THE BROAD

I'm lucky to be married to a cool, stylish girl.

And she takes me to cool, stylish places.

Like LA's newest contemporary art museum,

THE BROAD!

Built by Eli and Edythe Broad,

a couple of sooper crazy rich art collectors

who reportedly buy a piece of art a week.

(most of which probably cost more than your house)

it's quite the spectacle.

The brand new $140 million 

"Vault and Veil" building 

is a sight unto itself.

But the inaugural show

is why we came.

So we dove right in.

Or... up:

The Broad's collection covers virtually 

EVERY

contemporary artist you can think of.

And YES...

many of the pieces are a bit obvious

and/or large scale, gaudy, sensationalist junk.

(Hi, Jeff Koons) 

But I don't think I've been to a show 

that I've enjoyed more in a long time.

And that includes our trip to the museums in Paris!

Here's a sampling of what we saw:

Chris Burden,

the artist who created

LACMA's

METROPOLIS

and

URBAN LIGHT

always has something interesting to show:

Mark Grotjahn

Urs Fischer

There were a number of

John Currin's

distorted

twisty

brilliantly rendered

Rennasiance yet

oh-so-modern

paintings

that I love so much:

There was a lot of

the aforementioned

Jeff Koons:

And a delightful room full of

Cy Twombly:

And so much stuff by every

contemporary artist ever:

Kutztown's own

Keith Haring

Barbara Kruger

Elsworth Kelly's 

Green Angle

(more about him over HERE at Artsy)

Lots and lots of Warhol.

most of it you've seen before.

Kara Walker's

storytelling

silhouettes:

Basquiat:

Robert Therrien's

Under The Table

was enormous fun:

He also does those stack of dishes

thingies:

And if you take the steps down,

you can get a glimpse into

the storage vaults,

where countless more

artsy-fartsy stuff

resides:

There was one piece that totally blew me away 

but I'm saving that for a post of it's own.

So keep it locked here and I'll tell you all about it.

In the meantime,

get off your butt and

check out

The Broad. 

You could use the culture.

THE 2015 NAUTICA MALIBU TRIATHALON

What is the estimated f-----g 

idiotic self-imposed nightmare 

completion time of this event?

That's the text I received at 4:30am

from a sooper friend

who was very upset with me for

doing a dumb triathalon instead of attending the

Ottawa International Animation Festival

(where it was NOT 4:30am)

And it 

WAS

dumb.

I had to get up at 3:45am to go

SWIM 1/2 A MILE IN THE OCEAN

BIKE ALONG THE COAST FOR 18 MILES

and

RUN FOR 4 MILES ALONGSIDE ZUMA BEACH

And for 

WHAT?!

It's not like they were giving away 

free Pokemon cards after you were done.

But it

WAS

beautiful at that hour:

For those of you that keep up on 

warburtonlabs facts,

last year was the first time I

tried the triathlon.

And it was sooper hard!

I was especially disappointed with my swim.

I just wasn't ready for the madness of it.

(I've likened it to the opening sequence of

Saving Private Ryan... only with more swim caps)

But this year I was intent 

on beating the ocean!

So I got myself checked in

along with my neighbor-in-crime,

Darren.

I got marked up

(so nice of them to give me the year I was born)

I set up my transition area,

where you keep your gear

 inbetween events:

And then it was time to go!

And you know what?

I done good!

Where last year I finished in

two hours and 21 minutes,

this year I did it in 

2:07!

The last mile of the run was the worst!

So hot!

So tired!

(So dumb!)

I mentioned it in last year's post,

but my absolute favorite thing

about the event is the people.

EVERYONE IS THERE!

Women.

Men.

Young.

Old.

Older still.

Fat.

Skinny.

Fit.

Flabby.

People kicking their disabilities to the curb.

EVERYONE

is there to challenge themselves.

And that's cool.

So will I do it

again?

I dunno.

But I just might be dumb enough to.

EVERY DAY IS A GOOD DAY FOR KND COSPLAY

If you know me,

then you know

I love

every

single

sooper 

awesome

person

that rocks the

KND Cosplay!

Because this:

And this:

And all of these:

I especially love all the

2x4 tech officers

building new gear:

So rockin'!

So cool!

and 

so so so

awesome!