Day 1561 - Buildings at Sunset - 08.31.15

I was at work as the sun went down tonight.  These are some buildings down the street.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1560 - Markers - 08.30.15

My daughter recently got this book with all these crazy patterns to color in.  It is supposed to be a stress reducer.  She was doing some coloring this morning as we watched a movie today together.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1559 - Main Street U.S.A. Fireworks - 08.29.15

This evening my family and I went to Disneyland to watch the new electrical parade "Paint The Night" and the new fireworks show.  Both were absolutely amazing.  This view down Main Street U.S.A. is something I saw today.

Day 1558 - Happy Hour - 08.28.15

I was at work a little later tonight.  I was wrapping up one of the shows I was working on delivering the last two shots. Woo hoo!!!  So it was dark when I left.  I walked a block over on Wilshire Blvd. and took this photo.  This was something I saw today.

Day 1557 - Scooby-Doo Billboard - 08.27.15

Until recently the side of this Warner Brothers building had the Justice League.  I enjoyed passing Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and the other DC heroes each morning.  Now I get to see Scooby-Doo and the gang which is great.  Scooby was my favorite cartoon as a kid and I still watch it from time to time.  If fact I've watched quite a few episodes from the first 3 seasons over the last year.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1556 - Car Hop Service - 08.26.15

This evening I met some friends at the Bob's Big Boy in Burbank.  We ended up just sitting at a table outside in the back and talking and never went in for food.  The weather was perfect and it was a good time catching up after not seeing each other for a month or two.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1555 - Painter - 08.25.15

This is a guy painting on Cahuenga Blvd. this morning.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1554 - Warner Bros. Building - 08.24.15

Here is one of several Warner Brothers buildings I pass every day on my way to work.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1553 - Movies - 08.23.15

This is the stack of movies I have out as movies to watch.  Actually Gremlins I already watched this past week.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1552 - Pickwick Gardens - 08.22.15

I had to pick my wife up from Disney this afternoon.  While waiting I drove down Riverside and took this photo of Pickwick Gardens.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1551 - Ominous Building - 08.21.15

This is a photo of the building I work in that I took at lunch.  It was actually a bright and lovely day, but with a little iPhone magic, it looks like a dark ominous building.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1550 - Mixt Greens Diners - 08.20.15

This afternoon I walked down to Mixt Greens with a couple co-workers.  While there I snapped this photo of a couple other co-workers having lunch.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1549 - Window Washers - 08.19.15

I saw these window washers this morning cleaning one of the Warner Brothers' buildings.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1548 - Aladdin Sane - 08.18.15

Oh good old Mr. Bowie.  I've always loved this album cover.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1547 - Nate - 08.17.15

This is my son this morning.  We left the house together this morning and I took this photo.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1546 - Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites - 08.16.15

I felt experimental today.  I took this photo of Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites and did some funky lens zoom effect.  It may not be a great photo, but at least it was a nice change.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1545 - Pinocchio - 08.15.15

This afternoon my wife and I had lunch at Pinocchio's a restaurant here in Burbank. Yum, yum.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1544 - El Coco "Dancing In Paradise" - 08.14.15

This is a disco record I picked up recently at the Goodwill.  It is from 1978 and I think it is a pretty great find.  Didn't know anything about the record before hand.  You can listen to "Dancing in Paradise" on youtube here.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1543 - Laptop - 08.13.15

This is one of our laptops in the morning light.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1542 - Mother Goose - 08.12.15

I have quite a few Children's records in my collection.  While some do have fun songs, others I like more for their artwork.  I like this cover.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1541 - Count Dracula And His Vampire Brides with Scream and Scream Again - 08.11.15

Tonight I saw a Christopher Lee double feature.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1540 - View of L.A. - 08.10.15

This is the view from the 10th floor of at work.  It is a nice view looking down Wilshire Blvd toward Los Angeles.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1539 - PEZ Truck - 08.09.15

It has been awhile since I featured a PEZ dispenser.  I kind of forgot that I was working my way through them.  Well, I saw this one this morning and decided to continue documenting them.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1538 - Good Morning - 08.08.15

This is my daughter bright and early this morning.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1537 - Fire Escape Ladder - 08.07.15

This is a fire escape ladder on the building I work in.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1536 - Planet Of The Dino-Knights - 08.06.15

Here is another of the great Josh Kirby movies.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1535 - Like Wow "Wacked Out In Waco" - 08.05.15

This is a record I picked up last year.  I didn't know anything about the band, Like Wow.  I was interested in hearing their cover of Walking After Midnight.  It turns out it is a pretty cool version.  I'm not sure how to categorize it.  Maybe sort of psychobilly, but even that isn't quite right.  It's weird alternative, punk sounding with a tinge of country.  Whatever it is, it is unique and I like it.  So I pulled this off the shelf today and this is something I saw today.

