On Saturday morning I walked across a stage, shook a few hands and left with a new acronym to put after my name. More photos will be up on facebook (and maybe here) later that were taken by my friends that came to the event (thanks Cindy, Victor, JC and Myra!), but below are some […]
Parents’ visit Friday
On Friday morning I picked my parents up at LAX. Despite getting up at what would have roughly been 2am PST they were down for a full day of Los Angeles…ing. First we went to Little Ethiopia and ate lunch at Messob. Below is dad scooping up some lentils with injera. From there we went […]
Art Walk December
Sam and I went to the Art Walk on Thursday night. It was dead. There weren’t very many open galleries. There was a new “gallery” that was referred to as the Art Walk Lounge. In the back there was a circle of easels with canvases. It seemed like the people doing live paintings were complete […]
Art Walk November 2010
The ever-changing art walk seemed more subdued that normal this month. However, I noticed drops in participation last fall as well. I think people are less willing to bustle about in the windy downtown when the temperature drops below 55 degrees at night. But I did. And here is what I saw: There were at […]
Day 2 on “price less” piece
Thank goodness this is a tiny piece – otherwise I don’t know if I’d have it done in 4 weeks. I’m getting to work on it maybe 2 or 3 hours a week maximum…. very frustrating. I think I want to have her sitting in a puddle in the rain – not sure how […]
Culver City art walk
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 […]