Pisses me off.
A woman who commissioned young artists to create the mural on a bare wall beside her house was fined $360 by L.A.’s Department of Building and Safety and faced an additional fine of $1,925 if the mural wasn’t removed.
Seriously? This is LA city dollars at work? Fix the @*%& roads already!!
This is one department that can have its budget cut. For show.
via Valley Village mural: 75-foot Valley Village mural is painted over – latimes.com.
Cell phone photos from a few hours ago. There were cops and cones at every street and alley for three blocks surrounding the Santa Monica Synagogue at 1448 18th Street in Santa Monica.
I knew it was bad when I saw even the Park Rangers were there helping. I guess they ran out of parking peeps.
Which one is from real life? And which one is the still from MGM’s X-15 film.
This week’s quiz involves NASA’s experimental manned space plane, the X-15. One of these photos is from the Dryden Flight Research Center archives.
Check back tomorrow for the answer.
http://player.ordienetworks.com/flash/fodplayer.swf
Zach was asked to make an ad for Absolut Vodka as part of their ongoing artist series. He agreed as long as he got to do what he wanted without any restrictions. He asked his friends Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of “Tim and Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job” to join him in creating the spot.
I don’t have anything — I just wanted to see how the title looked.
QuantumTom