Day 1534 - Ultraman - 08.04.15

I believe this Ultraman figure has been on the blog before.  Here he is again against the morning sunlight.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1533 - Station Wagon - 08.03.15

Recently this cool old station wagon showed up on our street.  Not sure which neighbor it belongs to.  I tool a photo before heading off to work this morning.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1532 - John Carpenter's Vampires - 08.02.15

I have been watching a lot of John Carpenter recently.  I watched They Live Friday Night in memory of Rowdy Roddy Piper.  Over the past few weeks I've watched Assault on Precinct 13, Escape From L.A., The Fog, The Ward, In The Mouth Of Madness and Prince Of Darkness.  I watch Big Trouble in Little China and Escape from New York almost yearly so I know I've watched them in the last 6 months or so.  I'll probably watch The Thing pretty soon. Well, this last week I picked this up at the Goodwill for $1.50.  I took this photo right before popping the DVD in the player this evening.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1531 - Cocodile - 08.01.15

Half of my day today was spent at Disneyland.  My family and I decided we'd go and ride all the rides that were open on opening day of Disneyland back in 1955.  We also visited the Main Street Cinema which was also open on opening day.  The first ride of the day was Peter Pan's Flight.  This is a photo of the crocodile weather vane on roof of the ride.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1530 - The Goonies - 07.31.15

I picked up this old VHS yesterday solely for the packaging and so I could display it on a shelf.  This is one of my favorite movie and I wish there were more films like it still around today.

Day 1529 - Sensational Comics - 07.30.15

This week has been all about pulling books off the shelf.  This is a page from a beautiful hard cover Wonder Woman collection that I have.  I love the early Wonder Woman comics so much.  I've recently been watching the old TV show and I am excited for Wonder Woman in Batman Vs Superman.  I'll be honest my heart raced and I got chills when I first saw her in the Comic-Con trailer a few weeks back.  She deserves more attention and big screen presence.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1528 - Sex and Zen And A Bullet In The Head - 07.29.15

Back when I first got into Chinese Cinema in the 90's this book was my bible.  It was the early days of the internet so there wasn't tons on info on all these movies.  If there was the info it wasn't as easy to get to because there was no internet movie database or Wikipedia.  Well, I read this book that gave little blurbs on great Chinese genre pictures and then I'd go hunt these movies down.  In college I'd drive an hour to a video store that was in an art house cinema theater.  When I moved to L.A. I'd got to Eddie Brandt's.  I was thumbing through this book recently after having picked up some old HK films.  I guess I was nostalgic for those good old days of discovery as well as the thrill of the hunt.  I loved that if you were into this sort of thing, you had to sort of work for it.  Today, basically you can find anything with the magic of the internet.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1527 - Portrait - 07.28.15

Took a picture of my daughter before I left for work this morning.  It had been a few weeks.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1526 - Garage Door - 07.27.15

On the way to work I turned off Cahuenga just to find something interesting to photograph.  I found this interesting garage door.  I thought it had some character.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1525 - Hollywood From Vietnam To Reagan - 07.26.15

This is a book I got back in college.  Classic sort of film school book.  Very academic look at the change of film from the 70's to the 80's.  There is some great reading about the change in horror films.  There is a great chapter that talks about Blade Runner as well.  The book is pretty interesting, but it also makes me laugh because the basic gist of the book is that 70's films were great and 80's films sold out and aren't.  So the author basically dismisses films like Star Wars or E.T. and pretty much all the movies I loved as a kid.  It is definitely a case generational taste and a case of someone with an agenda reading into a film stuff that may or not be there and misses the fact that the movie is just plain fun.  Reminds me a bit of the documentary Room 237 about the people who over analyze The Shining to support their crazy conspiracy theories.  I may not agree with a lot of it, but it is still a good read.  While digitizing some records the other morning I pulled this off the shelf and read the chapter on horror films.  So this is something I saw today.

Day 1524 - Leap for National Dance Day - 07.25.15

Today was National Dance Day.  This is my daughter leaping for my camera.  She and I both posted this photo to our instagram accounts.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1523 - Dag Nasty "Can I Say" - 07.24.15

An amazingly great record from Dag Nasty.  I can't tell you how many times I find myself with the track "Circles" running through my head like an ear worm.  Probably as much as I have something like the theme to the A-team.  That should give you an indication of how often that happens and how hard it is to get out of your head.  Well I pulled the record off the shelf for a photo this morning.  This is something I saw today.

Day 1522 - To Live and Die In L.A. - 07.23.15

It is good days at the Goodwill these days.  Reminds me of the late 90's and early 2000's when everyone was dumping off their records and no collectors cared about 70's and 80's records so I could pick them up super, cheap.  I am talking great classic records that now you can't find for under 10 bucks.  I feel like the same is happening with DVD's.  To be honest the same thing has been happening with CD's for a while, but I have been seeing and buying a lot more DVD's to classic movies.  I guess everyone just wants to stream their movies these days, but I still like having a hard copy so I don't have to worry about my internet connection or a movie's availability on Netflix.  I still like watching movies that I want to watch, when I want to watch them.  So I still buy DVD's and I love getting them dirt cheap at the thrift stores.  To Live and Die in LA is a classic.  Great practical stunts.  To be honest I've watched this in the last year.  I either watched it on YouTube or downloaded a torrent.  I can't remember.  Now I have a nice copy.  Sweet.  This is something I saw today.