A video I made for my pal Rick during an all too brief visit the group made to Watts Towers. Built by Italian Immigrant Sabato Rodia, the towers are a sight to behold. The phrase "Triumph of the Ordinary" comes from Juddson Powell, our excellent tour...

We are being driven back downtown through thick traffic from the Getty Center, and the van we're in is moving as slowly as my brain. The Getty fellows spent the full day at the museum of the same name, spending the morning in meetings with curators,...

Rohini Kapil and I came across this amazing Erhu (Chinese 2-string violin) player in Los Angeles Chinatown. His style is absolutely wild, manic almost, and the music he plays a far cry from the more sedate classical Chinese erhu heard in most concert...

Today we spent several hours in a writing workshop with author, journalist and director of the Alpert Award in the Arts Irene Borger. While the fellowship has been amazingly instructive, my one complaint is that the schedule has left little time for...

Among the places the group visited today was the garage / home / studio of Bobby Furst, where I found and proceeded to beat the shit out of this amazing steel harp. Bobby is an artist who's lived in the high desert since 2005. His specialty is creating...