It has been a very uncomfortable and wired weekend after the robbery.
Mostly because you really try to move on, but have to realize that will take time.
There is so much unnecessary things on my mind and stuff that I have to do now.
Moving, insurance, LAPD, yesterday they came to take fingerprints so I havent even been able to touch any of my things since Thursday.
I have to get a new address, have to tell everyone about the new address, get my electricity transferred, my internet and TV and so on..
Not really difficult things, but just very unnecessary and time challenging.
That is why I’m so lucky to be surrounded by people who makes it so much easier.
I really appreciate the phone calls, the messages, the comments and the good thoughts.
It’s in bad times you realize the god things I guess.
And once again, thank god for the fact that I have a great boy in my life who cheers me up and supports me through it all.
I’m so grateful to have this guy by my side!
So to lighten up the blog again, let me show you another pearl of Los Angeles.
The Getty Museum!
Or The Getty Center if you like.
If you want an amazing view, beautiful architecture and a travel back in time, this is the place to go.
And take your loved ones with you, because with all the beautiful flowers and water fountains I can guaranty you romance!
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The Getty Center, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, is a campus for the J. Paul Getty Trust founded by oilman J. Paul Getty. The $1.3 billion center, which opened on December 16, 1997,is also well known for its architecture, gardens, and views overlooking Los Angeles. The center sits atop a hill connected to a visitors’ parking garage at the bottom of the hill by a three-car, cable-pulled hovertrain funicular. The center draws 1.3 million visitors annually.
It is one of two locations of the J. Paul Getty Museum. This branch of the museum specializes in “pre-20th-century European paintings, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, and decorative arts; and 19th- and 20th-century American and European photographs”.Among the works on display is the painting Irises by Vincent van Gogh. Besides the museum, the center’s buildings house the Getty Research Institute (GRI), the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Foundation, and the administrative offices of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which owns and operates the center. The center also has outdoor sculptures displayed on terraces and in gardens. Designed by architect Richard Meier, the campus includes a central garden designed by artist Robert Irwin. GRI’s separate building contains a research library with over 900,000 volumes and two million photographs of art and architecture. The center’s design included special provisions to address concerns regarding earthquakes and fires.
The 134,000-square-foot (12,400 m2) Central Garden at the Getty Center is the work of artist Robert Irwin. Planning for the garden began in 1992, construction started in 1996, and the garden was completed in December 1997.
Irwin was quoted as saying that the Central Garden “is a sculpture in the form of a garden, which aims to be art.”Water plays a major role in the garden. A fountain near the restaurant flows toward the garden and appears to fall into a grotto on the north garden wall. The resulting stream then flows down the hillside into the azalea pool. The designers placed rocks and boulders of varying size in the stream bed to vary the sounds from the flowing water. A tree-lined stream descends to a plaza, while the walkway criss-crosses the stream, which continues through the plaza, and goes over a stone waterfall into a round pool. A maze of azaleas floats in the pool, around which is a series of specialty gardens. More than 500 varieties of plant material are used for the Central Garden, but the selection is “always changing, never twice the same”.
After the original design, an outdoor sculpture garden, called the “Lower Terrace Garden” was added in 2007 on the west side of the central garden just below the scholar’s wing of the GRI building.
