Larry Gassan Photography

12/19/2022

Hanging out with my Coffee Sensei Ash aka this Saturday, Camarillo Farmers Mkt.
After enjoying any one of his beans, SBUX will taste like burnt liquid dirt.
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12/18/2022

I love culture-collisions like this.
“Friends” meets the horror/slasher icons.
Ventura College Swap Meet.
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12/16/2022

Miniature woodblock/hand stamp print.
One of 12 I brought back from Hanoi. None of these measure more than 3cm long edge.
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12/15/2022

Spectators on the way into the Oct 15 Sonic Boom event at Paramount Ranch, Agoura CA.
Recently exhumed film file.
Featuring Dom Flemons, Dustbowl Revival, Eagle Rock Gospel Singers, Rebirth Brass Band, Santa Monica Mountains Fund, TMax400, Tiny Porch Concerts, Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente,

12/15/2022

Aidan Collins of the Coffis Bros.
Performing at 14 Cannons, Westlake Village, Dec 11 ‘22.

12/15/2022

John Surge and the Haymakers, opening for the Coffis Bros at 14 Cannons, Westlake Village CA. Dec 11 22.
They closed their set with an audacious roots rock train shuffle cover of “Baba O’Riley”

12/15/2022

The Coffis Bros, performing at 14 Cannons in Westlake Village Sunday Dec 11 ‘22.
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12/11/2022

I found these hand carved stamps from an elderly craftsman on Beer Street. Tiny storefront, no sign, only a lectern with a binder of plastic sleeves of all the stamps he’s carved. He asked if I wanted my name on them. No, because I was leaving in 48 hrs. I bought 12 for 1M VNĐ. Only now I realized I never got his name.

12/07/2022

Backpackers in wild bivouac in hammocks, Hoan Kiếm Lake, Hanoi VN.
Meanwhile it’s an Alex Webb layering exercise.
Bemused locals walked on by. I’m guessing police probably showed up later.
Nov 28 2022.
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12/06/2022

Behold my wingtip photo.

12/05/2022

Final morning in Hanoi: pedicab drivers waiting for the dispatcher outside a Transport Ministry office building.
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12/05/2022

Plimsoll Line on Vietnamese fishing boat hull, in for refit at a Đà Nẵng boatyard.
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12/04/2022

Fox News parts ways with Lara Trump as a contributor, citing father-in-law's presidential campaign

She’ll be back next week.

With Donald Trump pursuing the White House for a third time, Fox News will not have a member of his family on the payroll. However, daughter-in-law Lara Trump could still appear on the network as a guest without pay.

12/04/2022

Today’s Random Card Oracle.
Seen at a working fishing boatyard in Đà Nẵng, VN.
There’s Tarot parallels here.
Purely for my own amusement.

12/02/2022

“…and who were the Li’ttle People of Stone’henge?”
Thanh Ha Terracotta Park
Hỏi Ăn, Vietnam

12/01/2022

Machine shop, Hue VN

12/01/2022

Deities.
Cafe in Hue, VN. .
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12/01/2022

Hue Citadel.
Hue, Vietnam.

11/30/2022

One of the tombs at the Ăn Bằng cemetery complex, “City of Ghosts”.
Vĩnh An, Phú Vang, Thứ Thiên, Hue.
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11/29/2022

Model and photographer I'd seen earlier In Hanoi.
Beer Street, Hoàn Kiếm, Hanoi.

11/28/2022

Engagement Photos Holding Pattern on Beer St, Hanoi.
At night this is a crowded noisy scrum of beer, tiny tables and competing PAs.
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11/28/2022

McNamaste
“The Ronald in me recognizes the Mickey D in you.”
Bangkok.
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11/08/2022

Origin of Plotkin Peso
Bob had been on the 2019 Havana trip. There he had “ascended into X-Peditions travel legend by landing in a Cuban jail for 6 hours”, kid you not.

He was sprung after a lengthy intervention by our Cuban fixer and Joe Newman, David Hobby (X-Peditions organizers).

I’d taken the original photo the morning after it happened.

Then early summer ‘22 I was experimenting with a photo-illustration technique, and the idea began to gel for a collage. It snowballed, and very quickly assumed its final form.

I mapped the illustration to the wrinkled Cuban National Peso note, color-matched the Bob to the note (both background and foreground colors).

I showed it to David and Joe, who loved the idea.

Final note was matching the text, curved and warped under the inset from “DESAROLLO AGRICOLA” to “DESAROLLO TURISTICO” (developing tourism). Added back in the vertical wear streak on the fold. Made final adjustments to opacity to weather the illustration to match the note.

11/08/2022

Leslie’s Kindle.
An amazing sample of the literature she enjoyed.

11/01/2022

Extreme close-up of "Last Surviving Pep Boy" Halloween Costume, 1988.

Fetishistic treatment of canonical commercial imagery. Note the meticulous placement of safety-pin corona, earrings.

Manny and Jack met mysterious ends, and their shrunken heads were sewed shut with red thread—lips sealed, eyes blinded. Only Moe remained.

I wore this costume to the Art Directors LA Halloween Party in 1988. Everybody else seemed to show up in Western Costume rentals. So much for the vaunted "creatives".

10/25/2022

The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
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Rebirth Brass Band
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Dom Flemons
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Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
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Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
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See someone? Tag them!
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10/25/2022

DBR has the get up and dance.

The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
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Dom Flemons
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Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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10/25/2022

Spectators at DBR.

The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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10/23/2022

Eagle Rock Gospel joined the DBR for an incredible reading of “The Weight”.
That brought back many deep memories from 50 years ago, with loves no longer here. Thank you so much.
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The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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10/23/2022

Zach and trumpet
The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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10/23/2022

A pause here.
The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
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10/23/2022

Lashon Halley
The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
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10/23/2022

Zach Lupetin
The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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10/23/2022

Entranced.
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The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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10/23/2022

When DBR plays, the audience dances.
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The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
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10/23/2022

The amazing violinist.
The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
.

10/23/2022

Audience.
The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
.

10/23/2022

The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
.

10/23/2022

The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
.
.

10/22/2022

Rebirth Brass Band (partial) and fans.
The lovely woman 2nd from right handed me an old-school P&S flash film camera.
“Can you make a shot?”
Me, laughing: “Never ever shot one of these!”
I got the 10sec tutorial.
The RBBs were highly amused.
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The Paramount Ranch Sonic Boom
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Agoura Hills, CA, 91301 USA

Dustbowl Revival:
Z. Lupetin
Lashon Halley
Josh Heffernan
Ulf Bjorlin
==
Rebirth Brass Band
==
Dom Flemons
==
Yosmel Montejo y La Caliente
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==
Eagle Rock Gospel Singers
==
See someone? Tag them!
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