So, when we decided to drive over to Downtown L.A. one afternoon after getting a sunburn in like 30 minutes at Venice Beach (L.A. sun ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!), we got there not knowing, what to expect really. My homie Cenk, who is right now doing a year in high school in Santa Barbara only told me, that it would get unsafe at night. Well, you could tell, because all of the jewelery stores already had their windows emptied at around 6:00pm.
But we had some good timing as the Downtown LA Art Walk was going on on this evening! It’s a monthly showcase of the best galleries, artists, restaurants, bars and shops located in Downtown Los Angeles – mostly on Spring St. – and happens every second Thursday of the month.
Yay, we were going to check out some art!!!
This right here is mostly some art, that I only knew from The Hundreds blog so far. The art scene must be really big out there in L.A.
This location – the first one we checked out – was in the basement of the Los Angeles Stock Exchange Building as they had many former financial company buildings and offices open for the Art Walk. And DJs everywhere.
They had the silk screen thing going on outside. Party was postponed until later though, I guess.
This shooting was also going on.
Over here, they also had a live singer. Overall a very relaxed atmosphere all over the place.
The Spring Arts Tower also featured lots of good art. This tower was formerly the headquaters of the Citizens National Bank and the Crocker Bank and offers now work space for artists among other things.
This one right here is by Carolin Kewer. Somehow I like it!
They also had these photographs of Tokyo/Japan by Jake Thomas.
I also liked this photograph, that he entitled ‘Even Stars Need Help to Shine‘. True dat!!!
But my favorite one by him is still this, because this simple picture of this man get such a strong message across: ‘Moving Forward, Wrong or Not – Your Own Path‘
Also these bunches of food trucks were not missing here as they were taking up whole parking lots.
Also some Döner. But didn’t wanna try it!
On other parking lots there were also this little booths selling all kinds of art as well.
Really liked those graffiti-spray-can-lamps!!!
But then it was time to drive home, homie!
Beverly Hills coming up next!
Andi / @IAMGANDINO
