Interesting places in Brentwood:

Getty Center		Museum Entrance Hall Building
The Central Garden		Arrival Plaza
Entry to Getty Center		Exhibitions Pavilion/Garden Terrace Cafe
Upper Tram Station		Bel Air
Cactus Garden		West Pavilion
South Pavilion		The Restaurant at the Getty Center
North Pavilion		The Getty Research Institute (GRI)
Maze of Flowers		Lower Plaza
East Pavilion		Fran and Ray Stark Sculpture Terrace

the Brentwood is part of Los Angeles .
Interesting places in Brentwood:

J. Paul Getty Museum		Sepulveda Pass
Getty Center Parking Lot		Riviera Country Club
Will Rogers State Park		Murphy Ranch
Nike LA-96 IFC site		Crestwood Hills
Mission Landfill

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Oscar Niemeyer House
Made by !architect4!
A house in Santa Monica designed by Neimeyer in 1964- known as the Strick house. Neimeyer (b 1907) is now 98 yrs. old. This is one of the few buildings he ever did in the United States. When I toured the house in 2003 it was just completing a major restoration. Brazilian architect, proponent of modernism, designed many of the government buildings in the new capital of Brasília, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1988. www.you-are-here.com/buildings/strick.html Oscar Niemeyer was born in the hillside district of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived and worked in that area ever since, with occasional forays to France and Italy. As a student working in the office of Lucio Costa, a prominent architect, he was assigned to work on the plans of the Ministry of Public Instruction designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier. It was while working on this project that he met the mayor of Brazil's wealthiest central state, Juscelino Kubitschek, who would later become President of Brazil. As President, he appointed Niemeyer to be the chief architect of Brasilia, a project which occupied all of his time for many years. Among his other world projects, he collaborated with Le Corbusier again on the design for the United Nations Headquarters in New York. His own residence in Rio de Janeiro has become a landmark. In the 1950's, he designed an Aeronautical Research Center near Sao Paulo. In Europe, he did an office building for Renault and the Communist Party Headquarters both in Paris, a cultural centre for Le Havre, and in Italy, the Mondadori Editorial Office in Milan and the FATA Office Building in Turin. In Algiers, he designed the Zoological Gardens, the University of Constantine, and the Foreign Office. Although semi-retired, he still works at the drawing board and welcomes young architects from all over the world. He hopes to instill in them the sensitivity to aesthetics that allowed him to strive for beauty in the manipulation of architectural forms.


Kidneys
Made by Eric Austria
EXPLORED: Highest position: 148 on Friday, April 29, 2011 Location: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Architect : Richard Meier (born Oct. 12, 1934, Newark, N.J., U.S.) U.S. architect. Educated at Cornell University, Meier's early experience included work with the firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and with Marcel Breuer. Early in his career he executed a series of spectacular private residences. These houses typically feature refinements of and variations on classic Modernist principles — pure geometry, open space, and an emphasis on light — and they often display a crisp whiteness that contrasts sharply with the natural setting; the Douglas House, Harbor Springs, Mich. (1973), is a dramatically sited example. Building upon the success of his residences, beginning in the mid 1970s Meier began to receive large public commissions. These structures are characterized by geometric clarity and order, which is often punctuated by curving ramps and railings, and by a contrast between the light-filled, transparent surfaces of public spaces and the solid white surfaces of interior, private spaces. His Getty Center in Los Angeles (1984 – 97), with its terraced gardens, is a resplendent acropolis in travertine stone. Meier received the 1984 Pritzker Architecture Prize. Read more: www.answers.com/topic/richard-meier#ixzz1KNMB2tsM


Überorgan
Made by !architect4!
See this BIG Featured on archidose Tim Hawkinson's Überorgan What are those bus-size balloons in the Museum Entrance Hall? They are Überorgan, a massive construction of balloons and horns by Tim Hawkinson that is making its West Coast debut at the Getty Center. Überorgan complements the exhibition Zoopsia: New Works by Tim Hawkinson (March 6–September 9, 2007). What Is Überorgan? Überorgan is an enormous contemporary sculpture by Los Angeles-based artist Tim Hawkinson. It exemplifies Hawkinson's characteristic use of the ordinary to achieve the extraordinary, combining and recomposing common industrial materials and found musical phrases into a multisensory sculptural experience. Überorgan changes with every installation, and at the Getty Center it playfully interacts with its setting, the modernist rotunda designed by architect Richard Meier. The musical score for Überorgan consists of a 250-foot-long scroll. Black dots and dashes encode the notes of traditional hymns, pop songs, and improvisational tunes. The notes are deciphered by light-sensitive switches in its player and scrambled to create an endless variety of compositions. Überorgan performs for five minutes every hour on the hour throughout the run of the exhibition.


