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Basement Tapes - A Back Up For My Noggin

posted by youdiejoe

6 months 3 weeks ago • 324 views

I shot this on my way across town to see a film. I saw a pretty awesome sunset was coming so I grabbed my camera and started shooting.

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Very nice. A number of years ago I read an article in the New Yorker (ironically) about the specific set of atmospheric conditions present in southern California that gives the evening sky there its unique, beautiful coloring. I tried looking for the article at newyorker.com, but unfortunately I was unable to locate it. Nonetheless I believe the article was spot on, because I still remember being mesmerized by it during my one and only visit to L.A. in 1983. I've been all over the US, and yet the SoCal sunset is still the most beautiful I've seen. Too bad about the goddamn smog though. I remember that too.

written by kronosposeidon

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I agree that there is something about SoCal sunlight. I don't care that it's smog - I feel that I would recognise it anytime.

written by dag

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83 smog would be some potent stuff, it has certainly lightened up over the last 20 years. Looking forward to zero smog, before I move to the dirt.

written by youdiejoe

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I'm glad to hear the smog condition has improved. I still remember how god awful it was one particular morning. It even left a sort of greasy film on the cars.

written by kronosposeidon

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LA sunsets with or without smog/smoke are very different things with different kinds of beauty.

When the 07 OC fires happened, the LA sky was apocalyptic awesomeness. Super dense orange haze blowing fast across the sky from the heat of the fires meeting the colder stormfront off the ocean.

But even without the smog or fires, the natural beauty and diverse climates of the surrounding SoCal areas creates amazing mornings and sunsets almost daily.

http://www.videosift.com/video/As-Sure-As-The-Sun-Awesome-LA-Sunset-Video

written by volumptuous

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Bravo!
That was beautiful!
Thanks for the snapshot.
The slice of life.
Was that the track of music playing
When you made the shot?

written by rougy

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>> ^rougy:
Bravo!
That was beautiful!
Thanks for the snapshot.
The slice of life.
Was that the track of music playing
When you made the shot?

I was actually listening to the new Silversun Pickups album "Swoon" at the time.

written by youdiejoe

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