Inbound Death Valley
Inbound Death Valley
Landers, California, credit and date in dispute. Provenance: Considered a hoax. Accordingly, El Disco obtained a 60's style Polaroid print from a Mr. Plowman, who claims to have obtained the photo directly from the photographer [unknown] while at the 1997 International UFO Congress in Laughlin Nevada. According to Mr. Plowman, "the photo is a gag relating back to the whole affair here and at Giant Rock down the road a while back in the 60's where some guy [George Van Tassel] who built the Integratron was wooing rich folks into the desert and charging large sums of money to bring them into contact with the UFO aliens around at the time."
The new Berkeley Art Museum is open. Outside, intense light coming off the reflective silver building is awesome - seizure worthy.
** A note on your privacy. Should you recognize yourself and insist, I am always amiable to cease-and-desist requests. Either way, a posthumus print (1 of 8) is reserved for models and primary subjects, for all published photographs. Now get outside
1) On March 6, 1853, 550 passengers climbed safely onto the beach and fourteen chests of gold were salvaged, as the S.S. Tennessee steamship broke itself apart.
2) More recently, December 29, 2012, the landmark arch at Tennessee Cove collapsed, forever affecting the photographic landmark made popular for more than 150 years.
3) And seen here, September 7th, 2015, few seemed concerned, or any worse for wear.