jordan blackTumblr (3.0; @jordanblack)http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/“It was late winter in Gordita, though for sure not the usual weather. You heard people muttering to the effect that last summer the beach didn’t have summer till August, and now there probably wouldn’t be any winter till spring. Santa Anas had been blowing all the smog out of downtown L.A., funneling between the hollywood and Puente Hills on westward through Gordita Beach and out to sea, and this had been going on for what seemed like weeks now. offshore winds had been too strong to be doing the surf much good, but surfers found themselves getting up early anyway to watch the dawn weirdness, which seemed like a visible counterpart to the feeling in everybody’s skin of desert winds and heat and relentlessness, with the exhaust from millions of motor vehicles mixing with microfine Mojave sand to refract the light toward the bloody end of the spectrum, everything dim, lurid and biblical, sailor-take-warning skies. The state liquor stamps over the tops of tequila bottles in the stores were coming unstuck, is how dry the air was. Liquor-store owners could be filling those bottles with anything anymore. Jets were taking off the wrong way from the airport, the engine sounds were not passing across the sky where they should have, so everybody’s dreams got disarranged, when people could get to sleep at all. In the little apartment complexes the wind entered narrowing to whistle through the stairwells and ramps and catwalks, and the leaves of the palm trees outside rattled together with a liquid sound, so that from inside, in the darkened rooms, in louvered light, it sounded like a rainstorm, the wind raging in the concrete geometry, the palms beating together like the rush of a tropical downpour, enough to get you to open the door and look outside, and of course there’d only be the same hot cloudless depth of day, no rain in sight.”<br/><br/> - <em>Literary BAMF Thomas Pynchon, <em>Inherent Vice</em></em>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/18813884588http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/18813884588Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:27:08 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltmx22Szl21qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Vernal Falls, Yosemite Valley, CA, August 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/11914186114http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/11914186114Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:37:14 -0700waterfallfilmfuji superia200 iso35mmolympus 35rccalifornia<iframe class="tumblr_audio_player tumblr_audio_player_11914125133" src="http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/11914125133/audio_player_iframe/jordanblack/tumblr_ltmwyi8Wjo1qad384?audio_file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tumblr.com%2Faudio_file%2Fjordanblack%2F11914125133%2Ftumblr_ltmwyi8Wjo1qad384" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" scrolling="no" width="500" height="169"></iframe><br/><br/><p>Brian Eno - Spider and I</p> <p><em>From the album Before and After Science</em></p> <p>on repeat. all day.</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/11914125133http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/11914125133Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:35:06 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrh66wRF1t1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Laundromat on Pico, Los Angeles, CA, August 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/10170545902http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/10170545902Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:01:44 -070035mmfilmfuji superia200 ISOolympus 35rcLos Angelescalifornia<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrfd6zzmJ11qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Merced River Reflection, Yosemite Valley, CA, Sept. 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/10133257157http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/10133257157Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:37:46 -0700filmfuji superia200 isoolympus 35rc35mmCaliforniaYosemiteRiver<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr5y9apeKv1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>New York City, New York, as seen from an airplane window, May 2010 </p> <p>(still the closest i’ve ever been to the place)</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9922731684http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9922731684Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:36:46 -0700Film35mmOlympus OM10400 ISONew Yorkkodak gold<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr46ubm3tI1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>First day Shooting a Feature, Laguna Beach, CA, July 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9884035998http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9884035998Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:46:59 -0700filmolympus 35rclaguna beachca400 ISOkodak gold<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqvxqo1MwZ1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Night Shoot, 4th st. Bridge, Los Angeles, CA, July 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9798647629http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9798647629Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:54:52 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOMovieLightlos angelescaNight<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqvwmv8M3h1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Los Angeles, as Viewed from the 101 Southbound, some month, some day, sunset.</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9752187894http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9752187894Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:40:06 -0700filmolympus 35rckodak gold400 ISOlos angelesCACityFreewaysunset<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqvwfrI6bm1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Self-Portrait, Yosemite National Park, CA, August 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9710907709http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/9710907709Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:31:05 -0700filmolympus 35rcfuji superia200 ISOYosemiteSelf-Portrait<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lppjdhORDv1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lppjdhORDv1qad384o2_500.jpg"/><br/> <br/><p>Joe Carnegie, Man of Danger, Long Beach, CA, May 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8783828450http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8783828450Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:33:06 -0700FilmNikon f3400 ISOkodakPortraLos AngelesCAJoe Carnegie<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpojp8nYOL1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pool Table Light, Seven Grand Bar, Los Angeles, CA, April 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8739229452http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8739229452Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:30:06 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpojmdZvFx1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Theater TV Monitor, Los Angeles, CA, June 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8704013348http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8704013348Tue, 09 Aug 2011 14:27:48 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOlos angelesCA<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lpa089c9pV1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Kids with Guitars, Orange, CA, July 4th, 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8650294703http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8650294703Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:32:05 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISO4th of JulyCA<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9znrJAGO1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>A Hotel, Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, July 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8605698242http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8605698242Sun, 07 Aug 2011 10:31:05 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOLos AngelesCA<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9zinMkbD1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Bottle Rockets, Wyoming House, Orange, CA, July 4, 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8563048648http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8563048648Sat, 06 Aug 2011 10:31:06 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOFireworks4th of JulyCA<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9zdbNkjM1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Rob Relaying News of Employment, Closet, Los Angeles, CA, July 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8519694240http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8519694240Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:30:05 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOLos AngelesCA<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9ysx7Zsp1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fireworks in the Distance, Orange, CA, July 4, 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8476541637http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8476541637Thu, 04 Aug 2011 10:32:05 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOCA4th of Julyfireworks<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9yizBsqQ1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Fruit Truck, Los Angeles, CA, June 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8432726837http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8432726837Wed, 03 Aug 2011 10:13:34 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISOLos Angeles<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp9y145xxS1qad384o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Metro Construction, Los Angeles, CA, July 2011</p>http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8389847906http://jordanblack.tumblr.com/post/8389847906Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:31:05 -0700filmolympus 35rc400 ISO