#california revealed

[garadinervi]

Art, competence and citywide cooperation for San Francisco: Ruth Asawa, An Interview Conducted by Harriet Nathan in 1974 and 1976, The Arts and the Community Oral History Project, Regional Oral History Office – The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1980 (pdf here) (California Revealed audio here, Internet Archive audio here) [UC Berkeley Library, Berkeley, CA. Art: © Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. / ARS, New York]

[petsincollections]

Rabbit & Armadillo

"The Last Hurrah" - a Wake for the Tswuun-Tswuun Rotunda held Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Objects that spent time in the lobby of the Velaslavasay Panorama are photographed in the garden.

Drawing on the illustrious history of the great panorama paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries, The Velaslavasay Panorama is an exhibition hall, theatre and garden dedicated to the production and presentation of unusual visual experiences, including those of the 360-degree variety and linear moving panoramas.

The Velaslavasay Panorama's digital collection at California Revealed consists of images from the 2000s. The collection includes brochures, texts, ephemera, and photographs related to the museum’s establishment in the early 2000s.

General - Velaslavasay Panorama Photo Documentation

California Revealed

[distorted-prince]

MAG 139 - Chosen (aka the cult of the lightless flame plans a ritual)

[knox-knocks]

Thinking about wymack trying to break the news to the rookie kid about their problems with the japanese mafia without scaring him off the team only for the rookie kid to have his very own ties to a different but related gang is too fucking funny to me

[orb-weaving]

I accomplished legitimately nothing of value today so here's Dabi experiencing California (wildfires and surfing) because I need to feel like I did something.

[mysharona1987]

When this simple idea you had about cutting open a cake starts to have a literal body count.

[whataboutyouisamascot]

Watching everything that’s happening leading up to the inauguration like, they’re really just not hiding how dystopian this all is anymore, but I still gotta do my laundry, I guess.

[lilac-wanderer]

[palmtreepalmtree]

Please say you’ll be taking your mom to a cafe?!

Oh gosh, I totally missed this before my trip! So sorry isay!

I don't really partake (for many reasons), but since we live in LA where it's actually legal, it's not so much a novelty for us. There are like three or four weed stores within a few blocks of our residential pocket. Our old corner drugstore and our old video store are both now weed stores!

My mom has always been more of a happy hour type, and we certainly enjoyed cocktails and beer/wine at every opportunity.

But we did have a lot of fun conversations in which I learned about the extent of my dad's pot-smoking in the 70s haha!

[impossiblepluto]

hi this is random but since you enjoy the dynamic between jack and Mac so much I thought you might enjoy the dynamic between two characters Ty and Jack from a show called Heartland. it is a horse show but it’s very wholesome and they have one of my favourite dynamics in the whole show

Ahhh! Okay, so! A while back, probably like 4 years ago now, there was a gifset that I think was from The Curse of Downer's Grove and because I have never once scrolled past a gifset without being seized by the fatal need to drop some angsty, fic-adjacent thoughts in the tags, I rambled on about troubled teenage Mac who ends up in Jack's care on the ranch.

After the latest round of fights and explosions, Mac is looking at spending some time in a detention center. Grandpa Harry (with probably James pulling strings behind the scenes) is able to make an appeal and send Mac off to a ranch in Texas with an old friend, Jack Dalton Sr who has experience working with at risk youth. However, prior to Mac's arrival, Jack Sr. passes unexpectedly and Mac shows up about the same time Jack Jr. comes back to Texas for the first time in over a decade.

Jack has no plans to stick around in Texas after his handled his father's affairs, and he certainly isn't about to take responsibility for some punk kid from California.

