Attracting attention is a must in the city of stars
Petersen Automotive Museum, on Wilshire Blvd
May 7th, 2019
Flamboyant
Category: Chrono
Urban Light
An assemblage sculpture of 202 vintage street light lampposts from the 1920s and 1930s, created by Chris Burden with the express intention to be placed in the empty plaza in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, on Wilshire Boulevard. The cast iron lampposts range from 20 to 30 feet in height and were salvaged from Los Angeles neighborhoods. The installation is lit up from dusk to dawn and is solar-powered. Especially popular after dark, be prepared to drive a few rounds before finding a parking spot close enough.
Urban Light by Chris Burden, 2008.
LACMA, L.A.
May 7th, 2019
The fabulous geometry of art
And a pleasant surprise, as we wandered through the galleries of LACMA, those ones that remained open during the museum’s extensive renovation and expansion. The surprise was finding out that Magritte’s ”Ceci n’est pas une pipe” belongs to LACMA; for some reason, I was convinced it would belong to the permanent collection of the Magritte Museum in Brussels. What a fittingly surreal connection between my two favourite cities in the world!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
May 7th, 2019
Drinks and England
And an adorable little dumpling
LACMA, L.A.
May 7th, 2019
Etude in Black,
Back in L.A. (because once was never going to be enough) and, since we were staying in Pasadena, we had to go see THAT house from the Columbo 1972 episode, featuring John Cassavetes, Myrna Loy and Blythe Danner.
1365 South Oakland Avenue, Pasadena, CA
May 7th, 2019
When you see the boat coming
Palmy
Those holiday vibes
Lake Havasu City, AZ
May 6th, 2019
Water under the Bridge
Views from London Bridge and along the channel towards Lake Havasu and two of the City’s miniature lighthouses: the East Quoddy and, on the opposite bank, barely visible in the twilight, the West Quoddy.
Did you know that Lake Havasu City is home to more lighthouses than any other city in the entire U.S. of A.?
There are 28 scaled-down replicas of lighthouses from the East Coast, the West Coast and the Great Lakes, dotted all around Lake Havasu and alongside Colorado River down to Parker Dam. And they are not just there for decorative purposes – these mini lighthouses are fully functional navigational aids.
More about the exact position of the lighthouses can be found here.
Lake Havasu City, AZ
May 5th, 2019
London Bridge, Lake Havasu
No, it doesn’t just look like the London Bridge – this is the actual, original London Bridge, or the 1831 version of it, to be precise. Which, in the early 1900s, true to the well-known nursery rhyme, it had started ”falling down”, or in this case, sinking into the River Thames and was, once again in its long adventurous history, in need of replacement.
And when, in 1967, Common Council of the City of London member Ivan Luckin put forward the crazy idea of selling it, Havasu City’s founder, Robert P. McCulloch, Sr. saw a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and a deal was struck. The bridge was dismantled, its 10,276 exterior granite blocks were numbered for identification, shipped through the Panama Canal to California and, finally, trucked from Long Beach to Lake Havasu City, where it was reassembled over what used to be a strip of land that connected a peninsula to the mainland, which was removed to allow water from Lake Havasu to be diverted and pass under the bridge.
A project that took the term ”repurposing” up to the next level, wouldn’t you agree?
London Bridge, Lake Havasu, AZ
May 5th, 2019
MotherRoadRT66
Passing through Williams
Williams, AZ
May 5th, 2019
The Humble Fabulist 