"We gonna be doin some artsssy stuff so bring a project that you want to work on! I will have some stuff for screen printing. We will be chillen there most of the day so come as you please. My number is 336-406-8422 if ya have any questions. Afterwards we are planning to roll on out to taco tuesday!!!!"
Tuesday, January 18 · 10:00am - 9:00pm
LocationCrank mob Park (media park) in culver city
Event Link
Source: LAist - As the Expo Line's first phase between downtown Los Angeles and Culver City gets closer to completion (despite it being over-budget and delayed), the building authority's board is set to vote on the second phase, which would connect the line from Culver City to Santa Monica, this Thursday afternoon. If they side with project staff's recommendation, as expected, they will approve a route known as LRT Alternative 2, which would go from Culver City towards the beach via a right of way until connecting with Colorado Boulevard in Santa Monica until 4th Street (it's the more northerly dashed line on the above image).
The meeting, however, is expected to be a heated one. A group of noisy Cheviot Hills residents are trying to derail the project, asking for it to go underground at Sepulveda. That move would be costly, likely killing the project.
The recommended route is the "best performing alternative when cost and efficiency are added to the environmental characteristics," the final environmental impact report's executive summary states. "It would provide high ridership, a competitive travel time, less community disruption, and the least relocation of residents, with the most cost effective price."
Just two months since opening in Culver City, Just Sit's meditation meet-up is becoming a special place for a growing community to go within and connect with one other.
This upcoming Tuesday January 19th at 7pm, award-winning composer Yuval Ron will be performing a musical meditation at the intimate gathering, which is not to be missed!!! Yuval has traveled the world with the Yuval Ron Ensemble, a diverse ten piece group, playing for world peace and cultural coexistence while mesmorizing audiences with their soul-penetrating vibrations. In fact, as covered earlier in the week, the Ensemble will be performing together in Pasadena on Sunday January 31st (see more about that here). I look forward to seeing you and many others at 7pm on Tuesday (try to come early if you can in order not to disrupt the meditation in progress.)
About Just Sit
Just Sit is a unique meditation meet-up with a mission of recapturing what we consider to be the essence of meditation…
For
many
of us who are searching for ways to find our center, to
meditate, we simply want to just sit and connect. With no specific
dogma or singular affiliations, we come together as a group to hold
space for our collective consciousness to rise and to support each
other in becoming more familiar with our higher self. Come join us
every Tuesday at 7 pm at our Los Angeles
center located just outside Culver City (address shown below.) Each
meditation gathering lasts for about one hour.
What You Can Expect:
In
respect of the various years of experience of the people meditating in
the groups, we will have three timed meditations. To further support
one another, after the first two meditations, we will take a few
minutes to see if anyone wants to share their current life challenges
or their experiences in meditation. The first 15 minute settling
meditation will be either to music or guided by the meditation leader.
The second meditation is 20 minutes and is a silent opening
meditation. The final 15 minute meditation is a “closing meditation”
and will be either to music or guided by the meditation leader.
What is a Suggested Donation and How Does It Work?
There
is a suggested donation of $10 a class. Suggested donation means that
if you can put $10 in the box, please do. If you are not in a position
to do so, contribute what you can. Nobody will be keeping track of
individual donations. The $10 dollar donation is not meant as a bottom
or a top limit… if you are in a position to donate more, it will be
greatly appreciated.
Location:
Out of Asia
3249 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Times:
Tue 7pm - 8pm
For more information, connect with Just Sit on Facebook and/or Contact Jerry Lee Davis or Forrest Kolb at inf0[at]justsit.org for more information.
LA Times - "Nature is cataloged, chronicled and contained in five large color photographs and a 12-minute video by Brooklyn artist Noah Sheldon. The show is somewhat slight, but it’s subject is anything but.
At Cherry and Martin, one photograph shows a moist, semi-tropical glade, through which a man-made wooden path zigzags. Elsewhere a tangle of trees dangles carefully numbered tags. In a third picture, a dense cascade of vines, hanging like a curtain across the foreground plane, is interrupted by a white pole from which hangs a fragment of yellow caution tape: Do not enter.
More is revealed in a more immediately obvious photograph, which shows an artificial lake against a fake stone cliff beneath a canopy of open-framework metal and glass. In this and the other photographs we are inside Biosphere 2 in the Arizona desert, a controversial imitation of the natural world fabricated for scientific study in an era of catastrophic natural degradation and potential collapse.
That precariousness is evoked in a movable structure of thin wooden slats wired together at the ends and standing in the center of the room. Made in collaboration with Maggie Peng, an architect who is Sheldon’s wife, the sculpture is a rickety fragment of a geodesic form known for inherent tensile strength. (An associate of Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, designed the Biosphere 2 container.) Where, the sculpture tacitly asks, is today’s Bucky Fuller, captain of an endangered Spaceship Earth?
The video shows a lovely sunset glimpsed across a lake — “On Golden Pond,” as it were — set to a soundtrack that is like a child’s faltering piano lesson. Cyclical beauty collides with immature human dissonance, in a performance that ends in inevitable darkness. Fading to black, entropic decline and degeneration are rarely given such a romantic and effective glow.
Cherry and Martin, 2712 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City, (310) 559-0100, through Dec. 12. Closed Sun. and Mon. www.cherryandmartin.com
Saturday night in Culver City, I attended the Jeremy Corbell ICON multi-media event celebrating the style and life of Sharon Tate on the 40th anniversary of her passing. The event was ultra love-filled to say the least, initiating the launch of a new body of work by mixed media artist Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, showcasing the never before revealed wardrobe of the late Sharon Tate.
The art was deep, intimate and extremely intricate. I especially loved the details within each and every piece, hand-written were the words, the emotions and the questions we all live with... Apparently, Jeremy meditated on each piece, then went back and added his meditative experience into the pieces, which were all for sale for the community to take part in. Man, I look forward to getting to know more about the master martial artist who evolved into a master contemporary artist through a life-altering experience.
I had my first lunch at Cafe Brasil today on Venice Blvd with my pal Maria. Chicken, rice, beans, salad, outside patio, all excellent! While sitting around, I noticed Maria was wearing some very interesting kicks. I said smiling, what the hell are those? She told me they were Italian-made fivefingers by vibram and that she got them just down the street at a cool spot across from the culver hotel. After lunch, we walked down and I picked up a pair for myself, I couldn't resist! I've been wearing them for the last 2 hours and I think they've already changed the way I enjoy walking Love Angeles, YIAO!
