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Seeing Blue Boy again
July 17th, 2010
I first saw this painting in the summer of 1983 on my first trip to LA with my grandparents who were visiting from India. I was totally taken – I remembering walking left and right and being puzzled by the eyes following me. I’d forgotten it’s name but remembered the blue. I remember being happy to be with my grandparents. The grandchild of Indian Anglophiles, I fell for the English grandeur of the Huntington Library in general. And then weirdly last week, I named a short film of mine Blue Boy, completely unaware that it was the name of this painting that had branded itself into my memory. I visited today, 27 years later, on my fifth wedding anniversary and it was just as pretty. And I checked, the eyes still follow you. Blue Boy, Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1770 at the Huntington Library.
The 2010 Health 2.0 Developer Challenge Launches
July 9th, 2010
A little over a month from conception. Welcome to the world! I hope you have a long and happy life.
Our Baldessari
June 28th, 2010
John Baldessari’s Pure Beauty exhibit at LACMA delivered the goods. He was there in person talking about how his “Nose” series was born out of the notion of visual cropping before cropping became an easy tool we take for granted in digital media. Here’s his Kissing Series: Simone Palm Trees (Near), 1975.
And our reverent homage.
Lebanon in a Strip Mall
March 6th, 2010
It’s still new and shocking to me to find really exotic dining experiences co-located with dry cleaners and 7-11s in LA’s most nondescript strip malls. Highlights of the menu at Marouch? Where to begin, but consider Jallab, a drink with crushed ice, raisin and grape juice, rose water, served with scoops of pinenuts and actual raisins. Hard to know whether to sip through a straw or use a spoon, mainly you need to do both. And Mouhamara, a spread of crushed walnuts mixed with hot red pepper paste and olive oil. It will transport you at rocket speed right out of your seat in a strip mall, in Los Angeles, in the United States, in 2010 for that matter!
Downtown, LA, March 2010.
