After our show "Peter and the Wolf" at the Disney Music Hall, we decided to walk around the area again and find something to eat. Charlie vetoed the Grand Market, which was where we ate last time we were near here. So we kept walking. Supposedly this Japanese restaurant in the basement is quite fancy and yummy but it was closed. Next time!
A massive mural on a building:
Graham said the shadow of the traffic cone makes the car look like it is a unicorn. Ha!
After going around an entire block, we finally find the Italian restaurant that we were looking for. It's too bad we had to walk through so many stinky streets (of pee.. yuck!):
Glad nothing spoiled our appetite for lunch! Yummy spaghetti and meatballs:
Charlie had gnocchi but he didn't enjoy it too much:
I obviously had to try their tiramisu. Delizioso!
Of course the boys had dessert too:
There is an interesting water feature just outside of the restaurant:
Art is so subjective:
I just love this little car! This photo is curved somehow. How did I do that??!
There is a little store where a guy is working on fresh pasta for the restaurant:
I'm guessing spinach tortellini:
Moving on! There are some amazing architecture on the buildings:
Sorry, but I am obviously obsessed with these buildings:
Hmm... not sure what I can say about this "thing" that is on top of the roof. Art??!
Amazing ceiling! (minus the smell of pee... blah!)
What an amazing mural!
We finally reach our destination - the Last Bookstore. Check out this installment of books! It's like a "wave of books":
Doesn't take long for the boys to pick up a book. I love how they love to read:
Okay, building and lights. I love light fixtures too :-)
It's amazing how many books are in this form of "manga" or Japanese comic - even Marie Kondo! Maybe I should have bought this book:
An interesting find:
LOL!!!
This place is pretty cramped with shelves, books, and people!
I like these slanted shelves. An idea for our next house perhaps :-)
There was a line in the middle of the upper floor - some Asian lady was trying to take photos of her man within this window of books (not this man in the photo). I guess Bobby was just happy that Asian lady wasn't me. Ha ha!
And then, there's a tunnel of books:
We skipped the photo op with this feature too!
This building must have been a bank before. One of 2 vault sightings:
Charlie wanted to take my photo :-)
Upper floor looking down:
We are back downstairs and found the 2nd vault:
Maybe Graham and Charlie will learn Spanish by reading this Dogman book???
Nope! Didn't spot the bookstore cat named Blake:
If I bought any books today, it would be this one - only because I like the cover :-)
I'm guessing this mammoth above us from the bottom floor is a fake one?
Phew! We made it out! Family we-fie outside the store:
More interesting architecture on the way back to the car:
We find the tram again!
Just realized that both trams share the same track and then there's a split in the middle. Looks like timing is everything on this one!
Not sure if the boys are allowed to actually climb this structure... but it did get a little bit wobbly at that top end :-/
We decided to stop by The Museum of Contemporary Arts, but only for a little bit. Daddy is running out of gas!
The gift shop has some cute pillows! We didn't go in there though. Maybe we'll save it for next time:
We had to wait in line to get our tickets, even though the tickets were free. Looks like more junk emails in my inbox since I had to provide my email address to get the tickets:
We were at the Broad Museum the last time - that's the white squarish building on the other side of the street. And the Disney Music Hall is just behind that:
Boys are reading their new books while they wait for our tickets. I don't think they have opened those new books since!
As usual, Graham grabbed some sort of kid's project to complete within the Museum:
This piece probably inspired me to knit/crochet again. Charlie didn't get too close to whatever pile that was on the floor, but was told by one of the staff to stand back. Sheesh!
We are already finding this place a bit... cumbersome. There's some strange exhibit and we had to put on these booties to keep the floor of the exhibit clean:
So, okay... 3 rooms with 3 different colors - red, green, and blue. The exhibit is called Chromosaturation. I guess we were suppose to see different colors when we walk from one room to the other:
Well, needless to say, we were all confused. LOL!!!
And then, we turn the corner and I see this. Recognize it?
It's a Mark Rothko - titled "Red and Violet over Red/Red and Blue over Red) 1959. I had to sort of burst out laughing to myself because when I was in college at Arizona State, I was a volunteer docent at the Art Museum there. And I had to bring people around the museum and one of the stops was at a Mark Rothko piece, that was on loan from Chicago if I am not mistaken. I just didn't get it then and I still don't get it. Just blocks of color, no??! What do you see???
In 2012, one of Rothko's 1961 painting (Orange, red, yellow) sold for $86.9 million, which was the highest price fetched by a piece of contemporary art at auction. Can you believe that??!
Well, after zooming through the rest of the museum, we decided this museum was not for us. Charlie decided to just relax on a bench:
And Charlie was again warned by the security not to touch this structure below (as we were walking into the museum the first time). This structure is on the outside of the building - what do you mean I can't touch it???! So we went to the structure again after we were done - obviously to prove some point. Too bad the security lady wasn't there anymore. We would have done a group hug with it :-P
One last photo of the Disney Music Hall - the reddish color is from the sunset. Neat!
LA traffic! Not too bad today. Phew! We spent over 5 hours roaming the city after the "Peter and The Wolf" show was over!
These tall skinny palm trees make me think of California now:
Funny enough, the next day I am reading a weekly magazine that comes together with Bobby's Financial Times. And this guy that was being interviewed the magazine says that he would collect Mark Rothko if he could!
Maybe I need to buy one of Rothko's print in our next house just as a conversation piece! ;-p
Another fun day in LA!!!
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