Blog Archives - Bobbi Rubinstein Photography ... culture through her lens

Same Sex Marriage

6/26/2013

Bottom line here: the federal ban on
recognizing same-sex marriages is dead. California's ban on recognizing same-sex marriages is dead. There are 12 states in the country where this is now legal, and the political winds on this are blowing so hard in one direction that the idea that we will go back is almost unimaginable in any state in the country ... This is now decided as a nation.
The argument is won.
~ Rachel Maddow, MSNBC June 26,2013

Street Art

6/24/2013

Abbot Kenney Blvd Venice, CA August 2012

                   To create one's own world
                       in any of the arts
                           takes courage.
                                            ~ Georgia O'Keefe

Summer's Drink, 2013

6/21/2013

Summer Sangria, June 2013

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
~ Bette Midler

A Walk on the Wild Side

6/19/2013

Ventura County Trails, California May 2013

I know a woman who gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a college gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains passionately about the difficulty of finding a parking space.

When I asked her once why she didn't walk to the gym and do five minutes less on the treadmill, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative.

'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard.
~ Bill Bryson "A Walk in the Woods"

The Guitarist

6/13/2013

Guitar Player at Art Museum, Los Angeles June 2013

We don't have too many urban spaces in Los Angeles where we can gather, but LACMA is one of them that I like. This guitarist might have been at a street café, with people strolling hand in hand or pushing a baby carriage. I enjoyed the moment ...

Just Do It

6/12/2013

Abbot Kinney Blvd, Venice California, August 2012

That is the principal thing. Not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being in the mood, but always forcibly to convert it into all things.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Strength

6/11/2013

Los Angeles August 2012

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak, you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.
~ Elizabeth I

Leader of the Pack

6/10/2013

Venice, California August 2012

When you start to
live outside yourself,
it's all dangerous.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The Garden of Eden

Topanga Banjo Fiddle Festival 2013

6/6/2013

Existentially speaking ...

6/4/2013

Hammer Museum Exterior Corner Los Angeles July 2012

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
~ Albert Camus