Clive Barker at Bert Green Fine Art

Did ya get a chance to see Clive Barker's work at Bert Green Fine Art? The exhibition ended a few weeks ago. If you didn't you missed out. But you can still see some of the paintings on Bert's website.

Here are some pictures of the closing reception/exhibition catalog book signing. I numbered each and every 500 of the catalogs by hand, inside the front cover on the bottom left hand corner.

It was a pretty long, slow moving line since Clive was so friendly and conversational to everybody.






Here is a proud new owner of a Clive Barker original. She came from Whittier to pick it up. We were standing next to each other in line and started chatting.




Here is Clive Barker signing my catalog:




And here he is standing next to my favorite painting in the show:

Carlos

A few weeks ago, word in the neighborhood had it that Carlos Santana was playing his guitar on the rooftop of the Rosslyn. This is a classic example of of how my neighborhood can be so random and surreal. I am not much of a fan of Santana, but I do like more than dislike his music and I just had to check it out for the shits 'n giggles. Actually, one of the most stunning guitar performances I have ever seen (not in person) is his Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock, 1969. He looks like he is having one big long orgasm. I admire his intensity.

So I went up to the rooftop and it turns out that he was filming a video.

One of my favorite kinds of pictures to take are of people taking photos of people. In between takes, the film crew and extras were eating snacks, lounging, and taking photos.

I was able to sneak in a shot of him before I left...