Not the best shot, but here is the May Department Store on Wilshire. They currently have a large constuction project going on. This buidling is owned by LACMA. I saw the Van Gogh exhibit here a few years ago. It was fab. They took out the parking garage to the east and are putting in underground parking. They are also going to build a building above ground. They took the street out between LACMA and this buiding.
I just ran into Eva Longoria in Beverly Hills, soon after I took this picture of this hog. I had some business at the Latin American Masters Art Gallery on Beverly Drive. Eva was further north by the parking garage where I parked my truck. She was on the street and the papparazzi where there snapping away. I smiled at Eva as I walked past. She smiled back. I gave the paparazzi a mean look. She is very short about 5 feet. She did not have her makeup on. She was in flats and a blue dress. I felt compassion for her. The press does not need to cover every moment of Eva. Let's let people just live. Keep up the good work Eva. You are a trooper.
The Getty is the best place to have a romantic date. The gardens, the beer, the art, the hilltop....just perfect. I am not unpset that Mr Getty had to return some Italian Art, which was sold to him by brokers. The Italian goverment claims it was looted. Well, so it goes. I don't fault Getty. I think he has redeemed himself by his 1 billion dollar musuem offered to the public for free. Sure any art collector will buy things from anyone who has them for sell. This is part of the game of collecting. How much art was looted during WWII? Plenty. His stuff he bought was from antiquity. Who owns that? I love the views from up there.
Mr. Griffith was an asshole to his wife, whom he shot in the eye. It was something to to with religious intolerance but he did do right by donating his land to the city of Los Angeles. There are 88 miles of trails at Griffith Park. We hike there a few times a week. We enter the Los Feliz side and hike to the top.
Here are some nicer shots of the gritty downtown. I used to work in the Gaslight Building on 5th across from the library. I took the redline for 4 years when I worked for an upstart Internet software company. The company did not make it. Don't tell my brother that.
I like the outdoors. I like clean air. I like postive people. I like the arts. I like people. I like encouraging and supporting education. I like to give.