On Saturday Sam and I hiked in Griffith Park with her coworker Sara. We started going the long way up to the top of the mountain (Dante’s Peak) by the observatory. We turned right when nearing the top though and went instead to Dante’s View, a garden with benches on the slow trail to the […]
Byron Visit
On Friday night Byron and Christine flew in to Los Angeles for the weekend. After picking them up at LAX we headed to Shamshiri. The next day started off at More Than Waffles in Encino. Then Byron and I walked around Silverlake and EchoPark (which included Danny Devito and Rhea Pearlman, who live in Echo […]
Art Walk May
The number of “Events” happening at or around the Art Walk is growing. However, the amount of “art” at the Art Walk is shrinking. Many of the older galleries are now closed. The “citizen art park” regular area was closed and the booths were moved across the street. There are now only three galleries which […]
Liberal Elite
This is what Sam cooked for dinner at 9:45pm on a Friday night after we got back from the gym: I couldn’t help but think that we were playing into some kind of republican stereotype “liberal elitist” fantasy… a couple of 30 somethings with MBAs eating lobster for dinner in Los Angeles at 10pm on […]
watching
On Sunday Sam and I drove to the Malibu Pier to use the whale watching tour tickets we’d bought months ago, and had to reschedule in March when our first date was rained out. Here we are on the Pier waiting to get on the boat: Here is Sam on the boat moving away from […]
Art Walk April
As usual Sam and I went to the downtown Art Walk on Thursday night. We’ve gotten into a pattern of skipping the galleries that routinely have bad art. We did stop in at the lobby for a downtown apartment complex that tries to sell itself as “artist residences” and boasts an “art show” in the […]
old paintings
These were both done last fall at some point but I never photographed them. Much easier to get a decent shot now with the NEX. I probably won’t post them on the actual paintings section of the site because I plan to overhaul the whole thing in the next month or so.
Birthday week
On Saturday we were finally able to take K & S to the Getty. It was unfortunately still very overcast, windy and cold. On Monday I started to feel sick. Sam had strep throat (or something) the preceding week and I thought I was coming down with the same thing. My throat got worse every […]
Opening Day
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 […]