Georgia Porches - Halloween in the South
Topic: Guest Photography
Georgia Porches - Halloween in the South
"This house has pumpkins on the gable of an arched lattice porch. The sinister cats were props at a Kiss concert but have been put to work every Halloween for at least a decade. Usually little children must wait to trick or treat here because the cats are just too scary." - PR 
The front porch of Rick, the News Guy, as Phillip notes, most likely decorated by his wife, the CNN executive - "Note the balance of caution tape and spider webs juxtaposed by the architecture." There is, however, no scary Wolf Blitzer.
A masonry note - "Behind a cats cradle of wires this two story porch rest beneath one of my chimneys built for a neighbor just a few doors up the street."
Photos and comments, Copyright © 2006 - Phillip Raines
Items by Phillip Raines in Just Above Sunset - - Preparing for Santa in Georgia - December 25, 2005, masonry
- Cemeteries as Method - September 25, 2005, stonework
- - The Boogie - August 8, 2004, Phillip plays North Georgia
- Real Work - March 28, 2004, masonry
- Playing a gig on Saint Simons Island a day or two before the G8 Summit… - March 28, 2004
- The Treehouse - August 4, 2003
- Phillip Raines Photographs - August 24, 2003
- Treehouse Chronicles - September 1, 2003
- I Was Just This Close - November 9, 2003, Phillip's appreciation of James Brown
- Phillip's Tale - June 1, 2003 - "When I was in my early twenties I was taking sax lessons at an art consortium housed in a school built in the twenties…."
Phillip Raines' comments on current events can be found scattered throughout Just Above Sunset and the web logs by using the recently revised search function.
The Mystery Man on Sunset Boulevard
Topic: Oddities
The Mystery Man on Sunset Boulevard
Sunset on Sunday
Topic: Technical Exercises
Sunset Boulevard, Sunday, October 29 - what catches the eye - studies in perspective - 
A Moody Shot
Topic: Light and Shadow
This was mistake - the settings on the Nikon were in the wrong place - but the effect is curious. This is a column on the old bank building on Hollywood Boulevard that is now the international headquarters pf the Church of Scientology. 
A Feel for the Place
Topic: Graphics
Our Man in Paris, Ric Erickson, editor of MetropoleParis, offers a glance into graphic design with his weekly shots of the posters in the kiosks there. Click on the link and go to "This Week's Paris Posters" for examples of what Parisians see - what's hot, and how it is presented. You get a sense of what's going on there, and there are some startling images.
Ric covers Paris. Hollywood has a different flavor. Below are this week's Hollywood posters - or maybe more than posters.
Below - the east wall of the Whisky a Go Go - 8901 Sunset Boulevard, on the Sunset Strip, not to be confused the Whisky à Go-Go that opened in Paris in 1947. This one opened on January 11, 1964 - with a live band led by Johnny Rivers and a short-skirted female DJ spinning records between sets from a suspended cage at the right of the stage. When the girl DJ danced during Rivers' set, the audience thought it was part of the act and the concept of Go-Go dancers in cages was born. In 1966, the Whisky was one of the centers of the Sunset Strip police riots. The club was harassed repeatedly by the City of Los Angeles, which once ordered that the name be changed - claiming "whisky" was a bad influence. It was the "Whisk?" for a while. The Byrds and the Buffalo Springfield were regulars, and The Doors were the house band for a while. Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention got their record contract based on a performance at the Whisky. Jimi Hendrix came by to jam when Sam & Dave headlined. Otis Redding recorded his album "Live at the Whisky" in 1966 here. Then there were The Kinks, The Who, Cream, Led Zeppelin and so on. The next wave - The Runaways, X, Mötley Crüe and Van Halen, but also Blondie, Talking Heads, and Elvis Costello. Then came the "the godfathers of grunge" - Soundgarden, Nirvana and so on. Now this - 
Aardvark's at 7579 Melrose Avenue - west wall -
Now playing at the Matrix Theater, 7657 Melrose Avenue -
Billboard, Hollywood and Vine
