Some more movies of T.

Still can't post movies here but if you want to see T banging around and crawling you can do it here.

Wallace digs art.

T and I took a trip over to the LA County Museum of Art last week to check out the new Renzo Piano designed building, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum or BCAM. They love their acronyms. T became antsy in his stroller almost immediately but as I'd already decided we both needed more time out of the house I decided to make him stick it out and do a whirlwind tour. And it was good. I had fun anyway looking at the beautiful new building and art.

Here he is in the courtyard just as we arrived.



This shot is way blurry (I thought they might not appreciate me and my flash here, so I did my best) but I wanted to add it because of the great color. The bottom floor is an installation of a Richard Serra piece (rather two of them) called Band and Sequence. You can see some pix of the installation here that give an idea of the size (there is a tiny guy right in the middle) and color. They are both huge mazes of sort which you can walk around in. Like walking through an indoor slit canyon. Very cool and I think my favorite part of the visit.


T after we left the room with the Richard Serra. Obviously his mind has been blown.



We did a quick tour of the other two floors which was fun, for me anyway if not for Mr. Antsy-pants. There was a huge room of Cindy Sherman prints laid our like a 19th century gallery. Huge prints jammed (not quite jammed but close) on the walls floor to ceiling and a case of her film stills (which I prefer). I'd seen some of the newer work at MOCA right after I moved to LA. Otherwise my trip was too fast to really soak it in, so I'll need to go back. On the way out we stopped by Chris Burden's Urban LIght which has been extensively publicized with the opening. I'd like to see it at night but god knows I don't venture out after dark anymore. Here's some more info. The link goes to a page with several other other tibits as well, follow the link to "outdoor art" and the Chris Burden info is #3.



And that was it. We headed down the street to the main building to have a bite where T reflected on all he'd seen.

Old LA zoo

T and I headed over to the old Los Angeles zoo the other day to check it out. I'd never been but heard storied and it seemed like a neat place. Maybe we missed parts but it was only ok. It was just a couple of strips of empty cages. Kind of spooky but not like I thought. We did find an empty building at the top of the hill that was full of grafitti. One whole wall was open so the pic above was just inside. I wasn't sneaking around abandoned places with a baby in a stoller. Not really. Anyway that's him with the grafitti.

Here he is looking sad outside one of the cages. To be clear I was inside the cage, just a bit, and he was outside. And he had been grumpy since we parked and he had to sit in the stroller. So...it's not that bad.



It is kind of cute though.

Fred 62

T and I went to Fred 62 over in Los Feliz the other day with Sean and Josie (my in-law & niece). We had fun, chatted over a couple of beers and watched Josie & Thom hang out in their high chairs. I think they had fun, first Josie teasing Thom with her toys and pulling them away at the last second. She seems to think he's like their dog. He finally got hold of a pink princess mirror and would not let that go. He'd chew it and peer into it and throw it on the floor and had a great old time. After I fed him and my food finally came he perched sideways in his high chair to face Josie who by this time had lost interest in "take-away" and had picked up "Baby Animals" and held it in front of her face like she was reading, ignoring everything around her including T's shrill bellowing to get her attention. The higher and louder he got the more intent on the color of the parrot's beak on page 3 she got until I thought he'd blow a fuse. We've got to teach him to play it a bit cooler in the future I think.

Thom trying to escape.


Josie, looking kind of bored.