Popcorn

Out

Again, I made it to far less than expected last weekend due to the mobility situation here. I took a couple pictures from the Vice Photo Exhibition but Fette (behind The Flog) documented the scene (and I mean Scene) far better than I.

Vice Photo Show

Beautiful space. 

As about one week is left of my time out here, I thought that I'd share a few images of and links to artists I have been lucky enough to have met while out here:

Thomas Muller, Emporer, unfired porcelain, asian pear, wood, plexi, photo, 34" x 20" x 12", 2006

Julie Hughes in collaboration with Pete Goldlust, Turned Out, site specific installation, clay sculptures and black vinyl shapes

C-print by Aaron Giesel

Listen to "Omar K" by Rainbow Arabia

Listen to "Sir" by Hecuba

We Are The World's Myspace

Manimal Vinyl Records

Finally, tonight I am off to this show:

Gallerist: It's A Dirty Job

I actually googled "angry dachshund" and "dachshund growling" in order to find an image that best fit the one traumatically etched in my mind today. This is a fair representation of the results.

I don't like to go deep into personal matters and really, really dislike the posting of pet photographs. But it's been a rough week in the midst of an otherwise innocuous summer. After surviving a severe allergic reaction in Malibu this weekend, today I got chased down, cornered and bit by a neighborhood dog, much like this one, while exiting an artist's studio in a quiet suburban neighborhood north of LA. As the artist was cleaning my wound, she and the manager of the building told me that they didn't think the dog had had any shots and that he had been running around biting people lately.

You'll be glad to know that I am going to make it - but a word of advice: Do not show me mobile-phone photographs of your small dog(s) ever, ever...ever again. Cats still welcome.

Oliver

Anyway, this Saturday will be the first night in LA that I make the rounds to several openings, as there are many scheduled. I've tried to do this before but it's just not easy to make it to more than one neighborhood on a weekend night in this town. Anyway, I'll be taking my camera to at least these three exhibitions:

Jekyll Island at Honor Fraser

Michael Sherman at Little Bird Gallery

And the 2008 Vice Photo Show

Oh - and I know I'm late on this D.C. but I was terribly sad to read Kriston's DCist article about the Bobby Fisher Memorial Building. As mentioned in a comment, this was one of the only DIY music and art spaces in D.C. It's sad to see it go, and it's equally disappointing to read so many aggressive comments directed at the "Brigade". Maybe it's the west coast seeping into my morals, but it really saddens me to see how prevalent that sentiment is in D.C. It's archaic. I hope these kids find a new space.

Sorry for all the complaining. Photographs of current LA art exhibitions soon to come!