As the title suggests, I drove through Santa Barbara on Friday with CR Stecyk III, and we made some stops, saw some people, and had some very good eats on Padaro.

There were a bunch of photos I took in Los Angeles, and I'm just going to start posting them up on the site in chunks. Maybe there will only be two posts, not sure. Here are shots from LACMA, La Brea Tar Pits, Track 16 Gallery, lunch with David Choe, and some other random walking and driving around shots. You may see some Hockney, de Burgh, Eames, Schoultz, Choe, Stecyk, Bukowski, Bart Simpson, etc etc etc.... 

I've spent the last few nights at the Manifest Equality show in Los Angeles, a pop-up gallery that  "gathers together a diverse array of hundreds of the nation’s most talented visual artists under one roof to celebrate that role and join with our gay (LGBT) friends, family members and co-workers to demand full and equal rights for all Americans." Makes it easier to just cite the press release. 

Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Clare Rojas, Chris Johanson, Sam Flores, Munk One, Sage Vaughn, Tim Biskup, Gary Baseman, Carlos Ramos, and Barry McGee all have pieces in the show, and got to meet some "high-profile" guests like Marsei Tomei, Heather Graham, Jason Lee, and I saw and tried to get a photo with Aziz Ansari but that didn't happen. Point is, good people came out to support, LA can get you energized, and the show is a fantastic awareness campaign.

I have a bunch of pictures I took last night at Manifest Equality, but my camera is acting up, so while I work it out, here is a picture of Cat Power that I saw on A Continuous Lean. Um, she is a bad ass. 

And here is another.

Been in LA for the past couple of days, catching up with contributors and visiting my "friend" who is organizing the art gallery portion of Manifest Equality. I stopped by the space yesterday afternoon, and stole a few pictures from her camera. I don't know everything in the shots, but that is Swoon above.