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Out and About in Barcelona

Greetings from Barcelona Spain!  

Morning Coffee in DTLA

Wearing: 
H&M Premium Sweater
Nudie Jeans Skinny Lin
Soludos  – (shop), Original Dali Shoe
Buenos dias! When I’m at work, I typically confine my feet into the leather bastille known as men’s dress shoes. However, with no work until afternoon clinic today, I’m free to slip into something much more casual. These shoes, or rather espadrilles, by Soludos are some seriously comfortable slip-ons. My feet felt right at home as I eased into my day with a nice coffee break in downtown LA. Although to be honest, I would’ve preferred to take these espadrilles on a test drive across a beach in Bali. (sigh) maybe someday.

Desert Dreaming

My favorite type of art always brings the surreal to life.   As part of the Desert X exhibition, this installation entitled “Circle of Land and Sky” by Phillip K Smith employs a circle of perfectly spaced geometric reflectors to blend and distort the desert horizon.  The flawlessly smooth metal with its precise 10 degree tilt contrasts starkly with the rugged desert wilderness.  Altogether, the experience is one of waking up in the middle of a strange yet beautiful mirage.  

Welcome back 1995

Perhaps the 1990s are deserving of the current wave of nostalgia that’s sweeping American pop culture.  After all, Bill Clinton was president and kept us more than entertained with Monikagate.  The dot-com boom was just beginning and the economy was flourishing.  Men’s street fashion was dominated by huge brand logos, stone wash jeans, and Air Jordans.  

As a grade school kid, I was more concerned with playing Super Nintendo and skateboarding than debating world politics or fashion.  Nevertheless, I look back at this time fondly.  It was a simpler time.  A time before the smart phone became an extra appendage of the body.  Social media was nothing more than passing notes in the classroom and hoping to be immortalized with a good picture in the class yearbook.  And come on…   check out that perfect middle part hairstyle.  You know that looked good!   

Poppy Fields

Do you remember the scene in “The Wizard of Oz” where Dorothy and her traveling companions walk through field of enchanted poppies only to find that the flowers were merely an insidious ruse concocted by the Wicked Witch to intoxicate Dorothy and her crew?
The scenery at the Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve really reminded me of that scene.  Thankfully, there were no magic poppies to put me to sleep in this field.  Get this…  you know the “snow” that awoke Dorothy in the movie?  That “snow” was actually comprised of pure chrysotile ASBESTOS fibers.  It’s a wonder the whole film crew didn’t end up with malignant mesothelioma.