Los Angeles: The (Mutated) Garden City of Today
Nineteenth-century British modernity is characterized by an astounding leap in scientific discoveries, new technologies, mass production and imperial expansion.[1] The invention of modern mediums—like photography, railways, electricity, steel and telegraphy—inspired new ways for British society to envision and reconfigure urban spaces and urban life. How could society live [...]

Scientific design is linked to the stars far more directly than to the earth. Star-gazing? Admittedly. But it is essential to accentuate the real source of energy and change in contrast to the emphasis that has always been placed on keeping man ‘down to earth.’
-R. Buckminster Fuller, Nine Chains to the Moon (1938), 67

Union Station: Providing the Architecture for the New Arcadia in Southern California
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the [...]

Note: this is not a druid temple. But, it is magical and sublime.
Claude glass, aka black mirror, is a small convex mirror, with a surface tinted in a dark color. In the 18th and 19th centuries, this mirror was used by artists and tourists in pursuit of the picturesque. (Hilariously, folks making the Grand Tour [...]

Identification in 19th Century Photography: Public Image, the Carte de Visite, and Charles Darwin
Introduction
Charles Robert Darwin, the eminent 19th-century naturalist, famously formulated the theory of evolution by natural selection. His book, The Origin of Species, was published in 1859—merely five years after the Parisian photographer, Andre Adolphe Eugene Disderi, patented and popularized the carte de [...]

I LOVE the skyscape. In September we went at dawn to shoot a scene for Chris’s short. It was cold and we were bleary-eyed and coffee-less. Dark blue, to pink, to this green… the shades were constantly shifting and transforming the way we perceived color. The three of us couldn’t believe our eyes when we [...]

This is a video made for Phyllis Jackson’s course “Black Aesthetics and the Politics of (Re)presentation at Pomona College. The video profiles contemporary, Los Angeles artist: Mark Bradford.

Beginning Senior Thesis
In response to Roger Fry’s exhibition “Manet and the Post Impressionists” at the Grafton House, Virginia Woolf pronounced: “in or about December 1910, human character changed.” According to Woolf, Fry and other members who comprised the exclusive Bloomsbury Group: the English were unable to push the boundaries of British art and refute the [...]