Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the next-to-last offering…From Blake’s Phone.

Happy Pre-Thanksgiving, denizens of Los Angeles. But wait! Did I read that intro correctly? THIS IS THE NEXT TO LAST INSTALLMENT OF BLAKE’S CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTOS, EVER!? Yes. It is. So if ever you’ve wanted to share an incredibly terrible, foolish, interesting, or too-blurry-to-tell-what-the-fuck-it-is cell phone photo with our readers, now’s your chance. You have until next Friday (November 30) to submit. Right now let’s get into this week’s entries.

Radioactive Turkey
Approx 7:30PM, Beverly Blvd. & N. Detroit Street. (Just down the street from Starbucks on Detroit). November 13, 2007; Samsung A900M phone

After the jump: Blake Visits El Gran. El Gran Welcomes Tacos. Blake Finds Naughty Graffiti in Pasadena. Blake Hits The Black Dice show. Your Submission Instructions for THE WORLD’S LAST INSTALLMENT OF BLAKE’S PHONE…SOB…HOORAY…SOB…
»continue reading Blake’s Phone: Special Tangentially Related To Thanksgiving And Even Then It’s A Stretch Thanksgiving Edition

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

What a week. Travel’s a bitch. Better late than never, right? DON’T ANSWER THAT. This week Blake captures one of my favorite oddities in Hollywoodland: The Streetlight Parking Lot Museum at Santa Monica and Vermont (Times article here; real photos on flickr here; order Huell Howser’s video here).

How many lamp posts are required in a parking lot?

After the jump: The Worst Photo Of the Pogues Ever Taken™; a leftover Halloween remnant, your weekly photo submission instructions. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THESE TOTALLY SFW PHOTOS . . . SERIOUSLY . . . FOR REALS . . .
»continue reading Blake’s Phone: Vermonica Lampposts; Pogues

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

SUV pulled from the fire

Behind the jump: More photos captured by tiny, moderately shitty lenses in telephones citywide and your submission instructions.
»continue reading From Blake’s Phone: The Charred SUV

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

Linoleum City rises like the phoenix. Behold:

Linoleum city arises again

Behind the jump: Blake uncovers a fast food beverage pairing chart of ludicrous proportion. Believe it. More phone-enabled digitally preserved moments and your submission instructions.
»continue reading From Blake’s Phone: Linoleum City, Fast Food Beverage Pairing, Ambiguous Switches, Huell The Mighty

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

---

This week: Blake uncovers nonstandard Metro-enabled advertising by GINO; other readers discover giant sausages, cruddy vending instructions. Won’t you join us.

What’s this what have we here?

»continue reading From Blake’s Phone: Gino’s Rogue Ads

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

---

Top of the morning, denizens! I’ve had a truly lovely week of vacation here in beautiful downtown Culver City but now it’s time to shrug it off, grab a cuppa joe, walk in that Sandalwood Conference Room at the Marina Del Rey Courtyard Marriott and begin processing and uploading shitty cell phone photos for your amusement and disgust. Starting off today is a blurred-as-hell stealth capture of John Tesh at the 3rd Street Farmers Market, if we are to believe the capturer:

Tesh kokomo cafe 9/30/07

After the jump: Sign Madness! Hot Dogs! Vending Machine Restockers! Your Submission Instructions AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF WORTHLESS, TOTALLY SFW CRUDDY PHOTOS! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ! ? ! ? ! ? »continue reading From Blake’s Phone: Tesh Leads The Pack

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

Losanjealous down!!!

I’m capping myself at one photo today because it pretty much sums up the earlier portion of this week. Thanks for the reminder Blake. Items: (1) RSVP here if you want to see Burning Brides free Monday @ Viper, (2) I’m on vacation next week. “Finally Ryan shuts the hell up.” Not so fast bitches: I’ve blackberryblogged before; who’s to say but what I won’t do it again. Everybody else will be here so it’s business as usual. Have a great weekend at your festival of choice (Swerve/Neighborhood/Nocturnal et al) and we’ll talk soon.

---

Have a craptastic cell phone photo that simply must be shared with the readers of From Blake’s Phone? Bring it. Send your photo to [email protected] for consideration. Include date, time, and model of phone (if applicable).

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

Top billing this week speaks for itself:

Sign in echo park – check the glued-on ears…

After the jump: Submission instructions and more mayhem from tiny, exceptionally shitty lenses housed in telephones citywide…
»continue reading From Blake’s Phone: SPECIAL EARWAX CLEANSING EDITION

Every week Blake and readers just like him send me grainy, blurry, sometimes horribly-framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lenses of their trusted telephones. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings…From Blake’s Phone.

Believe it: This may be the longest week on record. Typically I cap myself but today I feel generous. Call it a change in the weather. Top billing is the famed burrito at El Tepeyac in Boyle Heights, which is so freaking big it’s delivered with a pie-serving utensil. Kudos to Ron who, we’re told, ate the whole thing:

El Tepeyac The Cake Server

After the jump: Submission instructions; more fun and games from tiny, incredibly shitty lenses housed in telephones citywide…
»continue reading From Blake’s Phone: Use The Pie Server To Pick Up Your Big-As-Shit Burrito

(Aka The Column Formerly Known as Craptastic Cell Phone Photo Of The Week)
Every week Blake sends me grainy, blurry, sometimes uniquely framed yet always interesting photos of life in Los Angeles as seen through the lens of his trusted Motorola SLVR. Every week, never fail. Join us now, won’t you, as we take a look at the latest offerings….from Blake’s phone.

This week: Lucha! Pigeons! The Demise of the Weekly World News!

Chupacabre in the air lucha va voom 8 30 2007 slvr

Have you taken a craptastic cell phone photo the world needs to see? We understand. Submission instructions after the jump.
»continue reading From Blake’s Phone