He busted out the surfboard guitar and finished with You Can Never Come to This Place.

My life is now complete.

#takanaka

Concert t-shirt featuring an illustration of Masayoshi Takanaka skydiving from a helicopter toward an island holding a surfboard-shaped guitar and giving a thumbs-up with his other hand. Takanaka is smiling and wearing sunglasses. Text on the shirt reads "Masayoshi Takanaka - This is a t-shirt for the Super Takanaka World Live 2026 Tour"

I saw Masayoshi Takanaka live and all I got was this totally boss t-shirt.

Chibi Mikhail Gorbachev (really!) standing in front of a sign that says GOOD

GANBARE GORBY!
JSH CO. 1991
GAME GEAR

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 13 of many. Fuji X-T5.

1-2. Motel Express, originally Rip Van Winkle Motel, since 1949. Neon illustrates downtown Seattle, about 30 miles away.
3-4. Tampico Mexican Restaurant, with a splendid neon entrance.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

Brussels, part III

Slowly emptying my stack from Brussels. All shot on my Sony A7CR with the Sony G 20-70mm f4 lens. #streetphotography #nightphotography #sonyphotography #neon #belgium

Neon of Everett (Snohomish Co.), WA, Part 7 of many. Fuji X-T5.

Everett Motel, which included a smoke shop, closed in 2012 and was demolished in 2015. The site is now a vacant lot, and only this broken neon sign remains.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

Ted’s Frostop with the neon at dusk

Ted’s Frostop, uptown, New Orleans #photography
#leica #leicaphotography
#neon #dusk

Chop Suey. #Photography #Neon #NeonSigns #Vancouver #Chinatown

Frontier Motel & Cafe

Frontier Motel & Cafe, Route 66
(2026.02.19 | Truxton, AZ | Leica SL2 & Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton)
#route66 #truxtonaz #photography #frontiermotel #motel #roadtrip #americanwest #neon #neonsign #leica #voigtlander

Neon marquee for the Fox Theater in Detroit Michigan in 2017

Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009).

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMforMovies
#Detroit #Neon #Marquee #Photography

A night photograph of a neon sign for the now-shuttered Paramount Theatre in Kelowna, BC jutting diagonally across the frame

chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent

#Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 DC, #Nikon #D5500

#nightphotography #citylights #businessnights #neon #theatre #Kelowna #BC #Canada

Nighttime view of a restaurant. A vertical neon sign says “Felix’s Bar”. Next to it another sign, left-to-right, says “Felix’s Restaurant Oysters”. There is a streetlight next to the first sign. In the background, blurred, is another neon sign that says “Felix’s Sea Foods”.

Felix’s

More neon from the French Quarter. Leica R4, Kodak Ultramax 400, ECN-2 development.

#BelieveInFilm

Regarded as one of the most innovative artists of his generation, Bruce Nauman has produced an oeuvre of stunning diversity, encompassing works of film, installation, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. He creates profoundly aesthetic experiences that are often aimed at disrupting viewers’ habits of perception. In the mid-1960s the artist adopted the medium of flashing neon in order to critically examine the role of language in visual art. Inspired by its hypnotic aura and non-art aesthetic, Nauman began using this quintessentially commercial medium in an ironic way, as a vehicle for wordplay, puns, and jokes. The artist created this neon sign for an invitational sculpture exhibition held in Chicago in 1985. Three pairs of words, antithetical in their connotations, line the six-foot circumference: life and death, love and hate, and pleasure and pain. In the center, human, animal, and nature are repeated in stacked sets of two. Each word blinks independently, ordered so that over several minutes all possible permutations are displayed. Juxtapositions of colors produce optical illusions that create a jarring, visceral effect. This work ultimately insists on language’s inability to deliver a fixed or stable set of meanings, conveying a deep suspicion about what constitutes truth, especially in the public realm. Acquired from City of Chicago Public Art Program Collection, through prior gifts of Florence S. McCormick and Emily Crane Chadbourne

Human Nature/Life Death https://www.artic.edu/artworks/147513/

The Safari Inn neon sign, lit in red and blue.

Photo thread from LA. I'll try to keep it all in one place.

