Nick Ebeling’s Earthquake Weather exhibition and novel will rock you!

I first met Nick Ebeling and his producer Sherry Timmons in Venice, when his documentary about Dennis Hopper was shown at the festival. Along for the Ride is a wonderfully fun to watch look inside the mind and genius of Hopper in filmmaking, through the eyes of Ebeling and also actor/director/producer and production assistant Satya de la Manitou’s best friend. I interviewed the duo during La Biennale for HuffPost and got to hold the coat Hopper wore in The Last Film for a photo with the duo.

Now fast-forward seven years, a pandemic and many life-changing events later, and Ebeling is once again on my radar, for his creativity and ability to reinvent himself. He is an artist through and through, just as he is a Los Angelino through and through. Both of these qualities make him someone to watch.

We’re so lucky to have a video, EXCLUSIVELY to MIME, of Ebeling leading us through his exhibition “Earthquake Weather” currently at These Days Gallery in Los Angeles through May 13th. The show is a sort of companion to his book, Earthquake Weather, just published by Hat & Beard Press, a publishing house focused on “original graphic nonfiction books of popular cultural and historical significance that appeal to current cult audiences.”

In his author’s statement, Ebeling explains his inspiration for writing his first novel:

“Earthquake weather is very close to me.

In 2001, I was studying film at an art school in Los Angeles. I was training on Super 8mm, 16mm and 35mm film, which were in serious trouble. Digital video exploded overnight and threatened what has been the industry standard since the dawn of Hollywood. Computers were replacing splicing tools for editing at breakneck speed. I didn’t even own a computer at the time, and I didn’t care about owning a computer. I was chasing cheap rent on the East Side, and my life was unfolding like one of those neo-noir films I was studying.

I was also into music, and it wasn’t easy to find the kind of movies or records I wanted. The Internet has yet to offer the better selections of Certified Art House, Oldies Punk, Post-Punk, Britpop, Krautrock, 70s Dub Reggae, Garage Rock, or the obscure UK Indie-Rock that has fueled my soul. I drifted through endless gigs, dug through dusty video stores, and met strangers (some from other countries) to take my place with strangers. You had to exchange protected information and draw that crucial line in the sand if you wanted to be an artist. These strangers became my friends and shared my feelings. They ran the cables to 10ks, loaded the film into the cameras, and checked the sound levels as I started making my own films.

“Dark, generic apartments with barred windows to keep their occupants safe from The Night Stalker, The Manson Family, The Grim Sleeper, The Golden State Killer, or whoever might be the next Devil in Angeles City.” – “Earthquake Weather” exhibition.

The title Earthquake Weather comes from Joe Strummer’s obscure debut solo album, which was scrapped on and off by his label nearly a decade earlier. It had a great cover, with Strummer standing on a diving board against a Robby Muller-style sunset, and I recognized that visual. While writing, I visited many places that I knew at that time and others that stirred my feelings in those days. I brought my 35mm Nikon with me and took black and white photos as a visual diary. I choose a few dozen to accompany the text. The city has changed since then, but the unkempt palm trees, the bars on the windows of sad apartment blocks, and the battered cars on the streets remain, if you know where to look.”

As the show explains the accompanying exhibition in Brilliant Colors of Los Angeles:

Burning and broken palm trees casting shadows at sunset in fire season.

Big dented cars, uninsured, with bald tires, and overdue parking tickets. A reflective sunscreen in the windshield struggles to save the dash from the sun that never stops shining.”

She continues, “Dark, public apartments with barred windows to keep their residents safe from The Night Stalker, The Manson Family, The Grim Sleeper, The Golden State Killer, or whoever might be the next Devil in Angeles City.

This is the Los Angeles that serves as the backdrop for Nick Ebeling’s autobiographical adventures in the late 1990s detailed in his first novel, Earthquake Weather (Hat & Beard Press, 2023). These platitudes are not the images of Los Angeles that true believers of Manifest Destiny conjure when photographing Los Angeles. However, if you’re a child of its endless highways, born and bred in smog and traffic, what might seem bleak to a transplant can be a familiar and even comforting nuance to Angelino’s origin story.

While writing, Ebeling revisits a side of Los Angeles that in many ways now doesn’t exist in the way he knew it then, but still evokes memories of being in art school. He took a 35mm camera on these trips, which captured a kind of visual diary that helped him reconnect with that time in his life.

Presented as groups, triptychs, and single portraits, this gallery constitutes these images. They are accompanied by a screening of a short film called The Suburban Kid, which Ebeling had begun in the late 1990s, during the time period in which the novel was set, but was abandoned and then recently rediscovered and completed. Earthquake Weather is the artist’s recollections of being a young artist on the verge of personal change in a city at a time of rapid cultural change.”

While I haven’t yet read the great book ahead of me, I know from Ebeling’s video tour that he’s speaking my language again. The language of memory and the senses that unite us as human beings – no matter where we come from or where we live.

For more information about the exhibition, check out the gallery’s website. And to purchase the book, check out Hat & Beard Press.

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All photos provided by © Nick Ebeling, used with permission.

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