15 seconds / 365 days

Mon – Chris Shaw returns as Rapping Batman, and we’re surprised by a bold onlooker… 3 feet away.
Tues – Ella flails and dies at the unflinching paw of Ruby (R.I.P. Ella)
Wed – my roommate gets zen with a Venice sunset
Thurs – Mr. Ink on Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica – feat. ‘Silver City’ by Ghostland Observatory
Fri – i got 5 kids to stand very still leaned against their car, and ‘Testarossa Autodrive’ by Kavinsky is what was blasting out. also, it was the late 1940s and i was using my leftover D-Day film stock
Sat – while making a dumb video about making a dumb video, my phone rings making both even dumber. the pink tripod, though, is pretty awesome
Sun – Ella gets hungry and dies at the hungrier paw of Ruby (R.I.P. Ella)

This was intended as a Night-Themed week, but life intervened. My night-subject for Saturday fell through, and then a non night-related milestone presented itself on Sunday:

Mon – my roommate Spencer and I chasing one incredible sunset

Tues – some spontaneous Laverne and Shirley with some passing strangers, most of them social workers, conducting a ‘homeless count’ for the city of Santa Monica

Wed – proud to say that i am that ‘new friend from Venice Beach.’ KXLU, the greatest little radio station in the land, was kind enough to play my favorite song of the moment, ‘Red Letter Day’ by Viva Voce.

Thurs, 1/28 – watch this in a dark room and you’ll catch a hint of the ‘halo’ i saw, bright and huge around the moon, formed by ice crystals in cirrus clouds

Fri - ‘who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men…?’

Sat – my turreted house in Venice on a nice weekend afternoon

Sun, 1/31 – CELEBRATING!: the completion of Adam Greenberg’s first month of Tonight’s Watercolor, a ‘nightly art blog and new year’s resolution.’ 30 paintings down, 330-some to go. join the Facebook group here. (feat. ‘Milking’ by Deerhoof)

Starting Tuesday, this was one rainy week. So I used some rain-themed songs to set the mood:

Mon – Meet Batman. Aka Chris Shaw, of Nick’s Window Tinting in Santa Monica. An amazing man. And part of a documentary I’ve just started shooting, about LA’s car culture. Stay tuned.

Tues – it felt like we entered an 11th dimension of sorts, with today’s biblical downpour (in LA of all places) – feat. “11th Dimension” by Julian Casablancas

Wed – just like raindrops, you feel so good on the Mad Hatter’s lips – feat. “Raindrops” by Basement Jaxx

Thurs – the view from the Fresh Princess of Santa Monica’s pool house – feat. “Flood Victim” by Pavement, off one of the greatest and most punctuationally complex album titles of all time, “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: L.A.’s Desert Origins (After The Glow [Where Eagles Dare])”

Fri – my crack at a movie montage moment – feat. “Famous Blue Raincoat” off Leonard Cohen’s “Songs of Love and Hate”

Sat – an unusual pet, off Lincoln Blvd in Venice – feat. “Make It Rain” by Tom Waits

Sun – look what grew with just 5 days of rain! – feat. “Here’s That Rainy Day” by Joe Pass

Mon – high school puppy love, with Real Life in the background
Tues – banana girl in Venice
Wed – Statue of Liberty Man rolls up on a kid
Thurs – Venice travelers
Fri – my roommate’s dog (doesn’t give a care)
Sat – ‘Checks cashed for low fees?’
Sun – two animated onset stills from Patty Yu’s “BaO Eat You Up (Pork Buns)” music video spoof – feat. DP Sasha Freedman, Danny Cho as Kim Jong-il, and dancers Taylor Feldman and Raney Branch