The Last Bookstore - In Downtown Los Angeles - A place of inspiration

For my last art show, I got stuck. I started several different pieces and wasn't happy with how any of them evolved. So late one night I went a few blocks to my favorite bookstore "The Last Bookstore". It is on 453 S. Spring Street. (More info here: http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-last-bookstore-los-angeles) . I try to also always pop in when I take my power walks around my neighborhood. The bottom floor has an extensive collection of interesting new books. Upstairs all the books are only $1. There are also cool art pieces all around the store, many installations made with books or pages of books flying or the tunnel or books or rainbow of colored spines. This also used to be a bank I think so the vault upstairs is now turned into their sic-fi section, appropriately dark, gloomy with a narrator's voice reading a book and a cool art installation. Here are some photos I have taken here:

Unpublished Instagram Photos.....

 I am in an art show this weekend and the theme is Migration. One idea I was thinking of was to have photos that I took while in motion, using instagram. I immediately deleted each one after using the filters and saving, so the surprise would not be ruined. I since changed my idea for the show so am posting these shots I took on my walk around downtown LA and hike around Hollywood's Griffith Park here:

Photography from Downtown Los Angeles

Tonight I went walking around downtown Los Angeles by where I live. It is Super Bowl sunday so I knew it would be a great opportunity to take along my camera since the streets would be deserted. I have been trying to work on a photography book, theme to be unveiled at the end of this year - my end goal date. Check out some of my shots from today....

I have succumbed to the blogging craze...

See More Of My Drawings Here

Red Ostrich Hair Accessories and Purses Here

Feather Hair Accessories

Feather Hair Barrettes

I am opening this space as a place where I can share things I am working on. I have found art-making to be a process and blogging can record my stops around the way.... I will start with some photos of my workspace.... it seems appropriate to start where the work begins.... Right now my focus is finessing my online accessories shop on etsy. www.redostrich.etsy.com .