It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood...
Hold onto your hat
A man rollerblades along the bike path holding on to his hat during heavy winds on Wednesday, February 20, 2008.
Nice ride
A passer-by admires a Ferrari at Second Street on Sunday, February 17, 2008.
Ocean Park Segue
Boxing coach 'Pete G!' puts his student Karen through some sparring drills atop of the public art sculpture titled "Ocean Park Segue" (by artist Joyce Kohl) on Ocean Park Beach and Barnard Way in Santa Monica on Sunday, February 24, 2008. Fabricated on the site, Ocean Park Segue consists of two raised concrete performance platforms, each made of six horizontally stacked concrete slabs, pivoted to create stairs and overhangs. The surface of the slabs is imprinted with cast beach artifacts both human-made and natural. The platforms are used for sponsored and spontaneous performances, picnicking and playing. The installation measures forty inches in height with a total area of fifteen feet by fifteen feet for each slab.
Sunset Palms
Ballerina Clown
Jonathan Borofsky's controversial 30-foot-high sculpture "Ballerina Clown" graces the Renaissance building at the corner of Rose Avenue and Main Street on Saturday, February 23, 2008. The Ballerina Clown was fabricated in 1989 out of aluminum, steel, fiberglass and an electric motor that activates the extended kicking leg. This sculpture is an accommodation or resolution of opposites in one. Not only does this image bring the male and female together into one figure, but also, two opposite types of performers are represented: the formal classical ballet dancer and the traditional street performer.
Drive-thru art
A woman examines Jerry Berta's Ceramic and Neon Sculpture of a Drive-in Theater during the Second Annual Santa Monica Art Festival at the Civic Center on Friday, February 22, 2008. Jerry Berta is the artist formerly known as the owner of Rosie's Diner. Berta always looked at Rosie's Diner as a giant piece of art. Now he is getting back to making smaller diners that are a little easier to take to Art Shows.
Sunset flight
Seagulls fly above Santa Monica Bay as the sun sets on Friday, February 22, 2008.
Leap Year Waltzes
(top) Aimee Zannoni, 30, (left) and Maslon Pelayo, 22, (right) from the Invertigo Dance Theatre rehearse scenes from 'Leap Year Waltzes, Etc' on Thursday, February 21, 2008 at Studio No. 1 (above) Marisa Jimenez, 24, (left) and Alheli Montano, 25, (right) perform a duet during the rehearsal on Thursday. The show will open on Leap Day, February 29 at Highways Performance Space Leap year: You only get this extra day once every 4 years - use it wisely!