the songs people will sing for home

From what may be my favorite new tumblr, USC Libraries 

morning finds you still warm and breathing

 Who doesn't love a leggy blonde, the chateau + hollywood?

Alexandra Spencer, shot by Kimberly Gordon for Stylestalkers, via knightcat

He's a fool now among us

And I love you, Reyner Banham, for you loved LA when it was uncool to do so.

A place like no other, a love like no other.

Can't wait to go back to the city I love the most.

image via 10 >110 > 101

build a blue fire and leave this sign

Annie Lapin, The Vapor that I/You Make, 2011, Oil on Canvas, 57 x 44

A Material of Child, 2011,  Oil on canvas, 30 x 24

 The All Over Inside,  2011, Oil on linen,  71 x 54

 The Frozen Aftervision of virtue, 2011, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 64 x 66

The Leaf/Body/Between Element Embodied (From the series: Distilled and Abstracted Elements of Idealized Landscape) 2011 Oil on Canvas over panel, 45 in 

Annie Lapin's newest body of paintings was one of my favorite shows when recently in LA, it was truly stunning. You don't see a lot of new paintings that change the way you view the medium, but these certainly do. {As do these} Up through July 9 at Honor Fraser.

Even when you're down and out.

View from Santa Monica pier, west. 2/7/10

View from Barnsdall Park, 1/31/10

Feeling really bad about falling behind on updating the blog- I have seen, smelled, felt and tasted so many amazing things the past couple of weeks that I would love to have shared. As with anything that's too good, it all caught up with me and I caught a little, but nasty, cold. It hasn't completely knocked me out, just enough to slow me down. I also have some really exciting things on the horizon, so I am just trying to nurse myself back to health quickly! Unfortunately, or fortunately however you want to look at it, there isn't a moment to rest, so off I must go..

It's hard to get by just upon a smile..

LA from high above Wilshire, 1/27/10

What a busy week! I hate those weeks that some to literally slip form your fingers, and before you know it they've past. I feel like it was extremely busy, but if you asked me what I did I couldn't even tell you. There's been a buzz going since the opening of Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the first inaugural fair of its kind in LA. I am so excited about the confluence of so many artists, galleries and enthusiasts alike in our little town, and think it can only get bigger and better from here. Unfortunately we showed up too late for the opening reception (so typical of me! I need to seriously work on my timeliness) but have allotted all day tomorrow to wonder around. Can't wait for it. Tonight I'm hoping to stop by the Alex Prager opening at M+B and then off to Eddie Izzard at Club Nokia. Hopefully he is funnier than the last time I saw him perform, regardless it is slated to be a great night. Looking forward on reporting my findings from the fair!

ps. how beautiful does LA look in those images? I took them after the rains, when the city is so crisp and fresh. So incredible to see from Catalina to San Bernadino. in love.

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