do you recognize the smell..

Alexis Harding, from ACME gallery

Wow, how the time is flies when you're having fun! Such a cliche, I'm well aware, but very appropriate. Wishing I could grasp on to time, and stop it from moving so quickly. Last weekend was such a blur, such a lovely, lovely blur... Started out Saturday night at the 6150 Wilshire galleries, highly recommend checking out Dan Zeller at Daniel Weinberg if you want your mind blown a little.. Having worked in pen and ink, I can't even comprehend the amount of patience required to complete one of these works, they are mind-bendingly beautiful.

And another highlight for me were the Sasha Pierce and Alexis Harding paintings at ACME. Sasha Pierce is in a realm with Dan Zeller as far as patience and dedication, and Alexis Harding just kind of rocks my world. I mean how delicious does that look?? His paintings are just so visceral and fugitive. You just want to reach out and smell it and rub yourself in it a little, no? After being stuck behind some a*hole who didn't think twice about blocking our car in, Chris and I headed down to Culver City to check out the Jered Sprecher show at John Kinkead. The show was especially memorable as Chris knows Jered from grad school, and I definitely saw a connection between their processes. Really stunning pieces.

Jered Sprecher at John Kinkead

After some delicious Natalee thai, headed to the after party where I may have consumed 1 too many glasses of the elusive punch (mmmm).. and we called it a night pretty early. Had a lovely Sunday languidly doing nothing, and then walked to the grove to check out Youth in Revolt, which was quite cute. Rounded out the weekend with dinner at El Cholo.. Overall, I really don't think the weekend could have been much better..

Which brings me to Monday. Ahh Mondays.. Been trying to wrap up these grad school apps, luckily had a distraction with a trip to "Little Osaka" for some crazy good ramen and a trip to one of my new favorite places, a beyond-trippy Japanese market, with everything imaginable (and undecipherable...) Stocked with some Sake, we continued my film education with Chinatown, which I simply found to just be sad..

So today was spent playing pretend college student, and I spent the day at the UCLA Arts Library doing some research. What an amazing resource! I could spend hours perusing the stacks.. Ahh how I missed the environment, and realized how little I appreciated it while I was actually in school. Then met up with a lovely friend in Manhattan Beach, which was a place I hadn't checked out since moving down here. What a great little place! I didn't realize how much I missed the sound of the waves and the smell of the ocean..

Hoping to be done once and for all with these apps in the next few days, but busy days they will certainly be. Hopefully I will be able to keep up with my posting so they won't all be quite this long...

xx