We had a fun house party, the West Oakland Social Democrat Party, at the physical location of Myrtle Street Labs this last Saturday.  Here’s the street cam footage from 7pm until 3am after the party.

Thanks all to everybody who came out, especially to our fabulous djs Mike Evans and Steve Best, and Erik Gilling who [...]

Stored exactly one year ago this day, this sequence of images captured by our streetcam is still one of our favorites.  The camera had only been online a week or two when, in the corner of my computer screen at work, I saw her walk by and stop in front of my car.
If you pay [...]

August 26, 2009, on Poplar St near West Grand.  Concertina wire from a rare perspective.

Taken on the evening of January 10, 2009.

There was light fog this morning when I rode my bike to BART.  It made me think of this picture I took  from our roof on the morning of March 19, 2009.

I have nothing written ready to post, so I offer another photo blog entry.
This is Central Concrete, located at 24th and Peralta Streets in West Oakland, on the morning of March 27, 2009.

Close up of the giant metal woman sculpture, found on its side behind American Steel, on 20th Street between Poplar and Mandella Parkway.  This sculpture appeared earlier in the Art Shadow post.  Picture taken August 18, 2009.
I saw the sculpture being loaded on a flatbed truck just this last Tuesday (August 25), presumably on its [...]

My reflection in the side of a taco truck, the morning of December 12, 2008.

This photo is fromback on January 17, 2009.  The rain had dried off the street but the brushes on the street sweeper that just drove by were still wet.  Mclymonds High School is in the background.