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Wildwood Picnic Area Angeles National Forest

This is our favorite staycay spot right near the entrance to Angeles National Forest! Great Picnic spot wrapped in beautiful mountains near a lovely stream! #angelesforest #chortkoffandriggio #wildwood #picnic #photography #couples #love #nature

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The Simming: Sims at the Overlook Hotel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgf-kh3TOcE&t=76s A new twist on the old classic I have always loved. Some movies live on forever, and ever, and ever. Enjoy Sims fans and Kubrick fans! I watched and studied all the youtube Shining videos and have included Easter eggs for you to find! Find them all! #jessimmerqueen #jessimmersimqueen #fandom #sims4 #kubrick #ShiningSpoof #Overlookhotel #stephenking #room237 #goldroom #Americanhistory #animation #horrorstories #Shiningtwins #ghosts #timberline #Ahwahnee #wendycarlos #rachelelkund #shellyduvall #jacknicholson #sayedsabrina #sims4 #fanfiction #cabinfever #heresjohnny #torrancefamily #supernatural

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Squirrel Friends Part 2: Peanut Fails

Watch Peanut's evolution towards becoming slightly human! Also features the cutest little peanut butter fingers licking! Lots of comedy in this one. #squirrels #comedy #cute #chortkoffandriggio

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Squirrel and Crow BFFs! Meet Taper Tail and Winger

Meet Tape Tape! He is our favorite! We don't want to pick favorites but he is a special sort of guy!

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Switzer Falls: Yesterday and Today

Come along with Rich, Jessica, and the dearly departed Arlo Chortkoff. RIP Arlo! We miss you! We were so glad he got to do one last hike, he was 19! #SwitzerFalls #angeles #national #forest #Tujunga #california #hiking #adventures #dogs #thingstoseeinangelescrest #history

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Playing Peek-a-Boo with the California Red Back Jumping Spider

A REALLY TINY SPIDER up close and personal! Wiki: "Phidippus johnsoni the red-backed jumping spider or Johnson jumping spider, is one of the largest and most commonly encountered jumping spiders of western North America. It is not to be confused with the unrelated and highly venomous redback spider."

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Introducing: Our Squirrel Friends!

Some of the characters that come by Chortkoff and Riggio Studios! #california #photography #losangeles #animals #squirrel #jessicachortkoff

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Rock, Roots, and Jazz-stars Illustrations

I am a visual artist but I have always been inspired and fed by music! Here is a collection of fun drawings I have made throughout my life starting in my teens! I hope you enjoy! Crazy Banjo music by Ben Sound. #JessicaChortkoff #art #artist #artwork #illustration #colors #oilpastels #music #musicians #rockstars #beatles #blues #jazz

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Going to Belmont High with Odetta

