The Americana at Brand is a just-opened $400 million outdoor mall in Glendale from the creators of the theme park-esque The Grove in Hollywood. They both feature trolleys designed by George McGinnis, a regular designer of vehicles for the Disney parks. You can rent apartments that overlook the park and pond for $3000+ but you’ll hear the fountain show all day long. I know because they were vacant and unlocked when I was there opening day, that’s how I got the photo from the balcony.

Join myself and others as we read our awful teenage journal entries to a crowd of strangers. I’ve done two different pieces before, (one is in the new book, Mortified: Love is a Battlefield). I have hundreds of pages of journal entries to choose from and this show will have new stuff - on the evils of drugs and drinking, and the art world about going to a new school and how to be gay.  Get tickets early, Mortified sells out fast.

WHEN: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
TIME: 8:00 PM
VENUE: King King
ADDRESS: 6555 Hollywood Blvd., 90028
COST: $10 adv; $15 door

TICKETS:
By Web: GetMortified.com By Phone: 877-238-5596

It’s a 20 minute film involving high fashion and low production values. Or as is creators, my friends, call it: A new adventure saga set in a post nuclear multiverse. Three heroes from different time periods are picked up by a holographic spaceship and sent on a mission to rescue Falco Quasar, a colony pilot, when they are attacked by a mega-corporation and its mutant empire. Friday May 2 at 6175 Beverly Blvd 90036

And I like that. These two works from Richard Telles Fine Art here in LA.

Found, and more info, at Airworks.

These top three signs were hand made by friends who have an online business creating custom tiki bar signs (PariArts.com). But ohh look, a lazy designer for the JoAnn Fabrics stores decided to turn them in as his or her own, and now they’re selling them in stores. Bad. Legal action to follow…

The mix downloads as a .zip file and then you’ll have a bunch of songs in a folder - it doesn’t really matter the order they play in but I’ve numbered them in a sequence that’s nice. Here’s the link. My liner notes:

The LA County Museum of Art’s just-opened BCAM and courtyard addition features lots of little things made big. A balloon bouquet of tulips MADE BIG, a toy firetruck MADE BIG. Inside there’s a table and chairs MADE BIG – us museum goers feel like kids walking under it. But I thought it was the real kids next door making the best art in the Boone Children’s Gallery (inside the old May Company building.)

Inside there’s a bunch of work stations for anyone to make cardboard models and add them to the large floor model of a city of the future. Also, a building-block area with a wall of Polaroids of kids standing next to their creations. And of course, a whole 2-D visual art area with much collaging and painting happening.

Outside during the opening three-day weekend you could grab handfulls of red construction flags and mark off a footprint for your imagined soon-to-be-built structure. You had to move fast though – I hadn’t finished my large circles on a hillside before two toddlers uprooted my work.

…and they’re currently for sale on ebay. The seller explains: “We purchased this group of related drawings and paper at a local estate auction. The estate sale was that of a designer named Aureli - according to the auctioneer who sold this he had been an architect and had taught at both Columbia and MIT.” (A quick search didn’t turn up anything on this name Aureli.) Let’s hope Disney’s recently announced “new” House of the Future will have interiors this super.

SEE ALSO: Looking At It’s A Small World, Seeing Modern Art

I fist saw his work while having a fabulous lunch at the art-filled Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis. This is Will’s site.