from the shelter of my mind...

Just a guy from Southern California.

tiefighters:

SW Vehicles: Storm IV Twin-Pod Cloud Car

The Storm IV Twin-Pod Cloud Car was the first high-atmospheric aircraft to be categorized as a cloud car. It was designed and produced by Bespin Motors to patrol the skies surrounding the floating mining colony and gambling resort Cloud City. The Storm IV was originally employed by the Bespin Wing Guard, who were responsible for the security of Cloud City. [Wikia]

anythingphotography:

Mind-Bending Photo-Manipulations by Erik Johansson

Erik Johansen’s pictures are worth more than a thousand words. The German born, Swedish based photographer enjoys nothing more than manipulating the mind with his tantalizing visual imagery. His vivid imagination and surreal forms create brilliant pictures of surreal moments, all with a hint of the believable. Originally a computer engineering student, Johansson currently works on personal projects as well as commissioned ones.

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losangelespast:

Reader Request: Looking north on Market Street in Inglewood, California, 1938. The streetcar rails and overhead lines have given way to landscaped medians and traffic-calming curbs. 

losangelespast:

Reader Request: Looking north on Market Street in Inglewood, California, 1938. The streetcar rails and overhead lines have given way to landscaped medians and traffic-calming curbs. 

losangelespast:

Via the KTLA telecopter: a nearly completed Dodger Stadium and environs, January 1962. [Reader Request]

losangelespast:

Via the KTLA telecopter: a nearly completed Dodger Stadium and environs, January 1962. [Reader Request]

losangelespast:

Fantastic view of the Bullock’s Wilshire building in Los Angeles, 1946. 

losangelespast:

Fantastic view of the Bullock’s Wilshire building in Los Angeles, 1946.