Odetta: the History Singer By Jessica Chortkoff Rosa Parks, the hero of the civil rights movement who bravely refused to give up her seat to a white person and move to the back of the bus in an act that sparked countrywide change, was once asked what songs were most important to the peaceful but powerful movement. “All of the songs Odetta sings,” she said. Odetta had moved to Los Angeles with her mother and sister when she was six years old. "We were on the train when, at one point, a conductor came back and said that all the colored people had to move out of this car and into another one," Odetta said in a 2008 interview, “That was my first big wound," Odetta said of her trip as a child from Alabama to Los Angeles. By the 1960s Odetta was a black, overweight, young woman, and she was competing and winning in a field dominated by men. She was garnering the same amount of respect. Less than a decade before, this had not been the case. In the late 1940’s Odetta found herself working as a housekeeper by day to pay for her education, while going to LACC and studying voice, by night. She, like students today, was self-conscious of her looks, her hair, and her weight. “When I cut my hair, it was called an Odetta. Until then, I had swallowed lock, stock and barrel the uptightness of this society -- feeling ashamed of 'Black,' 'fat,' 'ugly.' Looking back, the path to self was paying attention to my intuition, feelings and thoughts. I now include my needs along with what others need or want from me.” She managed to earn an Associate’s degree in Classical Music and Musical Comedy. “There was a time,” she later said, “when if it wasn’t classical, I wasn’t interested. I was interested in oratorios and art songs and lieder.” After leaving City College, Odetta took a trip to San Francisco to perform in the musical Finian’s Rainbow, and fell in love with folk music. “I didn’t want to be anybody,” said Odetta, “When I was growing up; there was no way that a black person was going to be in the opera. I knew that my hero, Marian Anderson, well, not until she was retired did they even invite her to participate in the Metropolitan Opera.” Odetta once said, “School taught me how to count and taught me how to put a sentence together. But as far as the human spirit goes, I learned through folk music.” “I learned things about the history of black people in this country that the historians in school had not been willing to teach, said Odetta in a 2008 interview, “In the classical music I was singing things like "oh, swallow, swallow, flying, flying south"....it was a nice exercise but it had nothing to do with my life. The folk songs were the anger, the venom and the hatred of myself and everybody else and everything else...They were liberation songs! You're walking down life's road, society's foot is on your throat, every which way you turn you can't get from under that foot. And you reach a fork in the road and you can either lie down and die, or insist upon your life.” The 1960s was when Odetta's career really took off. She had made her powerful voice into a sharp weapon for black equality, and her music has been called the "soundtrack of the protest movement”. In 1963, during the March on Washington, Odetta, like Marian Anderson before her, sang from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and it was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that introduced her, as “the Queen of American Folk music.” “As I did those songs, I could work on my hate and fury without being antisocial,” said Odetta. “Some of the songs served me by taking care of the frustration that I felt, the hate I felt for myself and everybody else, just being unhappy and unsatisfied. As I sang the prison work songs, I got the anger and the fury attended to in me.” Odetta had the National Medal of Arts presented to her in 1990. She is a Kennedy Center Honoree; and held the Library of Congress’s Living Legend Award. Her final album, a live recording performed when she was 74 years old, is called Gonna Let It Shine (2005). “It's from their forebears, and it's an alternative to what they hear on the radio,” said Odetta of protest music. “As long as I am performing, I will be pointing out that heritage that is ours. These songs come out of difficult times, and since the difficult times haven't been fixed, the songs are still here for us." And she did just that, right up until the very end of her life. In fact, Odetta performed at least 60 shows the last two years of her life, touring in a wheelchair. “If only one could be sure that every fifty years a voice and a soul like Odetta's would come along, the centuries would pass so quickly and painlessly we would hardly recognize time,” Maya Angelou said of her friend, Odetta. #Jessicachortkoff #angelenowithacamera #odetta #folkmusic #history #highschool #1940s #1950s #1960s #belmonthighschool #alumnus #Harryjlandon #california #photography #architecture #losangeles #music #art #blues #civilrights #integration

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Odetta in Space by JstLykaWmn

Memories of Odetta by Jessica Chortkoff The new Knitting Factory had opened up on Hollywood Blvd. and Odetta was going to be there. I idolized this woman and could not believe my luck, I was there! The first thing I noticed when she arrived on stage was how small she was! She was not playing her trademark guitar. It did not matter. Her voice was just as powerful as the voice on her records, the records with a very big, and might I add, beautiful African-American woman on the cover. I am not African-American, but I really dug her versions of songs like Midnight Special, and my very favorite song, Chilly Winds, which she wrote herself. The lyrics are so incredibly simple; “I’m goin where those chilly winds don’t blow”, just basic. It was her voice that connected me to her songs and, sometimes, gave me a reason for living. “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine” she sang and I felt there was light at the end of the tunnel. I also knew it might take me a while to get to it. “Well you wake up in the morning, hear the ding dong ring, you go marchin to the Captain, see the darn thing. All on one table, knife a fork and a pan, and if you say a thing about it, you’re in trouble with the man.” I suppose I was in my own private prison, trapped in a dead end and abusive relationship, so somehow I related. The chilly winds of the air conditioner where bothering Odetta that night. I had just bought a navy blue hand knit poncho with a nifty design. It looked great on me, but I knew it would look better on her. I REALLY wanted her to have it. Perhaps I needed to give back. I was painfully shy back then, but I waited at the backstage door along with some autograph seekers. I didn’t need an autograph, looking into my idols eyes was more than enough. I hoped that somehow someone would see me looking pathetic and open the door. It was just my luck that Odetta’s friends saw me there, with the poncho in my hands, no albums to autograph like the few others around me. I explained what I wanted to do; this was looking like it was going to happen! I began to tremble. I almost ran away. The door opened, I broke down and Odetta held me for what seemed like forever. When she let go her eyes were tearing up too. Now came the hard part, the words. Was I a musician? No. In fact at 24 years of age I had accomplished very little but I told her I was an artist. I then told her something I am sure she heard a million times before. “I listened to your records and they helped me get through the hardest times in my life,” I said. She felt she had to give me something…even though she had already given me everything, so she had someone grab her new CD from the bin (I already owned a copy) and she autographed it for me. If only I had known back then that she and I went to the same school, Los Angeles City College! I had dropped out, but she had attained a degree, something not easy to do in 1950, as an African-American woman. When I write now, I think about Odetta, and how she owned every word she sang. When her manager, Doug Yeager, released the announcement that she was ill and in the hospital, I wrote her a letter. I had it stamped and in my backpack when I heard the news. It was too late, she was gone. But I felt I had said goodbye…even though I never sent it, I suspect she got the letter. “Sitting here, I’m all by myself, I’m trying to be everybody else, but now I see, I gotta be me. Ain’t nobody, just like this. I gotta be me, hit or miss.” -Hit or Miss by Odetta

