Real Estate, Small Business, Los Angeles Culture and History, Design, Environmental Design, Architecture,
Smart Growth, Sustainable Housing, Photography, Art, Comedy
Music
Jazz (especially big band) | Blues (especially Chicago Blues)
favorites include: Bo Diddley, Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Holiday, Cab Calloway, Django Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, & Ol Dirty Bastard, Tom Waits, GG Allin, Einsturzende Neubauten & Aphex Twin.
Movies
Glengarry Glen Ross, Boiler Room,
Pacific Heights
Television
Mad Men, Weeds, The Shield, The Ultimate Fighter & Penn & Teller BS!
Books
R.Crumb Coffee Table Art Book, This is Gonna Hurt by Tito Ortiz, Things I Have Learned by Stefan Sagmeister, The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez Reverte, Images of America Los Angeles's Boyle Heights, When Art Meets Space, 50 Things Your Not Supposed To Know by Russ Kick, An Incomplete Education by Judy Jones & William Wilson, Brain Science and the Biology of Belief.
And I read alot of magazines and newspapers, favorites are Dwell, Metropolis, Ready Made, Los Angeles Magazine, Giant Robot, CMYK, IdN, How, Max PC, 2600, and the LA Times, NY Times Online, The Arts District Citizen, LA Weekly, Campus Circle and my favorite Los Angeles Downtown News.
Heroes
Pat Frey, Taxi Cab Driver (see my blog), Dr. Elliot Dixon, Mr. Rodriguez, Salvador Dali, & Nolan Bushnell
About me: I work as a REALTOR in Downtown Los Angeles.
I also own a screen printing shop in Downtown Los Angeles.
I also collect, create, collab, discuss / dispute, sponsor and present art & related events and work with and at a few art galleries on my spare time.
I enjoy lomography / photography, working with markers, mixed media.
My interests & hobbies include TED talks, MMA, bowling, playing pool, graphic design, modernism, reading outdoors & cocktails.
I've worked in the film industry, and at a casino, and as a dj.
You might of caught me on the weekends I'm often a volunteer at ELAC in the real estate department / business administration, & volunteering for this and that, or roving around Downtown at all hours.
You can always visit me at www.JayLopez.net
Real Estate / Art / Architecture /
Other Artists, Authors, REALTORS,
City Planners, Architects, Agents,
Photographers, Graphic Designers,
Brokers, Escrow Officers, Appraisers,
Lawyers, Critics, Speculators, Developers,
Neighbors, & somebody to help me enjoy my Snickers...
I will be presenting 8 new works, among other talented sculptors, at the Hive Gallery November sculpture group show.
on Saturday, November 7th, 2009. 8pm-12:30am
Hope you can make it!
-Rooster
the Hive Gallery
729 s.Spring street
Los Angeles CA, 90014
Video documentation of a performance piece by my friend Nate Kassel who rode around on his bike slapping high-fives to people who were trying to hail taxi cabs in NYC. Enjoy!
thanks a lot. I'm happy to became your friend ;) IONONSOIONONSONOUNARTISTA www. gaetanoleonardi. com
ITA:
"Il mito è uno strumento di trasposizione della realtà, il mito e' spiegazione di un rito, di un atto formale che corrisponde a esigenze della tribù, il mito e' struttura delle credenze di un gruppo. Oggi il mito si evolve, muta, divenendo icona, icona commerciale, sexy e nello stesso tempo divoratrice di uomini, plasmatrice di luoghi comuni del pensiero. Nell'ultimo decennio l'arte si beffa della socio-cultura attraverso la raffigurazione delle nuove icone. La scelta e il richiamo ai "super-eroi", il mito antico letto attraverso la chiave moderna degli ultimi 50 anni, non deriva da un fattore estetico bensì dalla volontà di rappresentazione della vacuità dello status symbol. Una iconografia lasciva, lussuriosa, audace si abbraccia agli eroi attuali generando lo scontro etico tra il mito classico e contemporaneo."
ENG:
"Mith is a tool to translate reality, mith is the explanation of a ritual-a formal way to express tribe needs-mith is a structure from the believings of the group. Nowadays mith is evolving, changes, becames an icon, a commercial icon, sensual and "man-eater", molding common ideas and archetypes.In the last decades art mokes on social and culture through the representation of new icons. The idea of evoking superheroes-ancient mith through the modern view of the last 50 years-is not taken from an aestethic reason, is derived from the willing of represent
Opening reception Friday July 24 6pm-9pm food and refreshments @ Picture This gallery &custom framing 4130 norse way long beach, ca 90808 562-425-4861 hours: tue-fri noon-5pm Saturday 10am-4pm
Members of the Bike Writers Collective are flying to Sacramento to speak in support of the "Safe Streets" bill AB766 and they will take letters of support with them. You can read more about it on http://thirdeyecreative.net/safestreets/soapboxlanews-may409.html
Please, pass it on to your friends and ask them to send letters of support to safestreets@bikewriterscollective.com
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