The Bush 5 Pound Note The Story of A Pleasant artist, a Bush and £5 Pounds! by: ‘THE UNKNOWN’ Artist It all began in 2003 following a series of trips to the United Kingdom in which the street installation artist known as ‘Pleasant’ was invited to contribute his unique style of underground visual art to a series of exhibits. Following […]
“The Bush Note”
Areal: Smelly Steak and Wine
[Bad Food] Someone once said it didn’t matter how nice a restaurant is… Areal: Smelly Steak and Wine Areal Restaurant, 2820 Main Street, Santa Monica (Venice Beach), CA dined: December 15, 2016 by Reviewer Rob I felt like going out for steak the other night so I tried a new place and went to Areal in Venice Beach, a kind […]
Arlo Guthrie’s timeless ALICE’S RESTAURANT
[Protest] Alice’s Restaurant Music Has Been A Way To Resist For A Long Time From The Atlantic: ‘The lyrics’ synopsis: On Thanksgiving 1965, Guthrie and some pals went to throw out garbage from the church where the titular Alice lived, but the dump was closed for the holiday. So he instead tossed the waste at an unsanctioned site, was caught […]
Photolog: Supermoon, 11-13-16
[Photolog] SUPERMOON! by Reviewer Rob This photo was shot about an hour and a half ago at 6:05 p.m., from a parking lot up on a hilltop overlooking a freeway in north metro San Diego. The area directly in front of me below the plane of the moon was relatively free of urban and streetlight pollution, although there were some […]
photolog: shooting jpeg vs. NEF
Why I shoot NEF RAW, and other superfluously obvious information by Reviewer Rob I was in Portland last weekend to finish up distributing a few hundred copies of issue 50 that had the Bundy Militia story in it. Ammon Bundy was on the cover in an article where Sarah Glass Shafer met him briefly at the Malheur National Wildlife […]
My California General Election 2016 Voter Guide
I can’t wait till this ordeal is over. by Reviewer Rob So glad the November 8 mail-in voter deadline/day at the polls is finally tomorrow. Man it’s been a long year. By this time Wednesday we’ll have a good idea about how the next four years will go. And I’m not even going to wade into that mosh pit here […]
Reviewer TV: Gorge Performance surf shop, Portland, Oregon.
[Reviewer TV] Finding An Actual Surf Shop in PDX video interview by Reviewer Rob I went to Portland over the Halloween weekend to finish up getting a thousand copies of issue 50 up in Oregon and while driving around the West side of the Willamette River valley I drove by a hand painted sign that said a surf shop was […]
Workhorse IPA, a local brew
in Portland, the Northwest Beer and Stripper Capitol by Reviewer Rob So I’m waiting to fly out of Portland at PDX and having only my second beer during this trip. The other was at The Kit Kat Club next to VG Donuts over the weekend. It was a mild amber IPA from Laurelwood, a local brewery, just like this one […]