From Eric Kahn of COA comes a photograph of an old car I used to own, a 1983 Saab 900 with a hood that had spiderwebbed under the California sun. After five years, I sold the car to James Lowder, who was then a SCI_Arc student and is now teaching in the architecture program at the University of Buffalo. 

If you've read Blue Monday, then you know that the book is really about an album cover. Given that, I'm particularly glad to announce that one of my photographs has been used for John Luther Adams's Red Arc/Blue Veil, published by Cold Blue Music.

The photograph is from the trail up to White Mountain Peak, towering above the Owens Valley as the third highest peak in California. We never made it all the way when we tried scaling it on July 7, 2002, but I took some photographs along our route that we'd use for the Owens Valley Book with CLUI. That evening, while at the Restaurant at Convict Lake, we did some math and realized that Jennifer was pregnant with Viltis, our first child. So it was a memorable day.

Given the CD, it's certainly a privilege to have my work on the cover. John Luther Adams is an important composer, working in the tradition of American experimental music. He lives in Alaska and uses his music to evoke the moods of that soundcape. Made up of compositions for percussion and piano, Red Arc/Blue Veil moves between shimmering quiet passages and intense sound. You can get it from the label, Bill Fox's Cold Blue Music.

In case you were wondering, I am committed to bringing more variety to the rotating Flickr images on the left of this page and started to do so by including recent images from the New Jersey landscape.

The above building is not One Wilshire, it's One Gateway Center in Newark, next to Newark Penn Station. The planning of Gateway Center was undertaken by Victor Gruen and Cesar Pelli, who worked for Gruen, built the neighboring Western Electric building below.