Plastic Baskets & Hot Dogs - a typical LA day (part 2)

After lunch at the Farmers Market we walked back to La Brea Tar Pits and past the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). There was a large outdoor art installation that we stopped to check out.
It was awesome!

It's Choi Jeong-Hwa’s HappyHappy and it consists of "floor-to-ceiling strands of thousands of household containers procured from local 99¢ stores. . .Choi is considered the father of Korean pop art, and his enduring interest in popular materials and consumer culture is evident when you move through the rows and rows of plastic containers, many of which are manufactured in Asia and found in many Korean homes." (A little more info)It's all part of the exhibit "Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea" that closed the next day so we were really lucky to walk into it (literally).

After playing around with the exhibit for a while we drove down (the traffic! the parking! it's bad) to the beach; any trip to LA and Southern California isn't complete without seeing a beach. We of course went to Monica's namesake beach - Santa Monica!
After that it was off to the Getty. I love the Getty and haven't had a chance to go since I moved out. We saw the special exhibit on French Bronze statues and then saw Irving Penn: Small Trades, a photography exhibit. I think you'd really enjoy it - he takes photographs of people just in their everyday work uniform. They have one section where he compares/contrasts the photographs of different nations but same job (Paris, London, NYC). It's interesting to see the attitude shift between the countries.

After the Getty we drove to downtown to eat at world-famous Pinks' Hot dogs! (specifically chili cheese dogs)
Yum!