“I think this whole thing is just one big penis.”
“It’s an artwork, not a Rolls Royce.”
MoCA employee to friend: “Have you seen the boutique? It’s soooo hot.”
“I like this one, it’s like the same thing. But different.”
Most repeated expression of the night: “How long is the line?’
All the dazed people in this foto are staring at Murakami, who is standing just below the bottom edge of this frame.
My overview after the jump.
OVERVIEW:
- The Vibe: Manga Convention meets Sunset Boulevard night club, complete with big bouncers and chicks with fake tits.
- The Highlight: The Louis Vuitton boutique, where people queued up to look at purses…that looked an awful lot like purses that you can also find at Nordstrom’s. (See pix here.)
- The piece that made me say, Whoa this dude is better at marketing than Shepard Fairey: The ground-floor room full of artfully lit Mura-merch.
- The moment I realised that Murakami was getting the last laugh: Standing in line to get into the Louis Vuitton boutique.
Murakami, above, spent the evening besieged by autograph seekers, cam phone clicking and even a stylish Sikh woman toting one of his Louis Vuitton bags. (No, I didn’t get a foto. The museum staff was being a total freak about anyone with a camera, so all pix are surreptitious.)
This was the line to get into the “boutique” where they were hawking a limited edition Louis Vuitton bag, that I believe cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $1,000. Like an asshole, I stood in it, too.
I wish I knew what this was all about. We report, you decide.
You can read the L.A. Times story here.
Posted by C-Monster
Was that costume on a guest or on an employee?
actually…anyone with a flickr account can blog my fotos…my pix have appeared on tons of blogs…
as for the costume, i have no idea.
also, c-monster is a she…
The way you’ve got your pics set up, I can’t either download them, and you’ve got all rights reserved on these, so I didn’t want to presume.
Sorry about the gender thing!
hmmm. that’s weird. i was playing around with my settings the other day… maybe i hit a button i shouldn’t have… (i tend to do this sort of thing with alarming regularity.)
and the all rights reserved i put because about a year back some company in europe was ripping street art fotos off of flickr and then selling them. i figured putting “all rights reserved” is as effective as putting a no trespassing sign, but what the hey…
no worries on the gender. believe it or not, it’s a common mistake. maybe i should change my name to c-monstrua.
That’s John taking a picture of us+Murakami. We were indeed “autograph seekers,” but none of us had a pen so we settled for a photo.