“Lights, Camera, Glamour”The Photography of George Hurrell

George Hurrell Photography Exhibit. January 8- June 29th at the California Heritage Museum

Mr. Hurrell worked for MGM, WB, and Columbia. Shot some of the world’s most famous people. Check out California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lots of pictures to see and a lecture series.

To check out some of Hurrell’s Photos you can visit HurrellPhotography.com They have some prints for sale.

They also have George Hurrell’s Bio there: The man dubbed the “Grand Seigneur of the Hollywood Portrait,” was born in Covington, KY, across the river from Cincinnati, in 1904. By the time he was eight, young George Hurrell had developed an interest in painting and drawing. He fell into photography almost accident, originally learning how to use a camera so that he could photograph his paintings. Excerpt from George Hurrell’s Bio

Jim Houser’s ‘Mere Inches’

Jim Houser’s exhibit opens this Saturday at Merry Karnowsky Gallery a gallery that focuses on contemporary art that fosters new direction. The gallery is one of Los Angeles’ premiere art venues.

Jim describes his work as: Paintings are the system by whcih he actively catalogs the images and noises which command his attention. His installations act to create a map of the contents of his head over the course of a particular period in time. His interests include: listening to the cadence of speech. science and science fiction. sickness and disease. plants and animals. sport. time travel. ghosts. the art of children. secrets. radio. codes and code breaking. words that sound beautiful and mean something terrible, words that sound horrible but mean something wonderful. codes and code breaking. Jim’s Artist’s statement

Buy Jim Houser’s T-shirts and Books

thedirty.com launches campaign to reinstate ASU Cheerleaders

thedirty.com started a campaign to reinstate the ASU cheerleaders.

Arizona State Cuts Cheerleading Squad, After Sexy Photos Hit The Web.

Fox reports that ASU has cut its cheerleading squad after photos of the ladies in lingerie hit the web.

Redskins Cheerleaders Staying In India For a Bit Longer

The Redskins cheerleaders made an impression on the India as they undulated for one of their New Delhi cricket clubs. Outrage was the essence of the reaction: see You Can Never Go Wrong When Hiring Chearleaders!

Vijay Mallya, a beer and airline billionaire is responsible for the fiasco, since he invited the cheerleaders to India, hoping to churn up some more excitement for the fast paced cricket that he is selling. The squad has been asked to stay on to shake their bootys for a few more games of the Bangalore Royal Challengers . It will be interesting to see how the populace reacts. The Washington Post has the whole story on the Washington Cheerleaders in India.

Also see: ASU Cheerleaders!

More Trouble for U.S. Military

Interesting story on Yahoo: Japanese officials arrest U.S. Service man.

California Earthquakes rumble on

More Earthquakes hitting california Lake Isabella is a rockin.

This American Life: Live From New York

I was really excited for This American Life Live from New York. I waited too long to get tickets in West L.A. so we had to travel all the way to Burbank to partake in the experience. We left work early and made the trek from Venice to Burbank. Google’s estimates on this are so LA. 30 minutes – however up to 2 hours in traffic. Thankfully we escaped with a life charge of 1 hour. You’re luck my wife loves you Ira Glass

We got to the theater early and were captivated, because for about an hour they showed people being seated in the NYC theater. I felt a little bad for the New Yorkers, all bundled up in coats, its freakin may people get a grip its hot outside- oh yeah – not for you- greatest city in the world my ass. I’m sure it was great waiting outside the theater to get the prime seats. I’m also sure that it was a thrill to hear the phrase “all the way to the front people” uttered by the ushers. You could see the heartbreak on the faces as they released their death grips from the prime middle of the house seats and defeated made their way all the way to the front. Enjoy…

Back in L.A., I mean Burbank, my wife and i had staked out the prime middle seats. 15 minutes before the show and only one dude was sitting one seat away from my wife. But then of course, tragedy happened. And you have to understand, I Need My Space Bubble. When i go to the movies the usual buffer is 2 seats in either direction- it took me two years to break that down to one with my wife, and only recently have we actually started sitting side by side. Cue up the retarded blonde and her friend. Mind you – the theater is 99% empty at this point and here they are closer closer- ASS IN CHAIR, Bam direct right, and arm contact. I will need to wash this arm for days- who knows what shes been up to. The show now officially sucks. My desire to watch the show did somehow overcome the rape of my space bubble. (It should be a freakin crime- Vince get on that!!).

Some people have described the Fog of War, well today i saw the Fog of Liberals as they ooozed their blue state liberal asses into the theater seats and mumbled their hatred of everything American. Don’t get me wrong i consider myself a liberal, but that theater was filled with uber liberals- i was tempted to call the CIA. In fact I think if the CIA would have been doing their job right, there would have been a choreographed terrorist attack on every theatre (yes i just spelled it theatre) that was showing this.

The warm up for the show is about 1000 hang man puzzles about Mathew Mconoghey- (I’m not going to take the time to spell this Texas ass-holes name right) It was fun for about a minute or so.
And the show beings….

The pieces were for the most part terrific. I don’t want to give too much away because im sure it will be available. The topics are:

1. Horse Riding in Philly.

2. Couples stories: and how we remember things in such interesting ways.

3. The Iraq war: with a real Iraqi, (a good piece but depressing overall because it shows how little Americans really think and question whats told to them.

4. Kid Comedians: which i felt ill to see but ended up being pretty good. Most of the kids had the confidence of beaten kittens.

5. Dental Floss and Prison Escapes: thats all there is to say.

6. 12 Year Old Porno Script: the 12 year old has an interesting take on sex.

Even with the Liberal Ooze the show was great. The Iron Man crowd was leaving at the same time we were and I really thought they were going to kick our ass just for the hell of it.