We went to Mr Brainwash Art Museum, a street art museum in the heart of Beverly Hills, which is sort of ironic. We did actually see Mr Brainwash himself stroll around the museum as well.
exhibitions
Ai Weiwei: Trace
Went to the Ai Weiwei exhibit at the Skirball Center.
The Art of the Brick
Famous art, made out of Legos!
Legoland
Walked in as humans, came out as legos.
Culver City Art Walk
I heard through the grape wines that it was the Culver City Art Walk today so me and Mika headed over to the Art District. We did a pit stop at Cool Haus. I’ve heard of this place and seen their ice cream truck driving around but I’ve never actually been. They do all sorts of weird flavored ice cream, but I’m not that adventurous when it comes to my ice cream so I stuck with the salted chocolate.
It’s been a while since I was in the Art District of Culver City but the art walk made me rediscover and re-appreciate. It’s pretty cool, I wanna spend more time here!
I don’t really understand this type of art;
I had Mika stand next to this installation to show how big it is, or how tiny Mika is.
Went for a drink at the Jazz bar, they have live music every night, fantastic!
Moved on to the bar across the street to play some pool.
A slightly confusing sign;
The Bund
Last day in China and I only had one request, I wanted to go down the Bund. I wonder if people that live in Shanghai think of the Bund like I think of Hollywood and Beverly Hills – try to avoid it at all costs, but if you’re visiting from out of town, you should definitely go check it out.
Be prepared to go backwards if you have to use the restrooms.
We had brunch at M on the Bund. We were the first ones to arrive and when we got seated they were already out of tomato juice for our Bloody Mary’s. That’s hilarious because they just open, but also OK, because I am not a huge fan of that drink anyway. Halfway through our meal they must have sent a runner out to the grocery store and they gave us Bloody Mary’s on the house! The Pavlova however was definitely the highlight of the meal!
Since I am really good at getting lost and don’t know left and right, I have learned to pay attention to signs around me that give out some sort of clue of where I am or where I should go. I noticed this sword like Chines character quite a bunch and asked the people that’s been living in Shanghai for half a decade if this is the character for China. They didn’t know but we did some research and yes, it means China/Chinese. Ha, give me another week in China and I’ll be able to read simplified Chinese fluently!
We went to a Beatles exhibit since it was right around the corner.
It was fairly inexpensive to get in and you had the option to buy a guided tour English. I opted out, thinking I’ll just read the signs. Turns out all signs were in Chinese, but since I read all biographies of the Beatles my local library had in my youth, I could kind of figure out what they were trying to say anyway. The fact that they could not spell out their names correctly just made it a little more exciting.
The Beatles had 14 songs on Billboard Top 100 on April 11, 1964.That’s pretty impressive!
Drake had 14 songs on the same list March 7, 2015, but I don’t think that’s as impressive because he’s just got a bunch of “Some other artist, feat. Drake”.
The Swedish Club of Shanghai had their weekly Saturday drink at Skyli’s. I wanted to hang out with my hosts so I tagged along. I don’t get to talk a lot to other swedes that live abroad anyway so it was fun to hear different stories from another part of the world. Uncle Bo still think I am that quiet 12 year old that sit in a corner being bitter and don’t want to talk to anyone, so he was watching every move I made. I bought him a beer so he could relax a little and enjoy himself.
Pasadena Designer Con
Went to Designer Con in Pasadena.
Found Martin!
It was a lot of people there and I got tired, but we saw Barrel Man! Apparently this is a big thing in the Philippines and can be found in touristy gift shops etc. Adorable!
JPL Open House
We headed over to the open house at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to check out some cool space stuff after the Hello Kitty exhibit.
Unfortunately it was way to hot and crowded for me to enjoy or even care that much, but it was still pretty interesting. I think growing up in a country that wasn’t really involved with the whole space race thing makes me not as excited about this as my friends who did.
Since we were not that far from HaiDiLao Hotpot, we went there for dinner, they’re making the noodle dance table-side!
Hello Shitty Museum
I had really no desire to go to the Hello Kitty exhibit at the Japanese American National Museum, but then I got an invite for the opening day, so why not.
A replica of the first Hello Kitty item that was put out on the market.
Martin with his painting.
Sunday
The Culver City 5k was today, I was considering running it, but then I got lazy. I headed over to Copenhagen to pick up some pastries for breakfast instead.
Watched the first football game of the day and then off to LACMA to check out the Van Gogh to Kandinsky exhibit.
