Our Sojourn to Los Angeles
Photos from our recent trip to the United (relatively speaking) States of Corporatocracy*. Our week was spent hanging out with old friends, meeting new friends, hitting up every museum in town, gorging on tastes unavailable in our little mexican beach town. We partied hard, or as hard as we generally like to party. Highlights included:
Multi-day museum crawls. Lawrence Weiner and Allan Kaprow exhibits at the Geffen Contemporary (of course my camera battery runs out after taking three pictures). Philip-Lorca Dicorcia’s exhibit at Lacma, amazing, the work included huge, gorgeous prints from several different projects and 1000 polaroids from his everyday life (the polaroids were fantastic). The two Richard Serra sculptures. The Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement including the work of Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Shizu Saldamando and Rubén Ochoa. Incidentally, we totally screwed up and planned our LA trip during the same time that a lot of these artists were showing at a killer art festival here called Puerto Vallarta Arte Contemporáneo 08 - of course we leave town when something that cool happens.
Amazing pho from Silver Lake’s Pho Cafe. A trip to Tone-Dog’s newly purchased condo (first time homeowner). Plenty of beers and nachos at the Fairfax Farmer’s Market and first attempts at Guitar Hero. Thai Green Papaya salad, slurp. random ass cars on fire. In-n-Out, nuff said.
The extensive photographic work of Bernd & Hilla Becher and August Sander at the Getty Center as well as the California Video exhibit (which if you don’t plan on going to L.A. anytime soon, is available to watch online - now that’s cool!). Not to mention the grid and curves architecture of Richard Meyers’ Getty city on the hill.
Maggie Marsek’s wicked photo show at Shelter Surf Shop, the place you should be buying your gear at. Wonderful to finally meet Maggie and Rob as well some new friends whose work I’ve admired.
A night baseball game, Dodger’s vs Rockies. Marcia’s first. Nothing like $12 beers and veggie Dodger Dogs. Killer seats up in the infield reserves. the game went to quickly though and the Dodgers killed ‘em. Meeting up with Isaiah and Jesse and capturing an impromptu photo seshin with Isaiah. Hanging with the Crawfords, and the Felix-Sankarans.
Making the pilgrimage to Mollusk Venice and heavy-petting their stock of classic, educational surf stokage. Catching a brief glimpse of Venice beachfront and on and on an on …
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* Ok, I’ve been reading John Perkins’ Confessions of An Economic Hitman. Awesome book and required reading to help piece together exactly why the empire is crumbling.
