“Baby Got Back”
The corner of Pico and Fairfax, 3/8/08
Credit: Matthew

Kudos Matthew for not only capturing the ubiquitous Dickies™ Bench ad and the unfortunately-placed pedestrian, but also for dredging up my craptastic-phone-photo- infatuated past and shining the harsh light of day on it for all to see. Yes friends, craptastic has been and remains the name of the game. They didn’t put those tiny, crappy cameras into your telephones for nothin’! Got a craptastic cell phone photo the world must see? Fire it off to craptastic@losanjealous.com for consideration. Operators are standing by.

We would like to extend a heartfelt “thank you” to our readers, contributors, advertisers and - especially - our publicity spammers with a lovely dual-colored bouquet of beets on this day of days. We just can’t beet you. INSTRUCTIONS: (1) Right-click image. Save to desktop. Print on color printer. (2) Affix to cardstock. (3) Write personalized note on back. (4) Stuff into tiny envelope. (5) Make the dog lick the envelope. (6) Give to classmate. (7) Be mine?

Admittedly, my familiarity with the Editors prior to this show consisted entirely of the two songs I heard in the car en route to the Wiltern. I am slightly more knowledgeable about Hot Hot Heat, having purchased and enjoyed their 2002 release Make Up the Breakdown. However, I haven’t listened to that in a couple years. So, I went in without any agenda or expectations.

I arrived around 9:30. Louis XIV had already finished their set (which I wanted to see), and people were milling about to buy $14 large draft beers. The crowd was full of white guys in their 30s with hair product. Other prominent demographics included Latino and Asian guys in their 30s, with hair product. The women present were pretty unremarkable. As far as crowds go, this was one of the most conservative that I have seen in recent memory.
»continue reading Editors, Hot Hot Heat @ The Wiltern, Feb 9, 2008

This Has Been A Rain-Soaked Cellular-Enabled Photograph Of The Key Club’s Exterior, 1/24/2008. Thank yous: SPIN, JVC Mobile and, of course, Clubs Key and Black Rebel Motorcycle. BRMC play Safari Sam’s tonight; show is sold out, Craigslisters enjoy subsequent field day. Were you there last night? What’d you think?

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.

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.

I couldn’t resist proof of what we all know every nail lady in town is thinking: “If you could read my mind you wouldn’t be here” on my Treo 650. (read more)

After the jump: More phone-enabled digitally preserved moments and your submission instructions.
»continue reading From Blake’s Phone: Toenails, Mayhem After Hours, Ducks Galore

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.

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.

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

As a non-subtle reminder Losanjealous constantly mines, sorts and processes the cruddiest cell phone photos ever taken, weekly, for your cheap enjoyment. Friday, the week’s most egregious is bestowed the honor CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTO OF THE WEEK.

This week’s winner was chosen based on sheer ambiguity. I have no information regarding the photo; simply a wonderfully cruddy photo. Was it taken locally? Was it in reference to Lohan? Was it taken by Charlie Sheen? Was it taken in reference to Charlie Sheen? Does it in fact have nothing to do with Charlie Sheen whatsoever? Does the tagger hate Pepsi? These questions and more: they plague me, albeit mildly so. Have a great weekend in NorCal at the Bigfoot Jamoboree. _Ryan

Have a craptastic cell phone photo to share?
We’re Accepting Submissions! Your cutoff for submitting that stellar capture of the ballsy San Vicente jaywalker, the rare capture of Rutger Hauer at Hauer&Sons Automotive and the proprietor of the snack bar inside the Troubadour is midnight, Thursday.

Send your photo to craptastic@losanjealous.com for consideration! Include date, time, and model of phone (if applicable).

As a non-subtle reminder Losanjealous constantly mines, sorts and processes the cruddiest cell phone photos ever taken, weekly, for your cheap enjoyment. Friday, the week’s most egregious is bestowed the honor CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTO OF THE WEEK.

A blurry, barely-discernable relic from an older, better time: R.I.P. Mighty Tomkat Theatre, sleaze purveyor of Santa Monica Boulevard. It’s a phone photo, to be sure…but is it craptastic? Run the diagnostic…

• Out of focus - check
• Grainy - check
• Low resolution - check
• Something potentially important unintentionally cropped by the photographer - check

No two ways about it, it’s complete shit. Send us more, won’t you?

