On Saturday night Sam and I joined two friends (a fellow Pepperdine MBA student and his wife) and headed to Culver City. We went to the Ethiopian restaurant that Sam and I had tried a few months back. We didn’t remember from before, but the restaurant had actually purchased tables that were too small for […]
Nick Ogawa
Nick Ogawa is working on a new album, his third I think. The first album was heavy on the cello, which I really liked. The second went in a different direction (this was his “midnight vultures” kind of album I guess) that I didn’t like so much. Yesterday, Nick started posting songs from the […]
price -less
I’m working on a small (5×7) painting for a show for low priced art at the Hive in December. This has taken a while because I’ve been distracted with schoolwork and computer problems… but I now have the initial wash done: Something doesn’t look right about that skull. Although I had a model (clothed) pose […]
Costumes? Yeah, I don’t do that either
A few weeks ago Layla Kilolu (a fellow Pepperdine MBA student) invited Sam and I to a show Layla was going to perform in. A week before the show she reminded us that it was a costume show as it was on Halloween weekend. I don’t do costumes. I don’t have any ethical/political reservations against […]
Sufjan Stevens, Wiltern LG
I’d been looking forward to seeing Sufjan Stevens for quite some time. Many years in fact, since after 2005’s Illinois he nearly gave up live performing – or at least touring. To my surprise the standing room only section at the Wiltern was filled with folding chairs. Apparently someone had predetermined that this audience […]
Art Walk October
Pepperdine is doing their best to chew up their MBA students before spitting them out in a few months. I now only get over 5 hours of sleep on days that start with S. I still managed to set aside two hours to visit the Art Walk. Anyone who pays anything to park downtown simply […]
Brewery Art Walk & Beyond Eden Art Festival
On Saturday Sam and I took a break from schoolwork and headed to the Brewery Art Walk. I’d been to this art walk twice before, the last time in early 2009. I don’t think I’ll go again – as most of the art was exactly the same, and hardly any was impressive at all. What […]
Hive
I’ve been trying to have a painting at the Hive Gallery every month now since May. In August my painting got bumped because it was too large. It resurfaced for the September show, but I don’t think I posted a picture here because I ended up missing the Art Walk. Below is a photo: For […]
conserving what?
The above photograph is a five year study of the globe in regards to unhealthy particles in the air. Click on the photo to read the article at NASA and see the dramatic difference between US air quality and Chinese. I have cropped and modified the original image to show the United States only. That yellow spot […]
the end of an era
I hadn’t been truly sick since July 4th weekend 2008. After that trip to Disneyland with the late night water ride Sam and I both”came down with something.” Making my longest dash without a sick day two years and nearly two months. Supposedly Sam hadn’t been sick for five years, but now we’re both back […]