If I miss an alt text, please don't yell. I'm tired.

Painted wooden fence with highly stylized type, unreadable

Strobe exposed neon sign reading Circus Liquor in reds with blue polka-dots

Circus Liquor sign in medium shot at dusk

North Hollywood

Oh, the memories! All I need now is Comet Cursors to really jazz things up.

A slightly washed out color photo from Times Square showing the Miss Youth Form neon sign. The sign reads: Miss Youth Form, Aristocrat of slips, Cannot “Ride-up” in red, yellow and pink neon with an animated, walking woman.

A black and white photo of the same sign in the Artkraft Strauss shop before installing. Photo shows detail of many layers of glass across the face of the sign.

Fabulous sign created by Artkraft Strauss in 1949. Miss Youth walks from right to left, then sits displaying how her slip doesn’t “ride up.”

From the Artkraft Strauss FB archive, a behind the scenes shot detailing the animation sequence.

Video: bit.ly/3PJlzYa
Photos: bit.ly/4lX9pqA,
bit.ly/4sIyYOK

Love to my trans friends on this Trans Day of Visibility and every day. I see you, I love you, I support you.

Two clear plastic Cicena Roxanne desk phones with neon tubes inside. One is pink, the other green.

Got bamboozled by eBay and now I have twinsies.

#neon #80s #retro #phone

A bundle of thing glass tubes in bubble wrap sitting in a counter. They are being illuminated with UV light and glowing bright green.

It’s a little on the thin side - but let me see if I can attach electrodes to this uranium glass tube. (I only have soda lime electrodes - may need to order some borosilicate ones.)

Kingman sign

The Heart, Route 66
(2026.02.15 | Kingman, AZ | Leica SL2 & Voigtlander 50mm f/1.0 Nokton)
#route66 #kingmanaz #photography #neon #neonsign #roadsign #roadside #roadtrip #americanwest #leica #voigtlander

Neon of Everett, WA, Part 5 of many. Fuji X-T5.

Totem Family Dining, since 1953. The sign, painted to resemble a carved totem pole, alternately lights the two "TOTEM" words; these are composite photos to show both lit together. The message below changes often.

#neon #neonsigns #everett #everettwa

Night on a quiet street.

Internet 101 Do you really need the internet? Before calling a provider, you may want to ask yourself: 1. What do I want the Internet for? 2. Will it give me what I want? 3. How can I make it fit my budget? 4. Can I make use of the Internet for other things? 5. Will I be left behind in the future if I do not get online now?

well the answer to 2 is definitely no

A neon sign at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. A bright yellow duck, at least as tall as 2 people, stands next to a sign reading "La Concha."

Neon signs in a pile at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The signs read, "Home of Lido," "Dunes Entrance," and "Silver Slipper."

A neon sign at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. A red martini glass that says "Red Barn, Open."

A neon sign at the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pink swooping letters say "Moulin Rouge." The Hard Rock Cafe guitar is far in the background.

Neon Museum, Las Vegas, NV

Image of people walking down a street with neon signs and the Wisconsin State Capitol in the distance.

Sign Language

#signlanguage #blueskyMonday #badgerliquor #orpheummadwi #wisconsinstatecapitol #cityscape #wisconsin #photographersunited #Madisonphotographer #wisconsinphotographer #madison #madisonwi #IsthmusLife #PicOfTheDay #bryonlhobbsphotography

Found object artwork using neon (krypton filled) tube bent into circles over a doily with an old porcelain doll in the center. It is mounted on a circular background, inside an antique frame.

Mental Loop. This "neon" tube is actually filled with krypton gas. This one was tricky to bend, as I wanted the tube to line up right above the circular shapes of the doily. My favorite part of this piece is the side eye expression of the doll.

Neon sign on a busy street

#omsystem #photographersofbluesky #neon #neonsign #photography #m43 #yqr #sask #regina

Another marvel from the golden age.

Mike's Chili Parlor, as seen in #SeattleNeon, available from Amazon and WSU Press bit.ly/3YXPQDH. #neon #seattle #neonphotography #neonsigns #PNW #photography #Seattlesigns #neonlove #Seattleneonsigns #Seattlehistory