Internet, posing as a fat gu ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Ludo's Uni Crème Brûlée

LA Weekly Flickr pool/Darin DinesLudo's uni crème brûlée​This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer Darin Dines, comes from the latest incarnation of LudoBites. (We're on number 8 if you've lost count.) It's a ramekin of uni crème brûlée, a very neat trick variation on the b ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Nutella Truffles (Enough Said)

LA Weekly Flickr pool/Cooking On The WeekendsNutella truffles​If you're the sort of person who buys jars of Nutella in bulk, has a mental map of all the shops in L.A. where you can get the European-made stuff, and has toured this town more than once to find Nutella-related dishes on menus, the ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Gratin Windfall

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettycranberry potato gratin​This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer averagebetty, is of a lovely gratin made with Russet potatoes, Asiago cheese and a handful of cranberries. (The recipe and the video are on her blog.) Looks very festive and holida ... More >>

Girls Gone Wild Party House Visited by LAPD

Girls Gone Wild​Updated with more details at the bottom. First posted at 3:56 p.m. Cops today responded to a disturbance at a Hollywood Hills home being used by the producers of Girls Gone Wild, possibly for a photo shoot, police told LA Weekly. Neighbors phoned authorities this afternoon to ... More >>

"Constant Comment": Eileen Quinlan

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Happy Okonomiyaki

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, taken by photographer foodforfel, is kind of weird, yes, but it's also a great reminder of a few things. Namely, that playing with your food is as much fun as it's always been. With or without a Diane Arbus camera or iPhone or iPad or Canon PowerShot S90 or ____ . ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Garlic Roasted Cauliflower

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettygarlic roasted cauliflower​Want to look at a pretty picture? Need a good Thanksgiving side dish idea? Well, here you go -- on both counts. This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo of a lovely plate of garlic roasted cauliflower with lemon and Parmesan comes to us from ... More >>

Are Bands Really Asking Concert Photographers To Hand Over Their Copyrights?

Timothy NorrisTimothy Norris' shot of Dave Grohl at a Foo Fighters performance in 2007​The Foo Fighters perform at The Forum tomorrow and Friday, and while fans may be giddy, some concert photographers are less enthused. Our sister paper City Pages in Minneapolis recently published an article ... More >>

Nirvana's Photographer Kirk Weddle Recalls The Day In Pasadena He Shot Nevermind's Cover (Plus Rare Photos)

See also: Nirvana Little-Known-Facts Revealed: The Band and Jon Stewart Celebrate Nevermind's 20th Anniversary in New York You might not know his name, but you certainly know his work. On the 20th anniversary of "Smells like Teen Spirit"'s debut on MTV, we spoke with Kirk Weddle, who shot the cove ... More >>

The Road to Freedom Review

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Eating Blueberry Pancakes

LA Weekly Flickr pool/WhishingOnAsTar!blueberry pancakes​Once upon a time, lovely food photography was all about perfect dishes: no crumbs, no bites, no dirty silverware. In fact some of us remember when shooting pictures of bitten food was just as verboten as splitting infinitives. Yeah, that ... More >>

Sexually Suggestive Teen Photo Shoot in L.A. Results in Big-Money Lawsuit Against Urban Outfitters

Urban OutfittersOne of the offending images.​A clothed 15-year-old girl spread her legs, posed sans bra and even allegedly exposed parts of her breasts during a fashion photo shoot in Los Angeles in 2010. Now the teen and her parents are suing the photog, Jason Lee Parry, other targets, and r ... More >>

Gee, That Food Looks Terrible!

jbcurio / FlickrTwo of the vintage ads in the Gee, That Looks Terrible! Flickr pool.​God bless old cookbooks and vintage advertisements. God bless Jell-O molds. God bless America's post-WWII bounty and our faith in science to "improve" hearty, classic foods by replacing them with elaborately s ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Guacamole

LA Flickr pool/averagebettyguacamole​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer averagebetty, a lovely shot of a bowl of guacamole. If you don't make guacamole on a regular basis -- which you really should, given the fact that there are avocado trees all over this town -- ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Ludo's Octopus

LA Weekly Flickr pool/MyLastBiteLudoBites octopus​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from MyLastBite, a lovely shot of the crispy octopus, smokey chipotle and piquillo pepper polenta dish that Ludo Lefebvre served at his most recent LudoBites. It was a one night only event, very we ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Lemon Bars

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettylemons lemon bars​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer averagebetty. It's a gorgeous shot posted as a Mother's Day tribute to her mother. Or rather, her mother's lemon bar recipe. Also cool because it's the peak of lemon season at ... More >>

The Bang Bang Club

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Still Life of Bell Pepper & Chef's Knife

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettystill life of pepper and knife​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer averagebetty, a lovely shot of a red bell pepper and a chef's knife. The photo is also from her blog, specifically from her blog post about how to chop without dull ... More >>

Top 10 Awkward Stock Photos

awkwardstockphotos.com​Nothing beats a good laugh over a truly ridiculous photo. You know the ones. Family portraits gone horribly awry. An epic photo bomb. Those photos you never, ever want tagged of yourself on Facebook. They're those happy mistakes that have enlivened and shaped viral Inter ... More >>

The Perfect Bumper Sticker for Music Producers and Engineers

Spotted on a pole near Hollywood and Vine: Randall Roberts (with apologies to professional photographers everywhere)Fuck what? Anyone who's ever had a bummer experience with the industry standard Pro Tools software for recording and mixing will understand ....

Photogs Fight Back

It's happened again. L.A. Daily reported Monday that photographer Anthony Citrano was prevented from shooting personal pictures last Friday evening at Pacific Park, supposedly a private property enclave tucked along the municipally owned Santa Monica Pier. Sunday, a local chapter of the National P ... More >>

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