Instagram story viewer> @__sabin__> Posts

Sabin Ousey

@sabin

3.9K

followers

3309

following

L.A.

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

must be the season of the witch 🕯️ by @__sabin__

37

3

6 days ago

🌟 Hollywood Magic At The Academy Museum Today 🌟

The Marilyn Monroe exhibit is glamorous, emotional, and surprisingly intimate: not just the image of Marilyn, but the craft, costumes, photographs, sketches, and mythology that built one of the most enduring icons of the 20th century.

Seeing the Travilla gowns up close — the sparkle, construction, silhouette, and drama, you realize how much of “Marilyn” was both performance and design.

But beneath the glamour was Norma Jeane: a girl who came from instability, foster homes, and a childhood shaped by her mother’s mental illness. She built herself into Marilyn Monroe, then fought for control in a system that underestimated her — even starting her own production company in the 1950s.

Her story holds everything: ambition, heartbreak, reinvention, her famous marriages: James Dougherty, Joe DiMaggio, and Arthur Miller, each becoming part of the mythology around her. The girl next door, the baseball legend, the playwright, the movie star trying to be seen as more than a fantasy and even today, the drama around preserving her Brentwood home.

Marilyn was never just glamour. She was survival, fantasy, business, vulnerability, and myth all at once.

Sometimes icons build themselves from the ruins, and still leave the whole world glowing. She died at only 36 years old. taken in Academy Museum of Motion Pictures by @__sabin__

42

7

3 months ago

LALA LACMA taken in LACMA by @__sabin__

32

2

4 months ago

LA LA -ing by @__sabin__

59

2

4 months ago

MONUMENTS at @moca closes tomorrow — and free admission all weekend.

The show brings together decommissioned Confederate monuments — removed from cities like Baltimore, Montgomery, and Richmond — alongside newly commissioned works by artists including Kara Walker, Cauleen Smith, Karon Davis, and more. Seeing these objects pulled from their public pedestals and placed in direct conversation with contemporary art was intense.

Co-curated by Kara Walker, Hamza Walker of The Brick, and MOCA’s Bennett Simpson, it’s less about tearing down history and more about forcing a real look at what we’ve chosen to memorialize — and why.

If you haven’t gone yet, free admission through Sunday, May 3. Last talking tours this weekend at 11:30am and 2pm. by @__sabin__

41

3

5 months ago

A man, a moon, and Larry H. Parker. taken in Los Angeles, California by @__sabin__

85

3

9 months ago

“Great Scott! Doc Brown’s Pasadena pad, The Gamble House, where Craftsman design met time travel. Built in 1908 by architects Greene & Greene for David and Mary Gamble (yes, of Procter & Gamble), it’s a living masterpiece of wood, light, and symmetry. ⏰🏠✨

#BackToTheFuture #PasadenaHistory #GambleHouse #GreeneAndGreene #CraftsmanStyle” taken in The Gamble House by @__sabin__

85

1

a year ago

Get your kicks, they said, so we lit out of Los Angeles like fugitives on Route 66’s ghost frequency, barreling into the Mojave where the sun scrambles your brainpan and the only shade is a busted 76 sign.

The Mad Greek rises like a fever mirage, plaster gods leering at truckers while I wrestle a baklava milkshake thick enough to choke a mule(Truckers deserve tzatziki too). The Bun Boy Motel drifts into view, not a stop, but a corpse; neon buzzing faintly over Route 66’s embalmed skeleton. Murals promise Hollywood stardust, but all I see is heat, dust, and busted neon lies.

McDonald’s lurks in stainless steel railcars like the apocalypse franchise it always was. And in Barstow, the Casa del Desierto stands as a cracked cathedral, the Harvey Girls gone but their ghost songs still rattling down the empty tracks. Vegas glitters ahead, but the real kicks are here, a delirious roadside circus where America’s ghost keeps dancing in the desert wind. taken in Mad Greek Cafe by @__sabin__

81

1

a year ago

The Last Showgirl 💃🏾 taken in Las Vegas, Nevada by @__sabin__

83

4

2 years ago

LAX taken in LAX L.A. Airport by @__sabin__

73

2

2 years ago

The Cabazon Dinosaurs, a quirky roadside attraction in Cabazon, California, have been delighting travelers since the 1970s. Originally constructed by sculptor Claude K. Bell, these massive concrete dinosaurs—Dinny the Apatosaurus and Mr. Rex the Tyrannosaurus—stand as playful behemoths in the desert landscape. They were built to draw visitors to Bell’s nearby restaurant, the Wheel Inn.

These dinosaurs have stomped their way into pop culture, famously appearing in the 1985 cult classic film Pee-wee’s Big Adventure and later in The Wizard (1989). Over the years, they’ve become iconic symbols of Americana, often featured in music videos, TV shows, and even referenced in The Simpsons. With their kitschy charm and nostalgic allure, the Cabazon Dinosaurs continue to be a beloved stop for road-trippers and dinosaur enthusiasts alike. 🦕 🦖 taken in Cabazon Dinosaurs by @__sabin__

96

1

2 years ago

On a recent trip to Pensacola, Florida, I found this wonderful vintage type-case drawer at an antique mall not too far from the Alabama border. Randomly, it perfectly fit all the shells/objects/stones I collected on trip I took to Croatia two years ago, which was mainly along the Adriatic coast.

The Croatia seashore is not a hotbed of shell-collecting but I did find some interesting items I kept (shown) and after a few hours spent at the Archaeological Museum in Split I realized I had indeed picked up potentially a few ancient artifacts, worn smooth by the gentles waves of the mediteranean over time.

After some research, I found out original red tile roofs, popular with the Romans, were commonly used in the 10th - 15th century up until the 20th century (more below).

Yellow tiles were more prominent in the late 14th-15th century and continued through the Renaissance and the Baroque period but were not limited to roofs, as yellow was used also in wall and floor applications. The yellow tile roofs might be the oldest though, and are known as “kupe kanalice” and were hand-manufactured in Kupari, a small village just outside Dubrovnik, up until 1925.

Orange tiles (closest to red) were more (and are) now more commonly used in the mid-20th century to the present. In Dubrovnik, the Homeland war of 1991/1992 damaged about 400 buildings, but with the help of UNESCO, many have since been repaired with the help of a red tile roof factory based out of Toulouse, France.

But, fun historical fact, the red and honey rooftops were not by accident. Municipal codes in Dubrovnik were instituted in 1272 and re-applied during the great earthquake of 1667.

Also, pretty fabulous that finding such tiles/rocks along the beach can give clues about the age of many buildings no longer standing. taken in Archäologisches Museum Split by @__sabin__

109

6

2 years ago