Getty Museum #11 (Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid and a Putto)
Made by kevin dooley
Venus Reclining on a Sea Monster with Cupid and a Putto. www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=113424 John Deare English, 1785 - 1787 Marble 1 ft. 1 1/4 in. x 1 ft. 11 in. x 4 7/16 in. 98.SA.4 Venus, the goddess of love and beauty, reclines on a fantastic goat-headed sea monster in this allegory of Lust. The goddess entwines her fingers in the creature's bearda so-called chin-chucking gesture that represents erotic intentwhile the monster licks her hand in response. Cupid, astride the monster's long tail, is poised to shoot an arrow at Venus, while in the background a putti adds to the amorous imagery by holding a flaming torch, undoubtedly meant to suggest the burning ardor of desire. The sea goat carries Venus through the frothy waves, carved with energy and precision. John Deare displayed his great skill in carving a variety of levels and textures in this sculpture, from the low relief of the Cupid and putti to the smooth, half-relief of Venus, and finally to the sea-goat's fully three-dimensional snout and wavy strands of hair. Deare's depiction of Lust as a woman riding a goat forms part of an iconographic tradition that has been popular since the Middle Ages.


Rings of Saturn
Made by Eric Austria
Location: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 30,885 views and four years later I think I have grown and learned a lot about photography. I still have a lot to learn. It's a work in progress. Thanks to all of you my flickr friends for helping me along the way with your valuable input and critique as well as your collective geniuses and great body of work that continue to inspire me to strive better in every picture I take. Sadly, I regret to say that I am retiring Mr. Jack Sparrow who's been with me all these 4 years on flickr as my beloved buddy icon. I will be replacing it with the image above which I think best represents to where I am now... a better understanding and appreciation of light and space and the inherent beauty of things that surrounds us. It might take awhile to get use to it but I think change is good. Cheers. Eric


The Commute
Made by bethrosengard
As I was riding up the hill on a tram, from the parking lot to the Getty Museum, I shot a couple of photos of the 405 Freeway below. It was a little tricky since the tram was moving and there were trees lining much of the tramway, but I managed -- thanks in large part to the excellent image stabilization in my new camera (Canon SX 210 IS). I used both Transform>Perspective and Transform>Skew to get the background (which I had created previously) to conform to the perspective of the freeway shot (cropped to eliminate all but the road). And a Pin Light overlay gave me the perfect blend to suit the background patterns. The concrete texture came from CGTextures.com and the tire tread brushes from DieheArt.


Cross Town Rivals
Made by McDeez
view it big! I missed all the photo events yesterday and even what i had planned out to do last night failed... so waking up to some rare rain in socal, and seeing these beautiful clouds after the rain stops, i thought there's no way i can miss the opportunity to do some photo session today! This was taken from The Getty's Museum in Los Angeles.. the buildings in the foreground are part of the whole Century City financial/entertainment district and near the background you'll see the LA downtown skyscrapers.. HDR through photomatix - 3xp, unsharp mask, some dodging & burning through PS CS3 More pictures to come this week from Getty's Museum & UCLA =)


The Getty Center - curves
Made by Al_HikesAZ
This is the photo for which The Getty Center is known. This is just west of the entrance. The Getty Center is a very special center for displaying and preserving art. A beautiful architectural complex where the architecture is art. www.getty.edu/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Center The buildings at the Getty Center are made from concrete and steel with either travertine or aluminium cladding.[1] We had a wonderful family vacation in Santa Monica. My wife and daughter had a special day at the Spa at the Marriott Le Merigot so I went to The Getty Center.


Crestwood Hills (aka Mutual Housing Association)
Made by Chimay Bleue
View Large On Black Architect: A. Quincy Jones (1947) Location: Brentwood (Los Angeles), CA This is my favorite model of these homes, with the roof that appears to float above the house. You can see the Los Angeles skyline through those magnificent clerestories, all the way through the house. I want this house! This was a challenge to take, as it was against the sun so I had to shoot it about +2/3 over-exposed to make sure to capture some detail in the shadows of the front of the house. Of course, that made the sky blow out to white... (sigh).


Oxalis purpurea 'Garnet' at the Getty Center
Made by nowhereonearth
First time I'd seen this Oxalis cultivar, at the Getty Center Central Garden, they were in the shade and it was late in the afternoon, so the flowers were mostly closed up, unlike a few weeks later. Unlike many other cultivars of this South African native, this one's flowers are short-stemmed, barely rising above the burgundy-colored foliage. Thanks to nurseryman and garden designer Jim Duggan for confirming their identity. Because artist Robert Irwin, who designed the garden, considers it a sculpture in the form of a garden, which aims to be art, the plants aren't labeled as they would be in a botanical garden.


Someone's great, great, great.... great grandfather
Made by kevin dooley
Belisarius by Jean-Baptiste Stouf Getty Museum I was editing the photo of this sculpture (anyone know who it is?)... cropped to the face... desaturated (so much better than the Auto B&W)... decrease brightness... then as I played with contrast and color levels and exposure, this person's living face emerged out of the lifeless marble. I have only been doing photo processing for a couple of months and have experimented a lot, but hadn't come across such an effect with a statue. Makes me all the more in the wonderment of such artists, who can embed life in the lifeless.


Los Angeles city lights
Made by BENJIECI
Taken from the Getty Museum. The Getty Center, designed by architect Richard Meier, is the US$1.2 billion flagship location of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the largest arts endowment in history (at over US$3 billion). It is located on a hill in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California overlooking Interstate 405 and Bel-Air. The museum is free to the public (although there is a parking fee imposed by the City of Los Angeles). The Getty Center is high enough that on a clear day, it is possible to see the snow at Big Bear as well as the Pacific Ocean and the entire Los Angeles basin.


Getty center (Explored)
Made by dLux.hu
Explored. Highest position so far: #265. From: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getty_Center : The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. The museum's permanent collection includes pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs.[2] Among the works on display is the painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh.


i sometimes dream in myriad shades of gray
Made by imago2007 (on Flickr break . . . again)
hello, Flickr!!! it has been quite a while since i last shared a captured moment with you. but i am back - sort of, anyway. i know that it will take me a very long time before i can get back to my normal Flickr rhythm. and it will probably take just as long to catch up with you all. but i shall try very hard. my deepest thanks to all those who wrote me, called me, met with me, just to make sure i was doing fine. and i was doing fine, just got too busy with the more important part of living.


Big white flower
Made by morito36pa
The Getty Center presents the Getty's collection of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present against a backdrop of dramatic architecture, tranquil gardens, and breathtaking views. Where to Find Us 1200 Getty Center Drive Los Angeles, California 90049. What to See European paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculpture and decorative arts, and European and American photographs A selection from the special collections of the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute Modern architecture and gardens


Spring0rating spring at the Getty
Made by [ r ♥ c e y t ♥ y ] {I br♥ke for bokeh}
Also? Adobe Photoshop Elements presets -of a fashion. Until I created the 0rated Presets I had no clue Elements existed. Never heard of it, never used it. I've spent the last couple of days playing with Elements, trying to get the 0rated Presets to work. They do not. However there is a way around it. Free Presets for PS Elements (6&7) are now available for download off the blog!


Sunset at the Getty
Made by bethrosengard
Created for TMI's I was at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles yesterday and got a whole bunch of great shots (which you'll no doubt be seeing in future weeks :-)). The Getty is high on a hill and provides a view to the ocean on one side and a view into Los Angeles on the other. It's an architectural tour de force with stunning grounds, views ... and of course exhibits. (The setting and exterior are so spectacular I sometimes forget what the museum's primary purpose is!)


the 405 at Sunset Blvd
Made by gsgeorge
Colloquially known as 'the 405', the San Diego Freeway is a spur of Interstate 5 and a (very) major north-south freeway in Southern California. It is often known as one of the busiest, most congested freeways in the entire world. Speeds at rush hour average 5-20 mph. This view looks over the 405/Sunset Boulevard interchange towards Westwood, a sprawling, dense neighborhood of Los Angeles some ten miles from the center of the city.


You are the Art
Made by Dave Toussaint (www.photographersnature.com)
View in FULL size to appreciate. The centerpiece of this photo is an Italian Altarpiece from 1369 entitled The Coronation of the Virgin with Saints. The preservation and quality are unbelievable! This is on display at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, CA. See the link below for more info. www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=646


The Central Garden, Getty Center
Made by brewbooks
The Central Garden, Getty Center created by Robert Irwin Always changing, never twice the same The maze is created from Kurume azalea, which is a hybrid of Rhododendron obtusum and Rhododendron kiusianum, both native to the island of Kyushu, Japan. see www.bonsai-bci.com/species/kurume-azalea.html www.getty.edu/ i091706 107