As the Misfits say, I want your skulls…
Head Case: Contemplating Craniums in LACMA’s Collection
Mosaic Skull, Mexico, Western Oaxaca or Puebla, Mixteca-Puebla Style, 1400-1521, gift of Constance McCormick Fearing
Great post on a sampling of the skulls in LACMA’s Collection.
Shot from above, Hiro captured the flowing movement of a model wearing a wingstoled
evening dress and slender, high-heeled satin sandals.
Black Evening Dress in Flight, New York, negative 1963; print 1994. Hiro (American, born China, born 1930). Dye transfer print. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council. © Hiro
Opening Night at the Sunset Strip Farmer’s Market
When I wrote this mini-tirade a few weeks ago about the then-upcoming Sunset Strip Farmer’s Market, I knew I wasn’t entirely being fair. I mean, I was criticizing an event that hadn’t even taken place yet, simply based on its press release. And, now I’ll go ahead and admit: most of that vitriol was based on my own inherent hatred of the Sunset Strip area of West Hollywood and everything — aging wrinkly rockers, gelled hair, breasts three decades younger than their owners, everything that’s ever been in “Entourage” — it represents.
So being the reasonable person I am, when the idea was presented that maybe I should actually head on over to the opening night of the market and check it out in person, it only seemed fair. At the very least, it would give the whole thing a chance to bury itself even deeper and confirm my own preconceived notions about the people that would put on an event like this. (“Veggie Valets?” Really?) And was West Hollywood mayor Jeffrey Prang’s promise it wasn’t going to be “your typical farmer’s market” just a way to disguise the fact that it was going to be one big party.
Turns out, he wasn’t wrong. The whole thing isn’t what you’d come to expect from a farmer’s market. It was so much better.
Read more here!
(Source: kcetliving)
End of Pasadena Rails on Flickr.
circa 1950
A Streetcar Named Expire. Pacific Electric Railway discontinues service in Pasadena.
Shows, Urban Adventure Hunts, Kids Events, Film Festivals, Father’s Day outings, Museums, Dance, Music, and so much more!
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Coffee time! Design for Drip Coffee Maker, Karl Schneider, June 12, 1942. Graphite and colored pencil on tracing vellum. The Getty Research Institute, 850129
More on Karl Schneider and Sears design.
Coffee art with your morning coffee.
Happy Flag Day!
From the ExperienceLA Flickr Pool: The Country & The Republic by Mark Luethi
Congrats to the LA Kings for their 2012 Stanley Cup victory! More photos of today’s parade in Downtown LA on our blog:http://bit.ly/Mu0Kqn
