{"id":2181,"date":"2011-10-08T07:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2011-10-10T08:07:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:07:06","slug":"abbot-kinney-first-fridays-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"Abbot-Kinney First Fridays October"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday Sam and I drove to Venice for the Abbot Kinney Boulevard First Fridays<\/a> “event.” \u00a0Our plan was to walk around and find a cool place to eat dinner. \u00a0Unfortunately there were many more food trucks than restaurants. \u00a0In the photo below you can see the line for the Grilled Cheese truck (the orange truck) going around the corner and down the other street.<\/p>\n

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We kept walking. \u00a0There were food trucks everywhere. \u00a0We came upon AnnaBruce<\/a>, the “smallest shop in LA.” \u00a0That “shop” you see on the right is really just a little shack. \u00a0You can almost see the back wall in the photo.<\/p>\n

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We passed by Brasa<\/a>, which sells outdoor (I hope) “ventless flame.”<\/p>\n

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We walked all the way down to the corner of Abbot Kinney and Venice and saw Lemonade<\/a>. \u00a0Lemonade has a great selection of ten or so homemade lemonades, but their real specialty is their “sides” and braises (soup with meat). \u00a0Below you can see the great selection of unique (and delicious) sides. \u00a0My favorite was probably the side that mixes nectarines, cheese, rice and other things. \u00a0There was also a crazy fried (?) watermelon salad thing. \u00a0You can see that one in the shot below in the third slot from the left.<\/p>\n

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There were eight braises to choose from including chicken chili, beef stroganoff, jamaican jerk chicken, BBQ brisket, Miso Beef and three others I can’t remember. \u00a0We had the miso and the stroganoff\u00a0and both were great.<\/p>\n

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Walking back up the east side of Abbot-Kinney we came to the Very Venice <\/a>art gallery, including the erotic art gallery in the back. \u00a0The doorway to the erotic gallery was framed with unfurled condoms stretched off a fake fruit wreath. \u00a0We could see the abstract penis paintings from the doorway, so we opted to skip that part.<\/p>\n

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Next, we came to the Juicy Leaf<\/a>, a succulent and dead tree store. \u00a0I have a thing for dead trees, moss, driftwood, etc. so this store was great. \u00a0I’m hoping to introduce the artist from Branch of Life to the owner of the store, as their succulent selection was small and would greatly benefit from Kit’s designs.<\/p>\n

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In addition to driftwood they also had coral.<\/p>\n

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Throughout the store they had these cool trees that were dead and preserved somehow. \u00a0Most of them had gray leaves, but some (in pictures later on) had green(ish) leaves.<\/p>\n

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It was hard to photograph anything because the store was narrow and there were always First Friday attendees coming and going.<\/p>\n

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Below is one of the dead trees with green leaves (and red bark).<\/p>\n

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They had some hanging “air” plants. \u00a0The interesting thing about these is they all sort of looked like organisms trying to escape.<\/p>\n

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shot from the doorway:<\/p>\n

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Further up the street we saw this large painting. Many people were watching it being made…I have no idea why…<\/p>\n

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Further\u00a0up the street we came across the Ron English<\/a> show.<\/p>\n

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There were a few driveways converted into arts and crafts (mostly jewelry and clothing) markets.<\/p>\n

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I took a picture from far across the street of these two stilt walkers.<\/p>\n

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Sam wanted me to take a picture of this dress.<\/p>\n

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Below is a blurry view of the narrow sidewalks. \u00a0It felt a little\u00a0claustrophobic\u00a0at times because of the fashionable low-hanging exteriors of several businesses coupled with the throngs of people and food trucks bracketing us in on the other side.<\/p>\n

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Most of the actual stores on the boulevard were closed. \u00a0One can only assume that a store, like the one below, that sells delicate items would not want tons of hipsters bumping into things.<\/p>\n

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On Friday Sam and I drove to Venice for the Abbot Kinney Boulevard First Fridays “event.” \u00a0Our plan was to walk around and find a cool place to eat dinner. \u00a0Unfortunately there were many more food trucks than restaurants. \u00a0In the photo below you can see the line for the Grilled Cheese truck (the orange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}