In Plane Sight

In the ongoing theme of downtown Los Angeles (in fact just a few blocks away from the Telephone Parts Mural) is contemporary art, what's more offbeat than that? In fact in front of The Museum of Contemporary Art (well kind of in the middle, on top) there is an awesome sculpture made entirely of airplane parts.

Airplane Parts Sculpture

Nancy Rubins' Chas' Stainless Steel, Mark Thompson's Airplane Parts is a 25 foot tall, 65 foot wide sculpture that is made entirely of old airplane scraps, wired together to make this beautiful behemoth. This huge mass of chaos takes a uniformed shape.

Apparently (by apparently, I mean through the internet), around 1000 pounds of stainless steel wire is used to keep it together.

We can rebuild it, we have the technology

Pretty sure this is used in the season finale of "Lost".

And just because this seems like a good time to reference a classic (despite it has nothing to do with anything other than it shares a name)

While marveling at the "Cessna Tree", take a trip down stairs and check out what MOCA (hip short hand for the Museum Of Contemporary Art, keep up) has to offer. There were some great exhibits on display. A few pieces from Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, and I personally enjoyed a photography collect from Robert Frank. Various photos from the 1950s, across America.

Parade - Hoboken, New Jersey

Then of course some we didn't quiet understand some

Edward Ruscha's Chocolate Room

and other's we were awestruck, but had no idea what was happening.

Doug Wheeler's RM 669

I am Jor-el, master of scheduling

In the Offbeat Frontier there is no better place to look for a memorable offbeat sights than an old visit to a museum of contemporary art.