Treespotting

Our recent post about Eccentrics and Eccentric Art in L.A. coming under greater scrutiny, and the photo of a blue-painted tree we published as an example of said eccentricities got us thinking and recalling that RoLA has snapped a you-know-what-load of weird, striking, and beautiful tree pics that were spotted across the city.  So, for some light Friday pre-carmeggedon, relaxing, blog-reading enjoyment, here are a few, including another angle of the aforementioned blue tree.  

eNJOY...  

Green Irony

GOT GREEN?
I was walking back home from the gym on Sunset (Arclight 24-Hour Fitness). Across from Amoeba, there iT was: somebody's dead-tree flier advertising something in an apparently greenwashing manner (greenwashing, of course, means falsley coloring your ad campaign, corporate image, etc...in the colors of an enviornmentally friendly entity).

"OMG, Thom; give these folks a break! It's a friggin' flier...shit happens. The wind probably blew it off of a telephone pole or a bulletin board. Maybe some jerk tore it off and threw it on the ground. This is probably a flier from a cool non-profit, or a small business. Whoever it belongs to is just trying to make a living in the Great Recession!" you say.

Okay, but zoom in a little. See? It's masking-taped to the sidewalk, for crikey's sake."