Chuck Stevens’ visit went very well indeed. The talk was excellent, and well attended by faculty and students from both Physics and Astronomy Department, and the Neurosciences Research Institute. I’ll tell you a bit more about what he said in a subsequent post, along with pointing to video and slides from the talk, I hope. (Click on left for larger view.)
By the way, when I got to the Steve Reich concert venue, there was a huge line of people waiting to get in. They eventually turned a lot of us (myself included) away due to lack of space.
So I got on my bike and cycled rapidly up Figueroa Street to downtown and found the restaurant where some of my colleagues had taken the guest for dinner. Excellent conversation instead of excellent music. A good trade.
Here’s something I passed on the way to the restaurant. Took a picture while waiting at the lights:
It is always interesting to see what giant sports mural advertisement they put up here (just across the street from the Staple Center. They change them regularly. Some of them are quite elaborate.
-cvj
That huge mural is incredible. I have never been to the Staples Center, but you are right, that is an awesome sight.
Yes, they had advertised it all over the Southwest region, using a great deal of the superlatives mentioned at the site I linked to earlier. A lot of LA region residents must have turned up – Not just USC students. This is great to see. Frustrating that they did not use the much larger (3 times size) auditorium located 1 building away! I suppose they were not so sure they would get such a good turnout when they planned it almost a year ago…
Thanks,
-cvj
It’s hugely encouraging to hear that a concert by a living composer is a sell out (even though I’m not really into Reich’s music). It’s a shame you missed out on the concert, but it sounds as though you had great evening anyway.
So not it fact “in a row” as you said earlier then, succeeding in “irking” you so very much? It was a simple error. It happens sometimes. I apologize utterly and unreservedly.
Best,
-cvj
It’s happened a few times in the past few weeks. It’s not like I bookmark them to complain all at once or anything. You’re still getting hits when I click over to read the articles anyhow.
I don’t know the frequency of the changing of the posters/murals. I don’t go by that point enough to determine that. They are advertisements, so I imagine that they cost money and the cost is to the company asking for the thing to be displayed, as is reasonably standard. I don’t know the cost of advertising billboards in that spot, since I’ve never really been interested enough to find out. I imagine it is quite expensive, given that it is one of the most prominent and well-known spots with that kind of display in the city.
Best,
-cvj
It was a simple mistake. I accidentally deleted the title. Thanks for pointing it out….. Are you saying there are other posts without titles? Where?
-cvj
You’ve done this a few times in a row now, and I have to say that from the point of view of getting your articles via feed, if you don’t have an actual title for your posts, seeing html code in the feed description is irksome. This article’s title was [a class=”imagelink” only that bracket was the html kind. And then the summary in the feed was the rest of the code for the image, links, and first paragraph.
So, how frequently is “regularly,” as to the changing of those murals? Is that privately funded or not, and how much does that cost? Do you know?