[Ephemera] Before “Net Neutrality” finding my old business card in a collectible book I’m selling by Reviewer Rob I’m selling my otherwise in fine condition marked and annotated copy of DANCING NAKED IN THE MIND FIELD (a signed first edition) by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Kary Mullis that Pantheon sent to me for review back in 1998, two years after […]
Reviewer Magazine, 1998, card
Local Print By Locals
[Printed Matter] When Fliers Ruled by Reviewer Rob So I was at Gelato Vero on India and Washington last night for a quick cup of scooped espresso and picked up a Soda Bar schedule for November. The “FREE” on its nominal folded cover is what caight my eye. Well of course it’s free, it’s on a flier rack. But it […]
Me at 25
One Sunny Afternoon by Reviewer Rob I’m looking at this cell phone picture I’ve shot of a 4×5 print of me at 25 years-old, during the summer of 1989. I was driving through La Jolla one day, probably a weekend, and had my Nikon FM2 with a 50mm f1.4 on it with me. I had recently purchased the lens […]
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Kicking It With Ben Johnson
[Sobriety] Sober Ben Johnson How one drunk stopped being a drunk First in a series of videos on getting away from addiction by Reviewer Rob I’m going to be doing some “Getting Sober” videos to document ways people kick self-destructive addictions. So for the first of them I sought out Ben Johnson, the owner of the The Casbah (one of […]
Altadena quickie drive-thu mart.
Altadena quickie drive-thu mart Clairemont Mesa, CA photo by Reviewer Rob Drive-through quickie mart, one of the last ones in California. Apparently these used to be a lot more popular. Not sure why they fell out of favor and became less common, I think they’re awesome. Everything should be drivethru, and also open 24 hours. Interesting side note: the apartments […]
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 […]
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photolog: Meegan’s Ink
[Skin Art] Meegan Had Some Sweet New Tattoos Talking ink: Low Gallery in Barrio Logan at a mid-summer show during ComicCon by Reviewer Rob I had both my Nikons hanging on my neck this night with the goal of playing around with their capabilities. The D5200 and D5300 were set on their fastest ISOs for a shoot at Meegan’s art […]
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photolog: Lisa Carver as “Dying Mother” with Suckdog
[Theater] Low Gallery, Suckdog, and Alt-Pop Lisa Carver as “The Dying Mother” with Suckdog at Low Gallery in San Diego, July 2016 Reviewer Rob When Lisa Carver brought her Suckdog show to town last month I was ambivalent about attending but still probably would have gotten out to see it. Then I got (willingly) roped into driving her and her […]