LA’s most underrated museum is actually a store in Westlake: Wells Antiques (@wellsantiquetileandpottery ). Get there with Metro - take the B or D to Westlake/MacArthur Park OR the 18 or 720 bus. #metropartner
Music by @benseretan
In 1826, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photograph, of his French estate. Exactly 200 years later I used a similar process to take a picture of a dead lizard on a piece of junk mail.
The shuttered 99 Cent Store at Fairfax & Wilshire reopens tonight as a massive art show (Sun, Feb 22, 6-9pm). The scale is mind-boggling! Aisles and aisles dense with art, cash registers hacked to show videos. And it feels like LA, visually overstimulating, impossible to explain, a constant cycle of death and rebirth. Barry McGee plus many many other artists, in collaboration with the Hole and Wilshire Online.
Stereo pairs shot on my Stereo Realist. These are on slide film, so next step is to cut and mount them inside these finicky Stereo Realist slide holders. Very laborious, but then you look at them through a dedicated Stereo Realist viewer, the image comes alive and it’s all worth it!! REALISM!
Imagine an LA filled with tiny parks for niche communities ✈️
Special thanks to Daryl, @saudia.037 , and @sflspotter (in order of appearance) for their generous participation
Music: “Watermelon Well” by @benseretan and @sonic_monkeywrencher from their new album, “Sunbeam of No Illusion” out Mar 27 on @akprecordings
Following the beating of Rodney King and the 1992 riots, Chief Daryl Gates was finally forced out of the LAPD in June 1992. He was soon hired by Sierra Entertainment to design a video game, Police Quest: Open Season. While it was racist, cynical, and not fun to play, it did have some remarkable artwork.
We live in a city dreamt up by 19th century hucksters.
Sources: “Historical and Biographical Record of Los Angeles and Vicinity” by JM Guinn, “The Boom of the ‘80s Revisited” by Gloria Ricci Lothrop, “The Real Estate Boom of 1887” by Glenn Dumke, “Victorian Sprawl” by Eric Stewart, “Real Estate Promotion and the Shaping of Los Angeles” by Christopher G. Boone, Cecilia Rasmussen/LA Times, Nathan Masters/PBS SoCal
