Del Amo Family Shopping Center 2 and Malibu AM Pic of the day - Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Dear Family, Friends, and Gentle Readers,

Ah, you're back! Thanks for coming. And let us continue our Tuesdays excursion into the "Out of Bounds" Gallery of the East Hollywood Online Museum of Street Art.  We continue on our viewing of the exterior walls of this swap meet that you can find, just off the Blue Line Metro Station in Willowbrook. Go back a week if you want the spiel. Otherwise let's just continue to see what the muralists have put up here for us.

Artist Making Our Bread, Cowboy, paint on shopping center.

Here we've got a cowboy.  You'll have to pardon the bad light. This was end of the day and this east-facing wall was in shadow with loads of diffusion bleeding over the top, leading to lots of color distortion.

Artist CacheK4P, Threshhold Guardians (left detail), paint on shopping center.

Threshhold Guardians, full front view.

Threshhold Guardians (Flower Maiden detail).

So what's your guess?

Is this an advertisement for the kind of makeup you can get at the swap meet inside?

Is it the artist's girlfriend? His/her ideal girl?

Either way, she's a startling contrast to the highly stylized cartoon animals beside her made from very flat color planes.

For some reason, Jon Benet Ramsey keeps coming to mind and this picture gives me the creeps...

Threshhold Guardians (right-detail, 8 Cats, 2 Birds).

And here we have some gaudy, urban wildlife...


































My oh my. Someone get a hose! There's a fire. I think? I dare any of you to come up with a story for these images. My mind reels. But you're all smart. I trust you. Let me know what you got.

AND NOW BACK TO OUR SEASCAPE

Not too dissimilar from yesterday. Blue on blue.

Leaving yesterday there were some 60 MPH winds, so you get whitecaps out on the ocean, which was unusual.

Doesn't look like much  in this picture. But if you can see caps from the parking lot which is almost a mile way, you can imagine you don't want to be on a boat on that. Here's another view with some comparative structures.

And that's the nice thing about having to commute to the ocean side every day. You get to see it in all moods and weather. Before I worked here at Malibu Community College, I only ever saw the Pacific as it looked on sunny days in July and August (after having checked the weather report).  Probably spent less time seeing the ocean in a five years than a tourist who comes and enjoys it for a week. Funny how you take certain things for granted and then you never go avail yourself of the beauty nearby.

OK kids, it's that time again. See you Thursday for more art, or check in everyday to see what my weather's like...

Love,
Pops