I negotiated the LA FWY system to the Getty Center -- something of a new-world-nightmare since the entire 3 mile stretch around the 405 exit that one would expect to be able to access is Under Construction and thus minimally accessible and/or explicable. But I had a fine (light) lunch at their restaurant -- excellent call by my friend Jay -- and then tried to see art anyway. They don't have much in the Contemporary vein, even though I could _swear_ that that-that Art & Place book had a picture of a Turrell installation on the Getty Cover Page (note2self: check this later). But the garden is (somewhat-fully?not sure) designed with a really lovely water motif by his homeboy R. Irwin. It starts at the top of the complex in a small stream then drips into a caldera which flows over strategic rock formations to finally fall into the ultimate (if the lowest point of progress can be so called) pool in the labyrinthine garden proper. As such:
Then I further negotiated the LA FWY to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in (Culver City). This is quite a piece of (perhaps) over worked work and seems to be the over worked work of a bunch of Russian Emigres, based on the refreshments served at the -- now correctly attributed -- ultimate floor tea room. It does make one wonder how many grains of thats-just-how-things-were-back-then salt our future selves will need when reviewing our current scientifically advanced prowess.
And then -- ULTIMATELY -- I negotiated the LA Surface Street System back to my hotel in order to venture on foot to my oysters of record at the Water Grill.
Tomorrow: The beaches of Santa Barbara!
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