Second favorite LA experience, circa 1987: I was on Melrose Ave, staring up at an Angelyne billboard in wonder, and then I looked back down and there she was, driving by in her pink corvette, waving hello to me. Pretty sure I levitated.
One guy in a meeting was just showing off some AI search results for "bread" and of the ten results, 8 of them did not show bread! And I had to point this out! Here, for instance, are two results for "bread":
Jim Carrey is unloading some of his art and knickknacks at Bonham's, and it's fairly dull stuff with the exception of this exquisite Alexander McQueen silk and metallic hummingbird rug:
I was curious about the etymology of the word "jaunty" and was surprised to see that it comes from the same French root word as "gentle" and "genteel" but evolved into the quite different meaning of "easy and sprightly in manner".
I'm obsessed with this ca. 1815 pastel portrait of an unknown American man holding a folding rule. We just photographed it for a scholar who is trying to pin down an attribution for a group of similar works. It's so adorable!
I was just looking at Martin Mull's paintings at Ben Brown Fine Arts, and they look exactly like paint-by-numbers paintings but are also kind of great?
There are better ways to translate difficult texts into easily digestible nuggets. Two of my adaptations of J.G. Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition from 2003:
