More Masses

Hope you're not sick of pics from the For The Masses show yet. Eric posted a ton, but I've got some blanks to fill... I didn't show up at the gallery until the second day of installation, and even then I never walked in. The purpose was to pick up Brian Ralph and French to go skate the Bronson Ditch. French's back was too tweaked to skate, but he was kind enough to come along for the ride and not make fun of Brian or me rolling around like kooks.



These are the shoes that I got to break in at the ditch. (I was pleased not to have broken anything else.) I got up to the rail and did some wheelie grinds, rock-to-pivots, Bert slides, and other surf-type moves. Afterwards, we went to Thai town in search of a massage place for French. We think the place was legit, and he says he felt better afterward.



Except for replacing a frame with busted glass, French was pretty much done with hanging his part of the show. This might be one of the only pics you see of him with a serious face. He hates pics, and usually makes something up.



This pic says a lot. French, Amy, and Kenton was playing with Olaf's doorags while Eric checked his email. Meanwhile, Mountain Mountain man Kohei was thrashed by jetlag.



Dan-ah got ice cream from a dude with a street cart while Aaron was on some sort of conference call. I got a chile mango popsicle, which was really good.



Motivated by everyone else's stuff (and the fact that the bulk of his art arrived late), Brian painted a huge mural to be the backdrop for his work. You can't see the feet, which he had to totally redo because they didn't look tough enough.



This is what his boxes looked like when they finally made it. Bummer! We had to drive all the way to Carson to buy new frames.


Brian touches up the artwork. On the top left, you can see the original work for the two-player screen of Guitar Hero 2.


I grabbed this scrap off the floor. It was one of Brian's ideas for the mural!



All of the other artists thought that Eishi was insane. While they were hanging their framed pieces, he was building a structure like a crazy person out of the Bible.



When they saw his work, it was confirmed that he is indeed out of his mind...