Unfortunately our whale watching expedition was cancelled on Saturday, so Sam and I ate fried fish and then worked out. Saturday was a big night for the Los Angeles art scene. Several key galleries had major openings and all around the same time. The first up was GR2. GR2 stands for Giant Robot 2, as […]
Art Walk, Plants, Cameras
Last night, as usual, Sam and I went to the art walk. I brought my camera, but didn’t feel like taking any pictures of the “Scene.” Why? Because I finally did it. I finally bought a mirrorless SLR camera on Wednesday to replace the old Canon powershot. I had been waiting for a long time […]
just relax, guy
I have had trouble sleeping for many years. It typically takes me between 30-60 minutes to fall asleep. During the middle of the week this always got worse. It used to be because my mind was still active from being in class until 10+pm. Now I guess it is just the residual mid-week malaise carried […]
Cavalia
Late last week Sam emailed me asking if I wanted to go to “Cavalia” with her. I had seen the billboards around town: I assumed it was some sort of horse show. I knew that Sam liked horses, although until this weekend I didn’t know just how much. She likes them a lot. After she […]
Art Lovers
On Thursday night Sam and I headed to the Art Walk. This Art Walk seemed more enthusiastic than the last one. Perhaps this was only due to the positive beginning. Unlike other walks we decided to eat first. We circled 8th until the clock hit 6 and parking opened up right in front of […]
Trying times
This could be considered a sad update to the last post. As detailed in the previous blog entry, I had sketched out this complicated weird perspective piece. I always take on more than I think I can handle with these paintings, forcing myself to learn/paint new things. However, this time it was just too much. […]
Alice in Wonderland
Now that the Lovers show is up (look for my Art Walk review with my piece in the Hive show next Friday) the time has come to worry about the next show. Of course, I’d been trying to wrap my brain around it for a while. Once again I misunderstood the theme. In the […]
This is for you, mom
As I get older I notice that I already start to feel older than I really am. I often think about how “I’m 30” even though that statement won’t be true for over another two months. This feeling probably has less to do with how my body feels and more to do with my perception […]
Southern California Fires
I had to fire someone for the first time yesterday. Ironically I ended up having to (getting to?) do it via email since the employee was off site and didn’t respond to my phone calls. Since this position was/is important we immediately re posted the job ad on craigslist. I get the strangest emails from […]
Art Walk January
Another second thursday – another art walk downtown. Once again, I drove to Sam’s office to pick her up. I decided to take a new route to try and avoid traffic, which was maybe five miles longer and looped around downtown – but was much quicker. This put me on the 5 south connecting to […]