Norton Simon Museum

We visited the Norton Simon located in Pasadena a few weeks ago when Ryan's folks were in town and this museum truly does have a great collection! The space is large, but not overwhelming and had something for everyone's taste. Here were a few of my favorite pieces:

Degas

Outdoor sculpture garden

 

Van Gogh

 

 

 Diego Rivera 

Definitely would recommend stopping by the Norton Simon if you are ever in Pasadena! Here's their link for more information!

Warmly,

Jamie

Animal Photos

I stumbled upon this website today and it made me smile.

Seth Casteel has a great eye photographing animals and I particularly loved his section with dogs being photographed in pools chasing after their priced toys. These cute fuzzy animals ended up looking beastly, humorous, and slightly possessed!

Enjoy!
Jamie

Tim Burton

Now that it's only two days till Halloween, we carved our pumpkin!

We decided to carve the classy Jack Skellington from the Nightmare before Christmas due to his simple lines and because we just saw the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA.

 

Inflatable Tim Burton piece at the LACMA

The Tim Burton exhibit was really interesting, creepy, and fun! We loved seeing his point of view and would recommend seeing this exhibit before its' doors close at midnight this Halloween! Tim Burton Exhibit Info

Romeo and Juliet by Tim Burton

This is probably one of the sweeter paintings by Tim Burton, which I adored!

Warmly,
Jamie

The Getty

This weekend we had company in town, so visiting the Getty was a must!

The only fee is to park your vehicle, then you take a tram up the museum.  Most of the buildings were made of these large white stone blocks with clean edges, very bright inside, and quite expansive.

 

My favorite part about the museum is their gardens! Here is a photo of the stream that runs through their shaded garden.

Then the stream empties out into a pond below the geometric hedge. The bottom of the pond has pennies in it, where wishes were made! I did throw a penny or two in..

These metal sculptures with bougainvillea are very striking in person! I am able to weld, so this project is even more impressive to me--knowing the time it would of taken to build these and them being able support the weight of the plant too.

You can find out more information about the Getty here.

Warmly,
Jamie

There's no place like home?

Over the past few months, I have seen these sparkling ruby heels hanging from telephone wires across LA and they were recently hung up two blocks from me!

I first assumed it was a tribute to Wizard of OZ or marketing for Wicked coming back to LA, but I was wrong. After some research, I found out it was artist Manny Castro promoting his new show "This Hollywood Life." The whole story and more photos can be seen here.

I do enjoy spotting theses shoes while stuck in traffic and reminisce about one of my favorite movies while growing up...

Warmly,
JB