Yoskay Yamamoto had some cool stuff, but my favorites was Mikito Ozeki’s art that was hand cut paper.
We went to a comedy show after, which was all right, I didnt quite get all the jokes… On the way home we bumped in to a bunch of kids hanging out in a bike shop, having a good time. They had a bunch of beers and some live bands playing. It’s totally a movement I would have loved 10 years ago. Supercool, and the music was awesome.
Today was the Culver City Art walk. I stopped by a friends house before the walk, he rescued a couple of kittens a few weeks ago, they are super cute and needs a new home! The little girl has a damaged eye and might have to loose it.
Beers and BBQ before an art walk can never go wrong!
We made it to the art walk, but I am a little disappointed, the art was a lot better last year.
Artists are weird, they do a bunch of weird stuff. What is this and what does it mean?
We are only allowed to listen to classical music at work, so most of the days we end up not listening to any music at all. It is kind of huge for someone who once was addicted to music. It is driving me insane at times though and I am bouncing off the walls. I have to find ways to get my mind off the silence and it often involve terrorizing my co-worker that’s sitting across the room. Poor girl.
I am responsible to order office supplies for the CalBaby HQ. I have no idea why that task was assigned to a girl in the graphics department rather than to someone in the purchase and financial department, but that’s the way it is and I am ok with it. I get to send out cheerful email like “Hello Everyone, I have now purchased ink refills for our pens, please do not throw away your pens when you are low on ink, come to me instead and I will refill them for you. This will help saving both money and the environment… “ Which results in thumbs up from the boss and everyone is tagging their pens with their names to not loose them. If someone happen to loose their pen, they come to me in shame to request a new one. I always make a big deal out of it just for shits and giggles.
One single pack of pens in a huge box! There were plenty of room for the pens in other boxes, why did this pack have to travel by itself? Not very environmentally friendly! Heading back to LA after a great long weekend. When we had about 1oo miles left before hitting Los Angeles we saw snow covered mountains! My most favorite thing in the world! Now, who want to go skiing?
Back home and safe, some 20 hours in the car and 1110.2 miles later (1786.7 km).
We killed some bugs along the way…
We got up early again to get ready for another 250 miles in the car. We checked the outside temperature in Lake Havasu.
86F (30C) at 7:30am!
It wasnt the end of the world, but Seligman, an a small town along the historic Route 66. 
An old western town, the whole town is kind of like a museum with old store fronts built up for the tourists.
I believe this is a replica, I dont think they had those kind of tires back in the days.
Not the original jail, but where the original jail used to be.
A few hours later we made it to Grand Canyon, here’s a few selected photos.
It was kind of cool, but I was not as impressed as I thought I would be. I can look at snow covered mountains all day long for days and days and I can never get enough of it, but got a little bored with Grand Canyon after a while. I think next time I visit I have to hike down the canyon, that will probably blow me away. Instead of just looking down on it, feel like being a part of it would probably do.
It was off course still extremely cool, and I got super fascinated when I read about how it was formed; I thought the Colorado River once was this deep and wide and as the climate on earth changes the water in the river gets absorbed leaving a “tiny” stream of water down at the river bed. I had no idea that the river have always been as wide and deep, and the canyon is formed by gravity pulling the water down towards sea level.
Since Memorial Day weekend is a long weekend, we decided to take a road trip! Final destination is the Grand Canyon. We got up before the sunrise to get an early start, and the first stop was the gas station.
Who is excited?
Grand Canyon is pretty far from Los Angeles, so the plan was to stop in Lake Havasu to break up the driving a little. Google told us to take I95 south, which we did and ended up here. 
We all quickly agreed that this was probably not the right town, so we turned around and continued on I40 instead. We eventually reached our first destination, Lake Havasu! It was super hot and everybody and his cousin was here to party over the weekend. 
They all had their boats in shore, playing really loud and obnoxious music. Whoever got the biggest boat and can play the loudest music wins! It’s just as if Los Angeles had moved some 300 miles east for the weekend. Same crowd, same botox and same waxed chests. Leogra’s comment of the day; “Where’s all the chest hair? Maybe I should take my shirt off to show them what a real man looks like”
Every now and again they took the boats out for a spin on the lake. It was pretty crowded out there!
It did not take us very long before we wanted to shoot ourselves rather than listen to one more beat of that loud music, so we found a quiet spot at the end of the beach that served bears and burgers, perfect for lunch!
Besides the meat market by the channel, London Bridge is one of the major attractions in Lake Havasu. It was actually the original London Bridge that was sold, dismantled, shipped over to America and assembled here again. Why oh why? – Someone just thought it was a good idea.
I thought Lake Havasu would be the perfect place to order an umbrella drink. Well, it was not… The place we went to did not have an umbrella so we had to improvise.
It also tasted as artificial as it looked, so I only had a couple of sips before changing it out for a beer.
Every Saturday during the summer months, they project a classic movie on the mausoleum at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. We took our bikes for the opening screening this year; the Wizard of Oz.
It was a beautiful day and the line to get in was huge!
Picnic time before the movie starts! – Yes, this will be the summer of the picnics!
Movie screening at the Cemetery, it’s kind of creepy, but you get used to it…
My boss want to start doing video blog and me to learn Final Cut Pro so I can edit the videos in style. When I pointed out to her that Final Cut Pro is a program that works for Mac’s only and we work on PC’s in the office, she said “Why don’t you look into getting an MacBook for the art department then?”
They’ve got a huge flea market at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena once a month.
You can find lots and lots of junk, and some cool stuff as well. I thought this wine stand was kind of cool and can see me having something like this in my future home.
When ever I took photos of things I always got a lot of questions about what the photos were for, so I stopped pretty quick. I was also not in the photography mood, so I have to go back another day to take photos of more junk.
