Los Angeles Thread #8: Strong and Prouty

anything happening this weekend that's free or really cheap?

There's a couple of free Pacific Standard Time events going on. I'm going to this on Sunday:
http://pacificstandardtimefestival.org/events/accidents-in-abstract-painting-by-richard-jackson/

Alt Proj looking good:

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/alternative-projections-experimental-film-in-los-angeles-1945-1980/

I can report that I found Mayura to be acceptable but unremarkable Indian food. I might go if it was closer and I had a craving, but driving to Culver City for that? No way.

Also, I finally saw Pina and it was good. I reckon I'd be a good German dancer. Also it was my first "twenty-first century" 3D movie! I enjoyed that.

Next week's Alt Proj looks great, actually. I might make that one if I can. I haven't seen a fair few of those films, but the Pat O'Neill, Fred Worden and David Wilson (pre-Jurassic Technology CalArts film) pieces are all straight fire.

i'm going to the one in like an hour

and i'm going to the andrea fraser PST performance on monday

Cool!

"Venice Pier" is great. I would love to see a print of that again but I am not going to make that show.

i am... staying in and watching it's garry shandling's show on dvd. it's not pst or cinefamily, but it's got a similar sense of the absurd.

admrl (or anyone else) do you know if any of those culver city galleries are by-appointment-only? planning on doing some gallery-hopping next weekend.

It depends on the gallery, I think. Most of them have open hours during the week and have appointments on the weekend. I admire your appetite for art and culture, I'm too fucking exhausted to make half of the stuff you do! What's the secret?

speaking of culver city, this is opening tonight:

http://ghebaly.com/exhibition-detail/3130

Donna (or anyone), did you make this? I was sorry to miss it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9swfP7xqc

Oh while I am on this thread I have the following question.

When I am driving along the 110 thru Highland Park into South Pasadena, I can see people running and cycling along the bed of the Arroyo Seco. I wanna ride my bike down there, does anyone know how/where you get in???

Also - any good recs. bike routes in Northeast/Eastside LA would be most welcome.

Thanks!

http://www.arroyoseco.org/ArroyoSecoBikepath.htm

Looks sweet!
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-e_mCSicglH0/TtqQjl1rtlI/AAAAAAAAgX4/vbOy4xtpJPw/s912/IMAGE_ED289C3F-3440-4437-B8DD-6732F5F6F173.JPG

I'm going to try to make the Jackson plane crash too.

What's the secret?

not have anything better to do, basically

/ work 9-5 and not have any other kind of personal project to involve myself in. hoping this changes soon tho...

planning on visiting soon, maybe early March - friend just moved across. Will be back here with what-to-do questions soon once I've done my basic research...

I'm going to try to make the Jackson plane crash too.

a. and i most likely will be there. it'll be the first time we've gotten in the car this weekend!

some photos from that event (including cute dogs and a remote-control plane that a guy was flying around while the real plane was being fixed with duct tape).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindy/sets/72157628991820401/with/6746774725/

Here's the whole flight as I saw it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2zzs2SkTBE

I was trying to follow it close up and lost it on the final run to the target, so I didn't see the finale and don't think I got it on video. Haven't looked at my footage yet.

:D

Some better photos: http://www.glendalenewspress.com/photos/tn-pas-0127-artplane-pg,0,2199499.photogallery?index=tn-pas-0127-artplane-pg-009

http://www.glendalenewspress.com/media/photo/2012-01/214476960-22192239.jpg

Metal Machine Music rears its head again in Long Beach.

http://www.csulb.edu/org/uam/

i forget whether i mentioned re:composition here -- i definitely posted about it on facebook.

LOS ANGELES (January 18, 2012) - Coming up next week, SCI-Arc hosts the Los Angeles showing of the Kaleidoscope of Pacific Standard Time (K-PST)’s RE:COMPOSITION, a two-city thematic program of four new performances dedicated to the liberating spirit of California-native John Cage, in honor of his centenary in 2012.

Conceived and produced by independent curator Julie Lazar, RE:COMPOSITION considers how current compositional practices are enabling artists in a variety of disciplines to re-conceive and reconstitute aspects of their art production.

RE:COMPOSITION will run in Los Angeles for two nights only, with the same program presented on Friday, Jan 27 and Saturday, Jan 28 from 8-10pm.

http://www.sciarc.edu/news.php?id=2046

that looks awesome but idk that i can make either night :(

A multi-performance mini-music fest in Eagle Rock this Sunday (part of PST).

http://www.sassas.org/welcomeinn/

oh dude, i'm sure i've given these guys free advertising before, but pita kitchen in sherman oaks makes me weep tears of joy.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/pita-kitchen-sherman-oaks

and we checked out the digital darkroom exhibit at the annenberg (in century city). some of it was great, some of it not so much. "photoshop" as a genre is still figuring itself out.

Hey, which hotel is this with the cobblestone driveway?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhkDdayA4iA&feature=player_embedded

Did you see Anthony Bourdain Layover Los Angeles? sort of interesting, even if he didn't go much East of Atwater or South of Koreatown.

good times in temecula. the balloon photos are from THIS MORNING.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stockholm_cindy/collections/72157629103882425/

after the ride, we took a party bus back to the site.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7016/6791498555_0b98dd6c19.jpg

so the zola jesus/EMA thing is in march but this week's first fridays at NHM features the soft moon and light asylum (haven't heard former, not crazy about latter) and a performance by julia holter (who i <3)

Saw Julia Holter at the Welcome Inn Time Machine thing in Eagle Rock yesterday. Playing a little Korg synth in a couple James Tenney pieces. Overall I liked the show, but there was a whole lotta nothing between the occasional somethings.

http://artinfo.com/news/story/758572/legendary-artist-mike-kelley-dead-at-58-an-apparent-suicide

r.i.p.

ummm...woah

what the fuck is up today

anything happening this weekend?

Fred Frith in Eagle Rock.

http://sassas.org/adhoc/

thanks! tickets acquired.

Next weekend, whoops. Went to the SASSAS site to see if any photos/video was posted for the earlier event, and saw it.

http://www.voiceplaces.com/modern-times-forever-los-angeles-1579285-e/

this is happening...

The Danish collective SUPERFLEX built a life-size McDonald's replica, then flooded it to foreshadow capitalism's doom for the 21-minute film it made in 2009. The collective's new exhibition, right across from LACMA at 1301 PE, has a much subtler feel than the McDonald's flood, with framed posters downstairs and tastefully designed black "safety" lamps hung upstairs. But the quiet, slow-moving film that plays out on an upstairs wall is actually fairly aggressive. Entitled Modern Times, Forever -- at 240 hours long, it's the longest film ever made, the collective claims -- it simulates the demolition of Stora Enso, a massive modernist office building in Helsinki. Originally, the film played for its 10-day duration on the street in front of its subject, so you could see modernism persisting and disintegrating at the same time. 6150 Wilshire Blvd.; through March 3. (323) 938-5822,

anything happening this weekend?

Big SF/LA Cacophony Society movie and retrospective going on in Santa Ana on Saturday: http://www.intothezonemovie.com/

haha this thread has gotta be the most hifalutin of all the city threads. we should be posting more about eating beer brats at the racetrack (burrrrrrrp).

This is happening this weekend, if we want to class it down:

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/398651_2905109859534_1014135054_32867942_564266442_n.jpg

jezette marie looks strangely out of place.