Travel – Foreign
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Aviva and I wanted to see the current show “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples” so we dropped Basil at his sitter’s house and drove to the museum. A car with the license plate HEATHER – made me think of the movie “Heathers” On the way into the […]
May 28th, 2009 by alephnaught
The Culver City Art Walk
We decided to do the Culver City Art Walk today – a bunch of galleries open their doors to the public along La Cienega and Washington in Culver City. A pretty cool billboard – wonder what its selling? Painted exterior of a non-profit on La Cienega Mao in lights in front of Maloney Fine Art […]
May 24th, 2009 by alephnaught
Santa Monica
We love going to Santa Monica, so we put the dog in the car and drove out. We go down Topanga Canyon to the Pacific Coast Highway; you go right by the Getty Villa which is a copy of Hadrian’s Villa outside of Rome. We walked around the Prominade, which is a three block pedestrian […]
May 24th, 2009 by alephnaught
A bunch of pictures taken on my Blackberry phone
Just a bunch of pictures I took with my Blackberry over the last month or so; no one category deserved a separate post, so here’s a gallery instead.
May 2nd, 2009 by alephnaught
Visit to Palm Springs, Wayne Thiebaud retrospective
We visited the Palm Springs Art Museum to see the retrospective of Wayne Thiebaud titled “70 Years of Painting.” Thiebaud became famous in the ’60s with his thick, realistic paintings of deserts on display. The retrospective began with his early drawings, some from high school, and then continued through recent work (Thiebaud is still an […]
April 4th, 2009 by alephnaught
What I look like when I don’t shave
We took a 10 day trip to Italy, which actually means 12 days including the travel time. I didn’t bring a razor along. I thought it would be fun to show the daily effects of not shaving; I used the built-in iSight camera and Photobooth software to take the images, then used Morpheus Photo Morpher […]
March 31st, 2009 by alephnaught
Many Italian tourist attractions are getting more savvy
We’ve been traveling to Italy for years (my first trip was 9 years ago). We’ve noticed that tourist attractions are getting more savvy. For example, most churches and museums no longer allow photography inside, but they have nice full-color books available for purchase (when they don’t have a book they should allow photography – pet […]
March 29th, 2009 by alephnaught
Bologna
We got up a bit late; we’re finally road weary, sore and tired – we’re getting a little old for schlepping our stuff from city to city for ten days. Breakfast at the hotel was good, we got cleaned up and headed out. We took a hotel car to the Museo delle Cere Anatomiche, which […]
March 28th, 2009 by alephnaught
Heading home
What seems like a theme to this trip, we both had trouble sleeping. But, we got up, had breakfast and headed to the airport. We got there early but they don’t open checkin until 2 hours before the flight. So, we walked over to ticketing and cajoled the guy to give us seats – aisles […]
March 26th, 2009 by alephnaught
Leave Siena, arrive in Bologna
We got up, ate breakfast, cleaned up, finished packing, and made the train, first to Florence, then changing trains there for Bologna (we got to go first class from Florence to Bologna, which was nice, as there is a basic drink and snack service). By the time we hit Bologna, we were already a bit […]
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June 7th, 2009 by alephnaught