art/design

Tim Burton & Saint Motel at LACMA

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I have never been a big fan of Tim Burton, he has done some cool stuff, but I often just find him weird and creepy. I still wanted to go check out his exhibit at LACMA though, and thought it was a great opportunity to go when Saint Motel was playing at the museum as well.

We were not allowed to take photos inside the Burton exhibit, but I sneaked one in anyway…

I was excited to see Saint Motel – I missed them last time they played in LA. Silent Comedy opened for them, they were ok.

Saint Motel were really good! The LACMA lights made a pretty good backdrop as well!

Art in the Streets

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MOCA is having a street art exhibition, I’ve been wanting to go since they opened in April and finally had a chance to check it out today!

Space Invader was welcoming us in.

It all started in the 1960’s when the automotive industry developed the spray paint.

Eric Haze iconic sketches on tracing paper.

I saw this tag and took a photo of it the first time I was in London, I believe it was back in 1998 or 99, I did not know back then that it was a Banksy.

I am a big fan of Banksy, he doesnt just tag places to have his tag seen, his tags always seems to be well thought out.

I wonder if he has an intern cutting out the stencils for him?

Jamie Reid work for the Sex Pistols.

Hugh Holland’s photographs of the Z-Boys from the 1970’s.

Shepard Fairy’s wall, I think he is a little overrated.

Hispanic street art is very detailed.

There was a room filled with neon junk. I did not quite understand it, but it was still pretty cool!

I loved this exhibition! Spent over two hors there and would not mind going back again!

Be Neighbor

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I was at Sawtelle both Friday and Saturday night this weekend, so I thought I should go there for lunch today as well… 
I saw this little fella as we were crossing the street, pretty neat!

You can read more here http://hookedhands.blogspot.com/

JapanLA’s 5 Year Anniversary Art show

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JapanLA turned 5 and we went to the party. Off course, Hello Kitty was there, and someone was in heaven!

I should get myself some of them shoes!

These two random guys wanted me to take a photo of them, so here it is!

We found a Martin Hsu original, that guy is everywhere!

I wonder if he got inspired to this painting by our cat White…

Nice little man spray painted on the pavement outside.

Culver City Art Walk 2011

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We talked about the Culver City art walk last weekend and thought we had missed it this year, but it turned out it’s this weekend!
I was a little disappointed with this year’s art walk, didn’t find much inspiring art. 

We walked by this place, and decided we’ll open up a pub here, but leave it looking like an abandoned building from the outside.

What you got there?

Street art!

This looks like my notes from school;

The Getty Villa

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I finally made it to the Getty Villa!  I have never been a big fan of the Getty Center, not my kind of art, but the Getty Villa is a place you have to visit, especially if you have studied art and have lived in Los Angeles for 5 years.
We took the architect tour which was very interesting, they made this corner to make you feel like you were standing in an archeological dig with all the different layers in the ground. 

They made the cement look like wood, super cool!

This looks like real construction, but it’s “just” a painting. Amazing!

Detailed decorations!

There’s a real mummy in the museum, super fascinating!

The garden pool.

After the Getty Villa, we headed over to Malibu Pier for lunch.

A

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We’ve been living at our place for over 7 months now and we still don’t have anything up on our walls. Instead of putting someone else’s art up, we decided to make our own! Here’s my A for the ABC wall, what you think, with or without the sun?

It’s Live!

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It took me about a year and a half to convince my boss to update our website, and a couple of months of hard work, but now it’s finally up! There’s still a bunch of work on it that needs to be done, but you can check it out at www.californiababy.com.

I no longer have to be embarrassed when I tell people I’m in charge of this website!

Superkickass at WWA Gallery

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I had never been to the WWA Gallery, which is funny cos it’s right in the middle of Downtown Culver City.  They had an exhibition opening, so we went there to check it out.

It turned out to be a nice gallery with a bunch of cool art!