Tag Archives: MB Maher
Devils in the Details
I’ve been pestering MB Maher to shake loose some more video work, and he keeps telling me the coffers are empty at the moment, that he’s hard at work on a new series on designers tentatively titled Field Studies. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema Botanica, design, garden visit, MB Maher
Tagged MB Maher, Rancho Reubidoux, Reuben Munoz
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San Marzano Tomato Taste Test
After maligning the San Marzano tomato in my last post, an update seems in order. Following a thorough and deep watering, the vine may not have tomato blight or cucumber mosaic virus or whatever ailments a tomato succumbs to. My … Continue reading
Big Daddy On The Move
“You know what I feel like? I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.” Maggie the Cat, daughter-in-law of Big Daddy, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof Me, too, Maggie. It’s clearly going to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Daddy's Antiques, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, MB Maher, Shane Brown, Tennessee Williams
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Nick Horman’s Incredible Tape Ball
Yesterday’s post on the High Line provoked some interesting discussion on parks, which reminded me of this little movie MB Maher took last fall in New York, a scene he stumbled upon in Central Park. Artist and pickle impresario Nick … Continue reading
Posted in design, MB Maher
Tagged Central Park, Horman's Best Pickles, MB Maher, Nick Horman, urban design
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Venice Garden & Home Tour 2011
Buy tickets and a map at the Las Doradas Children’s Center, apply the lime-green wrist band, and we’re off on the VGHT 2011 (Last year’s post here.) Under overcast skies, thirty houses, covering several miles. Bikes would be the preferred … Continue reading
Garden Show Road Trip 2011
Smashing two of my fingers in a car door just before leaving San Francisco hasn’t helped to speed up the process of posting a few measly photos from the show. Not quite the airtight excuse, since having two fingers turning … Continue reading
Potting Soil From Flora Grubb
MB Maher is spending a lot of time in San Francisco this spring and needed to buy some potting soil for the new roots he’s putting down. He sent back a few photos of his excursion. Nice place to buy … Continue reading
McNally’s Egyptian Revival
This morning’s LA Times had a piece by Sam Watters via his Lost LA column on the neo-Egyptian den mapmaker magnate Andrew McNally had added to his Altadena mansion after being wowed by Egypt’s display in Chicago’s 1893 World Fair. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew McNally, Egyptian Revival, Expo 2012, Lost LA, MB Maher, Sam Watters, South Korea, World Fair, Yeosu
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The Occasional Daily Photo
MB Maher’s 4X5 portrait of musician Frank Fairfield (banjo, fiddle, guitar), who has another album coming out this year. (Debuting a fluid, non-binding category of miscellaneous images.)
Posted in MB Maher, Occasional Daily Photo
Tagged 4X5, MB Maher, musician Frank Fairfield, Occasional Daily Photo, portrait
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Red Pig Tools
Under a spreading chestnut tree, the village smithy stands. The smith, a mighty man is he, with large and sinewy hands. And the muscles of his brawny arms are as strong as iron bands. The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth … Continue reading