{"id":2188,"date":"2011-11-14T20:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2011-11-22T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T16:39:00","slug":"copro-rubio-canyon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Copro + Rubio Canyon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sam has gotten into the habit of making a new dish every weekend for both of us to eat throughout the week for lunch and\/or dinner. \u00a0I certainly can’t complain about this culinary experiment as it has been filled wish spectacular results like the above beef stroganoff and the below lamb chops.<\/p>\n

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The above food photos have been in my camera for weeks, but I haven’t downloaded or updated in a while. \u00a0I stopped exhibiting at the Hive when we went to Thailand and haven’t had the time to do it since. \u00a0I’m still going to do paintings, but they’re going very slow. \u00a0I decided to try to make my own 4’x2′ cradled panels (4 of them) and that took a few weeks to put together, sand, gesso, etc. \u00a0Now I have a side project going that is also taking up a fair amount of time. \u00a0More on that in January.<\/p>\n

In the mean time Sam and I have been up to things, just nothing I have photos of. \u00a0For example; three weeks ago Sam got VIP tickets to a fashion+art+music show<\/a> at the House Of Blues. \u00a0No photography allowed. \u00a0We also went to Iris<\/a> about a month ago, but, again, no photos allowed.<\/p>\n

This weekend we finally got back into the swing of things where photography is allowed. \u00a0On Friday night we went to an opening at Copro. \u00a0This show was curated by\u00a0martin wittfooth<\/a>. \u00a0 The art was all very high quality and so was the food. \u00a0That may not sound like a big deal, but from vast experience I can tell you that usually a gallery doesn’t have free food at an opening (but always a for-pay bar of some kind), and if they do it’s cheese cubes and crackers. \u00a0For this one the Copro broke out the good stuff.\u00a0Platter after platter came out of the back with all kinds of gourmet cheeses (goat cheese is always my favorite), grapes, strawberries, an assortment of chocolate\/yogurt covered pretzels and chips.<\/p>\n

Here are some of my favorite pieces. \u00a0All can be found at Copro’s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In my head this next painting reminded me of \u00a0Rimbaud’s painting at the Louvre.<\/p>\n

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But after looking it up I think it is more the darkness+water+white dress that reminded me as the pose is different.<\/p>\n

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The next afternoon we set out to find Rubio Canyon waterfall\/s. \u00a0The directions said the trailhead was in between two houses, and right they were. \u00a0Here is Sam standing by the trailhead which literally goes back beside the garage of the white house on the right.<\/p>\n

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After you get past the houses the trail quickly starts winding along the side of the canyon. \u00a0After a while we realized we’d missed a turn somewhere as we weren’t getting anywhere near any waterfalls but could hear water below.<\/p>\n

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We doubled back and headed down a lower path and came to a dried up creek bed.<\/p>\n

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We hiked over the rocks (all kinds of sparkly granite, etc.) until we came to the falls. These waterfalls were more like a trickle.<\/p>\n

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So we turned around and headed back down the dried up creek. \u00a0Eventually we came to this ancient dam that burst open at some point, probably when the side of the hill on the other side caved in.<\/p>\n

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At the bottom we saw another trail going up the other side of the hill and followed it about halfway to the top before turning around.<\/p>\n

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In the photo we’re on the western side of the hill and you can see downtown Los Angeles off to the left. \u00a0The photo below is zoomed in. \u00a0Rubio Canyon is in Angeles National Forest in the San Gabriel Valley up above Altadena, which is itself above Pasadena, so to see downtown Los Angeles at all means visibility was quit good. \u00a0Although it can’t be seen in the photos, in real life we could see the ocean, a good forty miles away. \u00a0For the folks back home that’s a little like being able to see Athens from Marietta.<\/p>\n

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