Merry Pidge-mas!

 

Earlier today, I went out to feed the pigeons in the late morning.

The birds greet me, most of the time, some of them, at least, by flying up towards me.

A pair of siblings and their mother, from China, were taking photos and videos with the birds.

Another pedestrian was telling them that they should try being more interactive, and get a circle of birds round them. 

The guy asked me for some seeds, and he handed the kids a handful of seeds, each. It was a fun part of my day, to assist in giving them the pigeon experience that we have, here at Pershing Square.

Yesterday, I was in East LA, and the afternoon sun broke through the clouds and put out a glorious rainbow. 

I could most see the very end of the rainbow, off in the nearby distance.

The sparrows were out, as well, and I made sure to save some seeds for the little ones, as well. 

Pigeon physical modeler Graphical User Interface scratch space.

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Crackhead head rush Web Audio API web app.

Headrush V7

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Moves from smooth -> buzzing -> fractured

FLANGER (METALLIC SWOOSH)

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Granular audio web app playground.

DINO-TRACKER 9000

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SPEED1.0

ECHO / DELAY PAD

Pigeon-watching hotspots to see around town #11: Broadway at 7th St. (sub-) flock.

 

This flock has been establishing itself as a more prominent feature of 7th St., off of Broadway, since the city put in bike lanes and pedestrian islands. Prior to that, for at least several months, the intersection had been fenced off completely, at times, due to the construction, job site that was situated in this part of town. 

The flock is most likely a sub-feature of the more well-trafficked Broadway flock, at 5th, between 5th and 6th. There, the owner of a shop hands out a 5 pound bag of bird seeds every day, going on many years, now - which is sufficient to feed the dozens and dozens of birds there, and their friends, sometimes (the Broadway flock flies over to Pershing Square, and back and forth, at least a few times per day). A lot of the birds situate themselves at Pershing Square for much of the day, since that’s one of my daily pigeon-feeding flocks that I visit daily, and I also have food for them. 

This flock is moderately sized, with perhaps 2 dozen or so pigeons. Here, there is a newspaper and noticias vendor that tends to them. The flock is a nice feature of the corner, and the birds liven up the heavily foot-trafficked pedestrian intersection of Broadway at 7th, in Downtown LA.

The vendor’s station, at Broadway at 7th.

Pigeons Amongst the Almond Blossoms (painted picture).

 I’d mentioned before that I had become fond of Van Gogh’s Almond Blossoms painting, which I became aware of from encountering the likeness of the image on a nightlight, which I got off of Amazon Vine. Here, at the nursing facility where I now stay, there’s an activity room, for doing crafts and for getting on the internet, or just a computer, for residents that don’t have access, otherwise. One of the managers here encouraged me to do some paintings, since they have canvasses and watercolors, here. This is my third painting that I’ve done here, and it’s the first painting that I really sort of took seriously, in doing my best to fill in all of the white of the canvas, like a standard painting would have. I think that it came out well; I’d previously done an impressionist art adaptation of Van Gogh’s Starry Starry Night in polymer clay, which I textured with a pin, to imitate the impasto technique that Van Gogh is famous for. Here’s the image: