los angeles stopover

• January 21st, 2010
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We had quite the adventure running around Los Angeles in the pouring rain yesterday.

The trip to the west coast comes a bit earlier than I anticipated, as I only left for New York last week. The week of scouting jobs and apartments has resulted in temporary solutions for both, so I count that as a success. As I’m waiting to move into my place in Brooklyn, I decided it would be a good idea to grab a few things from San Diego and finish some projects I’ve had on my mind. I dropped half my stuff off at the new place and jumped on a plane to LAX the next morning. It ended up being the most turbulent flight I’ve been on; a few times we changed altitude quickly enough to put my plastic window shade down. People screamed. We landed. I met up with longtime friend and man behind The Ampal Creative and we ate Mexican food like you can only get in Southern California. We drank. It rained.

Wednesday was about more rain. And art. With the rare-for-Southern-California storm, a close run-in with a bus, an epic pastrami sandwich from Langer’s, some great art, good people, and crossing paths with an old friend, it was an LA trip I’ll remember for a long time.

Huge thanks to Seth, Elisa, and Lauren at Carmichael Gallery for letting us take an early look at the new show. Also ran into Mr. Sebastian Buck of Unurth fame there. Between really solid work from Mark Jenkins and Aakash Nihalani and a lot of good press, I’m happily convinced it’s going to be a great show for them. It opens Thursday, January 21 and is the last show before they move into a new space in Culver City. They’re doing everything right, so let’s wish them luck in the new location.