If you’re gonna be a dumpster, you might as well do it with style.
Trashy but classy…
Category: art
An artistic masterpiece!
AI generated Chiba-style portrait, with help from K, because no matter what I did, the AI refused to the appropriate colors to her face, and could not put speckles on her chest and legs. Instead it just added extra legs. For a world-ending technology, it sure is stupid.
And that’s why they call it “Surf City USA”…
“The Nude Dude”…
The world’s largest surfboard…
A mural decorating the side of the International Surfing Museum…
Cowabunga!
Hooray for Millard Sheets…
…and his glorious mid-century Home Savings mosaics!
Palm Springs: Shields Date Garden Walk
Someone donated a few dozen statues representing the life of Christ. Shields re-did their garden to house them. And they did a really nice job. Here are a few of my favorites.
Palm Springs: Marilyn.
They have this giant Marilyn Monroe downtown.
There were too many homeless people around so we didn’t linger. We hit the road to the next stop of the day.
Palm Springs: RoboLights.
This is a famous art installation in the swanky “Movie Colony” neighborhood. This somewhat loopy guy inherited a fancy estate from his parents, then proceeded to fill it with garbage…I mean repurposed items…that is lit up with a massive number of lights.
These creations stay up all year and fill the entire property. The guy almost bankrupted himself with his light bills, and there have been lots of lawsuits from neighbors.
Not hard to see why, but it was kind of fun to see it.
Brunch on the Queen…
The ongoing renovations on the Queen Mary have really improved the place. This room looked spectacular.
So much beautiful woodwork everywhere, and nary a squared off corner in sight.
Art deco at its finest.
The Queen Mary is really a very special place. It’s like a real-life time travel.
The food was great and the price included ship admission and parking, so we had the run of the place after.
There were plenty of holiday photo ops!
Beautiful art deco frosted glass panels. Glorious.
It was a nice, atmospheric, foggy day. You could almost imagine you were on a voyage.
October starts with a melting moon!
‘Tis the season!
Not your average garage doors…
That “Starry Night with Oil Rig” is a winner.