Sentences with phrase «tar pits»

So next time you're looking for a large - firm lawyer, check the local tar pits.

President Obama is in a situation right now somewhat akin to that facing the creatures that once prowled the edges of the La Brea tar pits — a sticky trap that caught and consumed the least wary or agile members of many species.

For his 1972 retrospective, Nauman proposed an outdoor work that would encircle the walls of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which stands adjacent to a famous prehistoric site, La Brea Tar Pits.

The casket repeats the words «Come over here, HEY» like a Disneyfied version of the LaBrea tar pits.

Populating actual yet uncertain landscapes or mise - en - scènes including sites in California, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Washington Monument, these ephemeral signs spell out such darkly ambiguous phrases as «Landscape Incarceration,» «The Doom,» and «The Day — Sob — Dies.»

Among the fossilized remains of creatures to be found preserved in the Tar Pits underneath Los Angeles, there was a single human woman.

Populating actual yet uncertain landscapes or mise - en - scènes including sites in California, the La Brea Tar Pits, and the Washington Monument, these ephemeral signs spell...

Bruce Nauman La Brea / Art Tips / Rat Spit / Tar Pits 1972 Neon tubing with glass tubing suspension frame 619 x 584 x 51 mm.

For the ecologically minded, a stroll through the park brings you to the La Brea Tar Pits.

This natural phenomenon preserved ancient fossils for thousands of years and served as inspiration for Bruce Nauman's neon sculpture La Brea / Art Tips / Rat Spit / Tar Pits (1972).

Drew Heitzler, «La Brea Tar Pits (Mexican Fan Palm),» Mexican fan palm tree and Performix plastidip, installation view, 2008.

La Brea / Art Tips / Rat Spit / Tar Pits (1972), Raw Material with Continuous Shift — MMMM (1991) and Good Boy Bad Boy (1985), are also selected from the wider canon of hypnotic and catalogic works, a

Exhibitions include Tar Pits, Redling Fine Art (Los Angeles, CA, USA.

ART CALENDAR Presented by Shoebox PR UPCOMING OPENINGS September 24th Tarfest 2016 Art & Music Festival La Brea Tar Pits and Museum 5801 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90036 September 24th 4 - 10 pm For more information Brand 44: Opening Reception for the 44th Brand Annual National Juried Exhibition Brand Library & Art Center 1601 W...

In addition, Hurtado Segovia continues his use of pattern and textile influences, while exploring new materials such as tar sourced from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, sand from the Pacific coast, and trees felled in the city.

Make a date with the La Brea Tar Pits on September 21, 2 - 8 pm.

Hurtado Segovia continues his use of pattern and textile influences while exploring new materials such as tar sourced from the La Brea Tar Pits.

Dino Run SE for Mac, Windows, and Linux features the same «prehistoric arcade» gameplay in which you «control a speedy raptor across tar pits, crumbling hillsides and meteorite showers while gobbling up anything that gets in the way for energy».

Game description The Ice Age is ending and our subzero heroes return in this action adventure video game set in a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

Other nearby attractions includes the J. Paul Getty Museum, LA Zoo, Griffith Observatory, the La Brea Tar Pits and the Chinese Mann Theatre.

Take a walk along the world's safest beach, surf the world famous Rincon Point or explore the tide pools at Carpinteria's State Beach campground and Tar Pits Beach.

Enjoy 19th - century Chinese artifacts, fossils from the La Brea tar pits, Native American pottery, and objects from across the African continent at the McPherson Museum.

Held at Page Museum at La Brea Tar Pits, the event is one of Best Friends» popular semi-annual «super adoptions» at cities across the country.

NKLA Adoption Weekend, Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Page Museum of La Brea Tar Pits, 5801 Wilshire Boulevard.

I was pregnant and abandoned during a super adoption event at the La Brea Tar Pits.

