September 5, 2021
In the morning we visited the Long Beach Museum of Art where we caught an amazing retrospective of the works of Tristan Eaton. Eaton is an LA native who started life doing street art before turning to toy design. Now he is a much sought after designer doing work for Nike and Universal among others. He is also one of the most prominent international moralists working today with murals as far flung as Paris and Shanghai.
The artist himself was at the exhibit so we said hello and told him how much we admired his work. He was very gracious and friendly, definitely not the pretentious artist type.
We then drove north to LA and spent the late afternoon and early evening at Venice Beach. We don’t think that there can be better place in the world to people watch than Venice. There is just so much going on.
We were surprised to see a synagogue right in the center of all the action.
A great place to hang out is the skate park which attracts big crowds to watch the high flying skateboarders.
There were a lot of other sports going on at the beach, including soccer, handball, volleyball, paddle tennis and surfing. But we were there to watch basketball. Our sons’ company, Dompen, sponsors the Green Lights, one of the teams playing in the Venice Basketball League. As the sun was starting to set we watched our team win both its games, propelling it into the league playoffs.
There was a beautiful sunset over the Pacific.
And the crowd started to thin out.
But for some the party was just beginning
Mal and Lauren 