I think Los Angeles is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, which explains why I hated being stuck at my desk in the office...I always wanted to be out, meeting people and exploring. Now with my freedom and iPhone camera, I'm like a tourist of life.
So here's my little photo review of last week:
Driving along Wilshire Blvd. through MacArthur Park...
...the next day over to Hollywood and then to West Hollywood, for a meeting with the lovely Willow Bay...
...In Beverly Hills for lunch with Colin Firth. Wait, I just want to say that again: Lunch with Colin Firth!!! yipeee!!..(sorry)...regaining my composure...
...Over to Century City, to the Avenue of the Stars...
...Then back in the San Gabriel Valley (stopping in San Marino for a cupcake...)
...Of course I believe cupcakes are the perfect food...
...One of my former bosses at the paper used to tell me: There's no news in the newsroom. It's out there in the city...
Where you can feel the sun on your face...
(PS: I'm doing a profile of Colin for the LA Times. It's set to run in a couple weeks.)
I love Lori Langille's clever art, especially her new holiday cards (above). They're stocked in her Etsy store. She recently did the butterfly lady for my profile box....and....she's working on my new header...I CAN'T WAIT! She has a wonderful blog too, Automatism.
While driving through the Pacific Palisades today, I ended up lost on a curving road high above the Pacific Coast Highway...
It's been 2 1/2 weeks since my layoff. I'm finally starting to catch my breath. I think I'll try tackling my laundry and putting away the stuff I hauled home from my old desk...Maybe I'll even wash the dishes. Funny how life's little chores get put aside amid the major upheavals...I've tried to be very cheerful about it, but the truth is my layoff from the newspaper has been one of the most traumatizing events of my life. One minute I'm up, the next I'm down and feeling lost -- much like life on this road in the Palisades.
Have a lovely weekend...(And I promise to finally get my blogroll up next week.)
I'm interviewing Colleen Atwood this morning for a story on film costume design. Atwood, who has won two Academy awards for her creations, is quite amazing -- designing for such movies as Sweeney Todd, Memoirs of a Geisha and Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I was doing a little internet research about her and found this Threadbanger video, complete with tips on how to do your own costumes. I thought you might like to see it:
The flickr caption on this photo (of a very stylish Isaac Mizrahi dress) made me laugh: If it were pink, it would be the world's most perfect dress. (Posted here!)
I wish I had this dress -- in any color. One of my dear friends invited me to attend a black-tie awards ceremony tonight in Beverly Hills. And I have nothing to wear, really...Sometimes I think men have it so easy: They can always wear a tux!
It's just a fantasy created by photographer Alison Jackson, using look-alikes...Yet what if?
A description of her work from the M+B artist site: "Her photos demonstrate that while seeing is believing, the truth is another story entirely. In her work, Jackson says, 'Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. The viewer is suspended in disbelief. I try to highlight the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine. This is bound up in our need to look—our voyeurism—and our need to believe.'"
"Indeed, by showing “celebrities” ostensibly caught unawares, Jackson’s pictures show us what we imagine might go on behind closed doors. Her work has caused controversy, not least because it treads in a very gray area between parody and realism by seeming to break down the carefully fortified private lives of public figures."
More of her photos are {here}, but beware some of them are quite shocking!