The event, usually held twice a year at the La Brea Tar Pits, is the continuation of programming that began in 1991 with the organization of innovative model programs that provide support for area shelters and rescue groups.

There were more than 50 Los Angeles rescues and shelters in attendance at our May Pet Adoption Weekend at La Brea Tar Pits — each group has its own adoption policy and process, which Best Friends does not dictate.

More than 400 shelter pets found themselves in new homes on Saturday and Sunday, thanks to the NKLA Adoption Weekend held at La Brea Tar Pits.

Playful pups, cute kittens, adorable adults and sweet seniors... more than 1,000 adoptable pets will be showcased at the NKLA (No Kill Los Angeles) Adoption Weekend Saturday, Nov. 8, and Sunday, Nov. 9, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles.

Yesterday I played host emcee for the Los Angeles Fall Super Adoption in the truly lovely setting of the La Brea Tar Pits Park, right next to the LA County Museum of Art.

From the La Brea Tar Pits to university laboratories to the wilds of the Angeles National Forest, Christina and her cousin River struggle against enemies seen and unseen to stop the infection before it's too late.

To the La Brea Tar Pits with you.

«We visited La Brea Tar Pits and that [scene was] inspired exactly by that imperial mammoth sinking into the sculpture there,» explains Reinhart.

Jay, I appreciate your wading into the tar pits of the Amazon forum!

No Canadian tar pits, no leaking Exxon Valdez, no Keystone XL pipeline, no middle - eastern terrorists getting their funding from my driving a car.

Let's take nothing away from Kia's moment in the sun with its honorable quality assessment, but everything else has risen from the tar pits too — looks, performance, a luxury feel even in some of its non-luxury cars, and just as important but often overlooked, resale value.

Scholars, learning coaches, staff, family, and friends have made memories together at Logan's Candies, John's Incredible Pizza, Rubel's Castle, Poverello House, San Diego STEAM Maker Festival, LA Clippers Game, Winter Celebration, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Aquarium of the Pacific, Downing Planetarium, La Brea Tar Pits, Spelling Bee, National School Choice Ice Cream Celebration, American Revolutionary Tour at Riley's Farm, Virtual Scholar Workshops, Scholar Clubs, and more!

The tar pits of La Brea.

This utterly formulaic throwback to the disaster movies of yesteryear is 1997's good volcano movie, the one in which a big ol' volcano pokes its nose out from the La Brea tar pits and vomits lava all over some pricy downtown Los Angeles real estate.

The Ice Age is coming to an end, and the animals are delighting in their new world: a melting paradise of water parks, geysers and tar pits.

What might have seemed like a lively idea — an all - star roundelay about love in Los Angeles — is as fossilized as the wooly mammoths in the La Brea Tar Pits.

His new store in LA is not so far from the La Brea Tar Pits where prehistoric remains were famously found.

The museum is just a quick walk from the La Brea Tar Pits so you can easily fit in both in one afternoon.

The listing below of the world's major Lagerstätten begins with the oldest, the some billion year old Bitter Springs of Australia, and ends with the 20,000 year old La Brea Tar Pits near Los Angeles, California (USA).

Animal fossils are also found in tar pits, bogs, quicksand and volcanic ash.

In a study published on Sept. 27 in PLOS ONE, California State Polytechnic University's Katherine Long and colleagues analyzed hundreds of S. fatalis and P. atrox bones in the La Brea Tar Pits museum.

The fossils were unearthed while workers were digging a shaft near the La Brea Tar Pits in LA's West side.

Brown and another UCLA doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology, Mairin Balisi, analyzed more than 35,000 bones from saber - toothed cats and dire wolves over six months at the La Brea Tar Pits» George C. Page Museum.

And as if all that ice is not bad enough Carbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits, southern California ``....

Holden conducted the study with paleontologist Dr. John M. Harris, Chief Curator of the Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, and Robert M. Timm, from Kansas University, who manages a dermestid beetle colony for research specimen preparation.