Sometimes it’s cool to do things that you don’t normally do.   My lovely wife (Dellis) and I try to get out and see art gallery shows when we get the chance.  Most times I’m a willing participant, but sometimes I’m kicking and screaming because I really just prefer photography installations.

Go figure.

A few weeks back, we managed to get out and see the 2013 Paris Photo Los Angeles art show.

In their own words, Paris Photo was created in 1996 and is the most prestigious art fair dedicated to historical and contemporary photography.

Yeah, sounds kind of pretentious, but it was still worth checking out.

I don’t think I’d been on the Paramount lot since KCAL moved in with CBS2 back near the middle of the 2000’s.

Our duopoly station is still on a working studio lot, but now we’re in Studio City on the CBS lot where classics like “Gilligan’s Island” and “Gunsmoke” were made.

It doesn’t really relate to this, but CBS just cancelled “CSI:New York” and the empty sound stage is probably big enough to hold a gallery show.

Next time I bump into the big boss, I’ll ask him if we can take it over for a weekend.

We won’t likely get any of the talented and famous artists like, say, Leonard Nimoy (that’s one of his pieces in the center in the picture above). . .

. . .or a work like “Today’s Levitation” by Natsumi Hayashi.

We’ll just have to do the best we can with the local talent (you should think about snapping up a couple of pieces by this guy, I got good sources say he’s awesome and on the verge of hitting it big).

Even if international fame and fortune continue to elude me (hey, I’m not in this for the money), there’s always hope.

Seeing these works did inspire me and I actually overheard someone say out loud what I was thinking.

“Somebody is going to pay that much for this piece of crap?  Hell, I can shoot better than that.”

Hey, it’s not really me, but If somebody offered me money for my work, I’d probably take it.