Location: 1600 20th St., Bakersfield, CA 93301

Just got back from my morning coffee run to Dagny's down the street [where, btw, you can meet your fellow B.com bloggers this Saturday from 3:30 to 6].  It's always interesting to see what kind of art by local artists they have up on their walls.  Currently on exhibit are some really cool color photographs by Christopher O'Brien, under the title "Sad Pilot."  Close-ups of cars and guitars, dilapidated signage and architectural details (I'm pretty sure I recognize at least some local locations), and the colors--somehow both saturated and washed out at the same time--are amazing.

I picked up the artist's postcard (that's one of the images accompanying this post), and found something interesting.  The artist's gallery is up on flickr, at flickr.com/photos/sadpilot.  I know lots of folks who use flickr for sharing personal photographs, and I know that the site fashions itself as more than just a photo-hosting site but as an online community, with many folks using Creative Commons licenses to facilitate sharing and an ethos of sharing.  But I hadn't seen photographic artists using the site to display their work (this artist has a regular, "all rights reserved" copyright, which is why I'm only using the image already on his postcard).  Interesting stuff...  Anyway, check it out.

--Jason Sperber