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“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.” — J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via larmoyante) -
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The Museum of Everything
Museum of Everything in Paris (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless indicated)
PARIS — For a brief time, a former Catholic seminary on Paris’ classy Boulevard Raspail was overtaken with a psychoanalyst’s jubilee of art from self-taught creators who worked in secret or seclusion, in mental asylums or hospitals, or just from their own particular perspective of the world. The Museum of Everything is a traveling exhibition started by British filmmaker James Brett in 2009 that’s been widely successful in its unique curation of overlooked art.
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How would former Angels outfielder Dan Ford (121 career HR) describe his style of play? Well, if this 1981 issue of Playgirl holds true, he’d say it’s “easy going, graceful, fluid — just like making love.”
If you’d like to read more, you can. But I’m sure the rest of the site is NSFW. In fact, I can absolutely guarantee it.
And if you’re wondering how the hell I stumbled upon this, well, let me tell you: when you spend your evenings searching for weird baseball things, sometimes you find a website devoted to cataloguing every Playgirl issue of the 1980s.
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As a native Los Angelino, I consider one of the city’s gems to be the Watts Towers. Completed in 1954 by Italian immigrant Simon Rodia, a construction worker without any art training, he would come home after work and slowly but surely (it took him 33 years) build “17 interconnecting sculptures adorned with intricate mosaics.” He used steel rods and pipes for the main supports and embedded pieces of porcelain, tile, bottles, and sea shells.
According to the LA Times, when the city of Los Angeles finally found Rodia’s masterpiece, the head of the municipal Building and Safety Department wrote this in a memo: “Personally, I think this is the biggest pile of junk outside a junkyard that I have ever seen.”
Quite the contrary, no? The Watts Towers have come to signify something very special to the city and since 1990, were designated as a Los Angeles landmark.
Over the years, tiny cracks and weather conditions have deteriorated the towers. In 2011, the Los Angeles’ Department of Cultural Affairs contracted with LACMA to help with maintenance and restoration.
Read here for more on how the restoration of The Watts Towers is coming along.
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