Mo’ Betta
by chris cunningham
[The Bradbury Building, Downtown Los Angeles – Info]
So, yeah. I know. It’s really big. But when I first started this website 6 years ago it was a place for my stuff. Photography in general, but whatever came along would be welcomed. Then I got all chatty for some reason and since it’s harder to read light type on dark backgrounds, I switched it. Then I was never quite happy with the the look of the photos against the light background. Also that all of the photos are really too small. That reallly bugged me. So, I’m compromising the text legibility side of it to have the darker background with larger photos. That just means wider paragraphs and light type. Most people are now on systems that have at least 1280 screens so why should I neuter the page width for those still in 1995?
Many times I’ve also contemplated changing the domain name because it’s so incredibly pretentious sounding, but it’s not if you actually know the source of the name. OK, maybe it’s still pretentious, but fine. It came from a little band out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania called The Innocence Mission. They wrote a song called “You Chase the Light” about a painter husband and a working wife. It’s a conversation back and forth about her having to work the day while he’d spend his days down at the beach chasing the light with his canvas. Girls on the beach with their crinolines and parasols. It’s all rather Renoir sounding and one of my favorite songs, but I’m fairly comfortable with the name now so it shall stay. I have a good feeling about 2007, and here we are.
The Bradbury building is so beautiful, especially in your photograph. I have been in it once, after I bought a beautiful Sabatier knife next door. I don’t think Chase The Light sounds pretentious, I figured it was some kind of photography term.
Thanks Bree! This is the first time I’d ever gone to it. It is amazing and has that whole Blade Runner connection, so ya know…
Weird! In the bottom photo of the truck in your [Cafe Nagomi Review], you can see the windows of my office behind the tree! Excellent! Give me a shout when you go to the new Father’s Office here in Culver, I’ve never been!
They have yet to break ground on the new Father’s Office, unfortunately. Do you work at Imageworks? My ex worked there.
“My ex worked there.”
Scandelous!