Venice Beach Day

One of Matthew’s and my favorite places to go is Venice Beach. Yes, okay, it’s tourist-y. And yes, okay, it’s dirty. And yes, okay, they’re half-naked sweaty people running around at all hours of the day. Yes. Okay. BUT. There’s so much COLOR and BAD ART and SHIT FOOD and it’s so much FUN! If you like people-watching and unintentionally funny moments, trust me, you’d love Venice Beach. If you’re an alcoholic, trust me, you’d love Venice Beach. And if you like swimming with plastic bottles in the ocean, you’d love Venice Beach. Now, I’m not an alcoholic and I don’t like swimming with trash floating in the water, but I LOVE people- watching and I LOVE intentional funny moments. For example: I was smoking a cigarette there once and some guy said, hey, you can’t smoke on the boardwalk. And I was like oops, sorry! And then I see a little further down the boardwalk some guy is LITERALLY smoking crack. And it was a hilarious moment. Because why are you bothering a cigarette smoker when there is someone SMOKING CRACK a couple yards down? Probably because I put the cigarette out, where the crack smoker would probably be like, ALIENS, and keep smoking crack. Priorities.

There is also an artist at Venice Beach, who Matthew buys a ton of paintings from named Dondrelle. He is homeless and lives on the beach, and walks around barefoot. He actually is however, quite talented, well spoken, and creative. Below are his pieces.