Your weekly cutoff for submitting that stellar capture of the toilet at the Los Angeles Zoo, the rare capture of Brian Atene in the produce section of Koreatown Jons, that alcohol-infused, one-of-a-kind oki-dog digi-postcard texted at 2am to the folks back home is midnight, tonight.

Send your photo to craptastic@losanjealous.com for consideration. Include date, time, and model of phone (if applicable).

As a non-subtle reminder Losanjealous constantly mines, sorts and processes the cruddiest cell phone photos ever taken, weekly, for your cheap enjoyment. Friday, the week’s most egregious is bestowed the honor CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTO OF THE WEEK.

Big week; lots of entries. You collectively blew up the inbox. Regrettably we cannot publish every photo that we receive (too many fucking photos), but I’ve singled out six of the best.

1) Self-described “WHITE AFRO MAN” spotted at Lincoln near Broadway in santa monica. He growls “Hey C’mere. I’m White Afro Man, c’mere, let me go get my boss…to take a picture of the both of us…” which I respectfully decline. “No thanks man just you”

After the jump: The Ghostbusters Car! House of Pies Gets a “C” Rating! Baconwrapped Hot Dogs! And So Much More! CELL PHONE PHOTOS YOU ARE GUARANTEED TO REALLY LOVE, OR BE AMBIVALENT ABOUT, OR BE DISGUSTED WITH THE TIME YOU WASTED BY VIEWING, AFTER THE JUMP! THOSE ARE GOOD ODDS ANY WAY YOU SLICE IT . . .
»continue reading Craptastic Cell Phone Photo of the Week: Sign Twirlers Make The World Go Round

As a non-subtle reminder Losanjealous constantly mines, sorts and processes the cruddiest cell phone photos ever taken, weekly, for your cheap enjoyment. Friday, the week’s most egregious is bestowed the honor CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTO OF THE WEEK.

8 14 2007 2:30pm slvr man with rabbit in stroller broadway downtown

After the jump: Spaghetti! Meatballs! Wheelbarrows! Radishes! MF Doom Concert Reviews! Photo Submission Instructions! AND SO MUCH MORE HOW CAN YOU POSSIBLY AFFORD NOT TO CLICK THE LINK? VERIFIABLE SFW PHOTOS AFTER THE JUMP!
»continue reading Craptastic Cell Phone Photo of the Week: Bunny on Broadway

As a non-subtle reminder Losanjealous constantly mines, sorts and processes the cruddiest cell phone photos ever taken, weekly, for your cheap enjoyment. Friday, the week’s most egregious is bestowed the honor CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTO OF THE WEEK.

Only together, denizens. Only together may we build the world’s largest repository of shitty cell phone photos documenting bizarre activities, places, vanity plates and creatures in Los Angeles.

This photo was taken last Thursday. First Street. Downtown. 11pm. Tonight, before you go to bed, remember Losanjealous and send us a few terrible photos from your phone device. Won’t you, please. You have no idea what you’re up against and you have nothing to lose. For one week and one week only Let’s Make History.

As a non-subtle reminder Losanjealous constantly mines, sorts and processes the cruddiest cell phone photos ever taken, weekly, for your cheap enjoyment. Friday, the week’s most egregious is bestowed the honor CRAPTASTIC CELL PHONE PHOTO OF THE WEEK.

From: [redacted]
Subject: Garbage Truck Pissing on Minivan — Melrose Under the 101
Message Body: Blackberry Pearl

Craptastic photos! Better late than never, right? Good lordy what a morning. You guys have really outdone yourselves this week. You blew up the inbox with aplomb and have caused me much laughter. I’m proud of each and every one of you. I said it.

Regrettably we cannot publish every photo that we receive (too many fucking photos), but I’ve singled out six of the best. I won’t lie: #1 is in the running for Craptastic Cell Phone Photo of the Year™. That’s bigtime. Enjoy your Friday, denizens…and your weekends.
»continue reading Craptastic Cell Phone Photo of the Week: THE GARBAGE TRUCK IS PISSING ON THE MINIVAN