So last weekend I made my way over to Oakland for Oakland Festival of Books in the Frank Ogawa Plaza. Up until visiting the Frank Ogawa plaze, I had no idea who Frank Ogawa was. So now I know that he was a local Oakland politician, but really other then that, no idea (BTW That's a bust of Frank above). Anyway I was mainly interested in going due to presentation by an old acquaintance (and I do mean acquaintance) from my AMIA days. His presentation was showing various home movies that showed state of Oakland over the years entitled Lost Landscapes of Oakland. Year and years ago I used to regularly go to AMIA annual meeting and have to say that catching any of Rick's presentations was always a treat. So the chance to catch a new presentation was definitely a treat, but it also turned out he had cut it down to match the schedule of festival, so now of course I want to see the full presentation. Oh well (Rick and Alex below)
The second presentation I caught was with Ben Fong-Torres who is best known outside of bay area as the guy at Rolling stone in movie "Almost Famous". Actually before the presentation that was all I knew of him. As you can tell most of my interest in the festival wasn't really book related, but mostly history based. I blame that stupid BA I have History for it. Oh well. Anway more at Ben Fong-Torres
I spent the rest of my time attempting some street photography, which is aquward to say the least to me. You can see some of those photos below.
Leica m240 + 35mm f2 biogon in the atrium of Oakland City Hall
Leica M240 + 28mm f2.8 Canon in ltm
Aquward shot again from the M240 and 35mm f2 Biogon
