Month: August 2012
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Links of Interest
More art that’s graced my browser 9 Eyes Jon Rafman has, or is, compiling a blog of photos taken by the Google Street View Camera, its equally random, insane and beautiful James Jirat Patradoon How do you frame gif art in a gallery? (Some kind of LCD screen I suppose…) Vania Zouravliov (Probably NSFW) Wow,…
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Today’s Food Porn
Time for some food porn from this morning, care of the people of A Bite to Eat in the southern part of the capital. Mine was the pancake. It was the strangest and most unique breakfast I had in a while. It was a pancake cooked in a ceramic dish, and it tasted and possessed…
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San Diego
I learned that San Diego had trams – trolleys – when I was figuring out how to get to my hotel. And a town that has this mode of transport can’t be all bad. We were staying in a hotel on the northern fringes of the Gaslamp Quarter – the part of San Diego that…
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Museum of Death
A buddy of mine mentioned I should see this place while I was in LA. It sits on Hollywood Boulevard, outside of the celebrity culture, and except for the giant skull, it would be a rather unassuming building. Inside, The Museum of Death is a wunderkammer of the macabre. Serial killer art, execution methods, autopsy…
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L.A. Update
Here’s a few shots from LA, these were done around the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA for short. LACMA is a really decent campus of art, and in my short time there, I checked out the modern art, the Japanese art pavilion and American (United States/North American) art gallery, along with some contemporary…
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Venice Beach
The sun is punishing to me. But not to the natives of Venice, California. Almost everyone is bronzed and coppered, walking up and down the boardwalk past market stalls and tattoo parlours and head-shops. Two such lotus-eaters in ganja-green medical smocks offer us to sign up for medical cards today. Its a weird idyll. Look…
The Screaming Wall 