February 2012
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January 2012
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Highland Park, Los Angeles
Took a walk around the neighborhood.
Someone told me that there’s an old law that says you don’t need a building permit to build a barn in Highland Park. I have no idea if that’s true.
Love that window so much.
This too.
Future home of Ba Restaurant.
Drum set at Future Music.
Why haven’t I painted a landscape on the side of my mailbox yet?
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Oracle of the foot
Through her kitchen’s rear window on Reservoir Street Lucinda could see, over the rooftop of a tire shop and against the background of shaggy palms, the high, rotating sign of the Foot Clinic. It depicted a cartoon foot with features and tiny limbs: one side a happy cared for foot, beaming and confident, white gloved hands jubilantly upraised, the other side a moaning, broken down foot,...
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December 2011
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Someone forgot to tell Southern California that it’s winter.
Went to the desert.
Went to the mountains.
It was a little colder up there.
But we could see forever.
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I think you should go to Night Gallery.
Have you ever been on your way home from a party at 2:00 am and thought to yourself, “Hmmm… I wonder if there’s anywhere I can go right now to see some interesting art? It should be super chill and definitely dark enough to cover up any drunk face I might be sporting.”
Why yes, yes there is.
From now until January 26 this show by Alexandra Grant and Channing Hansen is...
November 2011
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LAX Part 2, so nice, I'm hanging up stuff twice.
Turns out I get to another project at LAX (the airport).
If you are flying out of LAX on Southwest Airlines, you can check out some of my original drawings in the departures (upper) level from now until March.
They’re located behind the security checkpoint, so you’ll need to have a ticket to see them.
It’s always hard to describe where things are in the complicated maze...
October 2011
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GPOYW
Scheming.
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Ships
Cargo ship Rena ran into a reef in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty. The ship is taking on water, leaking oil and likely to break apart. Alcohol might have been involved in the crash. The reef is well marked on maps.
2017 containers some containing “dangerous goods”. Each of those containers can hold up to 40,000 pounds.
Maybe I’m aiming low, but I’m surprised scary...
September 2011
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Dance monkey dance!
From Curbed L.A.:
-For anyone who actually thought that Frank Gehry got the idea for Disney Hall from a crumpled-up piece of paper, the starchitect put the idea to rest on Fahreed Zakaria’s show GPS this weekend. But he also said that The Simpsons joke has led to cheapo attempts at commissions: “Everybody thinks I’m going to crumple a paper. Clients come to me and say crumple a...
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Peter Alexander, Van Nuys, 1987, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 60 x 66
Peter Alexander, Bell, 1990, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 60 x 66
“There is nothing to match flying over Los Angeles by night. A sort of luminous, geometric, incandescent immensity, stretching as far as the eye can see, bursting out from cracks in the clouds. Only Hieronymus Bosch’s hell can match this inferno effect....
August 2011
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You know what’s fun? Putting Fresno into Google and zooming around the satellite views of all the fields. So many different greens.
But when you zoom in close, everything turns brown.
Reminds me of that quote from East of Eden (the book, duh).
“And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory...
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rando
Just some stuff I’ve been checking out on the internets as of late.
Who owns the west? Figures.
L.A gang injunction map. Always wondered if the Harpy’s were started by a disgruntled Classics major.
If taking screen grabs of aerial views from Project Runway is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
If you aren’t following writer/comedian Julia Segal on Tumblr, you are...
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I’ve been looking back a bit, lately, thinking about the different reasons artists make art about the places around them.
Firstly, Jacob Lawrence, The Decommissioning of Sea Cloud, 1944, watercolor on paper
From The Coast Guard website “In 1944 Lawrence’s own life imitated his art when he made history as part of the first racially integrated afloat unit in the U.S. military. ...
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July 2011
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Summer snapshots
It got pretty warm and dry all up on our hill the last couple of weeks.
During the summer the cats spend about 8 hours a day sleeping on our deck. They manage to put aside their ongoing fued by pretending that the other doesn’t exist. Cats are so next level, especially when their hot and old.
We are fortunate to have good friends that live nearby with a pool. The location of said...
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Kamikaze
We’ve reached that time of the year where the ceiling fans run on blast while we eat outside and the cats play dead on the tile floor. Also, it’s Kamikaze time at POST. In case you don’t know what that is, POST founder artist/curator Habib Zamani asks 31 artists to curate a show a night (7-9pm) in July in a downtown warehouse. Some artists show their own work, while others put...
June 2011
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Saw the Clayton Brothers show at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. Instead of the linear logic of their folk art, punk/skater/nostalgic style, there is the nervous chaos, uncertainty and messiness of life.
Liked it.
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L.A. moment
So TMZ was interviewing, uh stalking(?) Shepard Fairey in the Southwest Terminal in front of my mural.
Video is here.
This is almost as weird as the time I actually bumped into OJ Simpson (post murder trial) leaving Odyssey Video in West L.A. OJ got into a black bronco by the way.
Looks like S.F. is being kind of mean to his lady, but you know, I wouldn’t want video of me when...
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WatchThanks to Brian watching TED talks has become sort of the equivalent of watching reality TV in our house; habit forming but without the shame. This one by artist Janet Echelman gave me some audible gasp moments and she didn’t even have to get drunk, fall down and show her underwear to do it!
May 2011
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The eternal question - is Los Angeles a city
Sustainable cities collective blogger Geoff Manaugh (who is also a contributor to this new book) discusses the book No More Play - Conversations on Urban Speculation in Los Angeles and Beyond. It’s basically a book by an architecture firm about the context in which their projects exist. The discussion is played out through interviews with artists, bloggers, urban thinkers etc…
There...
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more LAX pics
If you happen to travel through Los Angeles this weekend, check out my mural at LAX, Terminal 1 (Southwest, US Air), downstairs in baggage claim.
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New Urbanism isms
Goofing around on Tumblr today, I did a tag search for landscape urbanism and came up with a few interesting blogs.
Portland based blog discussing all thing urban (history, mapping, development, poverty etc.)
http://www.underpaidgenius.com/ - lots of pictures, thoughts, links, maps, infographics
A blog written by an urban planner and environmentalist about how cities can adapt to climate...
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April 2011
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