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Salvation Mountain 2: Inside the Mountain

Slab City and Salvation Mountain 2: Inside the Mountain By Jessica Chortkoff, aka; "Angeleno with a Camera." Check out the website for the cultural landmark and art form here: https://www.salvationmountain.us/ “Salvation Mountain is located in the lower desert of Southern California in Imperial County just east of the Salton Sea and about a hour and a half from Palm Springs. Salvation Mountain is Leonard's tribute to God and his gift to the world with its simple yet powerful message: "God Is Love." Leonard's passion has lovingly created this brilliant "outsider art " masterpiece resplendent with not only biblical and religious scripture such as the Lord's Prayer, John 3:16, and the Sinner's Prayer, but also including flowers, trees, waterfalls, suns, bluebirds, and many other fascinating and colorful objects. Salvation Mountain must be seen to be fully appreciated as those who have made the journey will attest. Its 50 foot height and 150 foot breadth is made totally of local adobe clay and donated paint and is truly unique in the United States and probably the world. From its Sea of Galilee at the bottom, to the big red heart in the middle, to the cross at the very top, the reoccurring theme of "Love" is everywhere at Salvation Mountain. “ All Photos and editing by Jessica Chortkoff #saltonsea #campdunlap #marinecorps #wwii #deserted #postapocalyptic #jessicachortkoff #angelenowithacamera #california #photography #history #architecture #art #community #slabcity #salvationmountain #leonardknight #desert #niland #installation #jesus #God #Christ #spirituality #love #freedom #colors #rainbows #waterfalls #handmade #recycle #reuse #nomads #paradise #interiors

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Stanley Kubrick: As Captured by "Angeleno with a Camera"

By the way, Stanley's films are rated "R" and contain some artistic depictions of nudity. Viewer discretion is advised! Stanley Kubrick as captured by "Angeleno with a Camera" aka, Jessica Chortkoff! Come with me as I view Kubrick's famous touring exhibit! This is a fan video dedicated to Stanley Kubrick. I dedicate this work to Stanley, his family, and the many wonderful artists he has influenced! His career spanned what I consider to be the last true "Golden Age of Hollywood:" from the late 1950's into the early 1990s. The thing that made this trip so special was that I was allowed to bring my camera and take as many photos as I wanted! If you are a photographer who has been to a museum you know how RARE that is! As a result I learned SO MUCH from taking these photos! Here are some of my favorite Stanley Kubrick Quotes: "Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something from different points of view almost simultaneously, and it creates a new experience." Stanley Kubrick "I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker." Stanley Kubrick "Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all." Stanley Kubrick "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered." Stanley Kubrick If you like this and want to see more please join my Patreon family and SUBSCRIBE to me on Youtube!!! https://www.patreon.com/Jessicachortkoffphotos #stanleykubrick #jessicachortkoff #angelenowithacamera #california #lacma #clockworkorange #2001aspaceodyssey #lolita #theshining #horrorfilms #sciencefiction #sculpture #props #ultraviolence #alex #malcolmmcdowell #costumes #filmhistory #history #photography #1960smovies #1980smovies #Anthonyburgess #students #cameras #lenses #video #1950smovies 1990smovies #filmmaking #film #museum #gallery #art #classichollywood #1970smovies #journalism #photography #oldmovies #bestdirector

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Mysterious Cave of Ybarra Canyon

Mysterious Cave of Ybarra Canyon Come with Jessica and Rich and see a truly mysterious tunnel in the woods that goes through a mountain in Angeles Forest. For once we are a bit stumped as to what we have found! There will for sure be a follow up video for this one! We suspect from random debris we found at the site that this cave was used for some sort of mining. Or a very very tiny train for hobbits! We have hiked and hiked all about the San Gabriel and Santa Monica mountains for years, but this discovery was a huge surprise!

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Here it is, the hospital in which I was born! This historic building was built in the 1920s. I always loved art deco style and Hugo Ballin murals! It makes sense knowing these are the first things I ever saw in my life! You can add this building to your own game in the Sims 4! Just go check out the gallery of Jessimmerqueen!

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The Sims 4 Gallery Lots ep# 1908 Nature and hiking Park

I created the 3D model he is reviewing! Go to Oregin's site and download the game Sims 4 for free right now! You can explore this park yourself if you like. If you do add me! #Jessimmerqueen #nature #park #green #flowers #superbloom #fishing #sims4 #Angelenowithacamera #jessimmersimqueen

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