Magnetic Lobster

The ornate shaft of the (formerly steam-powered!) elevator in the Bradbury building, downtown Los Angeles.

This is the Crystal Ballroom — the original home of the Academy Awards — in the historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles.

in Brussels, Belgium

This is Century Lake (formed by damming the Century River) in Malibu Creek State Park.

If you’re a Los Angeles area hiker, I highly recommend the wonderful Modern Hiker web site, which describes local hikes and even includes GPS data for several of them.

At El Matador State Beach in Malibu, California.

Used for an LAist.com feature, “10 Best Beaches In and Around Los Angeles” on July 21, 2010.

This is the South entrance of the California Science Center, as seen from the spiral ramp surrounding the pavilion that connects the IMAX theater to the center’s main building in Exposition Park, Los Angeles.

Here you can see the Dichroic Skylight and the intensely colored filtered light that it produces. The the 1,578 metallic spheres suspended from 342 cables in a spiral arrangement comprise the Aerial. Each sphere is 3, 5, or 7 inches in diameter and coated in either gold or palladium.