Apparently there are quite a few similarities to Heartland! And I have now seen a couple of episodes. It's also sort of similar to "Bravetown" and if you check out the tag "bt in texas" on Anguish's blog, you'll probably find some gifsets the capture the vibes

Anyway, that's more than you were expecting but I should probably check out Heartland again and maybe that will spark me into finishing this idea because realizing that it's 4 years old kind of makes my heart hurt a little bit

[eliotquillon]

just finished the rwrb movie and although i really enjoyed it (and was kicking my feet giggling the whole time) i do have a couple of major criticisms, some of which i think aren’t really the movie’s fault because they had to fit a whole book into 2 hours, but some of which left me kind of disappointed:

-i feel slightly icky that bea and nora got their screentime SIGNIFICANTLY reduced even after june got cut entirely (which i was upset about, but did understand). i loved zahra and adored her on screen but i do think it’s very odd that she is pretty much the only major female character in this movie since bea was nonexistent and nora got permanently spirited away to pez’s bed or something sometime during the second act

-it felt like a lot of the internal conflict in alex and henry’s relationship was very unbalanced and henry heavy - alex’s neurodivergence was erased, his bi epiphany was barely even an epiphany, and him not being explicitly kicked off the campaign after ellen finds out about him and henry essentially killed his whole subplot about realising he doesn’t need to have everything achieved at thirty and deciding he wants to apply to law school instead. which wouldn’t have been terrible but on the flipside it felt weird that we didn’t see very much of henry’s family considering how much they affect and shape his fear of being outed and his feeling of being in a glass cage - e.g bea’s treatment by the media during her active addiction (which was entirely erased), the extent of the tension between him and philip. felt like henry’s pov scenes were a super wasted opportunity for that and we were mostly just being Told about all of these things

-i am not actually that mad about oscar and ellen still being together lol but i felt like in the scene with oscar smoking the cigar on the balcony they were kinda building up to there being significant strain in his and ellen’s relationship that just wasn’t explored. especially since it’s clear oscar would never be able to be president because he’s not a natural born citizen + the sacrifice of his career for ellen’s is so much bigger now that he’s first gentleman in this version

-pacing in general was a bit off but the worst offender was the fact that there was a complete time skip between the alex henry confrontation/reconciliation and the outing. so much of the tension and desperation from that outing scene comes from the fact that the risk of it happening was slowly increasing throughout the book and it felt almost inevitable (the elevator cctv being leaked, henry having to fake date june) and honestly making it so abrupt weirdly reduced a lot of its impact for me

-similarly i actually completely understand why the richards plot / rafael luna plot was cut (i suspect republican election interference hits a bit too close to home after 2020) but my god was miguel a lame fucking villain and him being queer and hispanic erased a lot of the original commentary about racism and homophobia that the richards plot lent itself to. like in general this movie was a lot lighter than the book which is fine! but for a movie where the main subplot is a presidential election So Much of the political themes were heavily neutered or cut to the point that it seemed like the pressure on henry and alex’s relationship was disproportionately coming from henry’s side when in the book it was more balanced

again on the whole i really really loved this movie and i knew going in that certain changed were going to be made. and i hope more movies get made like it! these r just my Thots and i may change my mind when i rewatch it with my friend tomorrow

[garadinervi]

The State and Soul of Jamaica (Exhibit and Lecture), Sylvia Wynter, (video, still), University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1993 (Internet Archive here) [California Revealed. © University of California, Berkeley, Department of African American Studies, Berkeley, CA]

(via Saul Williams)

[petsincollections]

APR87P10-17: rhinoceros sculpture, 1987

Photograph by Robert Sommer. The Mudflats Sculptures were a series of large-scale driftwood installations created in the Emeryville mudflats from the 1960s through the 1980s. These works reflected a time of radical change in the Bay Area and provided a forum for community-driven public art in California. UC Davis Professor Robert Sommer photographed these works, providing a comprehensive visual documentation that spans decades.

California College of the Arts Libraries

California Revealed

[social-mockingbird]

MAG #187: Checking Out

Are you telling me the Hotel California is a domain of the Distortion?

[goldengay49]

“He’s so calm”

California: “…”

[wizardpink]

Thinking thoughts about these tags at work today.