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By John, October 13, 2012 7:59 AM

Some of the best Plein Air painters in the country will be competing in the Plein Air Painting Invitational in Laguna Beach all week starting October 14. That’s tomorrow. If you’ve ever needed a reason to visit Laguna Beach you have one now. You have the chance to watch the painters in action and some, but not all, welcome questions.

It looks like it’s going to be a very nice week of weather for the artists and YOU.

For details on the Plein Air Painting Invitational visit the Laguna Art Museum web site.

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By John, September 28, 2012 6:39 AM

Can you show the Levitated Mass as levitating? Or at least the feeling it’s floating.

Don’t know but I’m going to keep trying.

Most of the photos, maybe all, have been taken in the morning and very nearly at noon. I need to get photos of the Mass later in the afternoon. Maybe even wait until Winter when the Sun is at a different angle to the Mass.

All kinds of options. We will see. At least the Mass isn’t going anywhere.

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By John, August 29, 2012 11:21 AM

It’s for sure entertaining but is it art? I haven’t got an opinion yet. Do you?

Here’s a previous post showing more of the sculpture and a description of exactly what it is: Metropolis II

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By John, August 22, 2012 5:18 PM

The three from the right, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, U.S. Secretary of HUD Shaun Donovan, U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca) at a Press Conference to promote a new bill that will help legislation that aims to make it easier for more people to refinance their homes, measures they said could put money in the pockets of 120,000 homeowners in Los Angeles and 800,000 homeowners in Southern California. Link to Los Angeles Times story.

Note:  The young woman on the right with the green sleeveless blouse was the ONLY working still photographer at the event. And she was not with the LA Times. Pretty much sums up the sad condition of press photography.

PS: Working means they’re getting paid to do the job. I wasn’t getting anything from any organization.

I was always told to get wide, medium, and close-up photos. No matter what the shoot they (Those who tell us what to do.) wanted those three shots and they would then select which one to published. Well I got no boss and so I can’t tell you which one to go with. Hell, you decide.

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By John, August 1, 2012 8:05 PM

From LACMA’s web site:

Chris Burden’s Metropolis II is an intense kinetic sculpture, modeled after a fast paced, frenetic modern city. Steel beams form an eclectic grid interwoven with an elaborate system of 18 roadways, including one 6 lane freeway, and HO scale train tracks. Miniature cars speed through the city at 240 scale miles per hour; every hour, the equivalent of approximately 100,000 cars circulate through the dense network of buildings. According to Burden, “The noise, the continuous flow of the trains, and the speeding toy cars, produces in the viewer the stress of living in a dynamic, active and bustling 21st Century city.”

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By John, May 27, 2012 6:00 PM

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