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 […]
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 […]